Golf Sunday

So today we're at Penmar for the second week in a row. It's just SO convenient to get here rather than any other course. And so if we're just going to be just Scott and I, i think I'm going to keep heading us here. I get to hang around the house and have breakfast no matter how early we head out... and today we had an 8:40 tee time. I still had plenty of time to do some meditation first thing. And have my Earl Grey hot tea and contemplate for a little while before heading out. Yeah, I contemplated about golf too but I think that I'm starting to think a little too much instead of being the good athlete that I am. Or at least I'm too all over the place in terms of my focus.  I do think all I have to do is practice more. It's the only way I can reverse the way I play on the fairway. It's like I have the same old program playing no matter where I am and I just have to keep practicing to put some new programs in. I know it's mental and I know it can be reversed. And so today right off the first tee on my very first shot, I launched quite possibly the best shot I have ever hit off this first hole in Penmar. Straight down the fairway at least 210 yards. Too bad I overshot the hole on my 2nd shot. And missed my putt too to end up with a 6. Like I told Scott before the match. There should be no way we would score less than a bogey on each hole. And so 2nd hole? Same thing. Great first shot. Terrible 2nd shot. Missed my putt. Got me another 6. Sigh. I already felt like I'm out of my rhythm by then. I never did get one putt this entire morning. Not one. How can that be possible? I have got to cut down on the mishits from the fairway! I could feel myself getting really REALLY frustrated. It's even worse when you're paired up with a couple of players who know what they are doing. Today it was a couple of Lisa's neighbors who lived right up the street on Maplewood. Small world. I would have been a lot more social had I not been shanking my shots left and right and short all the time. Smh.

Oh well, at least I can find some gratification in once again being able to come out to play on another typically nice October Sunday. And I did have a great shot or two. Just not from the fairway.  I'll just have to keep at it. Later later on I took a picture of the sunset while getting last-minute grocery shopping done at Ralphs. It was sort of a reminder that this sunday night was not like a regular Sunday night. I have to pack. I'm off to Vegas in the morning. And I hadn't even done any prep work. I did catch almost an hour nap right after I got back home from golf though. Had some chilaquiles from Whole Foods for lunch. And then finished my Tech Council Presentation. I'm ready for at least the first part of the week. I did clean up the kitchen and the bathroom so at least it will be presentable by the time I come home Tuesday night. As far as sports Sunday, the Rams did win in a big laugher. And then the Dodgers lost to the Braves on yet another walk-off in the 9th inning. That's 2 games in a row, 2 days in a row. They're down 0-2 in the series now. Can they pull out some magic like they did last year? On the one hand, they have been up in this series mostly until they implode in the last inning. Do they have a pitching issue all of a sudden? All thoughts that have nothing to do with my upcoming talk I know I know. But then again, I'm oddly not that nervous about it. Like I told Lisa yesterday, i was more anxious dealing with her patients on the phone and at the front desk than I am for this talk. I mean really how bad could it be? So anxious was I that I made myself some nice carne asada for dinner. And wolfed THAT down with some baked beans. It was 11 PM already by the time I actually started to think about the trip. I mean what is there to pack? Whatever I take I have to cram into my carry-on anyway don't I? It will be ok. It's Go time.