Today's Score: 78
Sorry I wasn't able to post a preview of this course yesterday. I did decide to play a practice round and went from there straight to my sisters house. Last night, Erika and I got together with some of my family here in Houston and didn't get home until almost 10. So, I didn't have time to write anything when I got back, but it was great to see my family while we were in town.
Here's the report from today:
I started out the round really strong. I had (3) birdie putts inside of 10ft on the first three holes, but unfortunately wasn't able to convert any of them. One of them was actually a 3-putt par after hitting the 600yrd par-5 2nd in two. I was a little frustrated, but still playing well. On the 5th hole, I hit my tee shot out-of-bounds which was a combination of poor course management and a poor swing. All the room in the world to the left off the tee and I tried to cut to much off the corner and ended up pushing my drive into the backyard of someone's house. That lead to a double-bogey and I quickly moved to +2 over. The next hole was the second par-5 on the front side, and after two great shots I was pin high in two and able to get up-and-down for a birdie. Three par's to finish the side and I turned at +1 over (37). Not terrible...nothing great.
On the 11th hole, everything changed. It's a par-4, slight dog-leg right with out-of-bounds left and water right. The hole was playing about 420yrds into a left-to-right wind. I decided to hit my 3-wood just to get something in the fairway and hit arguably the worst shot of the day. After attempting to aim down the left side, I blocked my tee shot pretty far right and ended up going in the water. Now, without going to far in depth about the rules, in this situation I should of been able to drop my ball up near the piece of land where my ball last crossed the hazard. However, my playing partners disagreed with where I thought my ball last crossed and after a 10 minute discussion I was outnumbered and forced to basically re-tee. So, instead of being able to drop from about 190yrds out and looking to make bogey at worst, I made triple. Things were not the same after that hole. I was never really able to shake that off. I couldn't help but think of all the times in my life where I've been on the other end of that type of situation and always given the benefit of the doubt to the player because they are ultimately the one who with the best view and they have to live with the decision they choose. I've never been one to try and cheat, and in my heart I know where my ball crossed and should of been able to take the drop up further.
But, that's golf. It was my fault for even hitting it in the water in the first place. The other thing that factored in to the rest of the round was that my group was put on the clock for the remaining 7 holes and basically just added to the drama. To say the least, it wasn't pretty. I did hit 2-iron, 3-wood to 15ft for eagle on #18 but came away with birdie to finish at +6 over (78).
It wasn't exactly the easiest day for golf. The course isn't in that great of shape to start with. Almost every fairway is soaking wet even though it's only rained once here in the last 2 weeks. Half the bunkers around the course are under repair and the greens are average at best. I've posted a picture above to give you some idea as to how the course looks. It's a picture of the 8th green which pretty much sums up the type of golf course this is.
I guess that's enough complaining for one day. I hate to write posts like this, but what happened on #11 is still bothering me. What can you do. I need a low round tomorrow. The forecast is for rain and wind so maybe a 68 will get me back in the top 10. We'll see what happens.
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