As I smoke one of my favorite go-to cigars, the Padron Churchill Maduro, I must tell you about a quaint local golf course. 

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Frontier Golf is a small 9-hole, par 3 golf course in the small farming town of Canby, OR, a suburb of Portland. It is labeled as a pasture-style course. If you are not familiar with the pasture-type, they are golf courses that have the distinction of not being excessively manicured but are still fun and affordable to play, and normally much smaller than typical golf courses. These courses are a surviving link to the original Scottish links courses.

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Frontier was a former chicken ranch before it was slowly converted into a golf course in the late 1980’s. It has a tiny clubhouse, that is simply a large room of the house in which the owners occupy. This 9-hole course borders three of it's sides on working farm fields. It features tree lined fairways and tons of character. Today, my two sons (@jbreezy, @moonie), enjoyed a quick round of golf there. My cigar and coffee lasted the hour and 30 minutes it took to play 9 short holes. 

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*careful to not slice, fenced farmland on the right*

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*In fact farmland boarders 3 sides of Frontier Golf course*

The longest hole is 144 yards, and the shortest being around 90 yards, all par 3. I averaged 4 on each, but I am a newer golfer, and it was still a blast. I enjoyed my goto cigar on the "linx", and now puffing on another of the same. 

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The Padron Churchill is one of many sizes available in the base-line (Thousand Series), which is Padron's entry level and most economically priced line of cigars. Although the Thousand Series is the least expensive in Padron's offerings, quality is packed into every stick and is available in 15 sizes, ranging in price from $3.50 to $10.00.

**Wrapper:** Nicaraguan Maduro
**Binder:** Nicaraguan  
**Filler:** Nicaraguan
**Vitola:** 6.75 x 46
**Price:** $6.50

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The main flavor notes consist of chocolate, coffee, cashew, cream, and pepper. The pepper during a retro-hale will give you a little nose tickle, but it is in no way harsh.

Padron boasts being some of the most consistent cigars available, in fact they are the most consistent brand I know, with each cigar offering the same experience as before, time after time.

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The Padron Churchill Maduro is a cigar I cannot recommend enough. If you are searching for a full flavored cigar, one that won't knock you on your backside, or hit you hard in the pocketbook, any Padron standard line cigar is a must try. 

I prefer the churchill size in the lineup, mostly for the fact it borders a lancero in thickness, a 46 ring size is thin for most Churchills. For me, it seems to provide the best balance of flavors in all of the thousand series. 

**My emoji rating:**  Padron Churchill Maduro: 🤗
(🤢😖☹️😕😐🙂😀😋🤗😍)
**Smoke time:** 1.5 hours
**Cigar paired with:** Cola & Appleton Estates Rum
**Price opinion:** 👍🏻
**Recommend/buy again?** 100%

Anyway, I will leave you Steemians with this sunset photo, tomorrow will be new Steemit dawn with HF19, I cannot wait to see what changes it brings, hopefully for the betterment of Steem. Cheers!

-Greg

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