The mild weather in Rochester continues. It looks like this might be the last nice day. The Rochester area is under a winter weather advisory.
I plan to play a round of golf before meeting some friends for early dinner. After dinner it is off the to the REC Center to work the Ice Hawks hockey game.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Rochester, MN is having remarkably warm weather for the end of December. Oak Summit Golf course has been open since Christmas day! I was able to get out yesterday and play 18. It was a little windy, but you can’t complain if you are golfing in December!
I made my annual trip from Alamo, TX over to S. Padre Island this morning. It was cloudy and cool day in the Rio Grande Valley. I stopped at South Padre Island Golf Club hoping to sneak in a quick round of golf before I headed back to Alamo. No luck today. Over an hour wait and the play time was 4.5 hours.
After making a quick stop at Surfs Up for some T-shirts, I headed north to see the beach. The road was closed at Beach Access Point 6, so I made a stop. The north west wind was cold so I threw on the light weight winter coat and trekked down the beach for a few hundred yards. No sign of the red tide and the beach was very clean.
Next stop - Pirates Landing. It wasn’t very busy today so I was able to get in and out in less than an hour. Due to the weather little to not activity on the pier today. As always the food was great and the portions were large.
Once back to Alamo, I headed to The Practice Tee to hit a bucket of balls. By the time I got to the range the skies had cleared.
Great day of vacation!
There won’t be many outdoor activities today. The high today will be 50 and the wind is blowing. Compared to MN it’s nice – for the Valley it’s cold.
Yesterday was a very nice day. I went to the Practice Tee driving range and later in the day hit the pool and hot tub.
It was cloudy and cool this morning in the Valley. Tierra Del Sol was running an event so we went off the back. The difference in the front and back makes you think that you are on two different golf courses. The back 9 winds through a housing development where the front 9 is fairly wide open. I ended the day playing bogie golf.
I’ve had mixed results with this tweak. Before disabling this option, be sure to do some performance testing. From my experience it depends on the network card. The following article gives a good description of the parameter and the steps to change it.
Here are the current tweaks I’m running on my Lenovo W520 with an OCZ SSD.
UAC is set to off.
Set power plan to maximum performance.
Set folder options so that Windows opens folder in a new process.
Windows Features Turned Off
Services Disabled
Registry Changes
Disable Low Disk Space Notification Alert
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and set NoLowDiskSpaceChecks to 1. If it doesn’t exist create a new DWORD 32 bit key.
My friends and I went back to Tierra Del Sol this morning. The wind was very calm as we started our round of golf. I was 2 over after 4 – tremendous improvement from the day before. I ran into some trouble coming in on the last holes. Luckily the rain held off as we finished.
I went out with a couple of friends today and played the front 9 on Tierra Del Sol. The winds were gusting nearly 40 mph which resulted in a couple of bad holes. Hopefully tomorrow will be less windy.
It’s been 3 weeks since I’ve been able to swing a golf club. It was great to get out in some warm weather and hit a bucket of balls. Considering it was a 3 week break, I was happy with my swing. Heading to the course tomorrow near McAllen, TX.
