Finally shot par on a side.

[schigara]

Today I shot a 35 on the back 9 of our little local muni which is a par 35. Going off the back on 10, I hit a perfect 3 iron on a dogleg left par 4 and proceeded to thin my approach shot which went over the green and down the slope about 30 feet below the green surface and ended up with a double bogey.

I am now 2 over and hit a nice 6 iron to a 169 yd par3 and burn the edge from 12 feet and settle with par. Next hole is a short 304yd par 4 and I drive the green barely and, with a 16 foot right to left breaker, I manage to drop the eagle putt! After that I shot par, bogey, par, par, par and birdie.

I have been shooting mid eighties for quite a while due to a pretty good short game but my driving was very erratic. I would hit a 260-290 bullet one drive and the next would either snap hook or slice so my entire game was a scramble to get close and then get up and down.

Yesterday, we were playing and my best bud/playing partner points out that my stance over my tee shot is closed  and says he thinks this is causing my difficulty with clearing my hips and the inconsistency so I open my stance just a bit(maybe 3-5 degrees) and all of a sudden, I am hitting perfectly straight to baby fade shots over and over. I hit 11 fairways in a row.

Today I get to the course late and my 2 other friends have already played 13 holes and meet them on 14 tee. I hit 2 tee shots into the woods to practice a bit and get loose and then hit my first shot for real and it works just like the day before. I shoot 14-18 one over par and then even par on the back as we started the back again.

The confidence from my driving now is spilling over into all the other aspects of my game. I was confident in hitting a shot around a tree from 190yds with a 4 iron that had to draw about 30 yards otherwise would have been lost in a ditch had it have gone straight.

Sorry to be so long winded but I am very excited since this seemed easy to do today. I was actually frustrated over 3 of the pars that could have been birdies but lipped out.

[trackster]

Congratulation, I hope to get a round at even par before the summer is out.  My iron play, putting and chippiing is better then it has ever been.  And if i can get back to driving like i did last summer i know i can get it.

[max power]

Congratulations!  I was super happy first time I did that, I still am.  Now you get to work on doing it twice, which you will eventually.  That is a serious milestone!

[jshots]

Thats awesome congrats. I have done this once but it may have just been luck. I was actually 2 under going into number 9 an doubled the last hole :(  Sadly I never got any confidence and that was 3 summers ago and i'm back into the 80s

[Inebriated]

Congrats!!!