Green BC Masters

Never, never, never ever have I been beaten by a course in such a severe manner like yesterday. Gut Kaden showed it’s teeth! I will not share my scores with you, als you will lose all respect. ~~But I will be back with more after some mental recovery!~~

The day before the tournament I went out to Gut Kaden to play a little practice round, as I have never played the course before. Joined by two other After-Work-Golfers we played a nice evening round. I only messed up two holes, bogeyed most of the rest and parred the par5 17th (best bunker shot of my life with a seven iron from the fairway bunker). So I was pretty confident for the tournemant.

Warming up on the range the next day felt ok, balls flew straight but that should change as soon as we went onto the round. My flight path formerly known as draw had turned into a nasty hook that I wasn’t able to get rid of for the whole tournament. Almost all my drives found the fairway but then bounced left into the rough. At the beginning I tried to play it from the (thick) rough in direction of the pin, but in most cases the ball only advanced a couple of meters, leaving me another shot from the rough. So I started chipping it sideways onto the fairway. Not sexy, but helpful.

The only club I could rely on was my lobwedge, that saved me some strokes around the green. I practiced these shots in the last weeks, funny enough that I could play them better from the rough than from the fairway.

All in all, I made only three greens in regulation and on these I three-putted, so not a single par on my scorecard. On the other side of the scale I had to note a 10 two times, nines and eights were there too. Pretty frustrating! A lot of work for my pro, definitely!

The course was in a great condition, fast greens and challenging rough, ready for the pros for the upcoming Deutsche Bank Players Championship. Actually, we were the last players allowed on the championship course. The atmosphere was great, with all grandstands and leaderboards already set up and prize cars ruddered into position: