This has been a fairly good season for me this time around. I’ve pulled off a lot of mid-70’s rounds that has lowered my handicap to 5. Thanks to the local tech league I’ve been able to manage to get out about once a week albeit mainly at the Conestoga CC. I’ve posted good scores there but have no chance of beating the sandbaggers. With handicaps in place, if I shoot even par for the round I’ll come in with a net of -5. People have been coming in with -8 and up to -12 thanks to their ‘robust’ handicaps in the mid-teens.
Last Monday I had the full spectrum round. After 5 holes I was 10 over par. Normally I pack it in with a start that poor. This time around I pushed myself to finish well. I attributed 6 of the strokes to 2 very poor shots I made that put me into places from which I tried to make foolish recovery attempts. Otherwise I was playing fairly well around the greens.
I ended up shooting even for the remainder of the round finishing with a respectable 80 but nowhere near contention for the week.
On the baseball front: This weekend is the season ending tournament for the ball league. During regular season we whipped off 15 consecutive wins including 2 wins against the Flyers and one against the Farm Team. In total we finished 18-3 with the 3 losses coming in the 1st 6 games of the season.
This is DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY the LAST season I am going to play competitive ball. The will is gone and due to lack of play the frustration has set in at the plate. The finale is going to be somewhat bittersweet. Knowing it’s the last time yet not overly enthusiastic about playing.