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Giveaway – Win this Awesome MyGolfspy Winter Hat

BY MyGolfSpy
Dec 28th 2015
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As Abe Simpson would say, “back in those days…” we’d play golf when it was 10 below.

Ok…maybe 10 below is a stretch, but if the course was open, we were there. Cold was nothing more than undesirable state of mind.

I was just talking to a friend about my favorite round of winter golf. It was less than 40° when we teed off, and by the 6th hole, the wind was blowing, and snow was falling. For 30 minutes it was near whiteout conditions, and every minute of it was totally awesome.

Although, truth be told, I could have used a warmer hat.

Boom….segue.

Wouldn’t we all like a warmer hat?

MyGolfSpy has teamed up with Imperial Headwear to give 3 lucky readers one of these custom MyGolfSpy winter hats. It’s the holidays, so I won’t overstate anything, but trust me, these are really nice (warm) hats.

RT & Follow to win this awesome #MYGOLFSPY hat. https://t.co/ZpYW4VsiEj pic.twitter.com/l2XEED1MFR

— MyGolfSpy (@MyGolfSpy) December 28, 2015

How To Enter

Use the comment section below to share your favorite winter golf memory.

Was it cold? Was it snowy? Was wind brutal? Whatever the conditions, we want to hear about your most fun, or at least your most memorable round of winter golf.

3 Winners will be selected at random to receive a MyGolfSpy winter hat from Imperial Headwear.

Because we know it gets cold all over the globe, this giveaway is open to all.

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MyGolfSpy

8 years ago

We would like to congratulate Casey, Dmac, and Michael Rahm for winning, and thank everyone for sharing their stories! We truly enjoyed reading each and every one of them.

Dreux Daumer

8 years ago

Played at College (in Central PA) at the end of winter, 1972. The round started out at 9:30 am- sun shining, temp around 44 degrees & by the time my partner and I made it to the 6th hole, temp had dropped to around 30 degrees, and a snow squall blew in over the course, with almost a complete whiteout. We finished the hole, discussed whether we should continue, and decided to try, since we were dressed pretty good, had the invincibility of youth (nothing could hurt US), besides we were headed back to the pro shop & the turn anyway. Within the time we teed off on #7, and struggled up to the green, it had stopped snowing, the wind died, and the temp rose a few degrees above freezing, so we decided to go for the whole 18. We finished up the entire 18, cold as all heck, and laughing about how we were the only two players to finish a round that day. We still laugh about it to this day.

Kenny

8 years ago

Played during sleet storm. Ice so deep on the greens the ball jumped all over the place. Funny but really cold.

Lee Saxton

8 years ago

Played one day in Michigan it was so cold I had two balls that split in half when I hit them. Of course I took the half that went the farthest for my next shot.

Clayton

8 years ago

Playing in south Arkansas 2000 with my lil brother the Saturday after thanksgiving . Lions Club Muni(El Dorado AR) When we started walking the front nine the temp was overcast 34F. When we made the turn the flurries started and by the 15th hole we looking for ball track marks. It was a blast.

Kevin Polischuk

8 years ago

Boxing Day. Ghost Lake Alberta. Chinook came through a few days prior and melted the snow off our 6 hole permanent greens pitch and putt. Pulled out the wedge and putter and went around 3 times just to say we played 18 on Boxing Day. It was awesome.

Rob courts

8 years ago

August in Melbourne 2008 I had arranged to play a game at trentham golf club, a country course just over an hour north west of Melbourne. The drive was fine and the temp was about 3deg celcious. But about 2klm from the course it started snowing OMG I had never seen snow before ever, i was so excited. I turned up at the course and played my 18 holes. I had a terrible score, 12 worse than my handicap (10) but I had a blast playing in the snow. A round I will never forget! It was so awesome.

Orv Goossen

8 years ago

I live in southern Manitoba Canada. Often we can’t golf for 6 months. Seeing I love to golf my aim is to see how many months of the year I can hit balls off some bare grass. I got up to December but looks like January it won’t happen. Would be proud to wear the golf hat for shovelling snow.

Ed

8 years ago

Cold is just a state of mind, and I don’t mind. It’s about the game, and not the excuses. Cold or heat, what’s the difference anyway, do you want to play or not!

Dr Tee

8 years ago

Late Nov. 2012 in Cleveland playing last round at Acacia CC, beautiful old Donald Ross track, before Cleveland Metroparks purchase and closure as a golf course forever, 45 degrees, electrically heated vest on highest setting, no sun. Cranked in a 20 footer for par, sand save and bringing it home in 79 blows!

