The 3-wood Patience and a New Picture
I shot a 6 under 66 today in the first round of the TarHeel Tour event at Skybrook (yes, that’s the same course I played Monday in the National Golf Tour event). Two things were remarkable about the round. First, I started off well, but wasn’t getting anything to drop for birdies. I ran it over the edge 4 times in the first 7 holes and was only even par. It would have been easy to let frustration set in, but I kept telling myself that if I was patient, they would start to fall. Eventually they did and I made 4 birdies and an eagle on the last 11 holes. The other remarkable thing was the 3-wood that led to my eagle on the eighteenth hole. I pounded my drive exactly at my target on the par 5, but it hit softly in the fairway and left me with 260 sharply uphill (237 front edge) to a back right hole location off a slightly downhill lie. I hit it exactly perfect…a hard-hit slight fade with just a bit more spin on it than normal so it would hold the green at a shallow approach angle (since the green was very elevated). It landed on the front right of the green and almost went in before settling 15 feet past the hole. Making the putt for eagle was really secondary. This was absolutely one of the best 3-woods I’ve hit in my life. Nice to finish the day with that kind of a shot!
The National Golf Tour posted a few pictures on their website. I added one of them to my picture gallery. It’s me accepting the trophy from the tournament director. No comments on getting too much sun…it was about 105 heat index that day.