To Jana – Why heck, if all golf was about was hitting a little round ball to get it to land on a patch of grass with a skinny stick I wouldn’t bother playing the game.

You actually have me reading about golf!!!! GOLF!!!! I am reading about someone with a skinny stick, hitting a small round ball to get it to land on a patch of grass. HELP!!!!!!

Rusty on the front nine (and still trying to get the feel back in my pitches around the green after 2 years without golf), but recovered nicely on the back nine. Par’d the 125 yd Par 3 10th and the 175 yard Par 3 15th (even if I needed a great up and down to make that happen on 15, but the pitch feel was coming back to me by then).

Might have shot a few less, but the greens were horrible on the back nine – mostly stubble and sand with the ball hopping all over the place.

Countryland is a short track at only 5500 yards, but has wicked ups and downs worthy of the North Georgia mountain area in which it resides. Heck, the Par 4 18th has about 1/3 as much elevation as it has in length; a killer finishing hole if ever there was. Bogeyed that bad boy on the way in to the clubhouse.

Tee to fairway I’m doing better than ever, especially with those hybrids in my bag, but I won’t be sure about my putting until I get on better greens, and I still need some work around the green on chips and pitches, but the game is coming along sweet!

“The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.”

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe

If Bush had done that Democrats would already have screamed “impeachment.”

Shank, I heard on the news the Beach Boys
memorabilia is going on auction!

Hope all is well. Cubby

They should know better.

And pre-shot routines are important for guys like us. Mine is always “Keep your damned head down and stay down through the frikkin’ shot!”

I’m chalking this round up as a learning experience that will pay big dividends ahead. It’s always good to know what aspects of your game have trouble holding up to pressure and the need to slow things down and just play your game no matter who you’re playing with.

I’ve also learned I really need to nail down a pre-shot routine that emphasizes the power move Alex Black showed on every shot, and to go back to my pre-chip practice swings (two right by the ball and then repeat). That, my bro, is on my to-do list as of the next range session.

As David Simms said to Roy McAvoy in “Tin Cup”, you gotta have some discipline out there or you’ll get destroyed.