Adam's Tour - Winter Series (The Woodlands-Panther Trail) - First Round

Today's Score: 82

ERRRRRRRRRRR!!!! That's the sound of the brakes on my momentum train coming to a screeching halt. And, I refuse to believe another weatherman in Houston ever again. The front that was supposed to pass mid-afternoon came through literally a minute before I began my round. As I approached the first tee, I could see this huge line of dark clouds coming our way. A minute before we teed off, the rains came. It remained that way for the first four holes and then the weather turned bitter cold and windy. When I finished my round, the temperature was 44 degrees with winds gusting up to 32 mph. That made the windchill 33 degree's according to all the weather apps on our phones. If history tells us anything, we know that I struggle under 40 degree's.

I was prepared for the cold weather today, but it didn't matter. The winds were so strong that it was nearly impossible to stay still and concentrate throughout the round. Needless to say, I played terrible. Every other shot was left or right and far from being solid. And as windy as it was, putting became a nightmare. I can't tell you how many times I backed off my ball today because it was wiggling so much on the greens. It seemed like I had to rush every putt I hit just to make sure the ball didn't move when I addressed it.

I did finish on #18 by hitting the flag on my second shot, but that was the only highlight of my day by far. All in all, it was miserable. So much so, that I probably won't be playing the second round tomorrow. I would need to shoot about -5 under tomorrow to have any shot of making money and the forecast is for an "arctic blast" tonight. That puts tomorrow's high of about 48 with similar winds that we saw today. No thanks! I think I'll spare myself the misery of grinding out another 82 and probably cut my losses.

Then again, I may wake up and get the itch to put myself through the torture again. Either way, we should be back in Louisiana by tomorrow night as the January Winter Series comes to a close. It'll be nice to get back home and see if I can't groove the things I was working on before I left. Clearly, they haven't set in and the nerves of competitive golf showed that.