at Sterling from the blue tees today. I got there an hour and a half early so I could get some breakfast, hit a small bucket and do some chipping and putting to warm up. It turned out as soon as I walked in they had an opening so I grabbed a tuna sandwich togo and went straight to the number one tee box, took a couple practice swings and immediatly proceeded to thin a drive right down the middle. It took about 3 holes for me to get in the groove. My theory is if it takes you 12 practice shots to warm up; then you can forget scoring well on the first 5 holes so I always try to hit a few on the range before I play to get those bad warm up shots out of my system.

Overall, my long game was pretty good, I was hitting the ball solid, only pulled a couple shots, and only hit it Rosie O'Donnell like twice. I didn?t hit very many greens in regulation because I was aiming at the flags. The greens at this course are huge but kind of cloverleaf shaped with the pins tucked in one of the corners, in effect making for very small greens with lots of sucker pins.

Even though I short sided myself into some impossible positions most of the day, it didn?t really matter because my short game still needs so much work (I realize it is going to take me at least 3 to get up and down no matter where I am off the green. I only made one putt (a 4 footer) that wasn?t a tap in, and never got up and down (although came close a few times).

This week, I am going to start practicing the short game.

Here are the stats of the round: