August 31, 2006

108

I shot 108 today at Hecla Island, which is number 87 in the 2006 Score Golf's top 100 courses in Canada.

It's the third time I've been out for 18 this year, and I previously shot 109 at The Meadows and 107 at River Oaks. Thus, 108 seems to be my average right now. But the conditions were not ideal today, with a strong wind blowing off the lake.

The course runs along Lake Winnipeg. The bushes to the sides of the rough, where my ball often went today are au naturale, so if your ball goes in them, it's a heck of a time trying to find it, let alone play it out. That is to say that I lost a few today. Three or four I think. Ah well.

I think there should be a 20 sec rule for when your ball goes off the course. Give yourself 20 sec, and if you don't find it in that time, just drop another ball and play on. My golf balls are so expensive they are worth looking for for too long.

I did make four pars, including a par three where I drove the green and was closest to the hole. I drove another par three green, but four putted that one.

On Wednesday, I shot 48 at the Canoe Club, during which I drove three of the four par threes, birdied one of them, wasn't closest on the second, and three putted the last. Another excellent day on the par threes; the week before I won three of the four par threes, which was my best par three day.

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