Easter Sunday Golf

It's Easter Sunday, Lisa has plans for an Easter Egg hunt in her backyard, and I'm off to Eaton Canyon Golf course for another round, this time with Scott and Chris. Hadn't played here in a while and I wanted to at least go back to practicing what I now believe is a correlation between manifestation skills and how my golf game turns out. Plus I wanted to commiserate with Scott about the UCLA near-win yesterday. No moral victories I know, but BOY did we come oh-so-close! Besides Chris hadn't played with us in a few weeks so this round was a good starter for the day. The first hole was ABSOLUTELY a model for how I need to play. I was relaxed, didn't focus to much on how I was going to hit the ball, just visualized on where the ball was going to end up. Right in the middle of the fairway. And wouldn't you know I hit the ball nice and smooth and smacked it right in the middle of the fairway for a good 200 yards! And same thing with the iron right after it. Just focused on where I wanted it to end up and smacked a line drive all the way to the edge of the green! I ended up with a bogey on this hole. But I had a par putt to be sure. Same on the 2nd hole. Got another bogey 5. And then I got the yips on the 3rd hole where my tee shot tested the fence and I never could find the ball. I took a double bogey on that one. And from there I had 3 straight bad shots off the tee. Still I hit the ball pretty well to recover after such bad shots. Except on 6 where I had my only blow-up hole of the day. Maybe one day I'll get to the point where I'm not having any more blow-up holes. But that was not to be today. In fact, it was clear that after having such good focus and rhythm to start the game, I had lost in within a couple of holes and had reverted back to my old rushed, hacking away self. I think I need to find a way to focus better is what I need to do. As my tee shot from Hole 4 had no resemblance in any way to my first good tee shot off the 1st hole. That one on Hole 4 was an old program playing and I was in no way relaxed at all. I did manage to recover on Hole 7, and on Hole 9 and really I didn't feel like I played badly at all. But just not as good as I could have and certainly the work is now to sustain that rhythm from the first couple of holes. Gotta keep at it huh?