League Round 6/10/2010

[kilbyman]

Played my league round today, and shot a 48! (Since my goal is to be a 90's player by the end of the summer, this shows progress for me.) Even better, I was +3 after 5 holes! A couple of bad drives and poor decisions really hurt me. All in all, fixing my tendency to dip my right side on the downswing is going to help me groove a decent swing. Anyways, here's my round.

Hole 1 350 yd par 4
Hit a good fairway splitting driver that got me to UW range. Hit it to about 10 feet, and two putted for par.

Hole 2 334 yd par 4
Pulled driver about 5 yards left of the fairway, hit my 56 to about 12 feet or so, two putt par.

Hole 3 375 yd par 4
Good drive, missed fairway a little bit to the right. Pitching wedge got caught in the thick stuff, so I pushed it about 5 yards right of the green. Hit a pitch shot with the LW to 5 feet or so and saved par.

Hole 4 378 yd par 4
Another good drive down the middle of the fairway. Hit the UW, but basically topped it to about ten yards short. Pitched on the green, and had an abysmal three putt from about 15 feet. +2

Hole 5 426 yd par 4
Horrible pull hook of the tee. Hit hybrid into two different trees, landed about 9i from green. Hit shot a little short, pitched on, and one putt bogey. +3

This is where I began to play a bit more like my handicap.

Hole 6 208 yd par 3
Hit my 4 iron just right of the green and about ten yards short into a tree. Chipped out from inside the tree to the fringe and had about a 30 footer, which I wimped out on and 3 putted for a double. +5

Hole 7 371 yd par 4
Lost balance or something on the drive and hit a straight shot that cut hard right about 200 yards out. Tried to punch out from inside the trees, flubbed the shot and hit into more trees. Pitched out into thick rough. Hit my PW really well, about 10 yards too well. Ended up on the side of a steep hill, and chipped it to the fringe. I am now at the back of the green that slopes severely to the front, with the pin in the middle. So I play it safe and end a little on the short side, then on the second putt whack it past the hole. Third putt goes in for double par. +9

Hole 8 520 yd par 5
Did an anti-slice (pulled the ball) left of the fairway. Hit hybrid out of the rough, but hit the toe and pulled left into the neighboring fairway. Hit a poorly aligned 4i to the right of the green. Pitched on and two putted for bogey. +10

Hole 9 352 yd par 4
A great birdie hole that I straight pushed into a spruce tree. Had to take an unplayable lie drop. Overdid a 9i, pitched on, and two putted. +12

So I was happy to bag the below 50 and was really happy until hole seven. I tend to hit the trees a lot on that one. I'll have to try 4w on that hole next or something. In the end, I get 17 strokes on the front nine from my handicap, and my team is going to be happy with the -5 I'm posting.