So close...

I thought I was so close to a good round. 14 greens hit in regulation last friday in Kansas... but I still ended up with a score of 80! It's too bad that golf actually requires 18 good holes, not just 14.

Nothing much to report this week. Just back home, trying to get the wedding invitations ready and sent out. Beethovan, the cat has been going crazy - meowing constantly for attention. It's bad enough that I have to deal with hubby bobby! Just kidding, honey :-)

Speaking of pets... here are some pet pics:


Here's my baby, Spike. Unfortunately, Spike had cancer and I had to put her down this past March. It was the most horrible day of my life :-(


This is Doobie... Bob's dog. He lives with mom-in-law and loves pop-corn.


Then you have Beethovan (aka Snowflake - because there's always a layer of white fur in the apartment). Such a needy cat and meows REALLY loud! He's sitting at the back of my chair as I'm working on this blog...

How to 3-putt from 2 feet...

The wind was already blowing pretty hard friday afternoon, but on saturday morning, the wind gust was probably up to 35 or even 40mph! There were a few times when we had to hold on to our caps and brace ourselves. At one point, one of my playing partners was squating on the green covering her head with her hands! And then... they blew the horn. And play was suspended for the rest of the afternoon. Talk about not being fair! Oh well, guess it's the luck of your draw.
As for 3-putting from 2 feet, well... never leave yourself above the hole, down wind, downhill. The gust of wind will make your miss your putt from 2 feet to about 12 or even 15 feet!

Almost lost my car keys this past week. I was having an greasy breakfast burrito wednesday morning. When I got grease on my shorts (yup... that's how I started my day) I left to clean up and forgot my keys on the table outside the club house. Long story short, the keys were turned in after about a 45 minutes of hunting them down on the golf course. And yes, I do have a spare key now.

So after missing the cut, I went out golfing with my housing host at the course outside the house. And... I shot 69! And that's with 2 bogeys on the last 2 holes! I started putting so well from the 10th hole onwards. Perhaps it was the sour skittles, or the 50s music coming out from Jeff's personal golf cart. Golf is such a crazy game... maybe I should have taken up bowling instead! :-)

Welcome to El Paso!

Funny enough, as I was leaving McAllen and surfing for a radio station, I ran across a country music station and the song "El Paso" was playing by Marty Robbins...
... Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl....

The drive from McAllen to San Antonio took 4 hours. There was a border checkpoint out of McAllen. Good thing we all had our passports! The next morning, after only driving for about 10 minutes out of the town of Boerne, we had to stop in the next town of Comfort, TX to wait for the storm to pass. The clouds sure had a funny color to them,... almost green-like. Anyhow, in this tiny town of Comfort, we met up with parents of a player at a gas station. Talk about a small world.
The 8-hour drive was rather uneventful. Glad it was over. Time to start a new week! And oh! I can't believe it's already MAY!!!

Missed Cut :-(

Another missed cut. It's that darn putter! Lesson learnt... never leave your putter in the room when there's a 3-year old in the house. Those extra dings on the putter must have thrown off my game this week :-)
But looking back at my scores from last year of 81, 80... this week's 78, 74 ain't too bad then. Haha!

Off to McAllen, TX

It will be a long 10 to 11 hours on the road tomorrow. Thankfully, I will be joining two other girls driving in their cars as well. My housing host in McAllen last year was quite a nightmare, so hopefully this year will be a little bit better. I bought a Tiffany style lamp in a silent auction this week and it's big box just manages to fit into the backseat of my little 2-door civic :-) Sad thing is I don't think that lamp is going to get back to New Jersey till perhaps July!!!

Finally...!

Finally made my first cut of the season! Hoorah! And it was a low one too... the cut was only at 3-over this week. Sunny skies and little wind are making this course play easy it seems. Well, tomorrow is moving day - moving up the leaderboard of course to make more money! Need to finance the wedding reception fund. Funny enough, this first cut comes during the same week as the new name change. Hubby Bobby has to be happy with this...

Name change

By the way, if anyone hasn't noticed yet, I did have my name changed this week on the FUTURES Tour... Cindy Lee-Pridgen. Bob and I tied the knot this past Jan and we are doing very well. Probably because we haven't seen each other very much :-)

The housing committee in McAllen almost gave my housing assignment away because she thought I was no longer on the roster!

Lucky day!

Went to the "Meet the pros" party tonight and won a travel voucher for $375! I also bid in a silent auction for a tiffany style lamp and won that too! It's all wrapped up in a big box now and I did managed to squeeze it into the backseat of my little Civic :-) 167,000+ miles and still going strong!