Q-School Lake Jovita - Round 3
Another good round today inched me a bit further up the leaderboard in the third round of Stage 2 at Lake Jovita CC. It was an interesting start. I made a great par save on 1 and then birdied 2. On 3 I hit the flagstick and took a chunk out of the lip of the hole with my approach shot. Unfortunately, the ball ricocheted off the flag some 30 feet away from the hole. I barely missed the birdie putt.
Things started to settle down after that. I made 5 birdies on holes 7 through 14. The 13th was also interesting. After a great drive on the par 5, I had about 260 yards left for my second shot. However, I had an enormous clump of mud on the bottom and side of the ball, so I really couldn’t predict how it would fly. Therefore, I tried to lay up with a seven iron, but the mud caused the ball to hook about 30 yards into the left rough. From there I made a good swing with a sand wedge that caught a flyer and went over the green into a nasty lie in the rough to a tough downhill hole. That’s when things evened out because I holed the flop shot for a birdie.
I putted well today…only 24 putts for the round. And, I hit about 4 more that had a good chance to go in. I felt like my comfort level with the green speed went up a notch today.
I moved up inside the cut line into 18th place. It’s a tight-packed field…I’m only 2 shots out of 10th.
Tomorrow’s weather looks very similar to today. Should be a great day for golf.