紐約長島West sayville GC~上集

7月18日星期六早上預約了長島West Sayville球場10:20 的Tee Time，天氣預報下午會下雨，所以希望能夠在下午兩點前可以打完18洞。不過這兩天因為加拿大森林大火，導致紐約的天空很詼諧。空氣的品質糟透，希望可以趕快打完回家。球場從法拉盛開車過去約一個小時時間，靠近海邊的球場今天估計風會很大，也是一個典型的林克斯球場風格。

早上去球場前先去了一趟郵局領個包裹，這是我最近訂的一個caddie bag，拿到了包裹就殺到球場。球場的風格很像之前打的Timber point，直接到Pro shop去做check in，開球時間被提早20分鐘。這次和3位senior球友一起併組打，其中一位是女性，所以打起來不會很趕。今天我打藍tee，總長大約在6500+碼，算是OK的距離，但是球道很窄，果嶺也小，非常考驗擊球的精準度。可以參考我之前的Timber Point球場的文章。

今天木桿帶Titleist GT2/Speeder Gold，木桿開球就信心炸裂。雖然今天開球都帶一點Fade，也不會有大的失誤。可是今天很奇怪很多球打出去都找不到球，見鬼啦！後來打了幾洞以後才慢慢理解，很多球都被別的球友給打了。這是我無法理解的一個狀況，因為如果你看到不是你的球，要麼你就把它撿起來放在自己的包裡或口袋，你他媽的直接就把球給打走，真的太沒品了。

因為我本來打callaway chrome soft，開完球也是找不到，結果在下面2洞的果嶺邊看到，這球不可能自己跑到果嶺邊,因為開完球不見，應該是在球道附近不會球落在果嶺的附近，所以呢這邊的人打球，根本就是看到球就打，管誰的球。這就是流氓，讓我無法接受，因為球可以不見，但被別人打走他媽的就是竊盜，球被偷。在美國打這麼些年的球今天真的見識了！

今天打完，掉了四個球，感覺非常的悶，不是自己打不好，而是球不見或被別人打走。這個球場並不是樹林密集的設計，或是有很多草叢，球基本很難會找不到，但是實際上球就是沒了，即便我的球是打在球道上。後面我換別的球，也是看到球會出現在不同球道或果嶺附近位置。打得整個火都上來！

本文未完, 下集請待續.

Long Island West Sayville GC

So I had a tee time booked for Saturday, July 18th, 10:20 AM at West Sayville on Long Island. The forecast said rain in the afternoon, so I was hoping to finish all 18 holes before 2pm. On top of that, the sky over New York's been looking pretty bizarre the last couple days because of the wildfires up in Canada — air quality's been terrible. I just wanted to get the round done and get home. The course is about an hour's drive from Flushing, right near the coast, so I figured the wind would be brutal today — it's a classic links-style layout.

Before heading to the course, I swung by the post office to pick up a package — a caddie bag I'd recently ordered — then went straight to the course. The place reminded me a lot of Timber Point, which I'd played before. Checked in at the pro shop, and they ended up moving my tee time up 20 minutes. I got paired up with three senior golfers, one of them a woman, so the pace was nice and relaxed. I played the blue tees today, total yardage around 6,500+, which is reasonable, but the fairways are narrow and the greens are small — really tests your accuracy. You can check out my Timber Point article for reference on that style of course.

Today I had my Titleist GT2 driver with a Speeder Gold shaft in the bag, and man, my confidence off the tee was through the roof. I was hitting a slight fade all day but nothing too wild. But here's the weird part — a bunch of my shots just... disappeared. I couldn't find them anywhere. After a few holes I finally figured out what was going on: other golfers were hitting my balls. I honestly can't wrap my head around this. If you see a ball that isn't yours, fine, pick it up and put it in your bag or pocket — but to just straight up hit it away? That's just classless.

Case in point: I was playing a Callaway Chrome Soft. Hit my drive, couldn't find it. Then two holes later, I spotted it sitting right next to the green. There's no way that ball rolled there on its own — it went missing off the tee, so it should've been somewhere near the fairway, not anywhere close to that green. So basically, people out here just hit whatever ball they see, no matter whose it is. That's straight up thuggish behavior, totally unacceptable. A ball going missing, sure, that happens — but someone hitting it away on purpose? That's theft. My ball got straight up stolen. I've been golfing in the US for years and today was a first.

By the end of the round I'd lost four balls. It put me in a sour mood — not because I played badly, but because my balls kept vanishing or getting hit by other people. This course isn't heavily wooded, no thick rough to speak of, so balls shouldn't just go missing like that. But they did, even ones that landed clean on the fairway. I switched to different balls throughout the round and kept seeing them turn up on other fairways or near other greens. I was fuming.

to be continued...

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