This is The World According to Buchs - Keepin’ it moving since 2003!

Rough weekend on the course. Good friend Mr. Andy Eberhardy was in town, so we scheduled a round with our Celebrity Fourth at Currie Park for Saturday AM. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate. What began as a mist on the 2nd hole turned into a drizzle by the 5th, and between the start and end of the 9th a steady down pour.

Had I not been in the middle of the Greatest Round Of My Life, I wouldn’t have been too upset about it. At the end of 9, Mr. Buchs Chump and I were tied at +12 (although I was playing bogey golf after the first six - the last three did me in). There was no chance of getting back out there, so we took our rain checks and went home.

Saturday night, we debated about what to do. The consesus was that we would head back out on Sunday morning and try to finish the round. If, on the chance that the starter could fit us in for a full round, we would play that and ignore the previous day’s results. At one point I suggested both - playing the back 9 to finish that round, and THEN moving on to play a full 18 afterwards. As the temperature and dew point were steadily climbing, we abandoned that idea, as well as my sterling side from Saturday.

Teeing off on #10, I immediately backed myself into a corner with a 7-7-9 start, but came back to play the last 6 holes in at +5 for a 50. The the heat, humidity, dehydration, and fatigue all joined forces to take revenge upon me as I shot a 59 on the back.

The good news: I have rediscovered my putting stroke. Over the course of both days, I hit a couple of 12-footers and was generally steady from within 5-6 feet - highlighted by a 10-foot-off-the-fringe-par-save on the final hole Sunday.

The bad news: my driving on Saturday was spectacular. Sunday, not so much. I haven’t sliced all season, but stared spraying shots to the right. I’m going to write that off to getting tired and lazy.

In other news: this guy put up some pretty good numbers yesterday. Too little, too late, I’m afraid - the engraver has already stenciled my name in on the trophy.