Went to work a bit early, left a bit early, went golfing! Went to Ken McDonald, and I started out getting stuck behind the Marcos de Niza high school golf team, so I had to wait on pretty much every shot. Ugh. Driving on the front nine was horrible. First hole, I land it on the 2nd tee. Second hole, on the first tee. Third hole, on the 9th fairway. Fifth hole, on the 8th fairway. Bah! I didn't hit a single fairway on the front side, and I only hit one green. Add a couple 3-putts, and I ended up with a solidly-mediocre 43 on that side.
The back side was a completely different story. The Marcos team left, and one guy in my group left, so I hopped on the cart with the last remaining player in the group, and I think we played the back nine in about an hour. I decide to start taking my 2-iron off the tee, and I'm hitting it really well. Tenth hole, I catch a downward slope for a 300-yard 2-iron drive. :-D Eleven is the 578-yard par 5; I hit a bad drive but manage to birdie with a good pitch to about 4 feet on my 3rd shot. The par 3's on the back nine were both good, my tee shots were solid. Birdied one of them. The 2-iron finally let me down on the last hole, where I was even par on the back nine going into 18, and I needed a par to shoot a 79. Ended up making a 12-foot putt for bogey, finished with a 37 on that side, and an 80 for the round.
As bad as I was driving the ball, that shows how forgiving Ken McDonald is. Any other course and I would have hit 4 balls out of bounds on the front nine, turning my 80 into an 88. Finished the round in a little over 3 hours, and my new golf shoes were way more comfortable than the old pair. :-)
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