Golf!!!

I guess I need to change my blog name to “Bullets, bikes and balls”…..golf balls, that is. Years ago I played golf several times a week and then after starting to ride bikes my golf outings became almost non-existent. I would play a couple of times a year when I was on vacation. This year I’ve decided to play more golf and to help motivate that effort I bought some new clubs. Not only a new set of irons, but a new driver, bag and shoes, the whole nine yards. My first trip to the range yesterday with my new clubs was quite interesting. The demo 6 iron I tried while deciding on which clubs to buy I hit 2 clubs farther than I normally do. Yesterday the wind was blowing like crazy (25-30mph gust) and I didn’t feel like I was getting the extra distance from my clubs like I did the demo, but it was a lot colder and the wind was blowing so I won’t pass judgment just yet.

After hitting a bucket of balls I decided to play 9 holes on the par 3 course and since I was just trying to get a feel for the new clubs I played 3 balls, did a lot of chipping with the 60* lob wedge and did not putt. When I got to hole 5 it played dead into the wind and was playing about 100 yds. Gap wedge came up short, PW came up short, so I decided to play a knockdown 7 and hit it on a rope straight at the pin. Where the hole was cut on the green I couldn’t see the bottom of the flag but I heard my ball hit the flag. When I got on the green I was looking around the green and didn’t see the ball. I was thinking to myself that there is no way it’s in the hole, well, when I looked in the cup there it was. I reached in a got my ball then looked around and I felt like that kid on that commercial, no one around.

I guess it kinda counts as a hole-in-one….