Granite State South Golf Tournament Results

As you know yesterday I turned 54 and I started my day off by playing in the Granite State South Board of REALTORS golf tournament at Windham Country Club. I was invited to play by Steve Blier from GMAC Mortgage and we played with two other guys called Pete. Pete Currier and Pete (I can’t remember his last name, sorry).

We started off on Hole 16 and Pete led off followed by Steve then me and then our anchor Peter Currier. Currier and I had great drives with our 3 woods. We didn’t use driver because of the water hazard in Driver range. I hit a five iron on the green pin high to the left. We had four shots at birdie but we let it slip by the hole and settled for par.

On 17 Currier and I hit 3 wood again and we were in great position to attack the pin. We screwed up and had to take a mulligan, which we bought 4 of them, I took the approach shot and then landed about 15 feet left of the flag. Currier sank the last of our putting attempts as the ball just trickled in the hole.

Well this started us on a tear of 6 more consecutive birdies. The key to this was we hit all the fairways and greens in regulation until we hit the par 3 6th hole and we missed the birdie putt. We got the birdie train back on course at the 7th. On eight my drive was straight up the middle and 160 yards out, Currier’s 6 iron approach shot landed a foot from the hole and it was an easy tap in for birdie.

We had par’s on 9,10 and 11.

As we reached the par 5 twelfth hole which is a very easy birdie hole we talked about previous years as how some groups had eagled this hole and how this would be a good goal for us. I hit driver and we ended up using my drive and then Currier was lat to hit and hit his utility club through the green and on the back fringe of the green. Luckily the pin was back and we were only about 15 feet away. We figured the putt would break left to right. Pete led us off with his putt which went left to right and then back to the left and dropped in the center of the cup for our first eagle. At this point we felt we were in good position for first.

On thirteen the course has the markers way up for this easy par 4. I hit 5 wood to about 7 feet from the hole and Pete and Steve both missed but gave me a perfect read and I sunk the eagle putt to take us to 13 under par. What a feeling I had never had back to back eagles before. Even tho the second Eagle was a short one it still was a two on the card.

We parred 14 and then finished the round with a birdie on 15 and ended with a 14 under par 58 to take first place by 2 stokes.

All in all it was a great sunny warm day and we also won a few raffle prizes to top off the day.