I had a couple of sloppy holes, #1-2 and #12 in particular. Started out poorly by missing the ding on my 3 wood approach and leaving it in the front bunker, then couldn't get the next shot to stay on the green and had to settle for bogey. Then on 2 I hit a good wedge from the fairway to just outside 4 feet, but lipped out the par putt.
Played a good wedge-and-putt game on the next several holes, then hit a 5 iron to 8 feet and made birdie on the par 5 after barely reaching the fairway on the drive. Hit the next two greens in regulation but had 30+ foot putts, so made pars. Couldn't reach the fairway on #9 but caught the downslope with my hybrid from the rough, laid up to the end of the fairway, and hit 9 iron in close to salvage par.
I missed a fairly simple 14-footer downhill to start the back nine, then landed my wedge approach on #10 on the upslope of the ridge and stopped 30 feet short. My par attempt burned the edge.
On #12 I was short of the fairway and hit a decent layup. But I challenged the bunker too hard and found an orange lie in the rough just short of the green. Chopped it out to 8 feet and missed a putt that showed break but ran dead straight - double bogey.
#13 I missed the ding badly left and had almost no chance to get up and down over the bunker and down the hill. Had 25 feet for par and missed. #14 I was short of the fairway, laid up, and caught the top of the ridge with my approach just like on #11. But unlike #11, this time I was only 13 feet short and managed to pour it in for par.
#15 is nearly impossible and it didn't get any easier when the meter stopped on my layup attempt. I found the left rough and was not able to get my running shot attempt up onto the green. Did get up and down, but only for bogey.
#16 I misjudged my 3 iron approach and ran it just over the green. Made a decent attempt with the chip but couldn't get it to drop. But on #17 I hit my best shot of the round, a 3 wood that settled 6 feet past the pin for an easy birdie. Came up short of the green on #18, laid up to 160 yards, and got the approach to run down to the back tier of the green but just off in the fringe. And my par attempt came up inches short.
Overall it was a pretty good round in terms of short game. But I could have saved a lot of strokes with better iron play.
