Well, we all headed down Sunday to Framingham MA. to spend the night in preparations for my tournament which was actually being played Monday morning at Newton Commonwealth Golf Course.
There was Pop Pop, Patsy, Big Mom Mom, Daddy and Bryson and me all our golf gear packed in the Jeep.
We arrived about 8:00 PM and got checked in our rooms got on bathing suits and headed down to the pool for a quick dip, man it was hot in there, with a strong smell of chlorine but we enjoyed it just the same, only Bryson and I went in.
After we left the pool at about 9:00 we headed upstairs and turned in for a good nights sleep.
We all got up about 6:00AM, got dressed , and went down for breakfast and were all out the door by 7:00 AM.
We stayed at the Sheraton Hotel in Framingham and it looked like a huge old stone Medieval Castle. It was actually a pretty nice place, but was very large.
We started out for our 16 mile ride over to Newton Commonwealth Golf Course but ran into heavy traffic, made a bad turn, or two, but still got there early enough, but not as early as we wanted.
They had no driving range, or practice area there ,so our practice was almost nonexistent.
I hit a few chips shot near the tee box just before my tee time, but nothing great for a warm up for Bryson or I.
I played in the 6 yr old bracket but was paired with Bill Norcross and Brennan Thacker a couple of 7 yr olds both from MA. good guys with good caddy's.
Sometimes the uneven groupings require playing out of your group but it isn't a problem.
Sometimes the uneven groupings require playing out of your group but it isn't a problem.
This was a very tough golf course and I didn't exactly light it up all day, the highlight of my round, after a double bogey start, was making a nice bird on #2, I hit a decent drive in the right spot, wedged on to about 8' below the hole and stroked an 8 foot curler in for a tweeter.
That was about all there was to the round, I was just plodded along with a few chances to score well but just didn't pull off the shots when I needed.
Even so to I played good enough to win for the second week in a row.
That was about all there was to the round, I was just plodded along with a few chances to score well but just didn't pull off the shots when I needed.
Even so to I played good enough to win for the second week in a row.
You'll have to kill the sound at the bottom before watching the awards video, Pop Pop is to lazy to fix it for me.
I had a fun round although Pop Pop didn't think I was playing good enough to Medal but it was a very hard course and everyone was struggling, so scores were higher than he figured it's always hard to score well with forced carries especially over water.
After the awards I posed out front with Bryson, who had struggled during his round since he didn't exactly have his "A" game, which happens once in a while, so after finishing in a tie at the end of regulation he lost on the 1st hole of a playoff to finish in 2nd place. So he needed a hug.:-)
We had a fun day all in all, stop at Burger King and tanked up before heading home.
No golf for me next week, I'm going to Baseball Camp at the Barre Mountaineers field every day next week before heading to Pinehurst NC to the US Kids World Championships where Bryson will be playing again , and I keep up my streak I will be playing in it next year.
Later, Joe D