Yards: 6263, Par: 72, Slope: 70.1/127
Score: 95, Putting Average: 1.9
Miles Walked: 7.3
Total Miles Walked: 13.6
Yesterday I played an Arnold Palmer Signature Course called SilverRock Golf Resort in La Quinta, CA. The course is situated against the Santa Rosa Mountains with lush fairways and greens. I pack my bags on my push cart again and ventured on to the driving range. Since my new irons were being re-gripped, I played with my old set one last time. It was a fitting retirement for those clubs I've had for so long.
As I was hitting at the range, a gentlemen by the Tour Lock Pro tent was watching me hit. "Your shoulders are lined up wrong," he said. He take a club from my bag and showed me where my shoulders should point and had me hit my driver. I took a nice swing at the ball and the slice/fade problem went away. I thought to myself, "Duh, so that's what I've been doing wrong in these past few weeks." I had went back to my old swing and this one little adjustment changed everything. "My name is Brad Benkey. Do you want to trying something with your driver to make it hit straighter and more solid?" he said. Um yeah, who wouldn't! He took my driver to his tent and measured the balance of the club and found that it was way off balance. Not surprising since I had my driver re-shafted a few months ago and it never really felt right. He proceeded to put in a counter weight inside my grip and remeasured. I took a swing with the newly balanced club and BOOM, 280 yards down the center. The driver did feel much more solid and the drives were nice and laser like. Thank for the fix Brad!
After the range I walked up to the first tee and got paired up with Steve, Paul, and Mark. Steve is from Minnesota and played the course last week. Paul and Mark are from Edmonton, Canada and has winter homes in La Quinta so they come down here a few months out of the year. Steve could hit the ball a mile and would easily outdrive us by about 20 yards. I could tell that Paul and Mark have been friends for a long time. The way they joke around and talk trash kinda reminds me of my golf rounds with friends. I only hope I'm fortunate enough to have the same kind of banter with my friends 20 years from now. Overall it was a great course with lots of areas to get into trouble. You have to be pretty accurate with your shots or else you are either in the sand or water. We got up to the 17th hole and it was a 209 yard par 3 over water with a 3 club face wind. I had to hit my 3 wood to even have it hit land. I posted a picture of the hole below so you can see how intimidating that hole was.
I'm off to playing the TPC Stadium today but I think I'll ride since my legs are kinda tired from walking 2 days in a row. Enjoy the pics from yesterday.
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17th hole, 209 yard Par 3
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