Corwyn:
Well, Deedles and I just staggered into the clubhouse at Royal St. George's badly in need of a drink (or two).
I actually played really well, avoiding trouble throughout, except for one horrible downhill lie for my approach to #12, but after an inevitable scuttle through the green, I was lucky enough to come up with this fantastic rescue flop, which almost went in. I played one hole badly: #15, not laying up far enough forward, and then, between clubs, making a mess of a 59 punch to barely make the green. We also both misclubbed on #16, one of the few strong birdie holes: deedles found herself with a 25 ft putt, 17 inches down, and played it beautifully!
We had tailwinds on the par 3s (drat!), and some headwinds just when we didn't want them, e.g. #1 and #14, but we were lucky to get a tailwind on #9 and both parred it, deedles holing a great 7 foot putt at the end.
For me, it was all about the putting. I started amazingly, holing 17 and 16 footers on #1 and #2 for a save and a birdie, and a fluke 32 footer on #6, after an awful club choice off the tee. But I missed the ding on a number of real sitters: 8 foot for birdie on #5 after this great approach; 12 foot for birdie on #14... and when I did ding the putt, I must have misread or suffered from the ol' starter putter precision issues: missing from 13 foot on #8, from 19 foot on #11, and a lip-out on #18 from 13 foot after this near-perfect approach (from a scary spot: for some reason the tee shot flew left near the bunkers).
If my putting boots had been on throughout the round, I could have had an extraordinary score, -6 or -8 or so. So, a story of missed opportunities for me... However, I'm delighted to have managed another under par round, only my third ever in TIO tourneys.
We didn't manage any long drives, and Deedles was closest to the pin on #12, but only 15 ft away approx. (She didn't think it worth grabbing the screenshot, lol!)
Deedles had a strong stretch of holes after struggling to get going, and sadly an unfortunate double at the last, after visiting Duncan's Hollow (or 'Sandy's Swale' after Sandy Lyle) to the left of the green, damaged a very solid recovery.
Corwyn: 69 | Deedles77: 80
Here are the pics (I somehow forgot to take one on the fairway, but still got a chip view shot on the green). And I tried to take ones of Deedles too... (even though I'm enjoying her supersize posts in the thread!) ... but was too slow to capture her approach to 18 before it headed off towards danger.
(FYI: I added the individual player view at the bottom here, just to show people what I was meaning in my prior post. You get it by clicking on the triangle beside your name on the card.)