Golf Season!

Its finally here! My golf clubs are out, my dress clothes are on, and the golf course is open :) I played my first round of the season at Rivershore Golf Links. I bought a membership there this year - they have a really good deal for students. Considering I will play somewhere around 100 rounds this year, $900 for a season pass is a pretty good bargain.

My tee time was for 12:08 pm on friday, and I ended up joining a guy named Jeremy. I found out that he just graduated from BCIT and is now a broadcast journalist working with NL radio. Considering I chose that as a potential career path, I was very interested, and I had a lot of questions for him. I found out that while he was going to school, he was volunteering for CBC as the Canucks reporter, so he got to interview all the players, and sit in the press box for every home game the Vancouver Canucks played. Wow. I have never been so jealous in my life.

Anyways, back to golf. I got up to the first tee, and took out my 3-wood. The 1st hole at Rivershore is a fairly short par 4 with a small dog-leg left.
                 For those of you that don't play golf, a few points:
                             1. A 3-wood is like a driver, but it is smaller and doesn't hit the ball as far as a driver does
                             2. A par 4 means that the amount of shots it should take to get the ball in the hole is 4
                             3. A dog-leg left means that the hole curves from right to left
So I took out my 3-wood, and i hit it perfectly, right down the center of the fairway, leaving myself with about 120 yards left to the hole. It felt real good. No matter how hard I try, I always get a little bit nervous about the first tee shot. It really foreshadows how the rest of the round is going to go. Especially since it was my first round of golf this year, I definitely had the jitters, which made hitting a great shot feel even better than it usually does.

When I got to my second shot, I counted it to 136 yards to the pin. The wind was into me a little bit, so I decided to hit a soft 9-iron. I hit it pretty pure, and it ended up about 10 feet from the hole. The round was looking good. Got up, 2 putt for par, and the first hole of the year was over.

Later on in the round, Me and Jeremy ended up joining another group of 2, and it ended up being two guys my parents know really well, and I know them too. Then for the back nine, Harry Bicknell joined us as well, so we were breaking golf etiquette by playing with 5 in the group. O well. Me and Harry play a lot of golf together,  and we are fairly even in terms of playing ability. So we decided to play for $5. We got to the par 3 17th hole, and Harry had a 1-stroke lead on me. I somehow decided to choke, and hit a ball out of play. Ouch. Harry took a 3 stroke lead into the final hole. My chances were crushed. I ended up birdying the 18th, hitting my approach shot to 6 inches, however, Harry 2-putted for bogey, and took my 5 bucks.

With the birdie on the last hole, I ended up shooting 83, 11 over par. I wasn't satisfied, but considering it was the first round of the year, I was ok with it. I definitely still have a few kinks in the swing to work out, but I have a feeling this is the year where my golf swing can really take me places. And with that, it's time to go practice. See you on the course!