A Great Round of Golf

The weather cleared after morning storms and I headed out to Daytona Beach Golf Club for a round. I decided to play the more difficult North Course today. It’s a great deal right now with $15.00 greens fees after 3:00 PM. The course wasn’t crowded, but that doesn’t mean it was fast either. I played in just under 3 hours. If there’s no one on the course, I play in well under two hours if I riding and just at two hours when walking.

I warmed up using my pre-round putting drills and the two ball putting drill. My putter head was not square and I was hitting the right side ball much further. I worked on a few tweaks with ball position and then had it right on.

The photo above is the 3rd tee box of the North Course. There’s a lot of trouble on the right side, so I played down the left side and found the second cut of rough. That was about my round - in the rough to the fringe of the green and then a chip and a putt. I only had 24 putts today, but I had a hole-out and only hit 5 greens in regulation. I had lots of up and downs. It was the chipping that was working today and I didn’t need to make any long putts. I had a birdie on the par 3 14th hole when I sank a left-to-right 12 footer. That was my best hole of the day.

Since I’ve been writing so much about putting tips, I’ve found that I need to be careful on the greens. The danger is that I’m going to over-think the putts and tense up. To prevent that, I’m stepping to the putt and putting faster than I normally do. It kept me from thinking over the ball. It worked today.

I’m only playing golf about once every 7-10 days right now and my impending trip to Puerto Rico will cut into my rounds, but today was a beautiful, slightly cooler day on the golf course.