It was an early morning with a 4:30 wake up call. I arrived at the club about shortly before 6am and we started our warm up in the dark. Our 7:20 tee time was the earliest tee time we have had all year. Kevin got off to a solid start, hitting it solid and giving himself good looks at birdie. A pulled drive on our 7th hole (#16) finished in the rough, on a side hill lie and led to our only bogey for the day. With a thunderstorm rolling in, play was suspended when we reached the next tee.
Play resumed 2.5 hours later and Kevin continued his solid play. With the wind blowing strong, it made it difficult to figure out the correct yardages because of the extreme elevation changes. But we managed it nicely and Kevin was able to hit all but one green coming in. A nice 10 footer for birdie on the difficult 4th hole (our 13th) got us back to even for the day. Two more solid pars and then Kevin caught fire over the final three holes. Finishing birdie, eagle, birdie put us at 4 under (67) for the day. What makes today even more impressive was it was done with a new grip. One of the most difficult things to do in golf is changing your grip. Kevin made a major change from using an overlap grip to an interlocking grip. Kevin and his instructor believe this is something that needs to be done for him to improve and be more consistent. Only two and a half days into the change, and he was able to hit 15 out of 18 greens.
Due to the 2.5 hour delay, play could not be completed today. When play was suspended for the night at 8pm, 7 under is leading and we are t-4th. They will resume play in the morning and complete round 1. Our second round tee time has now been pushed backed 30 minutes and we are scheduled to tee off at 1pm. The weather forecast is for more chances of thunderstorms tomorrow around mid-day. It could be another long day.
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