the best weekend ever: [finally] part 6

okay, so, memorial day weekend brought: a color race, awesome food, dave matthews band, time with family, and more amazing food.  now i am onto my last post about how my weekend started and ended - with golf.

on friday, my boss and my mentor brought me down to the country club where i would be playing the ct women's open the following monday and tuesday.  this tournament would be my first competitive golf rounds since i finished college golf, about 13 months earlier.  

a few weeks back, i had played the course with my swing coach and shot an 82.  i was very happy to have another practice round to try and improve that score, but i shot another 82.  since i have been working so much, i have probably only played 5 rounds of golf so far this year, so i wasn't expecting to do phenomenally.  [to put it in perspective, in during high school and college i probably would have already played at least 30 rounds of golf by the end of may.]  

i was really happy to have the chance to play in a tournament.  additionally, the open was for amateurs [like me] and professionals, so the competition would be reeeeally good and from all over the country.

after golf on friday, we went to a cute little seafood place on the water - it was delicious.

i played golf on monday with mike and my dad, so i was ready, but tuesday morning i was still nervous.  my parents and mike came to watch, and i had a great time.  the first day i was paired with two professionals, one of whom i played against in college, so it was nice to see a familiar face.  i played pretty solidly, and shot a 79.  i was ecstatic.

the second day, instead of being paired randomly like on day one, we were paired by our day one scores. the other 2 girls i played with on day two were amateurs.  we had a lot of fun!  as i always do when playing with new people, i always ask the typical questions: "where are you from?" "where do/did you go to school?" "how long have you been golfing?"  well, when i asked one of the girls in my group this, she and i came to a funny realization, she had my ex-boyfriend as a math teacher - how weird is that?  and even funnier/stranger, he had showed his students our prom pictures right around their prom.  after all of this, when she told me that she thought i looked familiar at the beginning of the round, who would have known it would be from a prom photo from six years earlier?

seriously, was this 2006 or 1976??

me and my sister at my senior prom

okay, back to golf - so, i also shot a 79 on the second day.  i was really happy!  i ended up tying for 5th among amateurs and tying for 22nd overall.

here are a few photos from the tournament!