Well, I should be delighted with a 67 ... which is a great score in any Tough-It-Out event ... but I'm kicking myself for a terrible finish.
I had two 3-putts on the closing holes (#15 where I left a return 6 footer on the lip, and #17 where I missed birdie from 5ft above the hole and then pulled the return 6 footer back uphill, doh!). I'd also pulled a 7 foot birdie putt on #11 and had a bad misread on #9, so this 67 could have been astonishingly good, i.e. a 62-63, an unheard-of score for uneven starters even from the Easy tees.
Granted, I'd had a fair bit of luck as the description below will show, but you need that for a sub-par round in TIO.
Tale of the tape is here (wind speed and direction indicated after each hole number) ...
#1 9@130 good D >270 > 87 dinged 3rd but a little too much on it, 3yds past, nice ding on 10ft par save PAR
#2 14@1030 good D >135 but bad late click with 7i and into rough short right, but got a lucky break when I sunk an amazing LW fbs 73% pearler! woo hoo! BIRDIE
#3 14@1215 dinged a 180fbs 97% but came up miles short 11yds!, great speed on 34ft putt over ridge to 1.8ft PAR
#4 9@445 slight push on D went a lot further than expected and landed in rough 30-40 2nd with 3W only went 120 leaving 51 for 3rd, dinged SW but a little right with lie, 2yds long right, and sunk very good 7ft slow curler on a ding, phew! PAR
#5 12@130 goodD >177, had a great distance with 2nd but just too far left on aim with dinged 3H and caught rough instead of bouncing on excellent distance on pitch but just too high 2ft save PAR
#6 8@6 goodD into wind, >213 layup with 2nd to try and leave full LW, >41, good full LW to 1yd, and solid dinged 4ft uphill to save PAR
#7 9@6 hit 3W off tee to leave best hope of yardage for punch >80 ended up with big sidehill! hit good shot with 98punch full ts but tiny bit early cost pace and it just rolled back off ridge, dinged 150scale lag but still a bit short 4.6ft, solid ding on putt to save PAR
#8 11@245 slight push on 170fbs 97% came up 3yds short right, and made nice 8.6ft curler right edge woo hoo! BIRDIE
#9 9@1030 goodD >150 got lucky with late click 5iron which rolled up to top of green and settled pin-high 4yds below, misread on 11ft try and a little short of power anyway poor effort, just a PAR
#10 8@845 good D >159 landed hot with 160 1/3bs attempt and through back, lost control of pitch which was too hard anyway 2yds long but made curling 5.7ft save PAR
#11 11@115 good D >150 nice bounce-on 5iron to 2yds right of pin, but pulled the 7ft putt fractionally and that was enough to miss, darn! PAR
#12 12@930 goodD >142 and hit another great approach, bouncing on front of green and rolling to 1yd, and sunk 4.4ft putt BIRDIE
#13 11@430 nice wind, and got lucky with late click that took it closer to pin than would have risked, 9.5ft away and sunk tricky big curler woo hoo! BIRDIE
#14 12@6 goodD >171 excellent bounce-on shot from tricky sidehill lie, needed big 3H and good contact (this, from big sidehill with tree branches threatening left and bunker beckoning right, is one of the scariest shots on WGT, IMO!). 19ft long left OMG, sunk the 19.5ft putt, despite slight late click, but had aimed safely left in case woo hoo! BIRDIE
At this point, I'm at the dizzy heights of -5, with a birdie hole to come on #17 ... but then it falls apart, lol!
#15 11@10, dinged 110 9i but just wasn't enough club, bounced off front fringe downslope, another yard or two might have been great, dinged long-range effort from 41ft but ran 6ft past, dinged return 6ft putt but somehow stopped on lip, aaarghhh! must have been some uphill in it, and I hadn't checked, idiotic error, dumb, dumb BOGEY
#16 9@715 good D >358 good 2nd 3W >172 late click on 3H but got lucky to find the channel to bounce on to green, dinged 19ft birdie try but allowed just too much break as it straightened at end. PAR
#17 14@130 goodD >234 good 2nd to hold fairway to right >52 decent contact on SW 3rd but long 2yds just a misjudgment, going at it instead of planning to be below, trusted note in notebook that said not much break, oh boy was that wrong! very bad miss from 5ft long not even close and rolled 6ft by, and pulled 6ft return putt, OMG! BOGEY
#18 12@445 >96 from big sidehill on left-side, and hit gruesome pull on 2nd to miss green left, ugghhh! (was lucky not to find bunker), and short with the pitch but rescued things by sinking the 4.4ft par save PAR