Joey's Golf Bag

This morning, at the crack of dawn, Chinh and I played 18 at the Indian Creek Golf Club on the Lakes course. The weather was quite cold, in the mid-40s, and breezy. The sun did peek through the clouds on occasion, but not really enough to make it comfortable to play much of the time.

My score:

Themes:

• Tee shots. I hit seven fairways, and two par-3 greens in regulation. I really didn’t drive the ball well, one of the drives was a moon ball, and another hit a tree and bounced back into the fairway.
• Approach shots. My short irons were pretty good today, although I only hit three greens in regulation. My mid-irons and 5-wood shots weren’t particularly good today.
• Wedges. Wedges were the main reason I scored poorly today. I only got up and down twice all day. My only memorable wedge shot was a cut-lob off bare ground on the 18th hole; I hit the 60° wedge over a very tall tree onto the green.
• Sand shots. I had only two sand shots today. The first was in a fairway bunker. I had a side-hill lie and I attempted a pitching wedge shot back into the fairway, but pushed it right into the water for a penalty. My other sand shot was in a deep bunker, but I got out cleanly to about 10 ft from the hole.
• Chipping. I did a lot of chipping from the fringe with the putter, and those weren’t too bad. My other chips with the 8-iron and wedges tended to be long.
• Putting. Yeech! I hit only one good putt over 10 ft, on the par-4 13th hole, where I nailed a 15 ft putt for par. I had a total of five 3-putts, 4 of which were on the front nine, and two were on greens I hit in regulation. In my defense, all the 3-putts came on holes with difficult putts. I left very few putts short, which is my usual fault; instead, ran some putts well by the holes. I got up and down only twice today.

Considering how much I’m struggling with correcting the reverse pivot in my swing, I thought I struck the ball pretty respectively today. My main issue was very poor wedge shots and chipping.