An interesting Nine...

I was determined to keep using the new swing thoughts and for the most part they worked. 

It's so easy to regress.  It's also easy to concentrate on just one section of the game and not be able to score well.  It's so hard to keep all the stuff in one's mind...

I had a strange front nine today.  Allow me to flood the post with detail.

So here goes.  The first hole is tough with a tee shot that can can run into a pond and also has tree trouble.  I hit it into the trees, chipped out and couldn't get to the green; pitched poorly and missed the putt.  So I started with a double.

Hole two is 500 yards and par 5.  Drive up the middle, utility to 120 yards, iron on and two putts for par.

Three is a dog leg around a pond.  Drive ok, but second shot gets knocked down into a trap due to 15 mph wind, no up and in, so a bogey.

Four is back into the wind, par 3 and 160 yards.  It's a full carry with huge, deep traps in front of the green.  One quickly learns if they really can carry an iron 150 yards.   I hit my utility about as hard and as well as I could.  That put about 15 feet below the hole.  Drained it and we have a birdie.  Let's call it birdie number 1.

Five is longish, cross wind, usually a tough scoring hole.  The green sits at an angle is 40 yards deep and it's well trapped on the front and back.  I hit an ok drive into the fairway.  Then another well struck utility to the front of the green to kill the shot, it bounces up and finishes 4 inches from the cup.  Left the putter in the bag; Birdie #2.

Six is a par 5, playing down wind.  Ok drive, nice utility and then 8 iron to 4 feet.  I've never had three birdies in a row and this was quite the chance.  One of my fellow golfers hit it on my line and I knew there was a gentle right to left.  But it was down hill and I didn't hit it hard enough and it slid buy for a tap in par.

Seven is a short par 4.  I lay up with a five iron usually and today was no exception.  I hit an 8 iron to the middle of the green, about 12 feet from the pin.  Rolled that one in.  Birdies #3.

Eight is a 150 yard par 3, all of which is carry across another pond full of ducks, coots, frogs and great blue herons.  It plays longer for some reason.  I'm thinking the air over the pond is different.  Woe to the golfer who is short.  I hit a 5 iron across the wind and I ended up above the hole about 20 feet.  Well, today was a day where that didn't matter much.  It had a foot break from right to left I rolled it right it.  Birdie #4.

Nine was a boring bogey on a tough hole.  No need for details.  But I ended the nine with an even par 36.  I've only made consecutive birdies twice before in my long career and here I managed it twice in one nine.

A crazy day for sure.