Your Best Round of 2016

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Hey guys. It's been a while and the weather in Chicago has been warm so I'm thinking golf again.

 

I didn't play a ton in 2016. Moved in April and my wife had another baby in June (three boys now). My game was off for pretty much the whole year but everything finally came together for the last round of the season in mid-September. Where I finally broke 80 (and with some amount of style).

Front nine was solid, but without great excitement. Didn't hit a lot of greens, but I was almost always close and stayed out of trouble generally. Had a good look at birdie on #9 but just slid past for a 39 on the way out.

Started the back nine bogey-par-bogey which didn't exactly lift my spirits. 13 was a mixed bag: pushed my drive to the adjacent fairway, flew the green on the approach, but then got up and down for par. Made par on 14 and then I ran a long putt in for birdie on 15. Dropped another birdie putt on 16 and got up and down to save par on 17. I had a 15ft birdie look on 18 but it just slid by so I made par for a 36 on the way back in and 75 for the round.

So I made 2 birdies, played the last 6 holes -2, shot even par on the back and got back a little bit of confidence that I can string together a lot of good shots as well as scramble effectively. Looking forward to 2017...