Match vs Bolton 5/19/10

[adamgoodman]

Well, I sure as hell wasn't planning on playing golf today... It was steadily raining the entire day and chilly, but we hitched up our trousers and headed out for the hour drive down to Tall Wood Country Club.

We lost, again, but this one stung a little bit more than the rest.

I played bogey-par straight up for seven holes, and everything was inconsistent. Hit some good drives, some bad drives, some good approaches, some bad approaches, same with the putts. The only thing that was consistent was my consistently poor chipping... No up and downs to speak of.

With two holes to play I needed two pars to shoot a 39. I left myself about 180 yards to the pin in the rough. There was a large pond hugging the edge of an elevated green, with some leeway on the right side. I decided to be a stupid tough guy and hit a 3 iron straight towards the pin instead of fading it from the right to left. I got a little TEENY bit underneath it and plunked it about two feet short of the bank... Ended up finishing the hole with a triple bogey, parred the last, and finished with a 42.

My opponent finished with a 39, so if I didn't make that stupid decision, we would have at least tied...

So in the end, we ended up losing by 3 strokes. If I hadn't make such a terrible decision, we would have possibly tied the entire match... I personally hold full responsibility for this loss on my shoulders... Tough one to swallow.