[Aces McGee]

Wednesday: 88 at Rock Creek, this horrible little par-65 muni in DC that could be half decent if anyone up there cared. The greens are in terrible shape because they messed up the chemical application. There are three temporary greens. I hit the ball okay, but putting was impossible. The only thing good about the round is that because of the greens, greens fees were half price, so we went around for $13.50.

Friday: 92 at Falls Road in Potomac, Maryland, a nice, easyish Par 70 that is fairly wide open and well manicured. I hit the ball extremely well throughout most of the round; I had three birdie putts on the first five holes, which pretty much never happens to me. I only made one of them, though.

My round could have been really great, if not for the three eights I took. Two were course management problems; I hooked my drive into the woods and tried to punch out instead of taking an unplayable on one hole; and on 18 I hit driver (I never hit driver) just because it was 18 and lost my ball left again. The third 8 was frustrating; I hit a good drive but chunked my approach into the rough, which was far thicker than the rough on any other hole on the course.

I also missed like three putts under five feet, including a four-footer for birdie after knocking an eight-iron stiff on a par three.

Saturday: 104 at Virginia Oaks, a P.B. Dye-designed course in Gainesville. We played the gold tees, the second longest on the course at 6,400 yards, which is long for me (like I said, I hit three-metal off the tee and I'm not very long, so even when I am striking the ball well I am never more than about 220 yards off the tee. And I wasn't hitting it well on Saturday). Very tough round all around for me, but I managed to make three putts between 10 and 15 feet (including one for bogey on 18 that won our skins game), and made all my putts from five feet and in. Had a great up and and down from someone's backyard over the 12th green; I am terrible with a sand wedge and I had no green to work with, so I had to land a pitching wedge on top of a mound and let it bounce through the rough and onto the green. It turned out better than I expected; the ball barely made it through the rough and then trickled to about three feet for a kick-in par. Very few highlights, though.

I kind of like blogging about my golf rounds.

-McGee