Wayne D's Blog

The weather was perfect for watching golf, warm but not hot, enough clouds to provide some shade but not enough to rain. Our day began with a ride in a 7 series BMW with a hydrogen fueled engine. When we reached the shuttle bus stop at the Oakville Go station the BMW guys had just finished showing the car to a group of five guys who turned down the offer of a ride to the course because they didn't want to break up their group and with the driver there were only three seats left. We arrived around two in the afternoon as the final pairing was teeing off on hole four. We went off to hole sixteen to watch a few pairings play through and then moved to hole nine in time to watch the last three groups play through. Then it was off to hole sixteen and seventeen to watch for the rest of the day. The shots that were most impressive weren't the really good ones but instead the shots where the player was trying to get our of trouble. One player landed his shot on sixteen deep in the right side rough almost on the cart path right right at the rope, He picked his club, lined up his shot and fired it onto the fairway and then chipped it into the hole. Another player on seventeen hit his shot far to the right of the rough landing it in the wood chips at the base of a tree across the cart path. He took out his rescue wood and whizzed it under the trees and down the fairway to eventually par the hole.

Even in the middle of the afternoon there were people lined up to hit balls in the golf simulator. After the final pairing passed us on the seventeenth hole with Chez Reavie in the lead by four strokes we headed out to beat the rush to the shuttle buses. Nine minutes and were back at the car and heading home.

We stopped at the London Pub Company to celebrate my wife's birthday and stumbled upon their Sunday Singer Songwriter night. Show up with your guitar or keyboard and some songs to sing and you take the stage. No cover, no minimum take what you get. I felt a bit like we were intruding, other than us and the couple with rambunctious kid with a cast everyone else there seemed to know each other. Only Jeff Scott mentioned his website but that is such a common name that I couldn't nail it down. A shame since a couple of his songs were really nice.

(Update April 20th 2009)

My mini review managed to attract the attention of Jeff Scott himself as you can see from the comment below. Now that Jeff has pointed me in the right direction I've added his ReverbNation music widget so you can hear what he sounds like. As I said above I liked his music and now you can listen for yourself and if you really like it you might even want to buy his CD.
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