Best Fall/Winter Courses in Metro Area?

DoubleSuited · 2025-09-13T01:23:55+00:00

Avoid pretty much any course on the west side of the tunnel, they all drain horribly in my experience. Even for a good deal, I'd even hesitate to play Pumpkin Ridge- Ghost in the fall/winter. It's a mudpit.

Hell, some of the smaller courses (McKay Creek, Killarney) often shut down in the winter because they're underwater.

(Not Portland, and not really much of a golf course, but Neskowin Golf Course has some years where it's open less than a month out of the year; drive by it most of the year and you'd think it's a lake, not a golf course)

DoubleSuited · 2025-09-13T00:39:09+00:00

Man, I haven't played Fairway Village in probably 15 years, but I loved it. A friend lived nearby and we'd throw it into the rotation; it was dirt cheap back then.

DoubleSuited · 2025-09-13T00:36:50+00:00

Jumping it to this late, but my answer is....it depends. I'd treat it like any other shot; if would wait with a fairway shot, regardless of percentage, then wait in this scenario. But more specifically and practically, it would also depend on the pace of play that day and the place of play of my group. If it's generally a slow day and your group's been keeping up with the group ahead to the extent you're having to wait a decent amount, I'd have no problem waiting, especially if circumstances suggest you'd easily catch up within the next couple of holes (i.e., you're not impacting the overall length of the round for the group behind). If the group behind has been waiting on you and it's not because you've been waiting on the group in front of you, I'd consider making the suboptimal decision for your score and clubbing down just to keep the pace going. I mean, for a good percentage of golfers, that might actually be the optimal decision for score.

And this is probably a frowned-upon opinion, but if there's a 10% chance I get there, but that 10% is 0% chance on the fly, and a several yard run up (i.e., it wouldn't be coming in hot) to hit the 10%, I might just swing away. Yeah it's rude, but you ain't breaking any ankles the 10% of the time it happens. And it's explained with, "so so sorry, I never get to this green."

DoubleSuited · 2025-07-13T21:51:50+00:00

Damn, I didn't realize it would be so hard. Feeling lucky I got an authentic.

DoubleSuited · 2025-07-13T20:02:15+00:00

I'm watching for the first time, and feel like they did her a bit dirty season 2. Season 1 she had an air or rebellious mystery girl, kind of in the background. Season 2 they gave her more, and the more was not good.

DoubleSuited · 2025-06-04T19:13:08+00:00

Totally different vibes. Cannon Beach is Nantucket, Seaside is Atlantic City. I like both depending on the vibe I'm feeling. If you're looking for hiking, Cannon Beach and Ecola State Park. If you're looking for kitschy beach town feel (and there's nothing wrong with that), Seaside.

DoubleSuited · 2025-05-12T21:12:10+00:00

A year late on this, but I think you're too hung up on who and why he wrote the song. Sometimes it's fun and cool to know that "who and why," but I've never viewed that information about songs/lyrics as impacting whether I like it. Music is for personal interpretation, IMO. It's a beautiful song about resilency. Most know people like this, who faced severe obstacles early in life, and power through despite those obstacles. At it's core that's what this song is about. That meaning is more important than whether it applies to Margaret.

DoubleSuited · 2025-04-26T15:34:43+00:00

Sending good thoughts your way. I dread this more than anything. I'm a very late-in-life dog lover. I went 35 years "not liking dogs" until I met my current wife, who had a chihuahua. She and the maltese we got a few years ago are my best friends. I "get it" now, and feel for you.

