Muddy golf at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club

 During Chicago’s, brief and unusual, warm temperatures of December 30, 2010 and December 31, 2010 (Temperatures reached into the upper, 50 degree range.), you could have played muddy golf at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club. Course #1, #2-Ravines and #3 were open. (Cog Hill Golf and Country Club is in the Chicagoland area at 12294 Archer Avenue in Lemont, Ill.)

As I write this article, temperatures are rapidly falling into January’s, normal, daytime range—20 to 15 degrees. If during the last two days, you enjoyed yourself at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, you inured yourself for the forthcoming, cold, cold temperatures of the rest of January, February and March. Was not that muddy golf nice?

When golf experts/professionals state that good golf requires 30% and less luck, they are referring to golf under normal conditions. If you scored well while golfing in mud, your golf game consisted of more than 40% luck. Remember though, there is good luck and bad luck.

Good luck was cleaning all the mud from your newly purchased, Etonic golf shoes after playing at Cog Hill the last couple of days. Better luck was your golf ball bouncing onto the putting green at the Ravine course’s, fifth hole, after bouncing off a rock that was stuck in mud. The best luck was having Cog Hill golf management award you free rounds for a month because a golf staff person saw your lucky shot.

Bad luck was losing your only, golf glove in the mud at one of Cog Hill’s golf courses. Worse luck was that the golf ball from every drive from every teeing ground on the #3 course embedded itself into the mud. The worst luck was that you sank to your ankles while hitting from the fairway on the #1 course’s, seventh hole, took three strokes to reach the putting green, putted three times, and slipped onto your back while going to the eighth hole.

The aforementioned is muddy golf. For most of the golf season, Chicago’s golfers will usually avoid muddy conditions. Nonetheless, the year is young—very young.