Hell’s Point Golf Club Photos

This was supposed to be a wedding golf outing.

The bride had other plans.

Well, technically, a medical emergency had other plans.

We were in Virginia Beach for my son’s wedding, and the idea was to get anyone who wanted to play together for a round at Hell’s Point Golf Club. It was also going to be my first round in Virginia since my son had moved there.

Then, during wedding week, the bride ended up needing emergency surgery.

Golf suddenly wasn’t very high on anyone’s priority list.

Thankfully, once she was out of surgery and feeling better, she insisted that the groom go play golf.

You have to admire a bride who comes out of emergency surgery during her wedding week and still tells the groom to go golfing.

So the outing was back on.

My other two sons and I ended up handling the hosting duties, and eventually the groom joined us at Hell’s Point.

Then Mother Nature decided she wanted to be part of the story too.

It had rained. A lot.

Hell’s Point sits near the Back Bay Wildlife Refuge, and the course was absolutely soaked. The fairways felt like sponges. Golf balls would land and seemingly disappear into the grass with very little interest in rolling anywhere.

We were wet.

We were muddy.

And we were having a blast.

At that point, nobody was particularly worried about course conditions or what was going on with the scorecard. We were in Virginia for the first wedding in our family, the bride was doing well after surgery, and somehow everything was still coming together.

That’s what I remember about the round.

Well, that and the twenty somethings.

For the record, most of those young guys decided nine wet holes were plenty and called it quits at the turn.

Some of us kept going.

I’m not naming names or suggesting the older golfers were tougher.

I’m simply documenting the historical record. 🙂

By the time we reached the 18th hole, we were wet, muddy, and probably looked like we’d been playing golf in a swamp.

But we’d made it.

More importantly, the bride made it out of the hospital in time for the rehearsal, the wedding went forward, and we had another family story that gets told whenever that week comes up.

Hell’s Point wasn’t the golf outing we had planned.

It was much more memorable than that. ⛳

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Hell’s Point Golf Club – Virginia Beach, Virginia

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