Spectacular shots often follow bad ones

If you think of the times that you have hit spectacular shots, it usually required a great recovery from some bad position after the previous hit.  For example, there have been a few spectacular 4's on the first hole after a lost ball.  You yank one in the bush then get up thinking if you hit it perfect you have a chance.  Then just as you hoped the ball sails right up the middle, gets a good bounce, and ends up on the green.  Then you drop the putt for a par.

Another spectacular shot opportunity is now possible on #7.  You hit it into the bush straight away from the tee.  You walk up and see that the middle area is hard and dry rather than the small pond that existed early in the season.  You figure you are only about 200 yards from the middle of the green and you have a good lie...albeit on dirt.  You grab your club and hit the spectacular shot onto the green from the middle of a hazard.

Sometimes the spectacular shots are simpler saves for par after initial trouble.  You hit the reeds on #3 and take a drop and leave it short of the green on your next shot.  Now lying three, you chip a ball a bit hot which travels 50 feet before hammering the pin and dropping in for four.

Spectacular shots are fun and you get fired up when you make them.  However, they often require trouble before them. It is better to have a boring round where you hit it up the middle, then get to the green in regulation, and two putt for par.

Speaking of spectacular...it is pretty sweet how well the farming season seems to be going in the area.  Farmers and related businesses are in the middle of harvest, so Mens' Night numbers were lower than usual for this time of year.  Fourteen golfers played and skins went on five holes.  Winners included Dayce Roulette / Joe Shwaluk ($20. on #1), Brad Benton / Stephen David ($20. on #2), Scott Martin / Darcy Kowalchuk ($73. on #3), Sonny Blackbird / Jason Gorrell ($40. on #5), and Wayne Griffin / Terry Brandon ($20. on #9).

Closest to the holes were Sonny on #5 and Dayce on #9.  Only Dayce converted the birdie and he shared the deuce pot with Darcy Kowalchuk and Terry Brandon.

The weather still looks good for September...so you still have some time for spectacular shots.  There are those pessimists out there that are talking about how soon it will be cold.  Some are even talking about how the Farmers Almanac is predicting frost by the end of September.  I say who cares.  It is only the start of the month and there remains several weeks of spectacular shot opportunities.