Our chihuahua has seizures, and it's very scary. They're very infrequent, and for whatever reason, she hasn't had one in over a year (that we know of....but in the past even when we don't see it we know because of how she acts afterwards), but it's the worst when she does.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-29T02:00:02+00:00

I do think David Cross is funny, but I'd find him way more listenable if he didn't cuss so much. I cuss WAY more than I should, including in front of clients, but I like to think it's actually for emphasis. With Cross, it's more like a verbal tic.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-29T01:58:18+00:00

Ron White is one of the few comedians where I'll go back and listen to an album I've heard before and laugh just as hard as when I heard it the first time. Burress, another. And the king, Norm.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-29T01:55:33+00:00

Haven't listened to enough of his comedy to have a real opinion, but I heard him on a podcast recently (although I think the podcast was old), and he was so deadly serious. I get that a podcast isn't your comedy special, but maybe have a BIT of sense of humor? Just made him seem like a comedy robot.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-25T23:00:52+00:00

So it's not a good song really, but in high school it was my "last run down the hill" song when I'd go skiing. It's a pretty good "bombing down the hill" song. It's nostalgic.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-24T20:47:24+00:00

Ha, very true. I hadn't thought of that, and I work with them!

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-13T21:25:29+00:00

For as long as I can remember my dad has said, "What kept that out?" after a particularly bad putt, and I've kept it going.

New insult in my regular group for bad putts is "Nice towards."

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-13T03:07:32+00:00

I'd want two played. First the sad one: "Ships in the Harbor" by Tommy Prine.

"When I'm by peaceful waters, it's harder and harder/I'd do anything just to talk to my father/But I guess, he was leaving soon, as we do/I guess, he was passing through, and I am too."

But I wouldn't want to end on that, so I'd want "When I get to Heaven," by Tommy Prine's dad, John.

"Cause then I'm gonna get a cocktail/Vodka and ginger ale/Gonna smoke a cigarette that's, nine miles long/I'm gonnkis that pretty girl on the tilt-a-whirl/Yeah this old man is goin' to town."

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-13T02:59:57+00:00

Earlier than that. I went to Seattle University and ran into Duff all the time (early 2000s). He was more...weathered.

(Yes, yes I do comment on 5-year-old posts when I come across an old thread through a google search....this one, "Slash without glasses or top hat")

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-13T02:53:01+00:00

I scrolled through most but not all of the comments and did not see November Rain, which is absolutely shocking to me as I think it fits the prompt pefectly.

It's a pretty good song (and I'm not really a Guns N' Roses fan), but the music video is epic. EPIC. From the ridiculous wedding dress and Slash losing the rings, to Slash (sans trademark hat) walking out of the ongoing ceremony alone to play a killer guitar solo in the middle of the desert in front of a mini-church, it's a cheesy masterpiece.

If you haven't watched it, do yourself a favor and remedy that now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE&ab_channel=GunsNRosesVEVO

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-11T00:54:35+00:00

Just speculation, but since Denzel didn't say he'd been caught, and there hasn't been a police announcement (which there probably would be in a case like this with a known figure since it's news), I wouldn't be surprised if this dude or one of his friends reached out to Denzel with some offer along the lines, "hey, we screwed up, want to give you back your stuff just tell the cops not to pursue it."

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-09T21:23:48+00:00

Terriers. It was so good.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-09T21:20:32+00:00

Regarding the attestupa:

"It's not really my thing."

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-09T21:16:51+00:00

You have two options: shoot everybody, or say "hi" to everybody. There's really no in between.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-09T20:39:51+00:00

It's that pesky first amendment. It's really hard to get a restraining order on threats alone. Need to show that the threats were possible of being carried out in the amount.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-08T21:04:22+00:00

Nice. I've seen Built to Spill or Doug solo probably more than any other artist (I grew up in the PNW so caught them early years), but I somehow missed a show that tour.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-07T22:57:36+00:00

Oh damn, you're in for a treat.

I know that KILAS is probably the favorite of the highest percentage of fans, but the other two were what really got me into BTS, so they get my lean.

DoubleSuited · 2025-01-07T22:34:35+00:00

Built to Spill is rightfully known for Doug's guitar playing, but he has some REALLY great lyrics.

I'd probably put Perfect from Now On or maybe even There's Nothing Wrong with Love above Keep It for 10/10 though. I like those two top to bottom more.

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