Why do the Golf Gods hate me?

[trackster]

Since yesterday I have never broken 40.  I have shot 40 I would say close to 5 or 6 times.  Today I played the lights out and came to the 9th tee 2 shots over par.  I needed a double bogey or better to get my 39, and this is where the story starts.

I sliced my drive over some trees to the right, but luckily there is an open landing area of rough right after those trees.  As I am walking in front of that tree line on the way to my ball I spot a golf right along the tree line.  I go to pick it up (I thought no way it was mine and it was just a lost ball) and then I noticed a "MOJO" logo pointing back at me.  I had been playing a MOJO the whole round and I just figured my ball had hit the tree and dropped down before clearing (stupid me).  So with this terrible lie I hack the ball back over the fairway.  I then  Have quite a search for that shot, and when I do find it I just played a 40 yard pitch back to the fairway.  I then proceed to hit a beautiful 8 iron from about 150-160 out to pin high.  I 2 putt and celebrate my 39.  Then while pulling my ball out of the cup I notice a Nike Swoosh above the MOJO.  The ball I had been playing with for the past 8 holes did not have a swoosh on it.  I had just played the last 5 shots with a wrong ball.  So I walk back to where I thought my drive would have landed had it cleared the trees and sure enough there it was.  I then proceeded to play that MOJO and carded a 5 for the hole.  Seriously what are the odds that I would find a MOJO with the ball tilted enough that the swoosh was covered. fjsadkgjhdksahfjkdsahf

I knew breaking 40 was too good to be true.  I'll always have this little taintedness behind it now.  But none the less I am going to count this as my best round 38 (my actual drive).  I suppose I will just have to shoot 37 the next time.

I moved up to the red tees (about 6300 for 18 besides my usual 6600 yard blues i play from).  What I noticed is almost all the holes at my course dog leg at 250 yards from the blues (about my average drive distance).  Since I was playing from the reds I drove through almost every dogleg.

So heres the stats.

38 (+3)

6 pars 3 bogeys

5/9 GIR

0/7 FWAY (only hit one bad drive which was on 9, 4 where straight through doglegs)

17 putts (2 putted every hole  except I had a 1 putt for par on 6.

On an off note The guy in front of me was playing an R11 so that was cool to see, and I found a titleist which is always good.

[GaijinGolfer]

Dont feel too bad, the golf gods hate us all.  It was just a fluke and theres no reason why you cant shoot that score again or better.

[The Tin Man]

Gods?  I thought the Devil invented this game?

[senorchipotle]

the golf gods require a sacrifice.

[deasy55]

I hope you added the penalty strokes for hitting the wrong ball

[ghalfaire]

The way to break barriers is to quit keeping score while you play.  Just play one at a time and let the score take care of itself.