Played at Orange Tree Golf Resort on Sunday, actually had a mostly decent round. The course seemed to be in good shape, though the greens were often a bit on the dry side despite the rain we had been having.
Only a couple highlights to the round - one was on the 2nd hole, a par 5. My drive left me about 220 yards out and with a reasonable lie in the rough, and I hit it perfect, right on the green. Two-putt for birdie.
The other highlight was actual several shots, a string of probably the three best gap wedges I've ever hit. Starting on the 8th hole, I hit a good drive to about 125 out, hit my gap wedge to 5 feet or so, and make the birdie putt. On the 9th, after unfortunately fatting my 7-iron into the water, I took a drop at my gap wedge distance, hit it to 8 feet, made the bogey putt. Then on 10 a good drive left me with a gap wedge again, and this time I put it to 2 feet and tapped in for another birdie.
After that it was all downhill, six bogeys and a double on the back nine, and I shot 40/43 for an 83. Not too bad though. My number of greens in regulation seems to slowly be going up, which I've found is what I really need to shoot the better scores (well, that or a much better short game). Looking back at some old scorecards, I used to actually hit more greens than I remember. These days I've been getting maybe 3-5 GIRs in a round, which isn't any good. Then if I could just start putting, I'd really have something!
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