"Get This Wedge Out of My Hands!!"

...Those are the words of me, a week ago at a one-day Member Guest.  It was by no means a great ball-striking round, but it was a round where I kept it in play all around the course.  We started on the second hole and I got through 8/9ths of the front in +1.  Then we hit the back nine. 

#10: 120 into a green where you need to land it short and run it on.  Just the perfect spot for my gap wedge.  Then I lay the sod over it, leave it in the bunker 40 yards short of the green, and proceed to make a smooth double.

#14: 140 into the green from an odd lie in the rough with the ball just slightly above my feet.  This makes me choke down just a bit which is fine because long here is death.  I hit some weird kind of odd high block that comes up short right with the pin back left.  The chip is 6 feet short and I miss.  Bogey.

#16: The stupid dogleg par 5.  I pull my drive eliminating any and all chances of ripping for it in 2.  So I lay up to about 60 yards and have a nice easy LW to the green, which I hit 70 yards and leave myself a treacherous downhill chip.  The six foot comebacker misses and it's another bogey.

#17: A 350 yard par 4 to a small elevated green.  I try to lay back with an easy three-wood but I absolutely cream it into the gulley.  Now I'm about 50 yards from the pin, *straight* uphill.  This LW sails over the green.  I hit a good chip that bounces off of *something*, kicks hard right, and then the five-footer for par hits something else and bounces away from the hole.  Another bogey. 

#1: We finish on an easy Par 5.  SW in my hands from about 90 yards - a smooth 90% wedge that again I lay the sod over.  I work my ass off to get it up and down from 15 yards short. 

The scorecard looked like this: 37 - 41 -- 78.  There were no red numbers to be found, and five of the seven shots given away are detailed above.  It's very frustrating to be that close to a good round only to piss it away with the scoring irons. 

Then on Sunday I shoot +3 for 10 holes with three putt bogeys on #8 and #9 and a failed up and down attempt on #10 before the rains came. 

This close.  Very close.  We'll see what Saturday brings.