Woods

Metals to be precise.

I've concluded that I'll never reach my goal until I learn to hit 3-wood off the deck. Either that or I need to learn how to bomb the driver so that I can reach par 5's with my long irons or 7 wood.

Played a fairly good round today, a 9 over 81. The 3-wood cost me at least three of those strokes.

On 4, a par 5, I went for the green in two after a solid drive. I flared the 3-wood into a horrid lie in the bunker right of the green. Five strokes later I stumbled out of there with double bogey. (I had been even par to that point.)

On 9, another par 5, after another solid drive I duck hooked the 3-wood into a tough position short and left of the green which left me with an impossible shot to a pin tucked just behind a bunker from my position. I scrambled for par but should have had a good chance at a birdie there.

Then, on 17, the final par 5, I heeled the 3 wood into water left. Fortunately (or not) the ball skipped across the water coming to rest on a grassy upslope - another impossible shot that resulted in another bogey on the hole.

Three par fives, three solid drives, three lousy 3-woods and three lost strokes. Conservative play on these holes would have likely given me three pars. Solid 3-woods on these three holes would have given me decent chances at birdies on each hole.

Shot of the day - 215 yard 7-wood drawn over water at 18. Can't help wondering how I might've scored had I hit 7-wood instead of 3-wood on those three par 5's.

I commit to at least one practice session this week devoted entirely to woods.