It Took All Season But Finally Broke 80

[Grumpter]

My only goals this year were to 1) play more (only 1 round played in 2010), 2) Try not to take it too seriously while still trying to get back into the game, 3) break 80 at least once during the 2011 season.

The first few months were very frustrating as my back was not happy with me trying to get back into the game. Some aspirin and a strong will helped me through it. I still find it hard to play a second day in a row but since I am relegated to mostly a weekend warrior I soldier through. I'm still working on the taking it/myself overly seriously but it's a work in progress.

Finally today, after I had almost given up hope on breaking 80 I was able to pull a round together. I've had better driving, putting, chipping and approach days but today I just kept it fairly steady. I did have to work through 2 double bogies but kept it all together with OK shots and one lucky drive that hit a rock 10 yards left of the green and instead of going into the lateral hazard to the left or in front kicked dead right to within 10 yards of the right side of the green.

No penalty shots which might actually make it 3 rounds in a row without a penalty. Penalties were killing me earlier in the year. 10 pars, 1 birdie, 5 bogies and 2 doubles for a crowd pleasing 78 on a par 70 course (69.6/134). I'm not dead yet and I think I'm gonna knock a few back tonight to celebrate.

[RyderJ]

Hell yeah...congratulations man! I shot my lowest round of the year thus far today, and am celebrating by watching a little football and having a nip of the whiskey.

[newtogolf]

Congrats, it's always a good feeling when we get to check off one of our goals.  80 might be a goal of mine for next year, right now I'm just trying to keep the rounds close to 90.

[onintwo]

nice, i have been stuck in mid-80's at best, usually around 90.  usually have an ob tee ball that does me in, need to clean that up.