Inside the Leather

Well it finally happened folks, on June 28th at Boone Creek in McHenry, IL I shot a 96.  That round marked my 5th round of the year and 11th round ever so, needless to say, I’m happy to break 100 so soon!

The round itself started off kind of crappy though with being paired up with a couple of assholes and with my first drive winding up in a bunker.  Things got better soon though with my iron play saving the day.  I seriously have never hit my irons so straight and long… wether it was a hot and long 5 iron (around 195) or a high and soft 9 I was on fire.  It’s unfortunate though that I really couldn’t get the driver or the putter working though and it’s really time that I spend a lot of energy working on my lag putting. 

So aside from the actual golfing it was still a pretty interesting day.  The course is perhaps the nicest I have seen in it’s price range ($38 - 18 holes w/cart) and I would almost pay double that… the course was that nice.

The most interesting thing though had to be right after hole 8.  In between 8 and 9 is a storm shelter and as we’re coming off the green we see about 15 people huddled in there so we decide to join them.  At this point our paired up guys say they are going to play on and we bid them, thankfully!, farewell.  So off they go and sure enough 10 minutes later mother nature graces us with nickel size hail.  The poor weather then continued for about 30-40 minutes before leaving for the day and from that point on the weather was fantastic!

So thats my story of breaking 100.  Hopefully next time the irons will be just as hot and I can get the putter working and maybe, just maybe I can grab a 89 by the horns!!!