Day 7: Tuesday March 24th- Madeleine Genzer

 




  On day 7, the golf group started bright and early by Aidric giving us a lesson on how to go over how to keep track of our scores while on the golf course.  After going over this for about 15 minutes, we loaded the bus and left around 8:40 for FM Law Park to play the 9 holes!




Right as we arrived at FM Law Park, we realized that we had the entire place mainly to ourselves, as the pros had something going on and weren't there.  Right as we got off the bus, we got in a circle and started to stretch before splitting up into 3 groups to play, and then we all ended up on the golf course shortly after to play!




                                                             (Below, you can see us stretching)



        The first group of 4 left to get a head start on the course, and my group started walking over to hole 1 about 10 minutes after, and we started practicing our shot by using our P club, while playing on the course, we focused on what we had been working on a week prior to that with the professionals and Brandon which helped allot with our aim on our shot and putting on the green. 













All 3 of the groups finished at different times, all while we kept track of our scores until we made it to the very end of hole 9, and Mr Zhou got a Birdie on one of the holes! And after this, we had lunch, and about an hour later, we headed back onto the bus and headed to school to listen to one more presentation on a famous golf course, and to finish off the day, we were researching fun facts about the Houston Open before we go there on Thursday!


    



                                    


                                                           (Below Mr Zhou with his Birdie) 



Overall, today went well. I could say we all had a great time playing on the course today, and enjoyed ourselves, and have improved so much in just one week on the course for most of us!







                                                          (Colin getting ready to hit)



 ( Issa is about to swing her ball)


















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