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All over the place

That describes my golf game yesterday afternoon at Ken McDonald. I was thinking I'd just play 9 holes, but it went so quickly, my group was able to get in 17 before it was just too dark to continue. The only thing that really worked for me on any level was my driver, and even then, it was only the distance. I only hit 2 fairways and 3 greens all day, and I could rarely chip/pitch the ball close enough for a one-putt, so it was pretty much bogey golf all around. If you figure I probably would have bogeyed the last hole, I'd end up with an 87.

One interesting thing, it looks like some group in front of us (probably a HS golf team) moved a lot of the blue tee boxes as far back as they could, including the use of optional boxes, so some holes were playing a lot longer. One par 3 normally played about 180, yesterday it was more like 240. :-0 I'd say the course overall was playing closer to 7000 yards, about 250 more than normal.

Hmm...any highlights? There were certainly plenty of bad shots I can talk about, like the worst layup in history on the 3rd hole. I put my drive in the wrong fairway on the par 5, so I figure I'll lay up with a 7-iron to the correct fairway. Unfortunately I was about a club short, and I ended up about 3 feet short of a tree right between my ball and the green.

My driving distance was big, sometimes that alone was keeping me out of the fairways. Nearly every drive was 300+, and some holes that was probably more harm than good. There are a good number of par 4's under 400 yards there, so I was leaving myself half-wedge shots into the green - not the easiest, when you haven't played much recently. On one par 4 my drive drifted a bit right, and I hit about halfway up the trunk of a 40' palm tree that was about 300 yards from the tee...that was a nice solid drive. ;-) So even if I wasn't hitting the straightest, it was fun to hit it a long ways again. The shots will straighten out as I play more.

Like I said, 17 holes. I haven't walked a round in a while, and I don't think my shoes are up for it anymore. I'm pretty sure I bought them when I was in high school, and they're about worn through, so those might need to be replaced. Only took us a little over 3 hours to get around the course, including 4 holes where we had to wait on each tee, and that was without a cart. Even better, it only cost $6. Pretty good way to spend the afternoon.