Our group consisted of seven golfers when we teed off at 11:00 this morning, so we had a threesome and a foursome. I was in the foursome, by the way. Everybody at Otter Creek has to walk because of the coronavirus. Of course, I always walk anyway when I play golf.
The threesome quit after nine holes and the three other golfers in my foursome also quit after nine holes, so I played the last nine holes by myself.
I hit a really good drive on the 16th hole, but was unable to find my ball even though it should have been in the fairway. It became obvious to me what happened to my ball a couple of minutes later when I saw a guy walking around with a plastic bag. In other words, he was looking for golf balls and stole mine.
On the 17th hole, I hit another good drive, but it finished in extremely thick rough about 160 yards from the hole. I proceeded to hit a great second shot that wound up on the green approximately two feet short of the hole.
When I got within about 50 yards of the green, an employee of Otter Creek pulled up and said my ball had hit the cup. He said it counted as a holed out shot because Otter Creek was using protruded cups due to the coronavirus.
Just in case you don't know what that means, Otter Creek has cups that are about two or three inches above the surface of each green. If your putt, chip, approach shot or drive hits the cup, it counts as holed out because there is no way to get a ball into a cup.
Personally, I don't know whether to count it as an eagle. It's been almost 11 years since my last one.
The threesome quit after nine holes and the three other golfers in my foursome also quit after nine holes, so I played the last nine holes by myself.
I hit a really good drive on the 16th hole, but was unable to find my ball even though it should have been in the fairway. It became obvious to me what happened to my ball a couple of minutes later when I saw a guy walking around with a plastic bag. In other words, he was looking for golf balls and stole mine.
On the 17th hole, I hit another good drive, but it finished in extremely thick rough about 160 yards from the hole. I proceeded to hit a great second shot that wound up on the green approximately two feet short of the hole.
When I got within about 50 yards of the green, an employee of Otter Creek pulled up and said my ball had hit the cup. He said it counted as a holed out shot because Otter Creek was using protruded cups due to the coronavirus.
Just in case you don't know what that means, Otter Creek has cups that are about two or three inches above the surface of each green. If your putt, chip, approach shot or drive hits the cup, it counts as holed out because there is no way to get a ball into a cup.
Personally, I don't know whether to count it as an eagle. It's been almost 11 years since my last one.