North Texas Golf, Practice and Play
Today, Jarvis and I practiced and played nine at the North Texas Golf Center. The first half of practice, with short sand / lob wedge shots, went well. After that, practice was a complete disaster, all my short iron were pushes. Putting practice was also poor, speed control was awful. Fortunately, how I practiced didn’t dictate how I played today. Jarvis hit an awesome putt on 8 from 25 ft, down hill, with a 1 foot break to the right and another putt from 15 ft. I hit only one putt beyond 6 ft.
Scorecard:
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Total |
| Par | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 27 |
| Score | 4 | 4 | 3* | 3* | 3 | 4 | 3* | 3* | 4 | 31 |
*Hit green in regulation
Highlights: Hit two excellent 10-iron shots at holes 7 and 8, but missed both birdie putts, from 12 ft and 6 ft, respectively. Hit a very nice lob wedge over an 8 ft high hump to 6 ft on the final hole, but lipped out the putt. No three putts today.
Lowlights: Short tee shot on 1, pushed tee shot on 9, caused bogeys. If I could have hit some 6 to 10 ft putts today, I could have scored 28.
Still, a good day, as 31 is my best score ever on this course. Considering it was 101 degrees by the time we finished, I’m pretty happy with the way I played.