Let me tell you one thing about playing in Palm Springs on July 23rd - it's hot. I'm pretty sure that I was sweating profusely prior to teeing off on the first hole. The temp must have been around 110 degrees.
I played the first hole like a gem. I drove the ball about 250 in the fairway and hit a wedge about 110 yards to the green. I missed my birdie putt long and tapped in for par. It was a good start to the round. I wish the entire round went that well. By the time I hit the 18th hole, I was completely out of gas. Completely. I think I took a 10 on the final hole. I stopped keeping track of my stats after the 9th hole when I found out that the course on my gps phone progam, golflogix
, was a different course than I was playing, so my stats did not coincide with the holes. It showed that I eagled a Par 5 (which I would love to lay claim to) and double bogeyed a Par 3 - which I actually parred both. I believe I shot a 43 on the front - and strung together pars on 8, 9 and 10. But that's about as good as it got. I was fatigued by hole 12, out of gas by hole 15 and one step away from death on hole 18.However, I drove the ball well on the front 9 and hit 5 greens in regulation. These two facets of the game, if executed, make the game so much easier. My drives and my irons both had a slight fade to them - evidence that I am still swinging on an out to in swing path. I need to continue to work on changing that to an inside to out swing.
It was an absolutely beautiful course. All 3 of us had a great time despite the heat. I would definitely like to come back to this course someday when I get better and make sure not play when it is 110 degrees out.
We are playing a different course tomorrow morning at 7:30am, so I am wondering if the difference in time will make a difference in my energy levels being that it won't be so hot that early in the morning.
Yes, the GPS was indeed impressive. Curious as per your thoughts on how far that technology can go? (Personally: I'd like my own celebrative avatar that looks like me and gives a fist pump on a Birdie, or something to that effect).
ReplyDeleteAlso: fine iron play, good sir. You G.I.R. is really improving.
I would love to see an interactive GPS system, where by it takes into account the wind, the slope and the distance. You have a computer chip that you insert into the GPS at the beginning of the round - this computer chip has all of your distances with each club on file (similar to a handicapping system), courses played, handicap, etc., so it can recommend which club to use with each shot.
ReplyDeleteYou could also compare golfers stats/handicap in your foursome to recommend how many strokes to give each golfer on each hole to make it a more equitable match.
That would be the bees knees...
I trust boy caddies are thrilled with that idea.
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