It's been an unseasonably warm October, and as such, I've been fortunate enough to still be playing fairly frequent rounds of golf. I generally play well this time of year because I just don't care as much about my score...maybe I should find a way to take that into the rest of the season?
So, I've been playing quite well lately...no super low rounds, but a lot of consistently good rounds of golf. Yesterday afternoon, in 85 degree temperatures, I played 18 holes with my friend Joe. Little did I know when we tee'd off that it would be one of the weirdest rounds I've ever played.
I started off with a birdie at #1, but bogeyed the next hole. After 7 holes, I was 2 over par. Number 8 at my course is a 300 yard par 4, and I drove the green (it was playing down wind). I had a 45 foot eagle putt, which I made for my 2nd eagle of the golf season. So, I was back to even par. I hit a really good drive at number 9, but screwed up my 2nd shot and my chip and ended up making a bogey to shoot a 1 over par 35 on the front nine.
As I've said before on this blog, my golf course is a 9 hole, par 34. So, to play 18 holes you just go around twice, but play a different set of tees to make the course a little different. The 2nd time around, the course plays a little longer.
The 2nd nine, I started out with a par, but then bogeyed number 2...I really struggle with number 2. On #3 I hit a good drive and a good 2nd shot and made a 10 foot putt for birdie, so I'm back to +1. Number 4 is a 288 yard par 4 that was playing into the wind. I don't always hit my driver there, but since it was into a 10-15 mph wind, I used my driver. I hit the ball real hard and figured I'd be 10-15 yards short of the green. As we walked to the green, we saw my ball sitting 6 feet from the hole. I made that putt for my 2nd eagle of the day, and now I'm 1 under par for the day.
I parred #5, then hit a terrible tee shot on the par 3 sixth hole. I chunked my chip shot into the bunker, blasted out and then lipped out my bogey putt, for a double bogey...back to +1. I parred 7 and then made a really good birdie at #8, so I'm back to even par. At number 9 (or 18), I hit a terrible tee shot, and had to punch out from behind a tree. I had 100 yards left for my 3rd shot and hit a really bad shot, then a bad chip and lipped out my bogey putt for my 2nd double bogey of the day.
So, in summary, I had 6 pars, 5 bogeys, 3 birdies, 2 eagle and 2 double bogeys. That adds up to the weirdest 2 over par round of my life. What did I learn? Well, there are all kinds of ways to get the ball around a golf course. Oh, and I learned that I always make my eagle putts when playing golf with Joe on unseasonably warm days in October...it has now happened the last 2 times I've played golf with Joe on unseasonably warm days in October.
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I think I had a stranger round than that once, but it involved a pink ball and a green putter, and the holes were mostly less than 10-15 yards in length.
Had I been there, I would have just done 1 birdie, 2 bogeys, and 15 pars, and beat you by a stroke :-)
When was the last time you beat me? :-)
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