Second good week in a row
This was the second decent week in a row! Aside from two consecutive bad holes on the front where I had problems in the sand (sailed the green on the first and took two more strokes to get back on; visited three consecutive fairway bunkers on the second), it was really good! Second consecutive week with a birdie.
The birdie hole was great; it was #14, which is a relatively short par five. From the blues, my tee shot was about 203 from the green in the fairway (a ~280 yard drive). The pin was back right, and I put it into the bunker guarding that side of the green in the air with my second shot. I couldn't see the putting surface from my stance because I was so far below the hole; my third shot from the sand was about 8 feet from the pin, and I made the putt for birdie! Felt like a real golfer on that hole. Parred the next hole (a long par 3) with a sandie too.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 48 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 46 | 94 |
Once again on the Duke course.
By the way, the course is now in really good shape except for the 10th tee. It seems like they really were deferring maintenance until the hotel was done enough and the new pro shop was open. I like the new pro shop, I don't like the new practice range as much; it is a longer walk with a lot of stairs. However, it is starting to look like a high-end golf course again. The greens were great today.
Lastly, I went back and updated my Handicap Manager for Excel spreadsheet with the scores I can find for this year, and it's calculating a handicap of 18.5. Amazingly enough, this program seems to work in the Mac version of Excel too (although clearly the dialogs weren't tested there, since they look pretty bad). Mini-kudos to Microsoft for having VBA on both platforms be mostly compatible.