Today was not the best. I started out by pulling my drive left of the fairway and (I thought) into the bunker. When we got to the ball, it turns out that it had been held up by the rough. The only problem was that my stance was in the bunker, a good two feet below my ball. I was forced to chip into the fairway to the 150 marker. I hit a great shot but pulled it left of the green and had a tricky short sided chip. I left it short, and had to chip again. I hit it to four feet and made the putt for double. NOT the best start.
I made a great par on the next hole, but found trouble on #3. As I set up on the par 3 tee shot, I had a bad feeling about it. So, I backed off and started my pre-shot routine over again. However, I still hit the bad shot I had "seen" in the previous set up. It was dead in the water to the left. To say that my nerves were shaky now was an understatement. I was completely dumbfounded. I ended up par the next six holes, and making the turn with just those two terrible holes on my scorecard: a double and a triple.
My struggles with the pull/hook followed my all day. I couldn't get anything going. I finished carding an 81. That would have been a disappointing score any day, but it was particularly disappointing today because I my ball striking had been SO GREAT this week during practice. My caddy and I immediately went to the range afterwards to see if we could figure this out. Turns out my alignment was fine with my clubhead, but my feet were shut. We worked on this for over an hour, and saw improvement.
I'm still just dumbfounded as to how I could go from phenomenal ball striking to not being able to hit a green overnight. But regardless, tomorrow's a new day and thankfully there are still three more days of competition. I tee off tomorrow at 12:40 EST off #10 on the Panther course.
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