Well – we just got home from dinner, and saw that Alabama was on a 22-6 run to finish the half. Alabama would obviously prefer the score of the game to be in the 80s / 90s / 100s – but at the end of the day, they still take a 35-32 lead into halftime.

Since I don’t have much knowledge of what happened. I basically saw Rylan Griffen hit a three pointer from the corner to give Alabama a 29-28 lead, and then it looks a minute later Mark Sears hit a three-pointer to extend the lead to 5.

So – since it is at half, lets talk about the rest of the day. I was stressed out about the games – and realizing that I was sitting a lot, so figured for some exercise, I would get a tee-time to go golfing.

Even in trying to get some mental and physical health, I can’t seem to do it in a sane way. Knowing that we were going to visit with Mary Kate and Kate this evening, I wanted to get an early time. So, with the reality that I am falling asleep at the end of two exciting games last night, I woke up at 6:45 am so that I could go golf. Because it makes sense when you are not getting any sleep and you finally have a day you could sleep in to get up before 7 am.

And of course, I chose to golf at Royal New Kent. I never remember breaking 100 at this course before and I was a better handicap than I am now. I realized how crazy I am as the starter really encourages us to play the white tees – instead of the black, gold or blue tees. He then mentions that the course was ranked as the 15th toughest course in the United States.

This might be the first time I have played the white tees here – it definitely made the course more playable. The Blue tees are 7440 yards, followed by Gold (7159), Black (6733) and White (6194). So, yeah – cutting almost 1000 yards off the course definitely helped make it playable.

I was playing really well – my putting was atrocious, but still shot 50 on the first 9. Then I went on a run. I got a par on 11, a par on 13 and a tap-in birdie on 14 to make a run. Even with a horrendous triple bogey / triple bogey finish, I still managed to sneak out a 96. Still a bunch of things to work on with my golf game – but it made me feel good to hit some good shots, be out on the golf course (which was beautiful except for the greens which had some patchy spots). And of course the adrenaline shots of knocking a blind approach right next to the hole definitely helped.

Well – looks like the Alabama / Clemson game has started back up. Maybe I will get a chance to enjoy some basketball tonight.