Went out golfing today, the first outing since last fall. Lawzy, lawzy. <\/p>\n
First things first. Out 50, In 59, Net 109. Ouch. Yes, my day deteriorated pretty badly as it proceeded. Doyce beat me. Dave G. beat me. Don, our singleton to fill out the foursome beat me. Feh.<\/p>\n
Driving <\/u>– Fair. When I hit straight, it was decent. A few flubs, which seemed to increase as the day went on.
\nFairways <\/u>– Good. I had some excellent fairway drives. A few real clunkers, to be sure, but also some really nice one that made up for some really crappy drives.
\nChipping <\/u>– Good. I had some very nice chips.
\nPutting <\/u>– Crap. It was “Putt Your Way to Victory in Three or Four Easy Steps.” The practice greens were very, very slick, and it made me gun-shy all day. I rarely shot past the hole. I almost always shot short of it. Often way short.<\/p>\n
So, for example, the 18th Hole. Drive went way left of where I was aiming. Safe, and in the fairway, but adding yardage to the hole. Then the 3 Wood from the fairway onto the green — barely, but on the green.<\/p>\n
Then a four-putt up-hill. And that’s because the last flub I simply picked up.<\/p>\n
On the bright side, I only lost one ball (not through lack of trying — on 11 I went out of bounds three times — to the left, into the crick, to the right, toward a lake, then over the back of the green into the bullrushes. Found the ball each time), and actually found two others. So I netted one ball, which is nearly unheard of.<\/p>\n
The game also ran long. I left at 11:45a to get there in time to shoot a small bucket of balls. Then there was a half hour delay in the tee time. Then we just seemed to go a little slower than normal. Got finished around 5:30, raced home, having left Margie with Squiggie too long.<\/p>\n
My folks will be coming out at the end of May (Memorial Day), and I’ll try to get a game going with my Dad. Probably should try to go out at least once before then …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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