ShyShay and I Share a Par

Continued from 6-16-25.

        I played with Guy, ShyShay, and Garth Sr. when we went out to Virginia.  I see the date I wrote on the scorecard was June 3rd, the day of ShyShay’s graduation.  We played at Algonkian again.  Guy and I played there before, and I remember seeing the deer on hole #10 and comparing it to heaven in this journal a long time ago (I just looked and it was from 2003!).  We were greeted with a delay due to an outage, though, and we used the extra time to go to the range.  After an hour late start, we were off.  It was difficult.  Guy and I both started with pars, but it went south pretty quickly after that.  The grounds were sopping wet in many places, and the rough was long, so we lost a few balls that should have been easily found.                                     Shylah and I both earned a par on the first par three.  She was playing from the senior tees with Garth until that hole.  She rented her clubs, and she chose the driver for her tee shot from the whites where Guy and I were playing.  Her shot ended up past a bunker on the right side of the hole.  She made a great chip to a few feet for her par.  I made a fine swing with my 5-iron/wood, but it landed well short.  It looked like it would end up on the middle of the green, but it surprisingly dropped well before it.  My pitch put my ball past and above the hole.  The putt was a longer, downhill, breaking from left to right putt which I made for my par.  We had a little bonding moment for our pars together there.                          Shylah had to leave to get ready for graduation, so she and Garth left together.  Guy and I played on alone, but we only got in four more holes.  It was glorious, but it was short-lived.  I was just happy to have that short time alone with Guy.  I scored a bogey for every hole for those four, and I played a bit better than I did for the first nine holes.  I say it was better only because I never lost a ball.  We chose to leave when we were close to the pro shop to make it back to shower and get handsome for the photos.  I was happy I brought my clubs to be able to play and have fun with them for this graduation trip.