Notes:
- #2 pin was way right, behind the double trap. I slapped my drive curling up between the woods and the traps, 40 yds away. Almost an automatic distance for me with my trusty SW, lobbed the ball just over the traps to the front of the green straight downhill from the hole. When was my time to putt I hammered the ball 12 feet up hill to the back of the cup. It was so definite it was funny.
- Have to mention the meaningless bogey putt on #3 . . . 8^0 . . . from 8 ft, it broke 8 inches right, then toppled into the side-door. It was so improbable, it was funny
- #5, par 3, is short, but I've made more 5's than 2's there. I wasn't even close today either, say 28 feet, from the front of the green to back left pin, that left side of the green is treacherous, but suddenly the read-and-speed were clear to me, and the ball got lodged between the pin and the edge of the hole, like a mouse stuck in a hole. It was such a long putt, it was funny.
- made good par putts on #7 & #8, just putted well all day, ridiculously well
- #9 par 5, tees were moved back, finally . . . makes no difference to us . . . but I sliced my drive well right of the sandtrap, behind the new trees . . . in some ways, I don't mind since now I can hit my 7wood, which has been a dependable favorite this year, and I have had multiple eagle attempts after Driver-7Wood. Hit a bullet straight at the center of the green, and I expected to find it short, in the wet, tall, rough fronting the green, but it was instead perched on the raised lip of the bunker behind the green. I hate spots like that, never can get a solid strike of the ball. Just a little stiff-wrist chip with a 9 iron straight at the cup, 6 feet short. I had the line on it now for sure, tho' after watching the roll, and made the putt. Missing the eagle (grrrr), making the birdie. I was so mad, it was funny.
I was always of a mind that shooting one's handicap was a near guarantee of winning a tournament, but in a non-flighted event, in match play, rather than medal play, its not often the case. Guys often be netting sub-par rounds in the McGuffin league play. I thought if I just made birdies & eagles, the league play would take care of itself -- Wrong! -- like believing if I tried for more eagles, I would make more birdies as a byproduct --Wrong! -- I only have 19 birdies this summer, and led the league (for a while) in bogies. . .8^D . . .
