Sept 18-19: Dennis Fourball at Dennis Highlands GC
Mike and I love this event. This was our fifth annual trip to Dennis where we play two days of golf, eat lots of food at Grumpy's (local breakfast place with some of the best muffins I've ever had, right up there with Gingerbread Man), walk to the beach, and enjoy a home cooked steak dinner with wine on Saturday evening. We always hope to play in the afternoon on Sunday so we can stay up later, sleep in a little, and have plenty time for Grumpy's.
This year we opened up the tournament with a horrendous round of 78 (+7) on a very scorable par-71 golf course. Weather was beautiful for this time of year, summer clothing. We didn't make a single birdie, struggling to find greens in regulations. With this type of score, our chances of playing in the afternoon were slim. Over our steak dinner, at approximately 730pm, Casey, Mike, and I put in bets for our projected tee times. I figured 830am. I made the call and was told we were teeing off at 12:50pm. What!? How was this possible? I had Mike call again 10 minutes later to confirm. I still don't understand. We got lucky. Cheers of joy and refills on the wine quickly followed that phone call. By the way, a late night here for us is 11pm.
Me being a morning person, I still got up by 8 o clock and walked to the beach barefoot. It was gorgeous. A few early birds with their dogs were walking. I did some yoga, stretching, and gazing at the boats. Perfect way to start a day.
Round 2 - Mike and I shot even par 71. We made our first birdie on the 9th hole, our 27th hole of the tournament. Wow, that's just bad. I hit a beautiful pitch to 2 feet on the par-5 18th (our 9th hole) to set up a birdie putt and Mike and I both looked at each other and said 'finally!'. Well, before I had a chance to be the birdie hero, Mike drained a putt from 40 plus feet for birdie. The one hole we birdie, we both do it!! I knew he was going to make it too. I had that feeling before he putt. We shot 3 under of the final nine, 4 under on the last ten. This would have been a great pace for the previous 26 holes. The difference was we started to hit greens and give ourselves chances. We were close to shooting 5 or 6 under on the last nine.
2-day total was 149, 19 shots off the winner. No winnings for us this year.
Other highlights:
>One of our playing partners on Sunday asked us if we wanted to take a hit of his reefa on the 16th tee and confirmed we were not DEA
>Teaching Mike some yoga moves in the front yard on Saturday afternoon
>No hot water on Saturday morning in the elephant shower (the strongest water pressure shower I've experience), I literally was shaking after trying to withstand the cold water, I felt like I would turn blue shortly if I didn't get out...Casey got the water fixed by the afternoon
>Multiple shanks hit by my partner
>Ordering an oatmeal waffle with fruit at Grumpy's
>Two days of awesome shorts weather (notable because its rained almost every year we have played)
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