Carl's Corner - Adventures in Amateur Golf

 I messed up again.  I think every amateur golfer should pay attention to this costly mistake. I am playing at Plum Creek Golf Course in the Austin Golf Association tournament on Sunday May16.  The weather was a bit ominous and it had rained pretty hard as we arrived, but the tournament was on. I am honesty playing my best 9 of 2021 despite chunking a couple of 100 yard approach shots.  I think it was hole number 4 or 5 the sky opened up with a very hard rain.  I put on the rain gear.  I have to admit playing in hard rain with rain gear on adds a whole new element to the game of golf.  It is extremely hard.  Fortunately after about a hole and a half the rain let up. The two players in my group were amazingly nice.  I had never played the course before so that were helpful in pointing out trouble areas.  Well let's just cut to the chase! Hole number 9, I am putting for a birdie from about 15 ft.  The ball will have a huge break fro...

 May 2, 2021, I was playing in my second golf tournament with a wonderful golf organization, Austin Golf Association.  Austin Golf Association has been around since 1940.   Wow!  I carried into the tournament at 20 handicap, so I was assigned to Flight 4.   We were playing Forest Creek Golf Club .  It was under a very interesting circumstance in that hole #9 was closed due to flooding.  The Marshall told me the cart path was 4 feet under water.  The really cool thing is that Forest Creek is very prepared for this scenario.  They have an extra fully maintained green on the par 5 hole 3.  They can split the hole into a par 3 and a par 4.  This really messes up GPS tools and the actually scoring, but that may be another post.   This story begins on hole 5, which is affectionately named "Tilt".   Fifth toughest hole and from the white tees you are looking at 322 to the green.  Up to this point I am pl...