south riding golf club
SOUTH RIDING At Westpark Golf Club in southwest Leesburg, Carlos and I got a lot of laughs from John and Gary: At the first tee we both managed to lose several shots (including mulligans struck in frustration) in the backyards and off the roofs of the residences that line the right of the fairway. Ha, ha! Four shots down already, but there was a dollar at stake so we got serious in a hurry. As it happened, Carlos collected the winning buck. He usually does. We decided the next round, at South Riding, would be the last of the competition. I had to win at least two holes to tie and three to win the dollar I so wanted. Given its residential layout, South Riding has remarkably wide fairways (playing to our strength of rarely finding the middle), and backyards and rooftops rarely come into play. The late summer greens were still soft-ish and the round was moving along nicely on a seasonably warm morning. PHOTOS BY THERESE P. HOWE
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