Warning long post with a bunch of ugly pictures. Short version, I shot a 43-49 at Kapalua today. For those that want more, here you go with some high and low lights.
Hole 1. Downhill 433yrd par 4. Nice drive to start that went 300+ through the fairway. 2nd shot went a little long over the green. Chip to 2 feet for a nice up and down.
Hole 4. Uphill 310yrd par 4. Hit an easy driver up the gut that left me 100ish in.
Here was the result of my approach.
Made the put for birdie. 😁
Hole 5. 1st par 5 of the day playing 484. Blocked my drive to the right but got lucky and it found the fairway and I only had 184 to the pin. 5 iron to just in front of the green. Poor putting resulted in just a par.
Hole 6. Such a cool hole. 375 and the last 75 yards are 30° down hill! Crappy drive to the right leads to a bogey.
Hole 7. 491yrd par 4 slightly downhill and dog legging right. Bombed a big fade but a little too far right so I caught the rough and cost me 50+ yards of roll. No worries, a nice 240 yard 4 iron that ended up pin high set up a 2 putt par!! I have a permanent grinn
on my face for the next 10 minutes.
Hole 8. 155yrd par 3, over a ravine. My butt is clinched but I hit a smooth 8 iron right over the flag stick 15 feet passed the hole. 2 putt par.
Forgot to take a picture of hole 9. Good because I want to forget about the triple bogey with 2 penalties ruining my awsome front 9.
Hole 11. Here is where the downward spiral begins. 160yrd par 3. You know the awsome one from TV. Fried egg for lunch in the left front bunker makes for a double bogey 5.
Hole 12. 366 par 4 that heads straight downhill if you can get it over the flat area. If you hit it straight and far like I did you only have 50 yards to the green that you can 3 putt for a bogey.🤬 Awsome golf hole.
Hole 14. 271yrd slightly uphill par for. I go for the hero shot but pull it left into some kind of long grass shit that the devil invented. Somehow I found it and chopped it out 5 yards to the rough where I was able to flub my chip into the bunker. Double bogey.
Hole 15. Forgot to take a picture on the 500yrd par 5. Good, because I freaking triple bogeyed this one too after sailing my drive into the jungle on the right.
Hole 17. Oh shit, we have a 462 yard par 4 playing down hill. Fairway ends at 300yrds. I don't want to chance hitting my driver through the fairway so I hit a 305 yard 3 wood through the fairway. No worries, a good 5 iron into the green into a 1 club wind puts me 50 feet past the pin. I thought it was a 2 club wind. Oops. Made a 10 footer to save par.
Hole 18. I want a birdie so bad on this hole. I rear back with all my might a swing for the Pacific. Comes out hot low and way right. I am searching the right rough about 250 from the tee. I can't find it because it ended up being a 325yrd drive that ended up dead red in the middle of the fairway. I was on a pretty decent downslope and my 4 hybrid got 5 feet off the ground and found some kind of tropical tall grass on the left. Penalty drop leads to a double bogey to end.
Looking back up 18 one last time.
What a fun day.