So here we were, in mid-February, bemoaning the harsh, cold and snowy winter, when a friend of mine comes up with the idea of a golf trip to warmer climes, a long weekend designed to ready us for summer play and relieve us of our golfer’s angst. It’s a guy’s trip, of course, meaning that it will be all golf all the time, and several of us sign on.
I had visions of Phoenix with hot temps and green fairways, and perhaps even a little spring training baseball thrown in for good measure in the evening. But my planning friend, in an attempt to save most of his money for losing golf bets, decides Albuquerque, New Mexico, would be the perfect spot, and he has consulted every known weather source, from The Weather Channel to the Farmer’s Almanac, to discover that the weekend of March 2-3-4 in the Albuquerque area will be “good-to-golf” – temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s.
That sounded good to me, since around here it was in the low 30s and even colder and I hadn’t swung a club since December 15. I signed on.
Turned out that my car assignment for that weekend was to be the new 2007 Lexus LS460L, the longer version of the LS460 I had driven weeks earlier, and to add value to the experience this higher-end LS was going to come equipped with the “parallel parks itself” system that everyone was talking about. I couldn’t wait – a great car, a chance to put it through its paces on a nice road trip (six hours each way), topped off by some warm, if not stellar golf.
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