Wayne D's Blog

We arrived at Glen Abbey in the midst of the weather delay. Unlike last year at Angus Glen the parking was free though we did have to board a school bus for the 10 minute ride to the course. Over the course of the next 2.5 hours we waited as the rain and the lightening kept everyone off the course. We took shelter in the Molson Beer garden under a large umbrella using it along the support of the umbrellas we had brought along we managed to keep mostly dry. Play resumed at 3:25 after the danger of lightening had passed. We were wandered through the valley holes to help pass the time as we watched the players arrive in vans and pick up play in the sometimes driving rain. Eventually the skies cleared and the sun came out. After the rain that has been falling off and on all week this was a day that bunkers were more popular than the rough. On Hole 9 we saw Mike Weir chip from a bunker the green while another players ball buried itself so deep in the swampy rough that we had to help the marshal to find it after it had landed bounced a metre at most and slip deep into the lomg wet grass. We saw another player on one of the valley holes chip from the rough, skim across the rough and bury itself less than 20 yards away. I would have taken some pictures to show you but cell phones and cameras were banned from the course. The obsession with quiet seemed quite incongruous as we stood silently watching players tee off on hole four while the cheers and applause of the gallery watching hole nine's green less than 25 metres away were louder than any noise we could have made. Walking around the course there were many places where the water welled up around our shoes, the ground couldn't absorb anymore. I hope none of the player's balls landed where to crowds were crossing the holes, it surely would have disappeared in the muck.

All the rain meant the tent with our golf simulator was full of people whenever we went by.

We plan on heading back tomorrow afternoon, that's it for now.