Medal 7

I got talked into playing a medal tonight on short notice.

I only found out yesterday that the medal was on and thought I better get to the driving range last night because I have not hit a ball for two weeks. Unfortunately after about half a bucket of balls I hit the mat too hard with a wedge and hurt the back of my right hand. I have had this problem once before but in a much more painful way, that time I was out of action all winter, indeed I could not even hold a knife for weeks that time...

This time it was not nearly as bad and I just protected it through today and decided I would try to play the medal and see how it went. In fact despite being a bit apprehensive before I started, the hand was pretty much OK in the end, I just could not power through with the right hand, so I left the club face open a bit and played a push fade instead of a draw with my irons.

The course was sodden and playing about as long as it can do and the greens were like sponges, quite a change from the last time I played it when everything was baked bone dry.

Anyhow neither of those reasons excused my poor play, in fact I was wild off the tee a few times, and my short game and putting was abysmal, probably just the result of two weeks away from the course. I was out in 51 and pretty despondent, however I came back better and finished with a 95 that included a suicide 8 on the par 3 15th hole. Because that score will be reduced to a net double bogey 6 and assuming the CSS is the usual 69 I should get cut 0.4. Not quite what I had hoped for but it could have been a whole lot worse after the first 9 holes...


64% fairways hit.
33% GIR.
38 putt's, inc 4 3 putt's.
4 penalties.
1 up and down sand save for a par.
4 pars, 5 doubles or worse.