Training Log Archive: chitownclark

Harborside Int'l GC - Port Course. My golfing partner dislikes this place; says it is too expensive, too difficult, and built on fifty years of Chicago's garbage. All true. But I wanted to try playing here myself, so I waited until Larry was out of town and took the Metra Electric down to the Pullman neighborhood and walked east to the landfill.

Quite a ritzy course. They don't plan for people walking here. I had to shimmy under a chain-link fence going and coming to avoid a round-about route for cars. And despite paying for the mandatory golf cart, I hoisted my bag and walked the very long course inside of four hours.

What a day...winds were constant up there with no trees to block anything. Even putting was difficult: ball would head promisingly toward hole, then a blast of wind would send it spinning down to the fringe. My 12 degree driver was the wrong club: my high arching drives would get swept away by the wind into thick, lush, green roughs, where they were impossible to find, let alone hit back to the fairway.

New tenants moved in over the Labor Day weekend. Biking back and forth to pick up checks, take care of moving issues, perform simple maintenance...such as inoperative lobby door release for third-floor tenants too lazy to come downstairs and let in their guests. Used my electrical engineering training to trace the circuit and solder a broken wire...fixed!