This Week in Glen's Life

Last Saturday, I traveled down to Clermont to play Palisades again on Sunday. I stayed in my usual Red Roof Inn in Ocoee and had my usual Denny's.

Palisades is the first course I played Professionally and my personal favorite because of it's layout. It's an extremely fast and long course that plays just over 7000 yards from the back tees. On the right is me teeing off on the first at Palisades. Its a blurry picture because it was taken off my phone from the computer and Photoshop wouldn't clear it up any more.

I tee'd off at 10:07 and just like usual, started off with a long drive right down the middle. I felt good and was playing well. At the turn on nine, I was even par with nine straight pars. I call that a "boring" nine. We made the turn and I started off just like the front, parring the next 5 holes. The sixteenth hole was a long straight par 4 with a reachable pond on the right side by the green. I usually drive the ball down the left side and have a short iron to the green, however for some reason I pulled my drive out of bounds. I hit my second drive right where my first was suppose to go and then my pitching wedge plugged just short of the green. I ended up with a triple bogey. I ended up parring the last 3 holes to finish with a 3 over 75. I finished tied for 8th out of about 40. I had 17 pars and one triple bogey. Interesting round.

I went back to my hotel and got a fairs night sleep. My tee time was at 8:07 in the morning. Yee - haw. So I woke up at 4:00 and started getting ready. The course was called West Orange in Winter Garden. It was a precision players course with trees lining the fairways and postage stamp greens. We had a few folks drop out so we were paired in two-somes rather than the usual 3-4. So off we went. I hit a long cut drive down the right side of the faiway in good position to the green. I was 3 under after 8 holes and made the turn with a strong 33. We went on to ten and I parred the nest 3 holes. On thirteen, however I duffed a chip and bogey the hole. I'm not sure what happened, but I ended up bogey every hole there on out. It was a little depressing. I feel as if I just lost concentration and couldn't finish out the round. I finished again at 75 and oddly placed 8th again. Seems to be my number. I'm having trouble finishing out my rounds but I'm working daily on improving that problem. I know I can do it but it just takes time and lots of practice.

In all of my tournaments I have placed between 7th and 12th and have missed placing in the money by a shot 4 times. Like my Grandad Mr. Heedly said, "your nippin' at their heels-it'll come." I'll be playing again on Sunday the 22nd at Palisades again, then West Orange again on Monday the 23rd.

Thanks to everyone for the support!

Thanks to my family for the sponsorship last week!

Glen Bishop
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"The secret to golf is turning three shots into two." - Bobby Jones