Round: Tedesco Country Club

4 Players (Me, Scott, Mike, Bruce)

Pre-round practice: 20 balls

18 Holes

Much anticipated round since getting the invite to play with Scott Boal, family friend, to play at his members-only Country Club. Tedesco Country Club is a beautiful course located in Marblehead, MA. Coming off a few frustrating rounds with the shanks, I seemed to clear those demons early-on while hitting balls on the range. Scott quickly found me and we both headed straight to the first tee. The first tee was an elevated shot onto a lengthy par 4 fairway. We were playing a friendly skins game between myself and Scott vs. Mike and Bruce. Scott and Bruce are both low handicappers so I was excited to finally see some good players for a change. I opened up on the first hole with a nice straight shot down the middle. After a chip on the green, I was truly surprised at how a "true" the greens were cut. I'm not familiar with greens cut this close and as a result, I began blowing all my putts way past the holes. After about 9 holes, I began to get the feel and made some impressive putts. There was an interesting issue with many of the holes on the course involving hundreds of thousands of dead worms. These worms were living beneath the grass in the rich soil and creating destructive turd mounds on the fairways. The club sprayed a chemical all throughout the course and eventually killed all the worms. On this day, the sun was out and literally baking all the dead worms producing a rotten fishy stench. It was so bad on some holes that Mike preferred to cover his face and breathe into a sweaty old golf glove. It didn't bother me at first but on the back nine there were a few gags. Moving on, for the remainder of the round I relied on my scrambling abilities and putting to eventually get the win over the other twosome. I won my first dollar in competitive golf! After the round we met up with my girlfriends family and had lunch at the BEAUTIFUL clubhouse (See photos below). All in all, it was a really great experience and it worked out as good as I had hoped. Now, back to the range!!!!

Score: 92

Notable
Scrambling and pitching

Practice
Hitting it straight off the tee

18th hole, clubhouse

3rd hole, Par 3