Archive for June, 2009
Golf Getting Better?
I’ve been playing really mediocre golf for most of the last year and a half. Most of my key statistics have trended the same or worse than 2006-07. I started Wednesday’s Microsoft Golf League round with a bogie 5 followed by a 10 and an 8. But after that I settled down to par four of the last six holes. This afternoon, I played eighteen holes at Mt. Si and knocked down six pars and a birdie to card an 83. Similar to Wednesday, after a triple bogie 6 on the 8th hole I played the last ten holes in just two over par finishing with four consecutive pars and a 39 on the back nine. Even my tee shots were good: I hit eleven fairways and had three drives over 270 yards. And the putter was working as well; I holed 11 of 11 putts inside ten feet. What a glorious afternoon!
Summer Already
Today it hit 91 degrees on our backyard thermometer. Given that the average May high is just 64 it was a pretty toasty day. And it marked the fifteenth consecutive day without any rainfall–halfway to the record of twenty-nine.
Golf Success
Finally some good golf news. I finished third in this weekend’s two-day Ron Lee Invitational Golf Tournament at Mt. Si GC. This is the competition I finished last in last year and won in 2007. I played steady golf both days–good enough to not have any big numbers on any holes and ended with par-bogey-par-birdie on the last four holes; an important stretch since we got into third place by a single stroke. That final birdie came on a 43-foot putt: a very satisfying end to the competition.
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