Skip to main content

Golf! It really is a 4 letter word

Today was the first day of the Long Beach Men's City Golf Championship, and I have never been so disappointed in a round of golf, than I was today.

I started out quite good, shooting 7 bogeys and 2 pars for a 43 for the first 9, which included a par on #18 (I started on the back 9), which is one of the more difficult holes, and one I seldom par.

But on the very next hole, that good game came to an abrupt end.

I hit an OK drive, but it ended up behind a tree in some standing water, but I still had a shot to the green. I just had to keep the ball below the branches of the tree. So I took a drop from the standing water, and hit what I thought was a perfect shot.

Unfortunately I hit the ball a little too hard, as it ran through the green, and out of bounds.

Unbelievable!

So I dropped another ball, and hit the same shot again. This time, I hit the ball into the sand trap in front of the green. I didn't have a bad lie, but I was so upset by the previous shot, I hit the sand shot over the green, and as you might guess, out of bounds again.

I ended up with a 9 on the hole, 5 over par. I was just devastated. I was playing so good, but it only takes one shot to screw everything up. I did manage a few good shots after that, but just couldn't recover, shooting a 51 on that 9, for a total score of 94.

And that was on a course which I typically always break 90. It's just not that tough a course.

On the bright side though, I'm only 4 strokes off the cut line (Flight F), and tomorrow's course is more difficult. So a lot of things can change.

I just have to try and put todays round out of my mind, and focus on tomorrow round, something that's a lot easier said than done.

Golf, it may not be the most physically demanding of sports, but it sure does test a persons character.
Labels:

Comments

Becky said…
Well, I'm sorry to hear you had a bad day. Isn't golf like fishing? Any day at golf is a good day or something like that?

You have to retrieve your ball from the water? You should get a labrador to be your caddy
2:57 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fatigue! Part II - Maybe it is real?

Or it's actually Motivational Deficiency Disorder, MoDeD (pronounced Mo-Dee-Dee) for short. In a report this week by Roy Moynihan who reports for the British Medical Journal Austrailian scientists may have come across the reason for extreme laziness . The condition is claimed to affect up to one in five Australians and is characterised by overwhelming and debilitating apathy. Neuroscientists at the University of Newcastle in Australia say that in severe cases motivational deficiency disorder can be fatal, because the condition reduces the motivation to breathe. Neurologist Leth Argos is part of the team that has identified the disorder, which can be diagnosed using a combination of positron emission tomography and low scores on a motivation rating scale, previously validated in elite athletes. "This disorder is poorly understood," Professor Argos told the BMJ. "It is underdiagnosed and undertreated." Who knew? Maybe I have MoDeD, from my attempts to become a...
Post a Comment
Read more

History IS repeating itself

I didn't grow up during the rise and fall of Hitler and Nazi Germany, so for me to claim it feels like those are the times we are living in now, must be taken with a grain of salt. But I have seen enough movies, and read enough history to know, if the times we're living in now are not akin to the rise of a Nazism and Facism in Europe in the 1930's and 1940's, then we're not far off. If you can't see the parallels with Nazi Germany, then you must be living in a different country than me. Republicans and other right wing extremists will stop at nothing to subvert the will of the majority, forcing their beliefs, that they are the superior race and have been appointed by God, to impose their will on America, while they blame all our problems on immigrants, blacks and Jews. As I speak, Mitch McConnell, and his minions are raising roadblocks to all legislation designed to help average Americans under the guise of fiscal responsibility. They condone violent and verba...
Post a Comment
Read more

My concerns reaffirmed today

When I was first diagnosed with MCL, I pretty much read just about everything I could get my hands on, I attended various conferences, and I talked to anyone who would listen. One of the most important lessons I learned, and which I've mentioned numerous times before was No one cares more about you than you. But in addition to that, I learned to fear the drug Doxorubicin , AKA Adriamycin, Doxil, Hydroxydoxorubicin, or more affectionately the Red Devil. Besides being a deadly chemical, as is the case with most chemotherapy drugs, it is one of the few chemotherapy drugs known to cause permanent heart damage. I even heard Dr. Sandra Horning , a noted Stanford lymphoma specialist, state at the first lymphoma conference I attended in LA, there was no evidence Doxorubicin provided any added benefit to chemotherapy protocols. This was music to my ears, since Doxorubicin is very common in most lymphoma treatment protocols. And even though Dr. Horning has since changed her tune [which my sk...
Post a Comment
Read more