Up the river

Sunday

After a late night watching the final of the golf in KL, I finally was up and about by 10am. I called River Plantation, who were full yesterday. Today they were wide open, with a group of 3 I joined at 11 and the next group at 11-30.

They were a family. Dad plus son and son-in-law. The latter lives on the 9th fairway of the first 9 we played. They self identified as not very good golfers. Accurate but we still had fun. WE played off the gold tees today. These were again the second longest but overall the course was quite a lot shorter than most if not all the others I've played on this trip.

This course has 3 9 hole courses and we played the Biloxi and Charleston. The course had some of the characteristics of the last 2 course I had played. Some of it was parkland and part was narrow and tree lined.

The first 9 had 5 holes with water but today I managed to avoid losing any balls in the lakes. I went out in 42 with 3 pars. I started the second with 2 doubles. I had visions of a repeat of some of those Florida games but today I got back on track and had only bogies and a couple of pars after that.

This 9 had one of the trickiest holes. It was a par 5 with a sharp right hand dogleg at the start guarded by high trees. I hit a 6 iron the the corner. There was a deep creek bed along the left side that then ran across the fairway in front of the green, so I played a 5 iron to lay up. It wasn't till I got there that I could even see the green. A gap wedge landed on the green but then, after such a carefully played hole, I 3 putted.

Despite not being held up we were quite slow mainly because of the erratic shots of the others. A group caught up at the end of the front 9 so we had an extended break and bought some lunch so they could play through, but they decided to play the other 9 anyway. After 6 holes the guys had to leave to make a meeting in another part of the city, so I played the last 3 on my own. It was much quicker and quieter as well. Even so It was well over 4 hours for the round.

On the way home I went back to the mall. The dress I bought yesterday did not have its security device removed - a dye cylinder that would rupture if removed in correctly. Why they did this for a $25 dress in the first place is a mystery. They were happy to do it so it was a quick visit.

I then did some work on applying the changes to the planning or Surge and Swab to the measured data option. As usual, it raised as many questions as it answered so I'll need to discuss the implications tomorrow.

 Dinner was a tuna roll in the room.