Slowly improving

As part of the festivities for last weekend's wedding, there was a 9-hole golf outing between the rehearsal and the dinner at River Oaks. We played the front nine and my Uncle Scooter and his girlfriend were part of my group. Things started off brutal enough for me with a 10 on the first hole, things would have been better if I didn't pitch it over the green and have to take a drop. Oh well. One part of my game that has been acceptable has been my putting. I made a 6-foot breaker to make par on the par 3 4th hole after hitting my first shot short of the green.
However, my solid putting abandoned me on the par 3 7th hole. I hit my first shot to about 10 feet, leaving me a slight downhill putt for my first birdie. I marked my ball and kept telling myself to make sure I hit it hard enough as decelerating has been an issue for me with some of my short game. Sure enough, I brought the putter back and watched the ball roll about 4 feet and stop. Brutal. I didn't even realize I decelerated, again. Thankfully I was able to put the par putt in the heart to avoid complete embarrassment.

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I can't write about the Twins. There are too many problems with that team. For the most part, they're not even in games, even if they are close. Nobody is hitting and if they do hit, they lose games like they did the other night, 15-7 (thanks Jesse Crain). I have no faith in that lineup, nobody outside the 3-4-5 slots can hit, especially with guys on base.

When Joe Mauer gets healthy, it will be an interesting race between him and Jeff Cirillo to see who can hit into more double plays. It could be a three horse field with Choppy Ford back in the lineup. Nice outing today. Three hits for Santana. Too bad he gave up 2 solo homers in the 7th. One would have been enough to sink that ship. By the way, this was posted before the game was over, they may sneak a base hit in the 9th.