Awoke to rain dripping early this morning: not good as was supposed to be playing golf at 11 o'clock.... Needn't have worried though, by mid morning there were hints of blue sky up there and the only downside was that the course was deemed "Cart Path Only". This is always a bit of a pain as it slows things down and always penalises the errant shot, right or left, that ends up right the other side of the hole from the path itself. Cart Path Golf, i.e. aiming to end up on the correct side of the fairway is an extra challenge...
I was put into the final group today, playing alongside two regulars and Tony whom I had not met before. Everyone started off a bit scrappily, though the first half wasn't bad. I managed a knock-in birdie on the narrow 4th (nobody saw my approach shot as they were all in their carts: I waited for the plaudits that never came!). I did though follow it up by putting a ball into the water on the following hole...
By now the sun had come out and the temperature on the cart was showing 81degF - not bad for early January! the sun however wasn't the only thing that had come out.... the course marshal dropped by to warn us that a group of ladies in front had been concerned at a rather-too-close alligator by the edge of the 9th green. When we got there, he was indeed quite proximate but looking anything but active as he soaked in the warm sun's rays. We too gave him a wide berth as he looked over 10 ft long....
After that the golf petered out into bogie-land. Despite my 40 on the outward half, I hit bunker after bunker and/or still couldn't get the hang of the fast greens, 3-putting far too often. At this rate, I shall have them mastered just in time to return to winter golf in the UK in ten days time...
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