If you look back at my post about my 2014 Golfing Goals, one of them was to win our annual work golf tournament. My team had shot (-10) both the last 2 years and we had finished in 2nd and 4th place respectively. I’ve wanted to win this tournament so badly, not only for the bragging rights, but to actually have the championship go to a team of employees as this tourney is in honor of our late owner who loved golf. I have been working so hard on my game over this past year, as you all know and this moment has been on my mind the whole time.
Our goal was just to improve on our consecutive (-10) 62’s and hopefully break into the 50’s and with any luck a shot to win. Well I’m happy to announce that we accomplished our goal and then some! We absolutely destroyed the course, scored an unreal (-17) 55, set a new tournament record and won the tournament by 3 strokes!! It was an unbelievable day, our whole team stepped up clutch in every situation we found ourselves in, I’m really proud of my team.
I started off pretty wild, slicing both my first tee shots out of bounds, but thankfully one of my teammates hit solid drives on both. We started on hole #7 which is the #1 handicapped hole, we had a pretty long 2nd shot of about 220 from the rough, but one of my teammates hit a beautiful hybrid to about 30ft above the flag. All 3 of my teammates putted, missing the birdie, but giving me a great read, I stepped up and drained the long birdie putt…a Tiger Woods fist pump ensued and that gave us big momentum and started us off on a crazy streak of 15 straight birdies!! We were sticking it close on almost every hole, inside 10 ft and we made basically every putt. We made 3 putts from over 25ft, a couple when it was our final putt, just clutch to keep the birdie streak going. I don’t think any of us expected to play this well overall, as I’m the only one on the team that breaks 80 and one of our players hadn’t even touched a club since last year’s tourney, but those guys played so well, it was truly a team effort and I’m so happy to be able to cross another item off my golf bucket list! We were kind of disappointed we couldn’t complete the perfect round and birdie all 18 holes, but we just couldn’t convert the birdie opportunity from off the green on the difficult par 3 4th (Our 16th hole).
We won some pretty cool prizes as well, one of which was 4 complimentary rounds to the host course, Rancho Bernardo Inn ($85 each). Pretty awesome as this semi private course is just in perfect condition right now. It’s a very fun and challenging course and it has hosted both PGA and LPGA events in the past so I look forward to being able to play it for free soon!
I’ll post some pictures from the event when they get posted from the photographer here in a few days, but for now here is the picture of our almost perfect scorecard, what a round!
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