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Dense Fog at Morro Bay Golf CourseFriday, December 23, 2005 After picking up my new Nike 22* Hybrid at Sea Pines Golf Resort yesterday, I headed over to the very foggy Morro Bay Golf Course. After hitting a small bucket of balls on the range to test out the hybrid, I hooked up with another single on the 1st tee - Steve, a retired resident of Morro Bay. I thoroughly enjoyed my round with Steve on a relatively empty course. The fog and mist was so dense on the first 4 holes that we never saw our shots once they left the tee. Greens were only visible within 80-100 yards. Probably as a result of the heavy fog and slow, wet greens, I started off with 2 bogies and 2 double bogies. On the 5th, I found my game and finished the last 5 holes on the front nine with 4 pars and 1 bogie. I added 4 more pars on the back along with 5 bogies to finish with a 12-over 83 - another average round. The good news was that I finally started hitting my Nike SQ Tour 460cc driver! Altough I pushed a few drives right and hooked the final drive on 18, I hit all the rest pretty long and straight - a huge improvement over my last round. I've decided to stick with this driver now. I really liked the results of my new Nike Hybrid too! I used it 5 times, twice off the tee on long par 3's and three times from the rough after errant drives. My first tee shot with the hybrid was on the 217 yard par 3 8th. I hit right at the pin, but came up short with about a 200 yard shot. I used it again on the 200 yard par 3 17th, but pushed it left of the green. I pushed it earlier from the rough on the par 5 12th too, but nailed it on a recovery shot from the rough on the 18th. After hooking my drive into the pines left of the fairway on 18, I left myself with a 160 yard shot to the green between two trees and under some limbs. I used the hybrid to punch the shot under the branches and towards the green and ran it right up onto the green for a 2-putt par. A nice end to the round. |
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