Yesterday I played my last nine holes at Orion Greens. I played with my Grandma and Grandpa, and we had a lot of fun. It was pretty cold for a game of golf, but not terrible. My grandma and I used to play quite a bit there when we were both learning to golf, starting when I was about 10 years old. Monday is their last day of business - the land was sold to develop 40-some houses.

It’s really a sad thing - OG is the only course that is really affordable enough for townies to play. It is a small, Par 31 course with only a couple of opportunities for me to bust out the driver. I played pretty well yesterday, hitting the ball well of the tee and hitting most of the par 3 greens. They haven’t been watering a ton, so the greens were hard and fast and incredibly hard to stop the ball on.

Not that I have a ton of time to play golf, but now I will almost never get to play in town. Most of the courses are far too expensive to have fun playing, and OG was lax and family style, where you could wear jeans and a t-shirt rather than traditional golf attire. And after Monday, it will close forever, giving way to more houses to expensive for me to even consider.

Anyway, farewell Orion Greens, my “home course” of you will. I’ve had a lot of fun over the past 16 or so years tearing through the course. You will be missed.