I finally heeded the advice of my golf coach and decided to get custom-fit irons. Picked them up today; will be very interested to see if they improve my game.

Inexplicable. After recording a ho-hum 86 yesterday, I pared 6 of the last 7 holes (and 12 in total) for another 79. And got a cool photo of the first tee to boot!

With the ever so damp weather we’ve been having, I expected Michel Cote and I would end up canceling our round of golf today. But when I got up, there was just a little drizzle so we decided to tee off and if it rained we’d just bail out to Starbuck’s for lattes. Instead, the weather was passable and I shot an effortless 79. Seven bogeys, eleven pars. Not even a sniff at a penalty stroke and no heroic chips ins of super long putts. It’s my fifth round under 80 this year (after none in 2015-2016).

Geez! Golf is a weird game. I played 1,320 rounds of golf and recorded exactly one eagle. I got my second one on August 24. Today I scored by third, and second in ten days. This time at the 14th hole at Mt. Si, the one with the elevated green so I didn’t get to see the ball go into the hole. In fact, we looked around the green for about five minutes until I decided to look there.  So I had one eagle in my first 23,000 or so holes and now two in the last 72.

My handicap index eked down to 11.8, lowest since August of 2013.

I recorded my second eagle ever in over 1,300 rounds of golf. In the midst of a stellar one-over par 37 on the back nine at Mt. Si, I one-hopped in a sand wedge from about seventy yards on the par-four 15th hole.

My USGA handicap came in a 12.2 today, the lowest since October of 2013.