Conditions - low 70s and sunny. Winds were about 10-15 left to right going out and right to left coming in.
1 - 3 wood way left into 18 fairway where I nearly got brained by a tee shot. Hit a 7 iron from 157 to 40 feet and 2-putted for par.
2 - Driver left rough, 9 iron from 140 to 30 feet and 2-putted for par.
3 - Driver right into gorse, unplayable...wedged right of the green, pitched to 20 feet, 2-putted for double.
4 - Driver left into Cottage bunker. Had 110 in and fatted a wedge short. Then pitched too much thru green. Pitched again to 20 ft, 2-putt double.
5 - Driver down right side of fairway. Had 190 in and hit 6-iron hole high but right of green. Pitched to 6 ft, made birdie.
6 - Stupidly took 4-iron and fatted it into gorse for an unplayable. The rest was a snarly blur for a triple.
7 - Driver ugly to the left. Hit 7-iron from 175 that went in Shell bunker. Wedged out to 75 ft, 2-putt bogey
8 - Wedge from 140 way short, pitched 14 ft by, 2-putted for bogey
9 - Yanked driver left into gorse for unplayable, sliced a 6-iron into Boase’s bunker, exploded out short, ended up with a triple for 47 on front
10 - Driver way right but found it, hit directly into sun to 12 feet...to the 8th hole - 8 and 10 share a green. So I had about 100 feet for birdie and got down in 2 for par
11 - 4 iron into wind from 165 that looked real good but but ran thru the green into a big depression. Decided to bump into hill, didn’t work. Then putted with a 5-wood and ran it 20 yards off front of green. Made 6 and had steam coming out of the ears.
12 - Driver left into gorse. Drop and wedged to 60 ft where I 3-putted for double
13 - Driver in right rough, 6 iron from 180 long and left, pitch to 10 ft, 2-putt bogey
14 - Driver right rough, 5 wood yanked way left near gorse, stupidly tried to mash it thru the gorse and it laughed at me and kept it. Made triple
15 - Best drive of day - 287 down middle, wedged from 127 to 20 ft and drilled the birdie. I’ll remember that one for a while
16 - Driver way left, a pair of chunked shots followed by icing the puck across the green, made 8
17 - Road hole...kept it left and away from the hotel, chunked a 4-iron, hit wedge to lower ridge of green and 2-putted for bogey
18 - Driver right off a car in town for OB. Driver right off a building in town for OB. Total shanked driver into burn. Drop and hit 4-iron across cart path, staring at 10 easily. As I walk over Swilkan Bridge, find 2nd ball in fairway and hit short of Valley of Sin. As I keep walking, 2 guys in town yell at me that my FIRST ball is in play...up against a fence post. I nudge it out with the toe of my putter to the cart path, take the drop, and wedge to 90 ft. With a couple dozen people watching, I lag the par putt to 3 feet and make bogey. 50 on back, 97 overall.