Beating The Teacher

Most of our friends will know that Lorraine has been learning to play golf for the last year or so, mostly in the time we have been here in the US, with me giving hints and tips. She struggled through most of last year, taking some lessons, and having occasional good shots, but getting frustrated by the lack of consistency as all amateur golfers do; Eh Charlie! (Charlie has seen my frustration first hand)

Towards the end of last year, her consistency started to come together, and she seemed to hit on a formula for improving her ball striking, until she went back for a lesson and her teacher told her not to do it.

This year, neither of us have spent much time on the course, and when we have, we have both struggled to play well. Last night, I was supposed to play with a work colleague who couldn't make at the last minute and so, being faced with paying anyway, Lorraine changed her plans and filled in. I continued my previous poor performance, with some reasonable iron play, terrible slice on my driver (didn't hit a single fairway) and mediocre putting to turn in a 109!

Lorraine on the other hand drove well on almost every hole, her iron play and chipping were awesome and her putting was pretty good. She beat me by 5 shots on the front 9 turning in a 50, which apart from an 9 on the 8th could easily have been a 45/46. She had two pars on the front 9 and 3 in a row on the back after an 11 and before blowing up and finishing with two 11s. In short she could easily have finished the round under 100 but for the blow-ups.

Check out her fantastic scorecard, clicking on the picture will show it full size. Michelle Wie look out.