Hole #8-We both focused. We both got pars. The money pushed to #9 and the score remained the same. Hole #9 had a bunch of money riding on it.
Hole #9-I managed to hit the fairway with my 3-wood. Bruce did not. I had earned the bonus, but the hole was not decided yet. We both ended up getting pars. I had a chance to win it outright with a downhill birdie putt, but no such luck.
It was over, sort of. Pat, 270K, Bruce 180K We decided to split the rest of the money, but my hitting the fairway had cinched it.
I wanted to keep going. At first, Bruce did not, but he then decided what the heck. So, we continued on to #10 and #11 for the bigger bucks.
Hole #10-Bruce killed it on this hole. He got...
the closest to the pin. He played “call shot” golf, saying he would hit an 8-iron to the front of the green where his ball would then roll down next to the hole. He did. It did. Last time he played this hole with C.J. he said his ball had stubbornly stayed up on top. Then he earned his par. My shot looked great, but it was just off the back on the fringe. I got a bogey. He earned 270K just for those skins (money from 8, 9, and 10), and then he earned the 80K bonus, too. Pat-270K, Bruce-530K! So, it was over again...or was it?
We chose to play for everything on hole #11, even though I was truly not anywhere close. I had the score completely wrong, but we decided that if I won the last hole, it would just be 10K more than what Bruce had.
The way I looked at it, I had won the first time on the front nine, but Bruce had definitely won after hole #10, so hole #11 was like a “rubber match.”
Hole #11-Bruce was on the fairway after his tee shot. My driver shot my ball towards the trees, but it looked like it would get past them. We looked for a while, but I could not find it. Then Bruce spied it in the bunker. I chose a 3-wood (of all clubs) because the bunkers are awful. I just wanted to pop my ball on its back side and get it up on the green. Bruce was already just off the green on the right side. I left it open a bit at contact, but my ball ended up just inside his, but it was also off the green. He chipped his ball long, but it stayed on the green. His putt was about twenty feet away. I used my putter, but I overdid it, too. My putt was about thirteen feet away. Bruce barely missed.
I chose a little white spot left and short of the hole, hoping it would break right. And, at the very last, it did and it went in! Bruce and I high-fived. Had I lost, I truly would have been happy, too. It was a really fun, competitive match. We were both happy with the results, even though I had gotten the scores wrong again. Now the record is right in my head since I have written this. Great match, Bruce!
Hole #9-I managed to hit the fairway with my 3-wood. Bruce did not. I had earned the bonus, but the hole was not decided yet. We both ended up getting pars. I had a chance to win it outright with a downhill birdie putt, but no such luck.
It was over, sort of. Pat, 270K, Bruce 180K We decided to split the rest of the money, but my hitting the fairway had cinched it.
I wanted to keep going. At first, Bruce did not, but he then decided what the heck. So, we continued on to #10 and #11 for the bigger bucks.
Hole #10-Bruce killed it on this hole. He got...
the closest to the pin. He played “call shot” golf, saying he would hit an 8-iron to the front of the green where his ball would then roll down next to the hole. He did. It did. Last time he played this hole with C.J. he said his ball had stubbornly stayed up on top. Then he earned his par. My shot looked great, but it was just off the back on the fringe. I got a bogey. He earned 270K just for those skins (money from 8, 9, and 10), and then he earned the 80K bonus, too. Pat-270K, Bruce-530K! So, it was over again...or was it?
We chose to play for everything on hole #11, even though I was truly not anywhere close. I had the score completely wrong, but we decided that if I won the last hole, it would just be 10K more than what Bruce had.
The way I looked at it, I had won the first time on the front nine, but Bruce had definitely won after hole #10, so hole #11 was like a “rubber match.”
Hole #11-Bruce was on the fairway after his tee shot. My driver shot my ball towards the trees, but it looked like it would get past them. We looked for a while, but I could not find it. Then Bruce spied it in the bunker. I chose a 3-wood (of all clubs) because the bunkers are awful. I just wanted to pop my ball on its back side and get it up on the green. Bruce was already just off the green on the right side. I left it open a bit at contact, but my ball ended up just inside his, but it was also off the green. He chipped his ball long, but it stayed on the green. His putt was about twenty feet away. I used my putter, but I overdid it, too. My putt was about thirteen feet away. Bruce barely missed.
I chose a little white spot left and short of the hole, hoping it would break right. And, at the very last, it did and it went in! Bruce and I high-fived. Had I lost, I truly would have been happy, too. It was a really fun, competitive match. We were both happy with the results, even though I had gotten the scores wrong again. Now the record is right in my head since I have written this. Great match, Bruce!
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