Another shot at a Decent Golf Game.

I laced my first shot dead straight down the fairway and it was a fantastic shot. A laser, Greg would remark. We were at Roosevelt and that was probably the farthest, most accurate shot I had ever hit at this first hole. I was less than 100 yards away from the pin. It was simply too bad that I wasted such a great shot with 3 straight week ass whiffs. And a pitiful putt. Wow. I imploded. Already a learning lesson. I went through my keys: don't get sped up. Slow down. Focus on the ball strike. Relax your arms. Breathe. I did exactly none of those things after that first shot. On the 2nd hole, I whiffed on the first 2 holes, continuing a bad pattern. But finally I relaxed by going to my irons. At least those I could hit straight this morning. The pic of the ball on the green was at THAT 2nd hole. And at least I did better on that hole than the first, though it was still a 7. Finally on Hole 3 I got untracked. I hit my shot off the tee right on the green. No small feat considering I usually had been hitting it way left with a wood or hybrid. This time I hit a 6-iron. I still managed to 3-putt but I did tie for the hole. OK then, I won't be shut out today. It didn't stop there. Improbably, I tied for the hole win on the next 4 holes! Hole 4 produced a nice tee shot. And even though I got to the fringe on the next 2 chips, I did manage to close out with a 5. Hole 6 had an ok tee shot and a much better 2nd shot with a blast that got me almost 200 yards. I got a bogey on that hole too. The funnel Hole 6 got me a nice iron off the tee straight and 150 yards down the fairway. And although my 2nd shot hit the hill instead of the green, I still managed a bogey 5 yet again. And on Hole 7, even though I my first 3 shots were not so good, I did sink a long putt to tie for the hole again. At this point I had already tied for the win on 5 holes! I hit a crap tee shot on Hole 8, but blasted the 2nd shot again almost 200 yards and in perfect position to get to the green. But I reverted back to that sequence on Hole 1. How do I keep from doing that is the big question? All I needed to do was a decent shot with an iron I already had confidence in. I simply needed to focus on hitting the ball is all, not to just swing away and let my rhythm control the shot. And to do that without overthinking it. Let the swing come to me. I certainly didn't do those on Hole 1 and 8. I had one more hole to practice the focus. And true enough, when I did I laced the tee shot with an iron straight down to the green with a birdie shot from 25 feet away. I didn't get that birdie. But a par and an outright win of that hole was just fine. As was winning 6 holes today. What do you know... I DID have a decent golf game today after all :) I went home and rewarded myself with an IN-N-Out double double. And then proceeded to let myself drift to sleep on the couch. It already was a pretty good day.

Lisa had mentioned that she may be wanting to practice again for a third consecutive day. But she never called which allowed me to chill the rest of the day as well. I may have had a decent golf game this morning, but I know I was creaking all through the game  and somehow I had it in my mind that it was age. I was stiff in my neck and back and it never occurred to me that maybe I was still just in "rest" mode. Maybe it was the way I saw myself in a pic I took yesterday. I looked older. Like Karl did a couple of years ago. And so these age thoughts that has seemingly made it to the surface I need to squelch somehow as if it will affect me physically. I'm supposed to be working on my energy body aren't I? And so that is what I did for the rest of the afternoon. Looked at YouTube videos on energy healing, manifestation and for lack of a better word, manipulation. That and I watched the Celtics vs Heat Eastern Finals. Waiting on the winner for the nba Finals you know. Turned out the Heat won. So it will be Lakers and Heat. Weird that I'm tuned in to the NBA here in the end of September. Usually NBA teams are doing their media days for the NEXT season right about now. After all, a year ago they were unveiling Anthony Davis almost to the day. And on the same day the Dodgers finished the regular season. Playoffs coming up for them as well. Wouldn't it be a hoot if the Dodgers and Lakers win titles weeks after each other. I grilled some tri-tip steaks tonight too. 2 pounds worth. Enough for dinner and 2 more dinners during the week LOL.  Hey they were on sale! I got them for less than $10. And so it was that it was a quiet 4-day weekend for me. Hey as long as I didn't think about work, it was worth it.