Andover to Ogallala
The drive from Andover to Ogallala was 462.77 miles of nothing but cornfields and power generating windmills. I'm not going to lie, the drive as far as scenery was pretty brutal and the company didn't make it any better. I learned a lot about Leastman I didn't know. For instance, he hates the band Cake! Who hates Cake?! Who?! I'll tell you who! Communists and Satin worshipers! 
Unbelievable! You think you know a guy and he drops a bomb like that on you. WOW! Come to find out Brian is a big fan of Alanis Morissette, Pink, Ashley Simpson, 
Michael Bolton and any other no talent hack that puts out a record. I tried to talk some since into him regarding his taste of music but he was having no part of it and got pretty defensive when I started ripping on Alanis, Pink, Ashley and Michael so I just left it alone. I'm still in shock and every time I think about it I throw up in my mouth a little.
The first course we played was Bayside Golf Course. Bayside was about a 20 min. drive out into deliverance country. Just kidding! Western Nebraskans are the salt of the earth! The drive was well worth it. 
Bayside was my favorite course of the trip. It might be my favorite course I have ever played. Bent grass fairways and tees, large undulating greens and some pretty awesome elevated tee boxes. All three courses we played had a different set-up as far as cart paths go. Cart paths were all sand, around every green and tee box with no paths from the tee box to green.
It was awesome. once you teed off you just drove down the fairway. The weather was unbelievable. It was overcast and about 65. It did sprinkle a little on the back 9 but overall you couldn't ask for better golfing weather. I don't remember what either of us shot, it wasn't great, but I did have an awesome chip in from about 20-25 feet. We played quarter bingo, bango, bongo, greenies, and sandies and I took $4.50 from Leastman so in my book Bayside was a success.
North Platt
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Magic Shadow Tattoos
On our way from Ogallala to McCook we stopped by North Platt to waste some time. To make a long story short we ended up at at tattoo parlor. Brian has been talking about getting a tattoo for a while so I shamed him into at least stopping by a tattoo parlor and looking through the tattoo books. We must have looked through 30 books before Brian decided on an Alanis Morissette back collage. He just kept rambling on about how much he loved her and how he wanted the world to know it. After a good hour I talked him down off the ledge and convinced him this was a really bad idea. 
He settled a cross with his wife's and daughters initials on three of the points. I think the best part of the tattoo parlor experience was the tattoo "artist". The "artist" was a 55 year old stoner/biker dude with about 50 tattoos all over his skinny, non-traditional biker body. He kept stopping mid tattoo to go smoke a "cigarette". He wasn't fooling anyone. I think I got high just from being around him. He was also babysitting his two granddaughters who just laid on the floor and drew what I could only guess were future tattoo masterpieces on paper with markers. I almost forgot! The tattoo "artists" wife was also there. She was probably mid 50's, 5' 6", and weighed a good 275. She also has dozens of tattoos and piercings to boot. The whole experience was just .....well.....odd. I wouldn't have changed a thing. That's how memories are made!
Heritage Hills
Course # 2 was Heritage Hills in McCook. It was an awesome course. This course had to have hills in the name. 
It was probably the hilliest course I have ever played. Like Bayside, Heritage Hills also had bent grass fairways, tees and very large greens. This was my second favorite course of the three. Oh yeah, I also took another $2.25
from Leastman. It was just too easy. After our golf outing we drove the big town of McCook to check out the sites. After that three and a half minutes flew by we headed to the hotel to get cleaned up and go get some dinner. The hotel staff recommended a steak house across the street from the hotel. They said it was the nicest restaurant in town. It was OK. It kind of reminded me of a Tanner's. I had a steak, some sauteed mushrooms, potato and about 16 Maker's and cokes. When we decided to call it a night and asked for our tabs mine was a whopping $32.00. I love McCook!
Wild Horse
Our final stop was Gothenburg and Wild Horse Golf Club. It was awesome. Like the other two courses it had bent grass fairways, tees, and huge greens. It also had some 6' deep bunkers that were probably the closest thing I'll ever see to the British Open. Just ask Brian. He loved those bunkers!
The greens were also like putting on glass. They were by far the fastest greens I've ever played on or ever want to play on. Even a two footer wasn't a gimme. Like I said the course was awesome and we had a great time but we got stuck behind a four-some of blue hairs that must have just taken up golf. It ended up being a 6 hour round. 
This is not the course for beginners. The fairways were about 30 yards wide with about 4 feet of rough on either side and then came the gunch. The gunch was 5' tall native grass. UGLY! The 6 hour round would have been fine any day but Sunday. Considering we had 5.5 hours back to Andover then I had another 2.5 back to Kansas City it was brutal! I ended getting back to KC at midnight Sunday night and had to be at work Monday morning at 6:00. I almost forgot. Leastman got back $4.00 at Wild Horse. I guess you can't win them all but I still came out ahead.It was a great trip. I recommend everyone that love
s golf check out PLAY THE WEST!
