With M (and A as part time flag holder). We met in time to get a couple of the par 3 holes done for a warm up. To be honest I can't remember how this went.
We set off with M using a 9i instead of a 6i with predictable results. I got onto the edge of the green (left) leaving an easy chip or put. My chip was so bad that I overshot the other side of the green. M did a nice recovery and finished with 4 and I took 5. This should have been a 3 or a 4 for me. Anyway no real problem, on the 2nd I hit a nice fairway and M went well right. I was just short of the green in 3 then overshot the green again and then a 3 putt. So from a good start for me, M had another win with a 7. So 2 down after 2. Time to calm down. M got straight onto the green on the 3rd and I went in the pond. Taking "one on the way in" I did it again! ending up with a 7 and I was 3 down after 3.
If you have every watched a sports person when you thought "whats wrong with them?" then that was me. I felt tired and had no energy and my golf was poor to go with it. We drew the 4th and M won the 5th and 6th. My first win cam on the par 3, 8th when I won with a 6 due to M taking a double dip in the pond. After 9 I was down by 5 holes. On the back 9 I played a little better and scoring better than M but it was too late and I lost by 3 holes. Even on the last hole I was in range of the green in 2 and added a duff, a short and an over while M got from under the hedge at beeches brook using my 60 degree wedge and managed a draw. The Geller trophy seems to be stuck "Up North"! This will adjust M's handicap by 1!
Still apart from feeling slightly out of it it was still fun. My score is click here. My putting owed me 2 over par and included 4*3 putts so that could have been 4 less. I only had 4 proper golf scores the best being a nice par on the 15th. The 2nd was messed up by going over the green and 3 putting. The 3rd was 2 lost balls. The 5th was due to a tee shot right onto the other fairway and the getting stuck in the trees. (I forgot that we let a pair of golfers through on this hole and one of them messed up big time.. that they were slower than us...). On the 9th it was a 3 putt that cost me. On the 10th I did a zig zag down the fairway and end with a duff before the green. The 18th was described earlier. So my score was over 110 but could have easily been 7 better on a different day. I should be pleased to get over the 16th and 17th with no mishaps!
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| Before the par 3 .. look at the weather |
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| Ghostly shadow around the winner! |
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| It was nice day! |
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| The end of the round |