Jacqueline Santopietro

8 years ago

Brett and I are normally golfing indoors by December, but this year we met my parents in Jacksonville and drove down to my Aunts in Port ST Lucie. We capped off the great trip golfing at Heritage Links on Christmas day!!!! No hat required but March is just around the corner and a new hat would be a great addition to the early spring golf wardrobe!!!

Perry maurer

8 years ago

It’s Jan. and the pond guarding the party email 9th hole is frozen on the Medal of Honor base course in Quantico. The first golfer in my group used a tee and a hammer to put his ball in the ground; he skies his shot high and short, hitting the ice and his ball bounds up on the green. Amazing! The next guy in new our threesome duck hooks a 5 iron hitting the brick pump house on the left of the pond, the ball ricochets off the side and lands on the collar of the green. I don’t remember where I hit it but compared to the first two players, it was nothing to remember. January golf in northern VA can be pretty humorous.

Wethy

8 years ago

24 of us played 60 holes in mid November 2014 to celebrate a buddy’s 60th birthday. The temperature never got above 30. Started at 8 and finished just before dark. We had a blast.

Dave matusek

8 years ago

Golfing in Chicago started out47 dropped24 degrees in2 hours. Played the last2holes as snow was falling. My putt rolled7 feet and stopped. 15 feet short. Fun

John Robinson

8 years ago

Boxing day and the usual christmas family match. The 5th par three green totally covered in frost. I had a 30 foot putt and I hit the ball and watched a perfect green line appear in the frost as it streaked across the double break, resting on the lip of the hole before dropping. A feat I have never done before or since. This was the best christmas present ever.

Ron Wright

8 years ago

Lots of fall and spring “memories”. May 1, 2009. Going to golf on Sunday afternoon as it is my mom’s birthday. 41 degrees when I tee off sleeting sideways with a 20 mph wind. Let’s play from the tips just for fun at 7000+ yards at The Links of North Dakota. The temp drops as I walk the course being the only golfer challenging the weather. Get to #17, a downhill 235 yard par 3 redan hole and it’s now snowing so hard I can’t see the flag and it now is thundering during the snowstorm!! All I can think about is the Monsignor in Caddyshack who gets struck by lightning when he kept playing……Finished up 18 and probably was as cold as I’ve ever been in my life. When I crawled in my jeep—– temp was 30!!!

Rich Todd

8 years ago

Played at a small club in Ireland for the first time in 2 degrees, frost on the ground and thick fog. Visibility was around 100 yards. My fellow golfers, course members, pointed me in the right direction and gave me an estimated distance and a description of the course. “370 yards, dog leg left, there’s a tree up there in the fairway you can’t see, your lines to the right of that!”
Tee off and walk in the direction of you shot shape, so much fun!

Roger Gemeinhardt

8 years ago

One winter we started a round when the temps were in the tolerable range for the Midwest, maybe in the upper 30’s. On the 7th hole, it started to snow these big, fat flakes. By the time we reached the green, the snow was beginning to collect on the short grass. I remember putting towards the hole and snow was sticking to the ball creating an equator that got larger as the ball went farther. When the ball lost its speed and stopped, it fell over on its side. That is when we said, “What in the hell are we doing out here?”

John Robinson

8 years ago

Boxing day on our usual family christmas match and the 5th green white with frost. I had about 30 foot putt, hit the ball and watched as the ball left a perfect green line in the white frost. The ball rested on the edge of the hole and just dropped. Never done it since. Best christmas present ever.

Bob Gerlach

8 years ago

This is a great contest for a great winter golf prize. We were playing in early March. Temperature was ~35 degrees with snow drifts, but the fairways were clear. The turf had thawed for the most part, so balls plugging was the norm. We were getting less than normal distance on all shots, so judgement had to be used, particularly where there were hazards. I hit a shot well short of the green directly at a water hazard. It went in, but took a huge bounce off the water (ice) and was a short chip from the green. Winter golf is a different game.

