After my second lesson with Toby Thursday night I had hoped I would be ready for the Kohler Major. After all, after my first lesson with Toby I had my best Tour round of the year, so now I'm thinking maybe it's trophy time! Friday Margaret and left for Kohler via Chicago where we spend the day. We arrived in Kohler around 9 PM - too late to go to the practice range and try out my new one piece take away. But no worry, I'll get to the course early for my 9 AM tee time and hit the driving range. Unlike other majors I've played in where each group has a specific tee time, this major decided to have a shot gun start. That meant that 250 players showing up for the same tee time! When I got to the driving range it was three deep waiting for a spot. I decided to skip the wait and just work on my short game and putting - possibly a huge mistake.
Our group started on 12, a par four with plenty of fairway to hit. However, there was a small pond just in front of the tee box. A sand wedge would fly the pond, that's how small it was. Yep - I topped the ball with my driver and splash - right in to the pond. That was my start of the round. It struggled through out the round with my swing and finished with a 105 - last place by 4 shots.
Day two I was first off with the other two players just above me in the standings. So my goal for the day was to beat these two and assure my self of not finishing in last place. Once again I started off with a drive into water and an 8 on the first hole a par 4. I actually made up some ground and was ahead of one of my fellow players when on number 10 I shot an 11. After that I just couldn't swing the club and finished with a 110 last place by 9 shots. The only pure shot of the day was a lay up 9 iron on number 18.
My biggest problem of the two days was clamping down with my right hand just before impact. It caused a lot of pulled hooks or fat shots. Mostly pulled hooks.
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