CRANDIC

I am very excited for tomorrow when I get to participate in the CRANDIC golf meet. For those of you that don't know, it stands for Cedar Rapids AND Iowa City so those are the schools that will be there.

The only bad part about this meet is that I actually have to get up earlier than when I would wake up for school on a normal day. I will wake up around 5:30 and start getting all of my stuff together. Then I have to run out by Cedar Rapids Toyota to pick a girl up, and go back across town all the way out towards the Cedar Rapids Airport. Yes, we are playing at Airport National Golf Course which I think is a really bad move.

Airport is definitely the smallest and easiest golf course I have ever played at. It doesn't make sense why they would have one of the biggest meets of the year at such a small golf course. There are actually 27 holes jam packed in just a small area. You can click HERE if you want to go to their website and see the map of holes. The par of this course on each nine holes is only a 33. That means there are a lot of easy and small par 3's and not very many more difficult par 5's. I think that for this meet they should schedule it to somewhere that is a more normal par 35 or 36. Jones, Ellis, somewhere in Iowa city, or even Twin Pines would be better than Airport. Don't get me wrong I am not an exceptional golfer, but I sometimes like a challenge.

The thing that sucks about having the meet at airport is that for most of the holes you shouldn't even use your driver. This is a problem for me because driving is usually my strong point. The holes are pretty short to drive so for most of them you can tee off with your 7 iron or your hybrid clubs.

So it's time to start thinking of my goals today, I have a number of them.

1. Don't suck- Haha the most simplest goal there is. I want to do better than at least one girl at the entire meet today. I really don't want to finish last out of 70 some golfers.

2. Have a fairway on at least 7 of the holes- A fairway is on your first shot, when you drive and it lands in the nice moved area you get to put an F on your scorecard. If you go into the rough, sand, water, or you lose your ball then you can't. This is one of the only paces where having an F is good. I want to have a lot of them today.

3. Don't chip over the green- If there is anything I need to work on most, it is my chipping and putting. Chipping is when you are fairly close to the green, but not on it. You have to hit your wedge and the goal is to get on the green. This is not a far away shot, because that is called pitching. Chipping is very very close to the green. Anyways, most meets I have at least one really bad hole when my score is over a 10. This is because when I try to do the short shots on, I hit too hard and go to the other side of the green. I usually do this multiple times and get really frustrated with myself. Last meet I shot a 12 on a hole because of this. I have practiced my chipping all week at practice so I hope that it pays off today.

4. Score less than 115- It's airport. It's easy. This should be no problem, except for the fact that last time I played here I shot horrible! I'm thinking that if I have a 57 and a 58 that would equal 115 so hopefully I can do better than that for the 18 holes. I have played the entire course before and a lot of it is short, so I hope this can go good.

5. Have fun- I am going to be at this meet for like 7 hours tomorrow. If I don't have fun I might die. I just need to remember that I am out of school, it's going to be a nice day, and I get to be out golfing. One of my favorite parts of golfing for Kennedy is meeting all of the golfers from the other schools. I don't even know how many I have met so far but they are usually always fun to hang with. You get to talk about school and sports and how bad we are at golf and whatever is on our mind. Last meet I sung to my girls that I golfed with the whole time and it was lots of fun. Whatever happens I just have to make the most of it.

Overall I am really excited to golf tomorrow! CRANDIC here we come!

Wish me luck,
Amanda