Goodness Around the Greens

The best round of my life was 2 under.  But it was not being under par that caught my attention, it was that the round was bogey free.

I managed to do it again today.  18 consecutive pars.  But, wait, there's more!  I played the links course yesterday and shot that at 2 under, also bogey free.  Hmm, so it's been 27 holes without an error.

The front nine had some scrambling today.  I had consecutive sand saves.  Considering the consistency of the sand at the course, this is impressive.  They lost a lot of bunkers when the floods came a couple of winters ago and it's been slow to reconstruct them.

I think I had 4 missed greens besides the sand shots.  I managed to chip them all close enough that the putts were "gimmes." 

13 putts on the front and 16 on the back.  I had 36 putts on Monday and managed to shoot 76.  It's been a pretty easy stroll around the course this week.

My driver is still an issue.  I had a couple of two hundred yard shots into greens that should have been 150 or so. I'm off to the range to work on that tomorrow. 


I keep imagining that I've found various things that point to a solution.  But it never seems to last nor travel well from range to course.  The drives that were good today, I felt that I hit them at 10% power.  Perhaps there is some value in that.

Not much else to report.  Oh, I borrowed a putter I wanted to try for the back nine today.  No miracles, but it did a pretty good job of moving the ball on the greens.  The putter was an Evnroll model ER1, an Anser shaped head.  I've been a mallet guy for awhile, so this was a bit different.  But I holed all the short ones and the long guys were close enough.  Doesn't make me want to run out and replace what I have, which is an early Titleist Red X by Scotty Cameron.

The days are getting shorter and the early holes are cooler.   The fairways are damp and I fear my golf shoes are leaking.  But the pars are rolling in, so there is much contentment to be had.