Wow Did I Need This

After a week in Tampa, it was back home last night and hoping for good weather for a round of golf. Well, it was a few degrees cooler today with a nice breeze so it didn’t take any convincing to head to the course. I’m a little nervous about my putting since I’ve been writing putting tips, but it was solid, especially my lag putting. I played the south course with John from Wisconsin and Jeff from Connecticut. I started of well and finished well, but had a string of bogeys in the middle of the round. Still I shot 78 on a par 71 course, so I’m happy.

Now, let’s talk about putting. I hit a lot of greens in regulation and with no birdies on the card, that means a lot of putts. I hit 10 GIR for par, so that was 20 putts. I had 5 one putts, and 3 two putts for bogey for a total of 31 putts. My goal is to be under 30 putts, but as I’ve described before, many times putts will be lower because of landing on the fringe close to the hole. That didn’t happen too much today. I was hitting the greens, but not close to the pin and I made no long putts.

The good thing about the round is that while my driving was off, bumping my score up, I was still able to score pretty low because of good putting. I had no three putts and my lag putting was very good. I was usually within 18 inches on the lag. My putting was solid. My chipping was good, but cost me a couple of stroke and my iron striking was great. All in all a good round on a beautiful, but hot day.