Tah dah!

It's always been said that a bad day on the golf course is better than a good day in the office. So what does it mean when your office is the golf course?  All things considered today was a good day. We kept to our game plan of tee to green. We're still a bit befuddled on the greens (that's my 25 cent word for today) but some putts did fall today. I think the biggest putt of all was when we made the turn and Brian hit a 15 footer for par on #1. An 18 footer on #2 gave us some much need pep.  Though dropping back to back shots on #3 and #4 we still plugged away.  Stats today were every bit of good as yesterday... 10 of 14 fairways... 10 of 18 greens (though we know that stat will get better). I here what Brian says during the round.  His confidence is still high.  He knows that this week hasn't gone as expected but remains positive. 

What did we like about today:
We continued to stick to our game from tee to green.
Staying focused amongst distractions.

What did we learn about today:
It doesn't take making a birdie putt to gain confidence.
It's easy to fall into the trap of other golfers "miseries" and draft off their problems.

Post round we headed into Pinehurst Village to Dugan's Pub.  The chicken breast sandwich I had was off the chain and as sandwiches go it was at least a "D" cup in size! That and two Yuenglings and I told Brian I needed to run behind the car back over to Pinehurst #2 to work it off.  There was a throwdown of sorts on the putting green this evening.  I lost 3&2 on the huge putting green at the Pinehurst clubhouse. 

However I learned something in my defeat!  Brian taught me the fine art of plumb bobbing.  I know it sounds trivial to most but when explained in 50 words or less (being self-diagnosed with ADHD) my concentration time is limited and the theory stuck.  With it being 50 degrees and dropping back in Iowa now I just have to make sure I remember when March/April comes around. 

We met Dan Boever out on the practice range at Pinehurst while we were out there.  He's a former long drive champion now schlepping his talent doing trick shots.  Gotta go with what works, right?

The goal for today was to get an early start tomorrow morning which means we would be mid-pack.  That didn't exactly happen even with the winds down from yesterday.  It may be a bit of a blessing to have a 10:20 tee time tomorrow as it's only supposed to get to a high of 65 tomorrow.  It will be around 50 when we get to the course just after 9 in the morning.

We're still positive for a good result for tomorrow.  Same goals.  Same determination.  Though it's not the result we wanted when this date was first put on the calendar sometimes in defeat the lesson learned is better than the result in winning. It gives us the drive and determination to reach our goals.

I'll see what I can do to blog on the way home.  It's one of the reasons why I bought by Droid X so I can do some work from the road. I can tell you I certainly didn't buy it for the battery life!  It sucks!  We'll be making tracks for Richmond post round.  I know a couple more blogs on this week will be posted very soon.  I hope everyone has enjoyed a little different look to Q School for this year.