Harmony, FL - Round Three

After yesterday's round, I left straight from the course and made my way back home to Alabama.  This morning is my first chance to update you all!

Yesterday's round was much better!  As I said in the previous post, when I stepped up on the first tee, I told myself "you aren't helping yourself by being too careful, so you might as well swing purposefully."

This helped.  Just saying, "go ahead and swing" gave me a sense of relief and freedom from worrying about results.  Instead of "worrying" about where my ball was going to end up, I was merely "interested" and the focus of my energy was devoted to seeing the shot I wanted to hit and committing to that plan. 

I missed a couple of greens my first few of holes, but made great up and downs for par.  I played my first six holes EVEN PAR!!!!!  Number seven and eight, brought good birdie opportunities and I made both.  I bogeyed number nine, but made the turn at one under!!!!  That's the best start I've had in at least three or four weeks!

On the back nine I hit a lot of greens and saw a LOT of good birdie opportunities.  I only hit one bad putt all day!  However, although I executed my putting the way I wanted, my putts just didn't seem to fall.  I had three hard lip outs and the rest burned the edges.  I did manage to make two birdies on the back side, but unfortunately had two bogeys as well.  I finished the back side even par, carding a one-under 71 for the day.  That was enough to earn me a tie for 6th place and a little paycheck!

Overall, I was very pleased with my start and pleased that I did not let frustration overtake me when my putts didn't fall.  Thank you all for your encouraging texts, comments, and phone calls.  I truly appreciate it, and am so very thankful that the Lord has surrounded me with such a great network of support.  I'll be at home for the next week, and will head out the first week of August for either a Suncoast or Futures Tour event.  Thank you again, and have a great rest of the week!