Got out for 18 to ay at my local muni. Weather was nice... high 70s, 1-club wind, gusting to 2-club at times.
Parred 1, but the then got on the bogey train pretty quickly, with bogeys at 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, but then parred 7-10. Bogey train from 11-13, but the then I went one under from 14-18.
So, once again, the back nine was quite a bit stronger; 41, 37.
Putted better today.
The bogey on 6 was a birdie on a second ball after the first one found a lake in front of the green. I could have dropped down where the ball crossed the hazard but elected to play again from the tee box. Thought the second ball was going to hole out for a strange par, but it stopped about three feet short (directly on line).
The new driver I got from Uncle Steve was interesting. After the first three shots I hit with it I was ready to throw it into a lake. They all went right pretty hard. It has an A-flex shaft and I have never tried one before. I then remembered about a training club which is a 7-iron with a really whippy shaft... everybody hits it right until they sequence perfectly, and then it goes straight.
So, thereafter, I pretended like the driver head was on a rope, and thought about nothing but sequencing perfectly. When I did that, I hit some loong (for me) drives. This is a course I play all the time and on three holes I definitely got to places I had never been before. But if I tried to extract distance from it, it started going right again.
So now I don't know whether I should keep it and keep using it, because it hits the ball a mile and maybe helps me sequence my swing better, or whether I should banish it because if I don't sequence perfectly it goes way right, so it can't be trusted. Hmmmm......
Oh, and by the way, in the clubhouse they have a barrel of old clubs that they sell for $25 a piece and donate the money to First Tee. I glanced over at the barrel and what did I find? A 9-degree SMT Nemesis on a Graffaloy ProLaunch Blue regular flex. Well, for $25 I had to buy it, right? I haven't had a chance to hit it yet, because i bought it after the round. I figured three drivers in the bag during the round was at least one too many. Lol.
