Played at Lakewood Hills yesterday, two rounds. It may be a long time before I can get out for such a day again. School starts up tomorrow, and while I have been teaching for a while, it is my first day in an actual large school district. It is going to be hectic. Thankfully there are several courses within minutes of both my classrooms, but to get out and not care about time is going to be a luxury I will not have.
First round I carded a 57. It would have been better but I did not realize they put an OB line on the left side of Hole 7's fairway. I understand why, but I like going big and swinging it out left and crash back in right. I was in the perfect position to do so, but thanks to the OB line which I discovered after the fact, I was OB by three feet and had to come back over 100 feet down the fairway. I turned what would have been a long 3/ easy 4 into a circle 6. Otherwise, the rest of the round was simply taking care of business. I did not get as many birdies as I normally get, but Hole 7 was my only true mistake.
Second round we played best shot doubles and we carded a 55, for a three throw win. My partner had a monster long putt on Hole 4 but otherwise we took most of my shots. Our two big mistakes was both of us failing to get up the hill on Hole 16, which I normally make with ease, and both us missing a 15 foot putt to save par on Hole 18, which I normally birdie. It was another round of just getting it done without anything really flashy happening.
I did overshoot Hole 15's basket, an incredibly tight corridor where the basket sits 330 feet away. Normally I clobber a tree 75 to 150 feet out, giving me some work to do in order to save par, but this time I cleared everything and had given it a little too much in anticipation of hitting something. Unfortunately the back side is blocked with a row of shrubbery, giving us the only option of going over and hoping it sits down for a tap in par. I got to try out a turbo jump putt for placement and almost had it in, settling for a four foot putt for par.
If there was a highlight, it came from a different team. The headwind was definitely up and in an attempt to get around a tree on Hole 5, he flexed an anhyzer into the wind which in turn immediately knocked it down and turned it into a roller. Some how it curled back up the hill toward the basket and found the only stretch between the retaining wall rocks, a three foot gap at most. It rolled under the basket for a tap in birdie.