Holes 3 and 4

Hole 3: Par 2


So, now we get to hole 3. Hole 3 was a straight shot that used 2 cubicle dividers as a ramp that was raised in the center. A rug was put in front of the ramp to slow down the ball as well as a couple of metal rods, angled to form a 'V', towards the ramp.

The best shot on the hole was made by L. S., she managed a hole in one...with a WILD shot! That ball was all over the place like Ricochet Rabbit, yet somehow managed to land right in the hole! That's not her, BTW, that's just the best shot showing the hole.









Hole 4: Par 2.

Hole 4 was awesome! This hole was the site of a bit of over zealous putting. Mr. M here put a bit too much oomph into his swing and….













I have no idea how fast that ball was going, but since speed was combined with a nicely curved wall...well, it went UP! I vote that this was one of the great putts of the day. Note the nice golf ball shape dent, at the end of my putter, in the ceiling.








Here is a shot of the hole in question. Amazing what can be created with office equipment and supplies, eh? I managed to get a hole in 2 on this one putting similarly to Em; banking off the 'wall' there (the site of the upwardly mobile ball), and found that the lighter the touch on the putt the better!

How to turn your office into a golf course :D

The Reason:

We had just relaunched www.golflink.com and added a bunch of goodies. Our people worked their tails off. The plan had been to take an afternoon off and hit one of our local mini golf courses to celebrate, but...well...this is Seattle, Ya'll. The weather would just not cooperate! Some time passed (several weeks) and I guess it dawned on some that we needed BEER if we were going to golf. Golf with no beer? No way!

Plans got changed. Our conspirators planners came up with something much better, a plan that would not require us to smuggle beer in anywhere, haha!

The Plan:

Have lunch...

Turn the office INTO a mini golf course. Now, we do have a little bit of space but seems we are using as much of it as we can to actually work (what a concept), so it was rather amazing to see how this was accomplished.

Let me take a moment to thank Jay for the great pictures. For some reason none of us had a camera so he whipped out his fancy phone and documented the inspired madness!

The planners had to take me shopping, as I knew the best place to go find used, cheap putters (and got them hooked on one of the largest thrift shops in Seattle) as well as being a true beer snob. Ra had provided them (Tee, El, and Em) with a great list, but not being much into beer themselves they would have been a bit overwhelmed by the list and the selection!

We ended up with a handful of putters and headed onwards for beer, a nice dark, two mediums and a pale. Trust me here, there was no Coor's or Bud in that cart :D Adding some Hard Cider was a great idea, one that went over VERY well, thanks Tee for the idea there! Two of the planners, El and Em, decided they were going to make Sangria so we snagged three bottles of Barefoot Merlot and fruit as well.




El & Em's Sangria:

3 bottles Merlot
3 oranges
1 lemon
1 lime
1 2 liter bottle Ginger Ale

Slice fruit, soak in wine overnight. Add ginger ale right before serving.

That was the hit of the party! Make this one, you won't regret it (unless you drink too much of it, hehe). There was none of this left...at all.

There was something for the non drinkers as well, you can see the root beer back there!




A rule was instated.

The Rule of Cup:

A drink must be in hand to play. Now, some of us took this as 'When putting, you may put the drink down', but some people are hard-asses and took this a different way.





It is rather amazing to see how fast an office can be turned into a 9 hole mini golf course. I guess this is what can happen when you take a room full of computer geeks and a bunch of office furniture. The imaginative resourcefulness was really intense! One moment there was a standard office (well, as standard as I guess we can be!) then, within an hour, there was a complete 9 hole course!!

Hole one: Par 2.

This hole was seemingly simple, with one beer box as the hazard. After the hole was cut in the box, the designer decided it was too simple, after all…I mean...this WAS the first hole, right? How about...the first shot must be taken while standing on a skateboard? Sure! Why not?




















It was quickly discovered that the best route, with the box, was to actually bank off the wall. :D Here is Tee extending her mad multitasking abilities to the game and using the putter as a cue!




















There is proof that it can be done, as El here shows.




Hole 2, Par 3:




Things got a lot more interesting creating the second hole, as it was set up in our conference room and there was a lot of material to be used in there. Our conference table just happens to be a split top Ping Pong table, regulation size. The guys who worked on this hole took the table, split it and ran a ramp up and through the opening. On the other side you found yourself in a maze of tubing, made up of various table legs and whatnot. They insisted it was a par 3 but I say it was a par 20, hehe.











Having learned from hole one that sometimes the way to go is 'around' this was tried again, but the construction of this hole was different. The 'maze' was actually a trap! If you attempted to cheat go around the table, getting into the maze, where the second hole resided, was damn near impossible!

I will end this first installment with a great pic (Thanks again, Jay!) of the view from the other side of hole 2, par 20 3. I should be able to do one post a day about our fantastic course!