Ron Forest

8 years ago

Living in Manitoba, my favourite memory of winter golf was a final round of golf before the course closed. The temperature was a 3 degrees over freezing so I grabbed a golf cart so that I could play the round as quickly as possible. Mitts and a touque were a prerequisite to keep hands and head warm. I made the mistake to wander off the cart path to look for my ball that had landed in a shallow snow drift. The golf cart tires were never designed to drive in snow and my golf cart was became stuck in the snow requiring me to push it to the cart path (lol). I did not have high expectations of scoring well so I just swung easy and hit the ball very straight and long considering the low temperatures and strong wind. I made one eagle and had another three birdies to shoot a 74 which was my best round of the year. I savored the drink in the club house after the round and even though it would be another 5 to 6 months before I played my course again, I felt satisfied and very happy that day.

Torre

8 years ago

I was so hard up to play one February Saturday I played 18 alone in 32° weather. Could not stand being inside any longer.

alfred koopmann

8 years ago

very luckly this played golf two times a week up to last week my wife and enjoy playing in cold and cool weather because the course is mostly ours alone.

wayne

8 years ago

Played golf in the snow many times in Niagara Falls, Ontario……live in the south now, what was I thinking back then?

Larry Paul

8 years ago

Beautiful Vancouver island, the day starts out at -5 C (23 F), heavy frost, Dec 29/15 but it looks like it might get to +5 (40 ish F) on Qualicum Beach 9 hole golf coarse, The coarse is in mint condition, nice job coarse staff, we check in at 2 p m its +3 C and stays that way for our game. This will be the first time i’ve played golf in Canada in December in 56 years, luv’d every minute, my game was good only lost 1 ball, shot a 48 on a par 35 coarse surprising only 3 putted once lol, hope to play Jan and Feb too.

John Marsh

8 years ago

Mid December a few years back – 10:00 am Leo & myself only two who showed up
Going up par 5 third hole it starts snowing – feels like being inside a snow globe
Continues snowing – walk down from hole #7 to hole #8 snowing harder
We both hit the par 3 #8 green – both our putts accumulate snow on our putts to the size of a baseball
Play #9 to the green – pick up our balls ,shake hands and declare course is closed until spring

Rob Flynn

8 years ago

Frozen Fairways are a hackers dream. Summer time drives of 250 are fantasies embellished to 300 by everyone I have ever played with. The first 3 holes on a winter morning when the deck is frozen and slick make somebody like me feel like John Daly for about 30 minutes a year. I Will never be good, no need to pretend otherwise, but can I have more fun than the anal rule police that lie their butt off with gimme putts, improved lies, and all alzhiemers like score keeping. YOU BET I CAN

Weston Kimmey

8 years ago

It started hailing on the beginning of the 18th hole and by the time I reached the green, it was covered. I had about 15 feet for birdie thanks to a lucky bounce off of the hail. There was no way that I could putt so I tried to re-create Phil Mickelson’s chip in. I hit the ball and lipped out but still by far my best winter golf moment.

Dan

8 years ago

My favorite winter golf memory was from christmas eve this year.

Where I live north of Toronto we usually can’t play past early November due to freezing temps and snow.

But it’s been unseasonably warm this year, and I got to play until dec 26. Me and my best golf mate teamed up w 2 of my other buds and played 18. It was anbeautifully balmy day, and I played the best I ever have. No threebputts, with 3 or 4 one putts. By far my best ever, and it was a good round to give me hope heading into next season.

Charlie

8 years ago

My favorite winter memory was hitting a two-iron at the North Pole with my best buddy. I think it was 40 below that day and it felt like we were hitting rocks. But on we trudged hitting the ball and then finding it so we could hit it again. Try finding a white golf ball at the North Pole after hitting it. A task in itself, but we did it and now have fond memories of the day we did this.

Tom R.

8 years ago

I live in Arizona and we play here year-round. It can be cold in the morning during the winter months, and frost delays are not uncommon. Usually in the afternoon it warms up and we need to remove some layers of clothing. One round a couple years ago it kept getting colder and darker in the afternoon. On the 17th hole, a weird combination of snow and hail that is officially called graupel started coming down on us. When we got to the 18th green, it was covered in the white sticky stuff. My birdie putt left a trail and ended up as a snowball that came up short of the hole. that was definitely a strange round for the Phoenix area.

GilB

8 years ago

Good luck to all contestants. I’d love to win something before I die but I don’t really need, thankfully, a winter cap here in Arizona. Have a Happy New Year everyone and a great golfing season in 2016.

Josh Anderson

8 years ago

Favorite memory came this year. Playing on Christmas Day in central Illinois. First time playing on Christmas Day.

Andrew

8 years ago

Up here in Minny we do fundraisers out on frozen lakes where you go play 18 holes and each hole is sponsored by a local business. In Long Lake there is one called the Snowball Open. Every hole has vendors with drinks, snacks, etc. A good time is had by all… So there you have it – my favorite winter golf memory(s).

