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What a long day. I'm still exhausted. I think being later in the year coupled with the lack of rain jacked up the course a bit. Its certainly been in better condition when this outing when in June. Got checked in and said hellos, then went to the putting green and range where I was doing pretty well. Little did I know that would be the high point of my day.
Headed out in the cart parade for shotgun start, when shakes decided to take his own route and screwed up everything. Eventually we found our way to the 5th tee. I went first, and hit a drive that faded a bit into the trees, but got a member's bounce and ended up back on the right side of the fairway. Don rips his about 250 just off the fairway but only about 120 from the green. Lefty Golden Jet says "this is my first swing on a tee box since last season," then proceeds to murder his ball 260+ although he pulled it a bit so he ended up with tree trouble. Outside of those long drive guys in VEGASS$?, Jorr takes the biggest backswing of anybody I have ever seen.
We started par-par. At first, I was hitting the ball pretty well but that did not last. I set us up with some par chances with approach shots, but we only capitalized on about half of them. Off the tee I was positively fucking dreadful except for a couple of par 3's I hit the green on. This lead to a few club throws and MANY curse words being shouted. Don's game has come around, but he was consistently inconsistent. One hole he would bomb a drive out there, and then hit his next shot into or near the green, the next hole he'd take his 3-wood/hybrid and hit a divot further than the ball. Golden Jet has some skills! The rust affected him early on, and (I think) fatigue did later, but there is some talent there and I could easily see him putting up mid-80s score with not much practice. Unfortunately, Don was the only one of us to sink any putt longer than about 6'. We had one birdie of which all 3 shots were Don's. I think we had 7 pars on the day which for the way we were hitting the ball was pretty impressive. GJ and I had some nice lag putts, we just couldn't get anything to drop. The greens were pretty spongy, although outside of a few ballmarks they were in good shape. Pace was slow (5 and a half hours) and after a long Saturday of a baby shower, swimming, and Budweisers, I was definitely feeling it about 2/3 of the way in. We all had our moments both good and bad, but we all enjoyed ourselves as well. We ended up shooting +8 for a 78, parring our 4 of our final 5 holes. Good dinner after, with myself winning a beer raffle, and GJ and Jorr winning the #1 and #2 split the pots. Don was in tears because he did not win any IT help this year.
I second TBone's request of attending if you were on the fence this year. From what JOrr said, it sounds like this may be on a Sunday again next year. Turnout was the best I've seen since I started playing in this outing 4 years ago. And yes, Tbone can absolutely crush the ball. I didn't get to see a ton of his shots, but there were several times where we were chipping or hitting our 3rd shots into the green, and the A-Team was behind us by only 50 yards or so waiting to hit.
Good times, and thanks again JOrr. Hope to see MANY of you playing next year...Maybe I'll even wear the knickers again! If you're lucky. Or unlucky, depending on how you look at it.
_________________ Joe Orr Road Rod wrote: It's more fun to be a victim Caller Bob wrote: There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.
Last edited by Frank Coztansa on Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
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