Let’s see… the last time I posted on my blog was after Cinnabar Hills and Boundary Oak… so I’ve got a lot to update on.
Okay, let’s start from Pinehurst:
Pinehurst is the junior golf world championship event that U.S. Kids Golf hosts. It’s played by a lot of junior golfers worldwide in Pinehurst, North Carolina. So, basically, my family and I flew over to the steaming hot south-east. The weather is soo weird there, it’s baking in the day, then there’s thunderstorms in the afternoons and nights. Ahh, gotta love humidity.
Now, on to the playing. On a torrid first day, I shot a 77. I came back from a pretty rough front nine (I shot a 40), by shooting a 37 on the back. I felt confident, yet I wasn’t feeling great with my tee shots. They were pretty inaccurate and I was missing fairways left and right (literally).
In the second round, a long story made short, I messed up. I was mentally and physically drained from playing in the last tee time in the first round, and a very early one in the second round. It was also hard to double bogey the ninth hole after hitting a ball out-of-bounds. I also never mentally recovered from putting a ball into the water twice in one hole and triple-bogeying it. I ended up shooting an 83 after a very good first 8 holes.
My third round was slightly better than the second – I shot a 79. I shot a 41 on the front and went 3 over on the next 2 holes, but I came back with a 1-under next 7 holes. Gotta love birdieing the last hole of the championship! At least it was a great ending to a really fun tournament.
In the week after, I enjoyed caddying for my sister as she played awesome! She finished 5th in the whole tournament.
The final U.S. Kids Golf Local Tournament of the summer was hosted at Ruby Hill – a very tough, challenging course. I was pretty exhausted, and didn’t expect to do that well there. I shot an 85, but it didn’t matter that much – I won the Local Tour! I won a nice trophy from my accumulated points in the summer.
Hmm, this post seems a bit long… I’ll start a new post about my GTUG adventure…
