Hello from Tennessee! Sorry about being so late with a post, but the truth is, I really haven't had any time to sit down and update a post!
We left Saturday morning for Mount Vernon, Illinois. It was kind of a halfway stopping point for us to get to our destination, Greeneville, Tennessee. We arrived in Greeneville Sunday afternoon and went out to eat and got ready for our practice round on Monday.
We played our practice round Monday morning/afternoon and came back to the hotel to get ready for a banquet for all of the players and coaches. The banquet was fun. Each team was recognized and one player from each team got a "Champions of Character" award, which is what our governing body, the NAIA is all about. I received that award for our school, so that was kind of neat.
Tuesday we had a late tee time of 1:20, so we went out for brunch and then out to the course. It had been raining/misting all day so I knew it was not going to be a fun round! After we got to the course and got ready to go get on the range, they stopped play because some greens were under water and needed to be taken care of before everyone else got on them. We sat in the clubhouse for awhile and then we got word to go back to our hotels and wait for word on when we would resume. We got a call to head back out later that afternoon and ended up teeing off around 5:30 or 6 (it was so late I can't even remember when we teed off!). The latest we could play would be until 8:15, so we were hoping to get at least 9 holes in. I ended up getting in 11 holes before we had to stop.
We then had to turn around and finish our round at 7:00 the next morning and then we had about a 20 minute break and then we went out and played our second round. I played 25 holes of golf on Wednesday and let me tell you, my feet were not happy!! ;)
I didn't play very well the first two days, but the weather conditions weren't great and the course is set up extremely long. I didn't hit the ball bad, I just didn't hit it in the right place. :) I shot a 95 the first round and a 98 the second round.
Today was much better! We had tee times in the morning and it was much nicer weather! I ended up shooting an 87, which I was proud of. I hit the ball better and I actually got some putts to drop. Hopefully tomorrow will be even better and I can end on a high note!
Tennessee is VERY beautiful! We are at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, so it is neat to be able to see the mountains from the course! It makes playing a lot of rounds of golf a lot easier! Unfortunately we haven't had much with time, so we didn't really get to do a lot of sight seeing, but that's okay!
If you search for the NAIA website and then go to women's golf, you should be able to find live scoring if you want to keep track of my last round or look at my scorecards (they're not too pretty haha!) . They have it posted in some of the articles and also on the results page under the national championships link.
Thanks for all of the support! I can't believe it is almost over!
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