Red Mountain: I am back

This morning, unbelievably, I had the course to myself. The only other players scheduled were to arrive at 10 am and I would not see them until later at lunch on the terrace. So it was the beautiful course, the maintenance guys keeping it in shape, the lizards, the missed birdie chances and the humidity all just there for me :)

On my approach on hole 1, using my 6 iron, I landed the ball on the green and missed the hole by just a couple inches... but it rolled quite a bit further on and had me 3 putt again (arrgh.. this was the luck of the day, birdie chances that I turned into bogeys - but I must say, my putting wasn't all bad, just incredibly unlucky with lip outs and missed putts on the pro side).

A 96 with 33 putts, I consider good enough on this long course from the back tees. And, more importantly, I had a lot of good shots today and plenty of good chipping/pitching practice to reach the green). It certainly felt better than my score.





And lunch on the terrace with a view like this can hardly be topped!

Except maybe by the daily sunset at happy hour - when today I had a good glass of red to celebrate Lynn's 4 under in the second round at the German Open?!