Fortunately there’s always next year

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May 112007
 

The Long Beach Senior Mens Championship is finally over, and even though I didn’t finish in the money, at least my final round was semi decent.

I shot an 89, which included one triple bogey and 3 double bogeys. Everything else was either a bogey or par. I could have even shot about 5 strokes better had I had a little more luck, but hey, that’s golf. Like life, the ball doesn’t always bounce the way you want or even expect it to.

Still, I had a good time except for a brief moment, when I got a little frustrated with my game, and reacted somewhat inappropriately. That is the first time I ever reacted that way since starting to play golf again, about 4 years ago. Hopefully, I won’t do that again.

In the mean time, now I can get back to concentrating on my cycling and training for the Long Beach Triathlon in September.

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 Posted by Marc at 7:32 pm

Another bad day on the links

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May 102007
 

I am not doing a very good job of defending my championship. :(

Like yesterday, I shot a decent front nine today, and then pretty much fell apart on the back nine, ending up shooting another miserable round of 95, putting me in a tie for 12th place, 14 shots off the pace.

I don’t really have too many excuses for my lousy play except to say, because of the unusually cold winter we had this year, I wasn’t able to practice as much as I have the last couple of years, and I just haven’t been able to generate any consistency.

But there’s no sense worrying about that now, tomorrow is another day, and I still have time to redeem myself, and maybe even finish in the money.

And if all else fails, there’s always next years tournament.

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 Posted by Marc at 9:11 pm

Don’t sweat the little stuff!

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May 102007
 

Here it is 5:30 AM on Thursday morning, and while I slept better last night than I do most Wednesday nights, I still did not sleep well. I couldn’t help but continue to dwell on my poor play of the last 3 holes in my golf game yesterday.

And to top it off this morning, I discovered that my gross score was posted as a 96 (I’m in the “B” Flight), instead of the 95 I actually shot. Now I’m not sure if the score was just entered incorrectly, or if I actually signed for a 96. I will have to verify that today.

I don’t think that one stroke will make a whole lot of difference though. Even at 8 strokes off the pace (net), unless I shoot lights out today, I don’t have much of a chance.  One good thing is I didn’t sign for a 94, in which case I would have been disqualified.  I will be more careful next time.

Still I’m disappointed, but I shouldn’t be. It’s not like this is some renowned tournament. The entry fee was only $150 for 3 rounds of golf, which included a really nice golf shirt. I feel like I’ve already got my money’s worth, and maybe I’m even a little ahead. And the maximum winnings for first place is only a $150 gift certificate plus a trophy, which last years was a wine carafe. To be honest, I was actually more proud of the trophy than the money.

So really I should be happy with the fact I’m still able to play golf, and do all the other things I enjoy doing, rather than dwelling on the negative constantly, or as I once heard someone else say, “sweating the little stuff.”

What I don’t understand is why that is so much easier said than done?

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 Posted by Marc at 4:59 am

The Long Beach Golf Festival

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May 092007
 

Well the LB Golf Festival kicked off today, with the first round of the Senior Amateur Championship. As the reigning title holder in my age group, I had high hopes that I would be able to defend my championship, but todays round was far from championship caliber.

All day long my short game and putting made up for my driving which, for lack of a better description, was awful. That is, it did up until the last 3 holes, when everything fell apart. The last 3 holes, I shot triple bogey, double bogey and triple bogey, finishing with a 23 over par 95, putting me about 6 shots off the pace. (Final results won’t be in until later this evening.)

Fortunately there are two more rounds, Thursday and Friday, for me to attempt a comeback, much in the same vein of Tiger Woods.

I’ll keep you posted

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 Posted by Marc at 4:08 pm

I’m a fair weather golfer too!

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Apr 082007
 

Last month at the monthly men’s club tournament, I shot one of my worst rounds ever, but at least now, after watching the Masters golf tournament yesterday, I feel I can safely attribute most of the problems to the weather.

While the Augusta National course is a tough course, it is obvious the weather was a major contributing factor in an average score of 77 on a par 72 course. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many times golfers taking more than one shot to get out of a bunker or so many misjudged shots resulting in balls going in the water or simply just not making it to the green, some even rolling nearly back to the feet of the shot taker.

At least the pros had the benefit of the sun along with the cold and the wind, we weren’t that fortunate that day during the mens club tournament.

The weather today for the Masters was much better, producing much better scoring and a very exciting tournament, with the lead changing several times, before Zack Johnson finally got the win.

Now, I just hope the weather here in southern California starts improving soon, so I can start playing better also. :)

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 Posted by Marc at 11:51 am

My latest counts are in, and

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Apr 052007
 

they are not as encouraging as they had been.

My lymphocytes jumped to 94.2 thou/cumm from 83.8 thou/cumm last month.   I did have a higher lymphocyte count last December and August, so that doesn’t necessarily mean anything has changed significantly.

I sense when the numbers start getting this high, the variation from test to test varies more also.

But now I’m beginning to question the wisdom of being tested every month. I know I’ve done it, to some extent because I am superstitious, thinking there will be a sudden change if I should skip a month, but each new test now only seems to add additional worries, rather than any important information.  After all, I still feel relatively fine.

Especially since this months test shows my hemoglobin down to 11.6 g/dl, which is the lowest it has ever been (the previous low was 11.8 g/dl in December), and I was still able to achieve my best time up the back side of Turnbull Canyon yesterday, since September 8th of last year.

I guess I have to attribute that to the new bike!  I wonder if buying a new set of golf clubs will help my golf game?

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