[Bigvivec]

Thursday July 17, 2008
I played this morning…stiff as all get out from playing football with the boys on Tuesday…couldn’t play or practice yesterday…getting too old for this! Surprised myself and played well out of the box with no warmup…birdied the first…continued to play fairly well, but took a bogey and a double back to back on 4 and 5…discouraged, I passed the clubhouse and the pro stopped me for a little pep talk…finished with only one more bogey and the rest pars including the last four holes that the pro tagged along with a junior student (Good morning sir…this is my 9th time playing!)…he corrected me only once when I set to a ball in the trees and took a super aggressive line…wound up making par after a lateral punch out…he punched me on the shoulder, told me to enjoy myself and stop thinking so much…he’s got a point…interesting observation he had on my driver tee shot…I thought I pushed it right as it took off dead straight to the right…he told me that I was aligned fine and the swing was good…only that I was aimed dead right…maybe he found the key to my tee shot issues…very impressed with the junior…still green, but his swing is a real swing, not a hit…he was hitting the ball very straight and pretty long all things considered…wish someone put a club in my hands at 13… I have figured out how to swing and where to put the ball for my new wedge, just forward of center, and was hitting it very solidy…I took note of the full swing distance on two shots with my laser and am going to tape it and a half swing distance to my wedges (note to self)… …just need to play a practice round tomorrow to hammer that out (range distances are irrelevant)… I backed up both full wedge shots today considerably (about 15 feet each time)…problem is that I was short of the hole to begin with, and that is too much movement for a standard shot; still have to get used to it I guess…I made a few putts today and left the course pretty satisfied…it’s a good day when the pitchmark tool gets a workout, and on my missed girs I was still hitting the green only with my third or fourth shot (one struggle on a par 5) after blowing tee shots into the trees and punching out….good day today…funny thing is that I am still stiff as a board and my legs are sore as can be…maybe I’ve been moving my legs too much because I hit most shots well today…maybe I’m thinking too much but at the same time the game is starting to come easier again…

7/11 fairways…9 gir…25 putts…one birdie…+3…14holes…