Hey everybody!

It finally happened! Cody, Tyler, and myself finally got together to play our first round of golf. We called Rich Maiden Golf Course in Kutztown to set our tee time for .Friday, March 21st, at 7:45am. This was the earliest tee time available, which we needed because Cody had to be in work around 12:30. Rich Maiden was close to Cody, and about an hour drive from Tyler, for myself however, it was an hour and forty minute drive. This required me to get up at 4:25am to get there in time. It was easy waking up though, it honestly felt like Christmas morning.

I’ll skip over the close to two hour drive to Rich Maiden as it was uneventful. I got to the course around 7:15 and parked in the overflow lot across the street. Cody got there about 15 minutes later and informed me that there was a main lot that was much closer to the building. This was the first of many times I felt like an idiot that day. We met up in the main parking lot and waited for Tyler, who arrived 5-10 minutes later. ( Now me and Cody had parked our cars next to each other, and were expecting Ty to park next to our cars, allowing us to get a cool #golfswag picture with all our cars and clubs and other cool stuff, but he pulled through and parked slightly in front of us ruining the picture.) We went to the club house and paid for our round (20$ for cart and 18 holes).

Our tee time was set for 7:45am but because winter won’t go away there was a frost delay and we were forced to wait around until 8. This gave us time to sit around in the clubhouse and drink some more coffee.

At 8am one of the groundskeepers told us we were good to go so we headed to the first Tee. Tyler and Cody in one cart, and me riding solo in the other. It was a bit chilly, a bit windy, but we didn’t care we were about to play golf.

Hole 1:

Tyler tee’d off first, and hit a solid shot. Cody went next and did pretty well for his first shot off of a tee ever. I shot last and absolutely blasted my first drive off the tee. It was straight, it was long (for me) and I was excited as hell. That confidence didn’t last very long as I proceeded to hit a 9 on that par 4. Cody and Tyler both bogeyed the hole.

Hole 2:

This was a par 5, and I began to slice my drive’s horribly to the right. I finished with a 9 (at least i’m consistently bad) and Cody and Tyler both got 7’s.

Hole 3:

This was a par 4 and I got a 13. Cody got a 7, and Tyler got a 6. If I remember correctly, I got to the rough about 7 feet from the green. I then chipped to get onto the green, and the ball flew off the green onto the rough on the other side, rinse and repeat several times and you have a 13. Somehow, I was having a great time.

Hole 4:

Par 3, I got a 4, Tyler a 5, and Cody a 6. Figures this was my best hole and I literally remember nothing about it.

Hole 5:

Par 4, I got a 7, Cody a 7, Tyler a 5.

Hole 6:

Par 3, with a temporary green. I got a 4, and a green in regulation. Tyler got a 5, and Cody got a 6.

Hole 7:

Par 4, I got a 7, Tyler a 6, and Cody got a 4, the first par of the day, and of cody’s life. I lost my first ball on this hole.

Hole 8:

Par 3, I got a 6, Tyler a 6, and Cody a 5.

Hole 9:

Par 5, I got an 8, Tyler a 6, and Cody a 9.

We Finished the front 9 with:

Coffee: 67/35 Tyler: 51/35 Cody: 54/35

Hole 10:

This is where it went downhill.

Par 4, I got a 15, tyler a 6, cody a 9.

Yes, you read that right a 15. I don’t remember what happened at this hole but it was bad.

Hole 11:

Par 5, we all got 7’s

Hole 12:

Par 3, I got an 8. Tyler a 5, Cody a 6.

Hole 13:

This is where it got really bad.

Par 4, I got a 15 (again) Tyler a 6 and Cody a 5.

This hole I used a higher tee than normal, and rocket my shot high into the air, it caught i the wind and ended up blowing almost horizontal with our tee position, on another fairway. I went to get it (good thing I was in a cart by myself) and ended up playing towards a hole, which I thought was the 13th green. It was however the 14th green, I ended up scoring an 8 on that hole. But took another 7 shots to get to the 13th green. If you haven’t picked up on this yet I’m an idiot.

Hole 14:

Par 3, I got a 5, Tyler a 3, and Cody a 5.

Hole 15:

Par 4, I got an 8, Tyler a 5, Cody a 7.

Hole 16:

Par 4, I got a 9, Tyler a 6, Cody a 7

Hole 17:

Par 3, I got a 5, Tyler a 4, Cody a 9

Hole 18:

Par 5, I got an 8, Tyler a 6, Cody a 7.

Final Scores for all of us:

Tyler with a 99/70

Cody with a 116/70

Coffee with a 147/70

And the final time i felt like an idiot for the day, was when I for some unknown reason thought to put the first round score in the second to last column of the back 9.

Some takeaways from the day:

Tyler is much better than Cody and myself.

Cody is better naturally than myself.

I can only go up from here.

My day wouldn’t have been as bad if I didn’t have some very bad putting situations, and corrected the 2 or 3 atrocious holes I had.

Anyway that was the first of many #Golfswag outings, and you can expect more in the future (hopefully with better scores).

Now that all of the introductions are done, we will be settling into a more consistent posting schedule. We will be posting once a week at minimum. If we do a lot of #Golfswag related activities in a week we may post more than once, but we will always have at least one post a week.

WWJDD?

-coffee

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