Local Golf Report: Until we meet again, on the course

I hate to do it, and my clubs are still in my car, but, from a standpoint of writing about it every week, I’m going to have to say goodbye to another golf season.

Yes, this will be the last From Tee to Green for 2017. If you have golf news you want to run in the paper, still send it to me, and I’ll make sure it gets in a sports brief.

Before saying goodbye, there are some things I have to do first.

First, thank you to every one who helps make this column possible. That includes league secretaries. You guys do a great job of getting me the information I need so that everyone who reads this column can see how much fun we have in league golf. So thank you for another great season, Jeremy Jensen, Jim Kirkpatrick, Ali Ward and Tony Woods. You guys did a great job getting me the info this year. Thanks also to Doug Sheppard at Prairie Farms Golf Course and Rob Gomke at Beaver Creek Golf Course, for also helping me make this column what it is. Great job guys. Thank you also to all of the different tournament organizers and sponsors this season. There are too many of you to list, but thank you so much for helping to make local golf around these parts a lot of fun, and for giving all of us hackers a wide variety of events to play in and enjoy.

I’d also like to wish the best of luck to all of our local high school and collegiate golfers. Good luck to head coach Brett Gilman and the Havre High golf teams at this weekend’s Class A state tournament in Sidney. Good luck to the MSU-Northern golf teams on the rest of your fall season. And, while you have to endure a long, harsh winter first, best of luck to all of our Class B and C golfers as you start your season in March. Golf may be winding down, but your season isn’t that far off either.

Yes, that’s the way I’m looking at this last column – I’ll be writing another one before I know it. Sure, it will come after months of snow, cold and wind, but, in my world, those months go by pretty fast. I’ll have my first 2018 From Tee to Green in early April, so, I’ll look at it that way - it’s only six months away. I’m going to miss playing golf no doubt. I’m going to miss writing about it, too. I hate that I feel like I have to start all over in the spring. But, that’s the life of golfers in north-central Montana. We have to put the clubs down sometime.

But hopefully Santa will put a couple of golf items under the Christmas tree this year, and that way I won’t totally be without golf for all six months.

Until then, though, see you all in the links next spring!