When you’re waiting on a high risk severe weather day you have an unsettled feeling in your gut all day long.

Any time your attention to your daily details fades, you go right back to thinking about the severe threat.

Then you start packing your tornado bag and it sinks in.

All the while, thoughts of the pictures from Sulphur, Barnsdall and Marietta dance in your head.

Then comes the waiting game.a

You just wait and watch the tube tracking the storms, listening to Mike Morgan or David Payne go crazy.

I’m definitely glad I’m not a storm chaser. I know that much.

It’s always a sinking feeling when the sirens blare about the possibility of one of those beasts coming close to you, your loved ones and your property.

Pretty much of a helpless feeling.

It’s called living in Oklahoma in May.

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Purcell’s original golf course was nine holes of sand greens that were opened in the 1920s.

The new grass greens were installed and opened in 1970 with long-time PGA Professional Mike Gowens designing and opening the last 10 holes in 1995.

Gowens was interviewed by Mac Bently of The Oklahoman when the new back nine was opened.

Gowens, who has worked at the golf course for over 40 years,  told of how the greens have more undulation than the old ones with more holes featuring water hazards and out of bounds.

Hole No. 14 is the signature hole on the course, which was renamed in April 1978 from The Purcell Golf Course to The Brent Bruehl Memorial Golf Course.

That was in honor of star Purcell golfer Brent Bruehl, who died from cancer in 1977.

Golfers with a few years on them remember the old No. 9 fairway was turned into the current driving range.

Some even still call the No. 17 green the “old No. 5 green.”

Gowens, John McCurdy, Alan Wilson and their staff do an excellent job.