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Since my last contact I have both shot 101 again and 110 the next day! Both rounds had one thing in common, penalty shots. My Driver has been as inconsistent as the day I started. Every round is the same, I will hit one nice driver 250 yards down the fairway and the rest will be an even amount of dead pulls left and amazing banana slices. Neither of the latter make finding a ball to hit your second shot very easy. Especially when you are playing along the water on the back side of Timberpoint and every hole you dead yank it into the ocean making up the lateral hazard.

The rest of my game has really been coming along nicely. My putting is really starting to get together and even better my chipping and pitching are way better than I thought they would be at this stage. My appraoch shots haven’t been as good but aren’t terrible. The only things that made playing no fun was knowing that I was playing three from the tee and most holes.

That problem was hopefully resolved after my lesson yesterday when I began hitting a nice draw down the middle for the first time. I can’t wait to see how it looks on the course. In theory I have been shooting 101 with like 4 penalty strokes per round, sometimes more. So I should be well into the 90’s If I can eliminate those driver errors. I’ll report back after the weekend, hopefully with some good news.

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