Coming Home

Took the day off from work to play and practice. Because of the heavy rains last night I decided to forgo "cart path golf" at Signature in favor of a walking round. That cut down my choice of courses to just a few. In the end I decided to play at the city course where I more or less learned to play golf - Bow Creek.

Observations.

I hadn't played at Bow Creek for quite awhile. I was struck by how tight the course is in comparison to my new home course, Signature. I was also surprised by my reaction, or actually my lack of reaction to certain shots that used to strike fear in my heart - the tee shots on 3, 8, and 12, and the second shot on 8. My game has improved so much since the days when I played this course regularly that these shots and others that used to pluck my nerves were no problem at all.

From the start I found the course to be much, much easier than I remembered. I felt like I should have parred every hole. I did par 11 of them, which with 7 bogies gave me an easy 77. I didn't feel like I played particularly well - I missed several makable birdie putts - but I was never near a double bogey. I also three putted several times, so my score could have been much lower. If I played this course regularly my guess is that my handicap would be 3 or 4 strokes lower than it is currently.

Never got around to the practice - work intervened.