Golfing in the Rain

We had our makeup golf match vs. Long Beach Poly today at Big Rec. It was for the match that we PPD on March 16. Anyways, as we were teeing off, it started raining. It was light at first but then it turned heavy. My whole body, including my shoes, became soaking wet. It was cold and unpleasant. I couldn’t hit the ball that well as it did not go straight. I lost control of the club on a few shots as the club slipped out of my hands on the downswing. The rain got to a point where as we were teeing off on the third hole, the rain came right at us, coming down diagonally. To make matters worse, it was windy too. So rainwater was in our eyes as we were hitting our shots and it sucked. I pulled up on my driver and it went to the fairway of hole 2. We all wanted the coaches to suspend play until the inclement weather passed, like a rain-delay in baseball. When we got to the fourth hole, the rain stopped and it did not rain for the rest of the match. On the 1st three holes, I double-bogeyed each hole. I finished with a 52 as my putting was off. I three putted like 3 holes and couldn’t hit my driver really well. 

Despite all that, we TIED. I mean dead even. All 5 of our scores tied with all 5 of Poly’s, 239-239. We were supposed to settle it in a sudden death playoff but the coaches decided to call it a tie. So we are 9-1-1 on the season. Oh would it have been great had there been a playoff to settle this match. We split the first two meetings and now a tie. It was a good experience playing golf in the rain today. Next time, I’ll be bettered prepared for it. I made the mistake of not bringing an umbrella.