As you may or may not know, I have been playing golf for the last year. Now, I am by no means good, but me and my buddy get by and have loads of fun in the process.

The odd birdie by me hasn’t been unheard of, and they are always a pleasure to get, making you feel that you are progressing with your game, only to shoot a 7 on the next par 3.

Anyway, yesterday morning on our weekly golf outing we were having a pretty average round. Up comes hole 6, a par 4 dog leg left, with trees blocking a view of the green. Now, there are two options here, play safe and hit it straight to the corner of the dog leg, or shoot straight over the trees. Obviously, we go the over-the-tree route (it looks better).

I tee’d up my shot with a 6-iron and took my swing. I got loads of height on it and it looked the right direction. I was quiety confident it had landed on the green.

So, we headed off down the fairway, to the make-or-break view you get when the trees clear. I couldn’t believe it, I was about 6-7 yards away from the hole. A great shot by my standards. Immediately the thoughts of an Eagle came to mind…my first ever!!

I walked up to ball with my putter, very nervous at this point. I steadied my self, took a couple of practice swings, then went for it. I hit it, it looked on target, was this going to be the Eagle? No. The ball reached hole, and with too much pace, jumped up and skipped over the hole.

Damn.

Still managed a Birdie though, so it wasn’t all bad.

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