This past weekend, I performed the Orlando Amateur Golf Tour event at Victoria Hills and came in 2d with a seventy three ( 1).
Here are the final spherical metrics:
36-37 = 73 ( 1)
3 birdies (#1, #five, #17), 4 bogeys (#four, #nine, #thirteen, #18)
Par-3s: Even Par (all pars), three /four GIR
Par-4s: Even Par (2 birdies, 2 bogeys)
Par-5s: 1 (2 bogeys, 1 birdie, 1 par)
9/14 Fwys
eleven/18 GIR
6 impeded shots
29 putts
9 15/5 Score
What I did nicely:
1. Driving – I routinely was hitting the ball 40-yards past my playing partners. On #2, I hit one about 60 yards past my playing partners and on #18 I was about 80 yards past my playing partners (unfortunately, I was in the woods).
2. Short Putting – Putts inside 6-feet tend to give me a lot of trouble, but I made everything outside of a 3-1/2 footer on 18. That was due to a leaf blowing right in between the putter and the ball as I was making my thru-stroke.
3. Mental Game – I was good and focused pretty well. For the most part, I was focusing on my target and the shot I wanted to hit and nothing else mattered. I was also sticking with the mentality of hitting great shots and accumulating great shots instead of worrying about avoiding bad shots and fretting over a bad shot.
What I didn?T do properly:
1. Iron Play – I only struck 2 irons well all day, the approach on #1 with a P-Wedge that still ended up 40-feet short of the hole (still on the green). And a punch 6-iron into a wind on #13 that flew the green.
2. Drives on the Par-5’s - I only found 1 fairway on the 4 par-5’s. And that was not particularly a great drive, but I ended up making birdie, anyway. I had 3 impeded shots on the other 3 holes. Snap hook on #9 which is uncharacteristic of me. The drive on #15 requires a large draw and I struck it well, but pushed it. I flew the bunker and ended up in the St. Augustine grass. I actually hit a great shot on the 2nd shot, but was screwed over as the ball ended up just short of the bunker and I should have been given a free drop due to Ground Under Repair (it rained that night and morning). I made par. Then on #18 I hit one of my longest drives all day, just pushed it a little and I had to hit a rescue shot out of the woods. But, 4 good drives on those par-5’s and I could have easily played them at -2 under and won the event.
3. Birdie Putting – The greens were smooth, but slow and the pin positions were on some big slopes. Still, I struggled to get the ball to the hole. Speed control was an issue.
What to paintings on:
1. Continue to paintings at the irons, specially the mid-to-quick irons.
2. Acquire the attitude of treating all par-5?S much like you would a regular par-4, take your inventory swing and focus on making proper touch and locating the fairway.
Three. Work on speed and distance control drills.
I played in the occasion to get a few enjoy of gambling in tournaments, again. I had no longer played in an event in 2 years and I become trying to play within the FSGA Mid-Am in September, so I desired to get a few tournaments to assist with comfortability of playing in competitive activities. I also desired to apply this experience to test my sport and notice wherein I?M at.
I did now not get a exercise round in at Victoria Hills as I changed into too busy and have played there about 15 instances. With multiplied club pace, I became in a few new areas off the tee that I wasn?T aware of. Per standard, I become very competitive in hitting driver off the tee. I best layed up off the tee as soon as, on the Par-four, 4th hollow
They had the tee moved up on this unique hole. I even have most effective played this hole from the lower back tee, so I wasn?T positive what to hit. It played to about 390 yards. I hit a 2-hybrid and had a hundred forty five yards to the center of the green and I made the right play.
The only hole I remorse hitting driving force on is #6, the 380 backyard par-four (it is going downhill a bit, so the ball flies further and rolls extra.
I hit driving force and didn?T execute and ended up inside the left woods where the pink X is located. The trouble with that is that the area indicated by way of the yellow X changed into very unkempt and I may want to have made a pretty true swing and ended up there and have a very difficult lie. That narrowed the landing region drastically. The woes of no longer playing a exercise round.
If there was some neat ?Golfing drama? In this degree, it became among myself and my gambling companion, Danny Nash. Nash also shot 73 (I beat him when we matched scorecards as I birdied #1). We have been tied going into the Par-4 sixteenth hole which performs approximately 360 yards, however is instantly uphill and pretty slim with bushes right and left and a fairway bunker left.
Nash hit 3-wood off the tee and I hit driving force. Nash turned into playing the antique ?If I hit three-timber, I?M best going to have about a hundred and forty yards into the hollow.? My mentality is that I recognise if I take an average skip on the ball, I will possibly be just quality. Nash hit the green (yellow X) and I hit a tough driver that also located the fairway (Red X). The benefit in reality went to me as I was about 50 yards beforehand of Nash with eighty five yards to the hole (the pin was all of the way again). But Nash caught an approach shot to approximately 7-ft. I then hit an excellent SW, but it spun back approximately 10-ft and I turned into left with a 25-footer. I missed my birdie putt well brief and was happy to make the par-keep and Nash made birdie to head 1-up.
We then were given on #17 that is a 380 backyard par-4 that within reason slim as nicely:
Once once more, Nash played the extra conservative shot with a 3-timber off the tee and I hit driver. He put his three-timber in the bunker (crimson X) and I blasted my driver proper down the middle to about 70 yards (yellow X) to the hole. Nash hit his fairway bunker shot well brief and I stuck my L-Wedge to eight-feet. Nash ended up with a bogey and I made par to move 1-up. That turned into earlier than I blasted my pressure on 18 into the woods and came away with a bogey and Nash and I tied for rating.
I got here into the event with 3-goals:
1. To have the mentality of looking to hit extraordinary pictures due to the fact you may?T play remarkable golf unless you hit incredible photographs. And trying to accumulate splendid photographs in place of focusing on heading off bad shots.
2. Avoid making terrible strategic mistakes (from time to time I get so aggressive that I take photographs that are too low of a percent to drag off).
3. Have no worse than an average performance with my brief sport and putting. Nobody can get putts to fall with any consistency, but if I can avoid horrible rounds setting and with the short game across the green, I can at least continue to be aggressive because if I miss a GIR, I can nevertheless save par. And if the putts start to drop, then I can get into the 60?S.
I assume I did a pretty suitable process with all 3 desires. I did have some problems with feeling cushty with my irons and sometimes I didn?T hit correct enough putts due to being timid. The simplest strategic blunders I assume I made become on #6 (pressure into the left woods), however that turned into because of having not played a practice spherical and I nonetheless made par (and hit the GIR) at the hole. I might say that my brief recreation turned into as a minimum at the common. I had more than one negative shots and multiple extraordinary photographs and typically common shots. And my putting became likely a little below average. I left myself with too many putts with ?Some meat on that bone.? But I most effective neglected 1 putt I should have made and countered that with a forty-footer I made on the primary hole.
Overall, it turned into a fun revel in and I like how it tested my sport so I understand what to paintings on.
3JACK
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