I took a couple of days off to work on a commercial I am doing for a friend and play some golf.

Yesterday I played Skylinks in Long Beach with a group of guys from the Navy Men's Club (The Navy course is the course Tiger Woods learned on after he graduated from the par 3 course called Heartwell). This group travels around about half the time and plays a fun skins game.

I was playing with some good players all ranging fro 2 to 5 handicaps in our 5some. The course was dry and the fairways ran very firm and fast which made the drives go long if you hit them straight. We had 15 birdies in our five some alone and we were playing a "dots" game where you get paid for skins, closest to pins, sandies and birdies (even if you are cut you get a dot for the bird).

The work I have been doing with Monte on my pitching has really helped me, not only did I hit some great pitches from around the green to save par and make a birdie on a par 5 but the work we did on "Pitching Prescription" has REALLY helped my partial and full wedge shots ranging from 60 to 115 yards. Using the same feel from pitching RX I my wedges much better than before and birdied 15, 17, and 18 (the last 2 being some of the toughest on the course) on those holes I birdied with wedge approaches of 15 yards (to 3 feet), 114 yards (to 11 feet) and 94 yards (to 2.5 feet)

It wasn't all perfect I hit 13 greens but I 3 putted the first and 3rd holes each from about 35 feet), I need to work on that, and actually even though I hit some great drives I never felt in synch with the driver, still getting "offsides" and jumping out of the swing a bit. The main thing was that I managed my misses well and pitched the ball very well.

These random out of left field horrible shots are annoying! I think it's my backswing.

Should have been better but I had a messy finish after some old guys yelled at our group and my buddy nearly broke his ankle walking down a hill. I should be more resilient but I'm not (something else to work on).
 

 Sometimes, mentally, it seems like you can welcome an excuse to start playing bad. "Oh the weather changed, okay I'm off the hook and it's ok if I start screwing up now". I have to fight that.

Most of the credit goes to a hot putter.

Check it out. As snoop says this was "In the city they call Long Beach"!

3 Birdies and a double bogey. Hitting my driver poorly still, going to switch shafts. Made some nice long putts.

Epic Vlog coming up, nearly passed out from heat exhaustion, lost 3 balls in the water, had a blast!

$120 course was only $40 green fee if you can take the heat in Palm Desert, CA

Plus it was 7,100 yards with a slope of 135, so I am checking off all my excuses! Haha

Still making dumb mistakes, hitting some really nice shots though, short game is not good.

Playing Vlog up tomorrow morning.

I was able to sneak away and get in 9 hole before sunset yesterday and play the front 9 at El Dorado, a nice course where the have the long beach Open, a pro event.

The course was in good shape the greens were just a little slower and bumpier than normal because I started at 4:30 pm but all in all pretty good.

I played really nicely, birdied both the par fives after bogeys on 1 and 3. First hole was just from not knowing the green speed and on the 3rd hole some guys let us play through and after being a little embarrassed about setting up the camera while they waited I quick hit a dead solid pull a little left that bounced way left, chipped and 2 putted for bogey.

The next hole I hit a great drive and put it on the par 5 back fringe and chipped to 2 feet and made birdie. A few holes later on 7 I hit a perfect drive and went for the green with hybrid again and nearly dunked my shot in the greenside water but it skirted the wetness and was pin high I the rough. I hit a poor chip from there but made the 12 footer for birdie getting me back even.

Small sample size but I played really nicely trying to have a quiet lower body and transition.