Adam's Tour - Winter Series (Kingwood - Lakes) - First Round

Score: 75

Even though the tour had pushed back tee times in anticipation of an ice delay this morning, it wasn't long enough. At 11:00 is was still below freezing, so there was an extra two hour delay added to our original tee time. It was quite a morning.

I have to admit that it certainly would of helped to have played a practice round yesterday even though I didn't play all that bad. I was thinking this course was going to be like all the others we've played since they've all been pretty similar so far. However, this was by far the tightest golf course we've seen yet and for that reason, it was a little difficult figuring out where to hit it off the tee. Consequently, I only hit like 6 out of 13 fairways. I struggled with the driver early missing shots to the left and it cost me two early bogey's. After about #7, I was able to straighten it out and then hit some good tee shots coming in.

The round was really quite boring now that I think about it. I made 3 bogey's and 15 pars. No birdies. There were a couple good chances in there somewhere, but I wasn't able to convert any birdie putts today. I did make a couple good ones to save par, which was definitely a positive, but the birdie putts just didn't fall.

Easily the most disappointing part of the day was the 18th hole. It's a short par-5, but it's shaped hard right to left with water and trees all down the left and more tree's lining the right side. You have to hit a hard draw off the tee to set up a shot into the green and then the second shot is still over trees from about 250. Anyways, I hit a 3-wood to about 18ft for eagle and 3-putted. I was so mad when I walked off that green, it took a while to calm down.

The 75 today isn't all that bad considering I hadn't played the course before and it was absolutely freezing today. I'm hoping now that I've seen the course I'll have a little more confidence in what I'm doing. Then again, it's the same old story. If I can get the putts to fall, anything can happen. My tee time tomorrow is 10:50 off #1.