It didn’t take long to fail at one of my goals for the 2007 golf season. Yesterday I went to Valley View Farm Golf Course. After 5pm right now they have all you can golf with cart for $15. It’s supposed to be $30 for a two-some, but the guy let me get away with the rate for just myself.

I started on the back nine, hitting two in the water and taking a 9. Shot 2 more balls in the water on the round and also lost a ball somewhere in the open (it must have plugged on my drive). I managed to make a birdie on #18 and somehow ended up shooting a 46. Not bad with 5 penalty strokes and the 5 shots from drops. I started out a little rough on the front nine. Took a double bogey 6 on #1, then hit my tee shot into the water on the 180 yard par 3. Ended with a 6 on that hole. From there I made a nice string of bogeys and pars.

On #8 I topped my drive which barely cleared the water in from of the tee box. Pull-hooked a 3 wood, but it caught a tree and dropped down. Tried to make a dumb shot out of the trees and nearly missed the ball. Duffed a wedge into a little dip in the fairway where water sometimes runs through. At this point I’m not quite sure what happened, but I missed the ball twice in a row. Ended with a 10 on the hole. Hit a horid push slice on #9 off a tree and who knows where it ended up. Played a provisional off the tee right down the middle. Why couldn’t I do that the first time? Ended with an 8 on the final hole for a total of 51! OUCH! 18 strokes on the last two holes to break 50 in the wrong direction.

I starting driving back to 10, but a group had just teed off and I saw some people on the holes in front of them. With the scores I had just shot, I decided to call it a night. I played 18 holes of ugly golf in 2 hours. At least I got to enjoy the weather…