lost post

A couple of weeks ago I was creating and new post for my blog here and when I hit enter, poof, it was gone. It was full of whitty stuff about our trip to FL in late March and full of great descriptive prose about my fabulous rounds. But alas, it is gone. I spend the better part of an hour going on and on about it. If I remember correctly the average for the 4 rounds played was right on 79 where it always is. Some good, some bad.

I played very well except for a couple of uncharacteristic water shots, penalties, and a mystery lost ball. I think I shot 77, 79, 80 and 81. The 79 included the mystery lost ball, a double on the 18th, back-to-back birdies, and a chip-in. Over the course of the four rounds, I was rock solid off the tee with the driver, missing very few fairways.

The driver has become an automatic swing for me since last summer. I have a routine and I stick to it. In one of the rounds back at home after the FL trip, I missed only one fairway with it and that was only by about a foot. I need to figure out how to incorporate the same swing thoughts into my long irons as they have been failing me as of late. Everything under 7 iron has been solid for a while now, but the long irons are hurting me. I will figure it out or else accept missed greens with those clubs and rely on the short game to keep things together.

The season is here?

Here it is May 1st and I have played exactly 2 rounds of golf in NY so far. The first two weeks of April were as perfect as they could be, no rain and lots of sun. Well, the last two weeks made up for that little tease. No sun, cold, rain, wind, and no golf. As dry as the courses were early in the month, they are all pretty much swamps now. It is supposed to warm up this week and get sunny again. I am not counting my chickens yet.

In the mean time, my wife and I are doing something totally new and different this coming Friday: we are going to the drag races!! I have never done it, but have always wanted to. A lady from my last class and her family are professional drag racers and she invited us to come and see them this weekend at the local (one hour away) track. I am really looking forward to it. She said that if we seek her out, she will give us a tour of the pit area. Very cool.

Back to golf: we are staying over night near the track and on the way home on Saturday, we are going to play golf at Brockport CC. I have not played there in years and I am looking forward to it.