Day 152 - Fathers and Sons III

Our final day of competition: the Captain's Choice format (Scramble) is always fun and is largely a test of driving and putting. We were playing for the first time at the West Course at Myrtle Beach National. It turned out to be a classic southern US course, with pine trees, water and fast greens where you just had to end up below the hole!

We were playing today with Gary and Charlie, at the fathers and Sons Classic for the first time. They struggled a bit with some of the longer holes, but we had no such concerns as AJ's driver was on top form. We did have to take 6 of Dad's drives which threatened to be an issue early on (do we come in from 170 yards or 100?... again...) but with a bit of judicious selection this turned out not be be a problem.

The first hole - a par 5 - set the tome: AJ drive, Dad hit to the edge of the green, 2 putts: birdie.  After that, the birds just kept on coming, largely thanks to my putter which was simply red hot. One minor bogey blemish didn't help, but an eagle on the 17th (AJ drive+Dad Rescue+Dad putt) was the highlight of the round. In total we shot 64 gross (or 59 net) to record our best ever total in this format in 12 years.

Furyk flight leaderboard

Unfortunately, there were some other very good players out there, which meant that we hadn't done quite enough to get into the prizes, but hey - there's always 2016 to look forward to!  After the golf, we went back to Legends for the prize giving and steak lunch (excellent again - thank you Logan's!) and the opportunity to say goodbye for another year to old friends as well as the new ones we have made this year.

Dinner tonight is at Thoroughbreds for our traditional end-of-competition dinner. Yum....