Winter golf started today for this average golfer and as expected I was rusty. The Pines Course has a slope of 122 from the gold tees with a rating of 68.7. A slope of 113 is average, therefore you can see that the course is above average in difficulty. We played from the gold, but for information, the white tees have a slope of 129 and a rating of 70.8. Remember my post about putting? Today was evidence of how putting affects your game….I shot 101 (51/50) with 17 /21 putts! No three putts on the front and three three putts on the back! That tells me I was fairly good off the tee and in the fairway, but the rust showed when I got to the green. The short game has to improve! The gold yardage is 5965 and white yardage is 6409. Not a good day as I was above the average golf score of 100. Another bad indicator was that I only hit two fairways on the front and two on the back! Tomorrow I will be playing Pine Needles, one of the primer courses in the area.