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Another decent round, but had TWO brain farts which cost me a turkey. We are now down to 14 holes for our competition, to enable the later guys teeing off to get round before dark. It was another beautiful day, a bit sharp, but windless. I knocked in two birds to match my two bogies on the front 7 holes to give me a great start on my quest to bag a bird.
On #11 I pushed my drive right, leaving me a big bank of gorse to clear with about 160 yards to the pin. I figured I needed to press, to go for it and I tried to play a "cut up" 7 iron. The lie was not terrific and yes, you've guessed it, I drove it straight into the bank in front of me, burying the ball. Scratch that hole. I recovered well with two pars and a bird, but now I was really pressing, figuring I needed at least one more bird over the final two holes. At #15, our last short hole, I took dead aim at the pin on the right with an 8 iron. It leaked a little right into one of the greenside traps. Ended up taking 5 for another zip. I finished with a par.
It turns out I missed out by 3 shots!!!! Had I played safe with both those shots, playing for a bogey and a par, instead of two birdies, I would now have a bird in hand. But the idiot that I am, I pressed a lot harder than I needed to and am now looking at turkeys in the butcher's window!!
You're complaining about an 85? Geesh.FINALLY! A day where we could get back out on the course. 11:30 before they let us off due to heavy frost. Place was packed, but we were the first two groups off so played pretty quick. Looks like a one-day-excursion. Weather turning bad again tonight and through the weekend. Played as if I'd never picked up a golf club in my life. Hit one... ONE shot that felt good. Have no idea what the problem was. Carded an 85, but felt like a 105! Lost $1.00.