Fore!

This is a warning to any creature with two or more legs, we have recently taken up golf. After taking lessons more than five years ago, a friend who is currently taking lessons convinced us to venture out on to the course.

Needless to say, we are having a blast. Our area has some lovely regional nine-hole golf courses. A great place to learn and not feel completely overwhelmed.

However, when we need to feel completely overwhelmed, we can play at courses like we did this past weekend. We were in San Diego and played at the Arnold Palmer designed course at the Four Seasons Resort Aviara Golf Club.

Honoured in 2006 as Golf Magazine's number one golf resort in Southern California, and as Condé Nast Traveler readers' number one golf resort on the West Coast, Four Seasons Resort Aviara Golf Club offers superb golf facilities. Its memorable coastal layout – par 72 over 18 holes and 7,007 yards – was designed by Arnold Palmer. The course is sculpted around natural topography, with water hazards positioned as visual extensions of the lagoon. The club includes a 32,000-square-foot (3,000-square-metre), two-storey Spanish colonial clubhouse with a complete golf shop. Read more

Seventeen balls later, we still had fun and hadn't killed, marred or injured anyone including ourselves. Brian says we really got our money's worth as we had enough shots for 36 holes! By the way, I single-handedly lost three balls at the hole pictured here.

What comes after triple bogey?