Two rounds in the Books!

We started out day today at 5:30 am, Jeff got ready and headed out to Thornfield for a sloppy mess with rubber tee pads but a beautiful course, while Jason and I headed down to Olathe to play Prairie Center a short birdie or die course. The morning gave us thunderstorms and lightning and the feeling of Oregon with torrential down pour. Jason started on hole 6 and I got to start on hole 1 for the first time ever in a tournament for as long as I can remember. However I did not take advantage of the opportunity. I played the course 2 up at 56 with one 4, one 5, one 2 & fifteen 3's. The so called birdie course was not kind to me, every hole I had a good drive on I ended up behind a tree or bush that blocked a putt. I played a pretty steady round getting a 4 on the second hole and the 5 on the fifteenth hole, birdie on the 16th and par'd out. Jason had a tough time as well and shot a 56, he says he was really working hard to get pars. He was hitting 30+ foot putts to save par. Its funny that we ended up with the same score again. The 56 was recorded as a 920 unofficial rating. For the weekly challenge I still had two strokes on Jason due to our practice round at Blue Valley but its been really close with 8 rounds played we were only separated by 2 strokes.

After our round at Prairie Center we headed to grab some lunch and then headed north to Shawnee Mission Park. When we got there the sky opened up again and dumped large amounts of water, so Jason and I took a nap in the car and scratched the practice throws. Due to our same score in the first round we were in the same group and started on hole 10. We walked out to our hole in the pouring rain with the umbrellas we purchased the night before at Walgreens and they worked beautifully. We practice our putting in a heavy rain but the temperature was close to 70 degrees so it was warm but wet. We both played steady golf for most of the round but we both blew a few good opportunities to get a few strokes back. Jason had one bad hole that shook him up but he kept it together enough to get a birdie on the next hole and finish out with all par's. Jason ended up with a 58 rated 899 and I ended up with a 55 and rated as 932. Can you say ouch, we were hoping to shoot an average of 950 rated rounds so we have a lot of work to do.

The weekly score challenge now has Mike up by 5 strokes on Jason!

As soon as the round was over we headed back to the hotel to relax, do laundry and eat some chow before bed. Tomorrow the prediction is for rain in the early morning, but clear during the day with a high in the upper 70's but thunderstorms returning tomorrow night. Jason and I are playing Water Works in the morning and WyCo in the afternoon. We think Water Works is setting up for par as 56 and Wyco is set up for par as 58. We are hoping for good footing and dry towels. We hope to post our round scores tomorrow after waters works as it is only 15 minutes from our hotel.

sorry for the short post but I need to get some quality sleep tonight!