Cowboy

Golfi ng the

Trail

BEAR WATCH The natural terrain at Waterton Lakes course attracts a black bear and her cub on to the green before they are shooed away by shouts of FORE!

Andrew Penner

explores the golf courses between Cardston and Mayerthorpe as Highway 22 meanders through unspoiled ranchland near the base of the soaring Rockies

With a warm, unrelenting Chinook wind

whipping over the rumpled plains and a rather rusty golf swing causing plenty of collateral damage, my score was nothing to be proud of. Double bogey? Check. Triple? Check. Quad? Two checks. Heck, one of the best shots of the day ricocheted off the ball washer and bounded back onto the green. Green hit in regulation? Check. Of course, when you?re moseying your way down Alberta?s famed

Cowboy

Trail with golf clubs in hand, the quality of the shot-making isn?t really the be all and end all. It?s about the ride. The journey. And as every gunslingin? cowboy will tell you, sometimes the shootouts don?t go quite as planned. Yes, days out on the rolling hills, buttocks in saddle, soaking in the mountain view and yelling ?yeehaw!? just doesn?t happen very often for me. That?s why, when the phone rang with 22 REAL GOLF | MAY. JUNE 2009 (inset) Waterton Lakes Golf Course

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