Well, it was just me out for Wednesday golf today. It was an overcast day, so rain was threatening - and the course was pretty wet. However, I got my 9 holes in without any precipitation falling on me.
When I was out a couple of weeks ago, I hit my last tee shot without taking a practice swing, and it went fine. So, I experimented with hitting the ball without any practice swings this week.
It went well. The ball went pretty straight, although not always that long. I think the heavy humidity might have had something to do with that. On 9, I hit my usually club (7 wood), and came up short of the green, so I took another shot - there was almost no one else on the course with me - with a different club (3 wood), and it landed right on the green.
Thus, I learned that if it's a humid day, I should be adding a club to compensate.
Overall, I shot a 51, which is higher than I'd like; want to be in the 40s this year, but that included a 2 stroke penalty for an OB ball. I think going out of bounds is a 2 stroke penalty, although I haven't memorized the phone book sized rules of golf book, so I could be wrong on that.
The OB wasn't a bad shot either. I was about 50-60 yards away from the green on the 2nd hole, and hit my 9 iron about twice as far as it needed to go. I couldn't see my ball on the other side of the green, so just took another shot.
Oh, and I didn't hit any of the greens. Well, not on my first shot anyway.
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