Golf, Wyoming style

Salt Creek Country Club is a nine-hole “pasture golf” course in Midwest, Wyo. (Pop: 400ish), about 40 minutes north of Casper.  Pasture golf pretty much explains it — brown grass, brown dirt and brown sand “greens.”

Tee-ing off from the ladies’ tee. Yes, the sky was this blue in real life.

And prairie dog holes.

Lots of holes. Between the four of us, we only lost ONE ball!

Josh, Will, Josh and I played in the Salt Creek Days golf scramble Saturday. Being nerdy journalists, we named our team the Nut Graphs. For $25, we got all we got breakfast, lunch, all the beer/water/soda/Gatorade we wanted and a door prize. Oh, and nine amazing holes in the middle of oil fields.

ATVs and four-wheelers are better equipped for the course than golf carts.

Just picking up my ball in the rough. Josh said rattlesnakes had been spotted in this area.

This woman was forcing everyone to take a shot before hole No. 1.
We started at hole No. 3, so by this point, she’d had a few herself.

Sand greens require raking.

I won a mini cooler and a denim shirt with an oil company logo. The cooler felt heavy, so I opened it and found melted ice and cold Budweiser. Bonus!

Josh won a sand wedge, which he couldn’t take on the plane back to Missouri. We scouted possible trades. I wanted binoculars or a mini DVD player, but those people clearly weren’t letting go of their new possessions. Then the guy next to us won a 10×10 ft gazebo. He didn’t know what he’d do with it, so he traded Josh for the club.

And now I have a 10×10 ft gazebo in my trunk.