What a horribly underwhelming round. I’m beginning to notice I play a few strokes worse on the Tuesday leg of a Mon/Tue schedule, so I think I’m going to switch to Monday morning and Thursday afternoon. I got into trouble on No. 6 by pushing my drive into the right side, putting my approach shot into a short bunker and skulling the shot over the green. On No. 8 I pulled my drive left, pushed my 220-yard approach shot right, went into the trees, stayed there and came out with a double. Three 3-putts on the back nine didn’t help matters, and only one fairway for the day. Though I did have a number of drives that were in the first cut. Six GIRs are meaningless when I have 20 putts on the back 9. Guess I used my quota of chip-ins and birdies the day before.
Also on the upside, I went out as a single and was essentially the second group of the day. Passed a twosome on the 2nd hole and had someone sneak out onto the back with me. We played 16 holes in 2 hours and caught up with a tourney with a shotgun start. Their last group started on 14, so it took a twosome walking the same amount of time to play 7 holes as it did a foursome in a cart to play 2. Lovely. Last two holes took half an hour to play.