Alex, Kirsten and Josh joined me for a round today. +6 degrees and 17 full greens open. Normal Texas scramble rules, 3 tee shots to be used by each player. Alex as you would expect from a scratch player was very consistant and his tee shots were spectacularly long !!! which made it difficult for the other 3 of us to use ours. Kirsten was also very consistant and Alex was impressed with her smooth swing. I was very impressed with her putting which she has practiced and it certainly shows. Josh showed a marked improvement from last week and is becoming a better player and I'm sure if he keeps it up over the winter he will be ready for the new season ahead.
We managed an 8 under par 64 which was helped by Alex finding the greens on 3 and 11. He is off tomorrow to St Andrews for a 9 o'clock start and 6 hours of Academy coaching. Josh asked me after Alex had launched another monster drive down 12 (nearly to the tree on the left) how he did it and I told him, practice and lots of it. It means a lot to me that Alex gives up his time to come out with the younger players and encourage them to get better and it proves that he will make a great Junior Captain in 2017.
I would like to wish you all a very merry Xmas and a successful new year and may all your golfing aspirations come to fruition (or dreams come true) 2017 is going to be huge so get practicing, we have so many talented youngsters and Strathmore juniors will prove again how good they have become.
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