Well with the semester starting, I have not had a chance to hit the links in over a week! Yikes. Love my job though and other than the beginning and end of semesters, I usually have plenty of time to play. Now for the upcoming holiday weekend (or at least on Friday) the weather may not cooperate. I will admit I do not play in the rain; as a youngster I played soccer in ANY weather even extreme cold where my fingers and toes became numb. Now that I am older and a hopefully a little smarter :) and I have to PAY to play, well I do not need to play in weather that makes me miserable -- so I don't!
As I have mentioned on previous posts, my 3-wood and I are not having the best relationship these days. Of all my clubs, it is the one with which I am most inconsistent and it can drive me batty! I have changed my grip to find more consistency (apparently I had been gripping it wrong all these years), and I am working on keeping a good swing speed as I tend to rush it. I also have this maddening habit of straightening my legs as I swing with this club, which just makes no sense 'cause I don't do that with any other club. My golf partner/swing czar has been trying to help me with this one, but I think I need another lesson session with him to try and get this thing consistent. I have been working on it at the range and will have a day that I hit almost all of them just great, and then the next time only about half of them go so well. I do not hit this club all that often in a round, mainly just on par 5s. And if I hit it well, I can often reach the green in 2 so that I have a chance to lower my score. Otherwise I am forced to use my 4-iron which I hit pretty well but about 20-25 yards shorter. I do have a hybrid 3 but do not hit it much farther than 4 iron and not always as well controlled.
So I guess I need to set up a session with my swing czar (he really owes me one anyway). And hopefully work and weather will cooperate so I can get back on the course.
More golf courses in Central Texas I plan to try and play this fall: Republic, Bandit, Buckhorn, Golf Club of Texas at Briggs Ranch, Olympia Hills (SA), Pecan Valley, La Cantera Palmer Course, Fort Sam Houston course, and Tapatio Springs. Plus some in small towns I have not yet discovered!
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Hello! I'm a single mid-age lady golfer with about a 10 handicap (or less in summer). I play 2-3 times a week and often just walk up as a single golfer to a club to play. I decided to write this blog to provide some thoughts on the issues faced by a single lady golfer. You would be surprised at how some clubs react when you say you want a tee time and you are single and female! Also some courses are more welcoming than others -- not just in how personnel treat you but also in lay out. So I want to share some of my thoughts and reviews and from a slightly different perspective :)
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