These Guys are Good...too bad I didn't get to see it!

Yesterday I took a vacation day to go to the John Deere Classic in Moline, IL. The John Deere Classic is a PGA Tour event, and this year, they had a really great field, so I was very excited about this trip. My friend/neighbor was joining me, and he had never seen a PGA Tour event, so it was all good on both fronts.

Too bad the weather didn't cooperate. It was raining when I got up at 5:15 am, but I wasn't too worried, because I had watched the forecast the previous night, and it was supposed to rain at 5:15 am, but it was supposed to clear out by 6-7. Given the 2 hours it takes to get to the event, I figured they'd start golfing around 8, and we'd get to watch 7-8 hours of golf before the afternoon round of storms came through. This entire plan was based on Thursday night's weather forecast.

So, 6 am rolled around, and it was still pouring, and the radar looked awful, so we delayed and left at 8 am. So much for the weather forecast...I've never lived in a place where the weather is as hard to predict as it is here in Iowa. They never get it right!

Anyway, we got there at 10, and we were told they were starting at 11:30. We knew there was another round of storms coming, so figured we'd only get to see 3 to 4 hours before round 2 of the storms hit, washing out the rest of the day. Just as we were getting ready to head to the course, we heard Thunder. The people who were busing people to the course informed us that more storms were nearby and play was delayed until 2, but we could go over to the course if we wanted. So, we went over, figuring we'd walk the course and wait it out.

We started walking the course and got through about 3 holes on the back nine when the monsoon hit...it was raining so hard. We continued walking, umbrellas in hand, and saw the entire course. As we saw the standing water, we concluded there would be no golf played today...at about 1:15, they pushed play back to a 4 pm start, so we left...we figured there was no way golf was being played, and we were right, they ended up postponing the entire day.

We were both very disappointed, but tempered our disappointment some by stopping at Buffalo Wild Wings before heading back. Still, it was a bummer of a day. Next year, we'll have to keep a couple of days for the tournament open, and go whichever day seems like it's going to have better weather.