18 holes at Sunnyvale Municipal

Since the next week is looking to be rainy, I wanted to go for a game of golf on Friday. Looking at the weather in the morning, it looked like a gone case. But, then my brother-in-law called around 1:30pm that the sun had come out, so off we go to play golf.

And we got lucky, indeed. Most of the people had backed out so there were very few players. We decided to rent a cart so we could play fast. With no-one ahead of us, we could play as fast as we could. And with no-one behind us, there was no pressure. We started at around 2pm and had less than 3 hours before the sunset. But without practice, I was off target with slices and pulls. Still, I managed to survive with a bogey on most holes and a par. No birdies, no eagles, no hole in one. My putting was good, pitching and drives were pretty bad. But, overall, I am satisfied that my ratio of single bogies & pars in the overall score has increased.

Going forward, I need to fix my drives again. I fixed my slice before by moving the ball to the front heel but it is giving an unnecessary flight. Looks like my swing plane now is gotten better. On the contrary, I have a problem with my irons. I am ending up with slices meaning my clubface is opening up - out-to-in swing. It might be that I am trying to get more distance. Or this is because my body-turning is now on track. I am getting longer shots albeit inaccurate. So, I need to visit the driving range again.

I could get 150-160 yards with 7 iron so that's an improvement over 120-130 yards earlier. Although my 5-iron is still falling short of this distance.

18 holes at Deep Cliff

Last Friday, I went to play an executive 18 hole golf course at Deep Clifff, Cupertino. I was a little skeptic about playing an executive course before this. However, this turned out to be a very pleasant experience. Holes ranged from 100 yards to 350 yards and provided ample practice for short play. We started around 8am while the temperature was still freezing. Some of the holes like #2 were so close that we really weren't sure if that's where the putting green was. :) We started off to a bad start loosing a number of balls to the water hazards and the creek running through the course. But, pretty soon, we were competing to see who would make a birdie. Nevertheless, that was still a challenge for all of us. We got close to it with lots of par but no birds. In fact Gaurav missed his chance twice while Sanjay was still trying to shoot birds on the tree :) It was fun and I look forward to going there again, soon.