Goofy Golfer

A couple of weeks ago I was travelling to the UK with some spare time
I had a meeting around 1500 but my plane arrived already at the airport around 0730,
Between the airport and the conference location there were about 10-15 golfcourses, afterall this was the UK. I decided toe plan ahead and try to make some online reservations for a T-Time, google maps learned me what courses were around,
so looking at their websites , I decided to try online reservations,

Most courses either did't not have an online booking form, had a broken link to an outsourced site , or you couldn't make reservations on the correct day, some of them only allowed reservations up to december 2009 , and so on..

So the next step was trying to mail to the email addresses on those sites, out of about 10 addresses tried, only 3 mailed back .. 1 of them told them they had no availble times on the day I asked, the other 2 just replied with a telphone number that I'd need to call to make reservations.

I checked the year.. indeed this is 2010, the internet has been around for ages, but apparently making online golf reservations from abroad still isn't possible.

Which brings you to the next problem, opening hours, I arrived at the airport at 0730 local time. I had a couple of phone numbers ready to call.. none of the courses / proshops listed opening times.. so I just started random dialing till after about an hour later someone picked up a line. They got lucky I jumped in a taxi and drove over there.

The weather was great .. being the first round of the year .. my scoring was ok... and I was fully relaxed by the time I arrived at the conference.

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