Tiger Woods isn’t playing this week. Boo hoo.
Wyndham Championship
PGA TOUR
Thursday 8/20 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 8/21 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS
Sunday 8/23 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS
The KLM Open
European Tour
Thursday 8/20 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 8/21 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM ET GOLF
Sunday 8/23 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET GOLF
The Solheim Cup
LPGA Tour
Friday 8/21 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 8/23 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET GOLF
JELD-WEN Tradition
Champions Tour
Thursday 8/20 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 12:30 AM – 3:00 AM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET NBC
Sunday 8/23 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET NBC
The thing I want to win most every year is my club championship. I did manage to do that back in 2005. Back then it was match play, which is the best form of golf for this sort of thing in my opinion. To survive matchplay and win after knocking out everyone was the most proud moment I’ve had in golf, more than shooting in the 60’s or having a hole in one. But the club members decided to change it to two 18 hole rounds a few years ago.
Not at my best coming in
This has been a tough year on my game. My real world outside of golf, and my bad back have combined to hurt my level of play pretty badly. As a result I’ve gone up from a 1 handicap to a 4. That may sound crazy to whine about that, but imagine if you were a 10 handicap and went up to a 40. That’s the same proportion in my opinion, since I truly believe golf handicaps to be an exponential curve.
2009 Championship Round One
If I threw out holes 1, 6 and 15 from my 1st round of this year’s club championship I’d be one over par. Unfortunately on those three holes I carded double bogeys. The most frustrating one was on #15 where my drive hit the right side of the fairway, then bounced into the right rough. I never found the ball. Had to go back and re-tee.
I don’t know where I stand going into round two, but it is pretty safe to say that I’m probably a good 5-7 shots back from contention. Maybe not, if the other A players flamed out but I doubt it.
I was pretty unhappy about my round, and frustrated after leaving no less than six putts dead in the jaws short about 3 inches. There were many strokes left on the course.
I may still have a chance, in which case I’ll give it my best shot in round two next Tuesday.
Wow this is big news for Titleist/Acushnet. A court of appeals granted their request for a new trial regarding their golf ball patent dispute with Callaway Golf.
Click the read more link below to view Acushnet’s press release from yesterday.
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My men’s club championship is a 36 hole stroke play event. One round tomorrow and one round next Tuesday. I’m coming off some awful golf rounds following my back injury, with a 74 thrown in just to make my head spin.
The course is mega tough and anything in the mid to low 70’s tomorrow will put me in good position for the final round next Tuesday. I played tonight though, and couldn’t make anything happen. I just hope all my bad shots left the building tonight, saving the good ones for tomorrow.