Today's Score: 75
If you would of asked me what I thought I was going to shoot after the first few holes I would of said 68 at worst. The round began as good as I could of hoped for. I had a good look for birdie on #10 from about 8ft that came up just short. On #11, I made a solid putt from about 15ft for birdie and I felt like I was picking up where I had left off. From there, I played the next three holes well and remained -1 under thru 14. The 15th hole is a long par-3 over water and I hit my first poor shot of the day. I hit a good chip to about 5ft but was unable to get it up-and-down. On the very next hole I pushed my tee shot off to the right and finished about 6inches out-of-bounds. Fortunately, I was able to save bogey after making another good putt. Then on 18, I hit a drive perfect down the middle and left myself 118yrds to the pin. It was a downwind shot over water and I just gave it too much not wanting to come up short and ended up in the back bunker. Bogey 5 and I turned at +2 over. Pretty underachieving front nine because I hit a lot of quality shots and felt comfortable.
On the back, I continued to hit good shots. The wind started to pick up which made some of the holes play trickier than normal but nothing too serious. On #5, I made a careless bogey after not getting up-and-down from a very easy spot. It was the second putt I missed inside 5ft. I came back with a good birdie on the par-5 7th after hitting the green in two. But then on 9, I hit my third poor drive of the day and got blocked out from the green. I managed to get my second shot up around the green and then gave myself a putt to save par from 4ft but again was unable to convert. I hit a good putt but it broke out of the hole and I didn't expect it to move that much from that close.
So, all in all, it wasn't that bad of a round except for a few wayward drives and a few missed putts in close. I really do feel as good about my game as I have in a long time so I've just got to focus a little more tomorrow and clean up those few mistakes. The weather is supposed to turn bad so we'll see what the day offers. My tee time is 12:33 off #1.
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