Casey

8 years ago

Play with a guy from time to time named Moose. Not sure where the name comes from and have never asked. Anyways on a Par 3 at my local course, you tee off and then there is a drive down about 50 feet to a pond where the cart path is within a foot or two of the pond and then drive up maybe 15-20 feet to the green. It was cold out (40*) but all of the ponds on the course were still frozen from freezing temps the previous couple weeks. Long story short, somehow Moose ended up on the other side of the pond and had managed to drive the cart on the ice, which broke the ice and almost sunk the cart. Now there is a post in the water where this happened with a sign that says “Moose Crossing”. People always ask why there is a Moose crossing sign on a Southern Indiana golf course.

MyGolfSpy

8 years ago

Congratulations Casey,

You’ll have to let your buddy Moose know that the staff at MyGolfSpy got a good laugh out of your story! We hope you enjoy your hat. We would love to see a picture of the “Moose Crossing” sign.

Kenny B

8 years ago

We don’t get a lot of snow in SE Washington state, but it can get cold. A few years ago we got about 2 inches of snow on New Years eve; it was 20*. On New Year’s Day we shoveled the six greens closest to the clubhouse; 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9. Shoveling the snow off the greens created a snowbank all the way around the greens. We shoveled a path in front of each green to where you could move your ball when, not if, it ended up in the snowbank. My wife and I and 5 others all teed off together. We play #1 and #2 as regular holes; we teed off from #3 tee box to #4 green and from #5 tee box to #7 green. Holes #8 and #9 were normal. Six holes in freezing cold; back to the clubhouse to warm up by the fire and a few drinks. Repeat two more times for our 18 holes. What a blast!! It could be the same this year, as temperatures are not supposed to get above freezing all this week and we have a little snow on the ground.

Jim

8 years ago

My favorite winter golf moment was playing with friends with the starting temperature around 30 degrees and falling, with a strong wind and gusts upwards of 30 mph too. Then it started snowing around the 11th hole and we ended up with several inches by the time we finished. Nothing like playing the ball out 30 yards and having the wind carry it on the green. Great time but cold. I’ve played in the snow several times with the whiteouts being the most fun. Never say never in the northeast if you’re a golf addict (yesterday’s round was 20 degree wind chill factor with wind – not too comfortable but overall pretty fun).

Dustin Miller

8 years ago

Nothing like teeing it up with frost on the ground, doesn’t get too cold in the south and most courses here don’t open when its below freezing. I play year round in the sunshine….

Carter Hoss

8 years ago

I was playing in the U.S. Junior Amerature qualifier and during my second round that day the wind picked up quite a bit. After a long rough day I decided that I wanted to give my last tee shot a rip. The hole was 391 yards downwind and the group ahead of us all hit their approach shots and were walking to the green. Thinking I was clear to hit, I ripped a driver down the aggressive line and the ball carried the group ahead of us. My ball finished about 30 yards from the green where I got up and down for a birdie. The group in front of me congratulated me on my 360 yard drive after the round.

Peter

8 years ago

My favorite golf memory came on December 15th probably 10 years ago when I played at Oak Marsh in Oakdale Minnesota. It was a par 3 and there was water, or should i say ice to the short left of the green. I hit a poor tee shot and it was heading towards the ice but it bounced off of it and landed on the green! I didn’t make my birdie putt but I got a par and I thought that was the funniest thing I’ve every seen and I like telling that story whenever I play that course or when it is cold out on the course which is half of the Minnesota golfing season.

Duncan

8 years ago

When I played in winter I never lose a ball in a water hazard.

Dmac

8 years ago

Played in a foursome a few years ago in the middle of a brutal winter up in Alaska. It was so cold the first two balls I hit off the tee shattered like glass. We had to keep our golf balls down our pants to warm them up. The cart girl said I cut an impressive figure with the bulge of a dozen mojo’ s in my snowmobile suit. The twelfth green was at the base of a steep hill on the right and guarded by twelve foot drifts on the left. I sliced the approach so bad it landed two thirds up the side of the hill. It snowballed down the hill and rolled to within six feet of the hole. It was three feet in diameter and several attempts to knock the hell out of it with my putter proved useless. I took an eight. Even though I lost a finger and three toes to frostbite and one of our group wasn’t found until the spring thaw I had a great day.

