The Irish Invitational, 2008Pala, CA, 6/12 – 6/15

• Barona Creek Golf Club and Casino

• Arrowood Golf Course• Cross Creek Golf Club• Temecula Creek Golf

Resort

The Usual Suspects(with Mrs. Sweeney running late)

Just enough space left for…

Well, maybe not.

Okay, everyone ready for the 15 minute ride to Barona?

Barona Creek Resort and Casino

Everyone looks confused…

1st hole

Beautiful Southern California…

A Nitemare swing…

“Right where I was aiming!”

Higginbotham taking his cuts…

Someone else not playing on the fairway. Evil possibly?

Senior smoothing it on out there.

The Mens Room, hole 14.

Does this even need a caption?

Nothing like a warm fire after a 2 hour drive north into Nevada…

The lights of Pala at night (not)

Stonehenge chairs

Kevin Beck drives 200 miles out of his way to see his uncles - and get free alcohol, food, and a place to stay.

Your uncles taught you well!

Only 7 hours until tee-time!

House RulesTo clarify the last rule:

“Also, the cat can’t get out or the dogs will get her. We may put her in the apartment for her own protection Please try to keep screens shut.”

House rules - continuedSpecial note on #4 – Remember that you are NOT allowed to use the tractor, dirt bikes, fire engine, quads, or lawn mowers.

Do a lot of people mow the grass at the house they are renting while on vacation?

Friday morning

Saturday morning in the Rockies

Side view of the finest accommodations available! (for those that didn’t start looking for a house until after April 1 st during the US Open weekend, requiring only a weekend stay, for

more than 6 people, with a pool for no particular reason, outside of a 30 mile radius of San Diego, and within our budget.)

Front view

Pool area (not relevant at 55 degrees in the early morning or late night)

The Stonehenge chairs

Pool house

Family room

A kitchen with everything a woman could ask for…

Living room and the final resting place of Puddles…

Never figured out if this was a decorative fountain or an old hot tub.

I must be hungover, everything is fuzzy…

Good morning Duke!

Cat’s best friends – Doberman, German Shepard, and Mastiff.

Arrowood Golf Club

Still a little fuzzy…

1st hole

Jeff’s 2nd shot – to the Par 3

Jeff’s 3rd swing…

Almost there!

A golf pro’s wet dream…

Higginbothams wet dream

“See, you want to radically dip your shoulder in order to play the 90 degree banana ball.”

“What an incredible Cinderella story. This unknown, comes out of nowhere, to lead the pack...at Arrowood”

“He's about 455 yards away, he's gonna hit about a 2 Iron, I think.”

Pooh power

The annual shot of Johnny eating something. (Had to have a cupcake after a 6-pound steak.)

But he did not fall asleep this year!