woke up this morning at 6am to the sound of sleet pounding against my windows, of course it wasn't sleet...just a really heavy rain combined with high wind. roll over and pick up my phone to look at the weather radar and it is a really small isolated cell passing over us, appears to be clear after that.
head to the range at 9am and another light squall comes through. just enough to make me pull the coat and pants out of the bag after getting wet for 15 minutes, but once i did it went away in another 15 minutes. take off the gear and head to Pacific for our 10:20.
we had one or two holes early with the wind up around 15 mph and a bit chilly since the clouds were still around, but from around 5 or 6 to sunset the wind sat down and the sun stayed out.
a tale of two nines: played the front 5 or 6 over net, played the back 2 under net after finding my swing (especially the driver) and not three putting for bogey like i did three times on the front.
3 tee
4 tee (one of my top five holes on property)
5 tee (playing 195 today)
i've played Pacific close to 20 times and this is only the second or third time i've played the lower green on 9 and the lower tee on 10. 10 was playing 175 flag
11 in all its glory.
don't let the flag in the pic fool you, it was a light wind from right to left with a sucker pin on the left. i aimed middle, hit a beautiful baby draw that landed right of the pin but the kicked hard left and kept going. this is all that was between my ball and the death bunker on the left. shoved an 7i into the grass three inches behind the ball and made the 12 inch par putt.
14 tee
15 tee
17 tee
once again some after round fun at the Punchbowl. less than an hour after i took this pic every hole was full of at least four people.
it was a very unusual day for this time of year. the little wind we had was from the north (summer wind) and not the usual winter wind from the south. temps later in the day were probably in the low 60s...just an overall extraordinary early January day on the Oregon coast.
@ShoeGolfBandon gave yesterday an 8, and i'm guessing he'll give today a 10.
Last edited by REDeYeS00; 01-09-2021 at 12:12 AM.