MyGolfSpy

8 years ago

Congratulations Dmac,

You have guts playing in an Alaskan winter. Hopefully next time will be warmer, enjoy your new hat!

hckymeyer

8 years ago

Our courses tend to close in the winter so there isn’t a lot of options for winter golf. One year though we didn’t have snow yet so we snuck out and played a few holes. We had to bring a drill with us so we could drill a hole in the ground on the tee box just to get a tee in. We had a blast and there’s nothing quite like the roll you get from a frozen fairway.

crystal allen

8 years ago

We live in Texas and the winters are mild. Golfing this winter has been a dream. Christmas Eve Golfing was like being in the Bahamas at Christmas time.

Steve Myrvold

8 years ago

I played high school golf in the months from March through school getting out. Loved watching the weather slowly improve from snow flurries to glorious Spring.
Also, I lived on a bluff over looking a lake. In January I would take a few shag balls and hit them from the bluff onto the frozen lake. Bonk, bonk, bonk until the ball would disappear about a half a mile away. Fun times! 55 years ago.
Love the hat.

Craig

8 years ago

Playing end of season golf here in Canada the snow held off until last hole then opened up. Came down heavy. The 18th green was covered. We played it out.
I hit my putt extra hard to offset the snow & it rolled while gathering snow on the ball it plopped into the hole. Birdie snow ball to end the year. Love to wear your toque the next time I play winter golf.

John Mc

8 years ago

Wind was terrible. Was so cold the ball felt like hitting a rock. But a frozen day on the course is better then warm one anywhere else!

Nasir Mahmud

8 years ago

As a young man I had the privilege of playing a round of golf with my father in Abbotabad a picturesque hill station in the north of Pakistan. It was bitterly cold with a biting wind blowing across the course. I had just won the juniors championship at the same course the previous weekend and was full of youth and bravado to show my game to my father who had patiently mentored and tutored me in golf since I was five. The wind and cold sliced through us numbing our hands ears and noses making every shot and putt an ordeal and the conquest of each hole a triumph. Throughout the round I could not keep my ball on the fairway and could barely hit greens in regulation ….. the harder I tried to conquer the wind by swinging harder the worst it got. Dad meanwhile patiently carved a round playing wisely keeping the ball under the wind, taking a club more, laying up and working the ball wherever necessary. After the round as we thawed ourselves in front of the fireplace in the clubhouse over hot steaming soup; Dad could see that I was depressed after a miserable round of golf …… He quietly held my hand and said ‘ Son …. It’s not the game you bring to the golf course that matters it’s the score you take home’ …….. That was the best lesson in golf I have ever had …. Rest in eternal peace Dad

Aaron M

8 years ago

I was introduced to the Birdie Flask last winter. I birdied the first hole. On the fairway of the third hole my partner handed me a flask saying that he forgot to hand it to me earlier. On it read “Birdie Flask.” He said that any time you got a birdie, you take a swig from the flask. He’s given them out to his family as gifts. I guess in his family, this is a thing. I’m down with that!

Mark

8 years ago

I played Kingsmill in Williamsburg, Va many years ago on a cold day. I hit one in a pond and it bounced out, thanks to the iced over pond. I think of that day everytime I play in the cold.

Peter Ciambrone

8 years ago

Playing every year on New Year’s Day in Atlantic City NJ no matter what the weather is, looking forward to another New Year’s Day tournament. May not need the hat this year due to great weather so far this year.

Alex

8 years ago

Being from Canada as well as a golf addict is kind of a tough situation seeing as the season only lasts from May to the end of October. To help ease the golf withdrawls, i would go out the lake behind my house during times when there was little snow and create my own 3 hole par 3 loop. I would shovel off some tees and greens and put flags in makeshift holes. A few golfing buddies and I, armed with 2 clubs colored golf balls and some pops would play that loop over and over until we got too cold to keep playing. My neighbors thought we were absolutely insane but we had an absolute blast.

Alan Larson

8 years ago

Does it have to be from Winter, or only SEEM like Winter? I play in a tournament in Michigan every August, several years ago we were playing in sideways sleet with all of our rain gear in, Winter gear on, gloves, stocking hats, and still froze almost to death!
Only for this silly game…

Chris

8 years ago

Those hats are SWEET!

My favorite golf memory is this winter, we had a couple of cold days followed by a warmer weekend day, and we went out to my home course, the was a large puddle in a low spot on a fairway, and it was iced over. I hit a drive and skipped of the ice further down the fairway, the only roll I got the whole round.

