Day 336 - Kerching!

It's Wednesday here in Sarasota and I leave for the UK tomorrow after this 2 week break. Beacsuse it's Wednesday, it's Bondur Golf Day... that means that I am playing in the large group that meet up around lunchtime, play 18 holes and then congregate in the bar afterwards to catch up, hear the scores and generally engage in banter...

A different format again: today the players have been split up into two pools, roughly the 18+ and 18- handicappers. I was put together with Kurt, whose wife comes from Norwich, Dave, whose wife doesn't, and his visitor Adam.  On the first tee ,we all belted the ball down the fairway and nobody even considered the mulligan that custom and practice here allows: this is looking good, I thought...

The game we were playing had four different ways of winning: there were Closest to the Pin flags on all the par 3s and par 5s, there were skins available on every hole, there was a team game where each 4-ball had to count 3 scores on every hole (one gross and two net of strokes allowed) and, in addition, there was a putting competition based on the team's total putts on, again, the par 3s and par 5s...phew!  And I had to keep score.....

After my visit to GolfTec the day before,  I was keen to try out my new swing thoughts - and to start off, it went really well.  I managed the first 9 holes in a level par 36 which was pretty good for me. Unfortunately, I tired towards the end of the round and couldn't maintain this level of golf, recording an 81 in the end.  Nevertheless, our team ended up 2nd in the team competition, we won the putting contest, I captured 2 CtoP flags and one skin: total $23 - kerching!

Back home for dinner and the chance to hear all about the ladies' shopping exploits for the day... though I did have to promise not to say anything more about that on my blog.... though the word "kerching!" also featured....