Puttin4Bird
Say what again mf'er!
First of all congrats Hawk and Cookie on the PB rounds boys! Well done!
On Saturday I played in an annual tournament here. 40 people were signed up this year, we had some studs playing so I knew I'd have to go out and shoot a great score to win but really winning didn't really cross my mind because I knew there was some stiff competition. We're playing a course where my personal best is an 81 so I wasn't exactly expecting anything real low but since the Morgan Cup and especially since watching the coverage something has just sort of got going with my game. I started out with a birdie on 1 after hitting my approach shot from 89 yds to less than a foot from the hole. Alright, good birdie. I get up on 2 which is a pretty long dog leg left par 5 with trees on both sides. I pull my drive into the trees left but I hit it an absolute mile. I ended up punching out of trouble to 115 from the stick. I hit a PW to about 2 feet. Another birdie. WHAT? -2 thru 2. I won't go through every hole but I ended up making bogey on 3 and on 5 and came to the short and normally easy par 3 8th at E made an absolute train wreck of a double bogey. I just lost focus, hit a piss poor tee ball followed by a poor chip then 3 putted for good measure. I walked off that green FUMING. Par at the 9th and I'm +2 for the round. After that start I was not really expecting that. Another birdie/birdie run on 10 and 11 and I'm back to E. A bunch of pars and another birdie on the par 5 16th and I'm under par with 2 to play. I was nervous as sh!t on the par 3 17th tee and hit a shot that proved it. Couldn't get up and down so I'm back to E on the 18th tee. I thought back to my Saturday afternoon Morgan Cup match against INgolfer and Yorkem and decided that I was going to birdie the 18th. I hit a really good drive into the wind and had 157 to the stick on the 429 yard par 4. I hit a 7 iron that looked to be right on the stick the entire way but wound up about 15 feet deep. I read a tad too much break and left it on the outside of the hole, tap in par for a round of even par 72. I wound up finishing 3 back of a dude that shot a -3 69. I didn't win anything but that's ok. I had a career best 5 birdies in 18 holes and the longer I sit and think about that double on 8 the more I just want to kill someone. It was only playing 170, slightly down wind and down hill and I just hit a fat shot short and kinda lost it for a minute there. Dammit! I did beat my PB on that course by 9 shots though. I'll take that I guess!!
Sounds like a fun time for sure, well done on the score and way to perform under the gun to win. So T-1? Nice work!
On Saturday I played in an annual tournament here. 40 people were signed up this year, we had some studs playing so I knew I'd have to go out and shoot a great score to win but really winning didn't really cross my mind because I knew there was some stiff competition. We're playing a course where my personal best is an 81 so I wasn't exactly expecting anything real low but since the Morgan Cup and especially since watching the coverage something has just sort of got going with my game. I started out with a birdie on 1 after hitting my approach shot from 89 yds to less than a foot from the hole. Alright, good birdie. I get up on 2 which is a pretty long dog leg left par 5 with trees on both sides. I pull my drive into the trees left but I hit it an absolute mile. I ended up punching out of trouble to 115 from the stick. I hit a PW to about 2 feet. Another birdie. WHAT? -2 thru 2. I won't go through every hole but I ended up making bogey on 3 and on 5 and came to the short and normally easy par 3 8th at E made an absolute train wreck of a double bogey. I just lost focus, hit a piss poor tee ball followed by a poor chip then 3 putted for good measure. I walked off that green FUMING. Par at the 9th and I'm +2 for the round. After that start I was not really expecting that. Another birdie/birdie run on 10 and 11 and I'm back to E. A bunch of pars and another birdie on the par 5 16th and I'm under par with 2 to play. I was nervous as sh!t on the par 3 17th tee and hit a shot that proved it. Couldn't get up and down so I'm back to E on the 18th tee. I thought back to my Saturday afternoon Morgan Cup match against INgolfer and Yorkem and decided that I was going to birdie the 18th. I hit a really good drive into the wind and had 157 to the stick on the 429 yard par 4. I hit a 7 iron that looked to be right on the stick the entire way but wound up about 15 feet deep. I read a tad too much break and left it on the outside of the hole, tap in par for a round of even par 72. I wound up finishing 3 back of a dude that shot a -3 69. I didn't win anything but that's ok. I had a career best 5 birdies in 18 holes and the longer I sit and think about that double on 8 the more I just want to kill someone. It was only playing 170, slightly down wind and down hill and I just hit a fat shot short and kinda lost it for a minute there. Dammit! I did beat my PB on that course by 9 shots though. I'll take that I guess!!