Michael Rahm

8 years ago

I’m bald…super bald. I need a warm hat when it’s in the 50’s. Needless to say, my winter golf can only get better with a warm hat! My favorite round of winter golf was played outside of DC. It had been consistently below freezing for a month and the ground was frozen solid. My buddy and i brought hammers to get tees into the ground and kept our golf balls in hot water so they wouldn’t be totally frozen (did that help? who knows.) we both shot miserable rounds, but it was just us and had a great time.

MyGolfSpy

8 years ago

Congratulations Michael,

We aren’t quite sure what separates the “bald” from the “super bald”. Hopefully a warm new hat will help your affliction, enjoy!

Mike

8 years ago

I was golfing with my buddy once during an unseasonably warm Chicago winter. It was warm out but there were mounds of snow all over the course. By the back 9 it had begun raining and on the 14th tee my driver slipped out of my hands and flew into a tree and stuck there. My buddy and I had tears in our eyes we were laughing so hard! Eventually shook the thing out of the tree and continued on.

Mark

8 years ago

My favorite winter golf moment came in April. I was playing in a two day 2-man team tournament at Indian Tree GC in Arvada, CO. My partner and I were in the first flight and just weren’t playing well individually or as a team. It didn’t help that the wind started up on about the 5th hole and the temps were dropping with every hole we played. It was raining on and off and then on the 14th hole it started snowing. And it snowed and snowed and kept snowing so that we couldn’t really see the balls in the air, had to feel where the shots went and the last two holes our putts were making snowballs on the way to the hole. When we finished we were freezing and had actually played better in the snow than during the rest of the round. When we got to the course the next morning the tourney couldn’t be played so they recalculated and re-flighted the field and we played so poorly, we ended up winning the second flight. :)

McaseyM

8 years ago

My favorite Winter golf memory:
Our First Honey Badger Classic Golf Tourney (you only get 3 clubs) was scheduled in January of 2011. The rain was hellacious that week, dumping several inches throughout the week , but we somehow got a break with no rain……but 20-30 mph winds arrived that day….well Honey Badger don’t give a F%^#, We play!!
1st hole, into the wind. After a weak tee shot and second shot, I pull out my $$$ club, pitching wedgfe to go for the green from about 100 yards out.
I strike well, get the ball up in the air, and up, and up and up, it just friggin’ sits there, and proceeds to drop about 20-30 yars from where I hit it. All we could do was laugh.
The wind was mighty that day, but it was funny to watch the ball go all over the place!

Wayne F

8 years ago

Use to play every Super Bowl Sunday in NW Florida (cold in January) and played the course backwards then had barbecue and watched the game in the clubhouse. Men who played in a skirt and bare legs could play from the ladies tees! Good times!!!

Golfer G

8 years ago

Never had a fun or crazy winter golf memory but I do like playing when it’s cold. One of these times it would be cool if some snow moves in while we’re playing – that should make for some good photos…

Jason

8 years ago

Living in Saskatchewan, Canada our season is limited to April through October. However, back in 1997 we had an unusually mild winter. As such, a couple courses opened on new years day for one day so locals could play a round on new years day for a once in a lifetime round. It was cold for golf but memorable all the same. Of course, 2 days later we were back to -20 Celsius temps. Often up here on the prairies we find ourselves wearing touques, beanies, in the middle of May or even late August morning rounds. Would love to show off one of these!

Nic Sherman

8 years ago

In Oregon, we play golf all year. Depending on what part of the state you live in, Winter can mean different things. Rain, Wind, Snow, Freezing rain…. or Perfect weather.

My favorite winter golf memory is playing at Bandon Dunes in February. The wind and rain were really going, and it was more a test of survival than a test of golf. On 13, a 537 yard par 5 that was playing straight into the wind, I hit Driver, 1 iron, 1 iron, 1 iron, putt for one of the greatest pars I have ever made. At the end of the round, I could barely feel my fingers and toes.

I will never forget it.

Ken Mykietowich

8 years ago

My favorite cold golf memory would be in an early spring melt had the courses open in early March. Good Friday actually. Now in Manitoba at that time a year it still is very cold. On this particular day there was a wind chill but me and the father in law still went out. Froze our buts off. Sure the ball went far on the fairway but every shot we took we got stingers! No divots on the frozen tundra in the prairies. Lol

Kerry Cole

8 years ago

Yes, you too can be the Cat in the Hat wearing this special lid..

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