InTheRough
Course Botanist
Struggled around the course today. I tweaked my left ankle on the 2nd hole after hitting my tee shot - a 260 yd shot into the first cut on the right side of the fairway. My 2nd shot went wide left, followed by a duffed chip and a 3 putt. I didn't want to put weight on my left ankle and it threw my timing off, and I had a lot of topped shots and fat shots because I wasn't shifting my weight. The back 9 was horrid until the 11th, when I decided to slow down my swing. Just take easy swings and watch my tempo. Yes I would lose distance, but maybe I'd make contact. 13th... put my tee shot in the trees on the left... could have pitched out, but decided to hit a bendy ball with my hybrid, and got into the green complex in 3, but in the bunker with a steep downhill lie (not with my ankle and I haven't practiced that shot and I had the wrong wedge and my cart was on the other side). Took a drop outside. Pitched on and one putted for a DB. I had two GIRs. 6 FIRs. It rained in the middle of the round and made the greens slow. I ended up with a 94.