I'm in with the pre-Corwyn lead. I played most of the round with the wind at my back and made more than my share of putts.
I have to play on my laptop in order to get green dots that I can trust on my desktop, so no Twitch until WGT rights the ship.
1 Tailwind, and a nice approach...if it was to the back pin. missed a 40 footer.
2 Had a chance for bird with the L-R wind off the tee, but missed late into the rough, Approach short and left, didn't handle the light yellow lie very well, recovered with a 25 footer. I think my whole round might have been quite different had I missed that one.
3 Tailwind, hit 170 FBS which barely carried on and rolled past, missed a 14 footer.
4 Tailwind, shorted my third into the bunker, no way to stop the out. Sunk a 22 footer for the save.
5 tailwind made it possible to play to the back of the green, nice pitch off a slight downhill for a gimme par.
6 38 foot birdie!
7 headwind, left with 140 yards to the right front pin for my third, to 6.6 feet and a relatively easy par for that hole.
8 missed early and almost off the green left, missed 19 footer.
9 Boomed a 244 yard drive in the tailwind, missed well short and right into the island of rough in the bunker, couldn't stop the up again, missed a 25 footer.
10 laid up, missed left, missed a crazy breaking 7.2 footer by a full foot low. Bogey streak!
11 a simple u&d save from the front.
12 another tailwind, approached with 170fbs, got lucky with the bounces through the fairway and the rolol up the green, made a 12 foot curler.
13 another tailwind, yanked it into the rough. 3H to 47 yards. I must have hit a couple dozen mulligans in practice trying to get the roll right on this shot and never got it...it would either die on te fairway or roll well past. Got lucky, although a little too far left for comfort. Made a 6.5 footer. Birdie streak! -1 for the round.
14 ideal L-R wind to back pin, a bit early off the tee, missed the 10-footer high. That was probably the only stroke that I really lost on the greens.
15 Tailwind, and I birdied it once in practice, so why not try again? Missed early into the left short bunker, botched the out still short, super choked LW for the bogey save.
16 straightforward u&d from 39 yards and 5.5 feet.
17 Tailwind, left pin, only option is to go long. This leaves a significant downhill lie to a downsloping green:
I suffered from an overabundance of caution and left then pitch 21 feet short. Fortunately it was dead straight from there and I dinged it.
18 landed my approach about as good as possible but it rolled to the back fringe. Didn't hit it hard enough to compensate for the tough angle through the fringe. Par for the hole and for the round.
