It started so well.

I made par on my first hole of the season!

It didn’t go quite that well the rest of the round, but even so, my first round of the year was a lot of fun. It was terrific to get back out on the course and felt great to just be out there. I’ll post some video from the round once I get a chance to edit it. There are a few choice words I have to remove!

I’m sure Dave will comment about his own round, but for me, it was extremely encouraging to hit the ball as well as I did today. I’m really excited about playing this year and am hopeful that my scores will go down dramatically through the year.

My driver was good, if inconsistent. I hit it straight except for one hole where I really, really sliced it hard right. Other than that, the fairway wood felt great as did my hybrids. I’m going to have to really focus some energy on making putts though. I was well on my way to 40 putts if I had played all 18 holes. I only played 13 holes today because I had to coach my daughter’s softball team this afternoon.

Stay tuned for more Golf is Hard TV shows this week, we’ve got some golf goodness coming up including shows giving you a personal tours of the different golf social networks including Stracka, OOBGolf and The Golf Space.

Despite feeling like junk today, I dragged myself to the range to hit some balls and get in some work in anticipation of my first round of the year tomorrow. Unfortunately, I’ll have to cut it short as I have a softball practice to run 4 hours after I tee-off which sort of stinks. Either way though, I literally am jumping out of my skin looking forward to kicking off what is sure to be the greatest golf season of my life!

Yes, I’m pretty jacked up…

At the range, I hit the ball pretty well and am really loving my new Nike driver. I’ve been working really hard on my posture in particular and can really feel the difference when I get it right. That said, I think I may be standing up as I make contact with the ball. Plenty to work on for sure!

I also had a chance to get some chipping and putting work in which was nice. I have a lot to learn in that part of my game, I feel like I have stone hands and hit everything either way to soft, or I completely crush it. That said, I hit some great shots today using my sand wedge out of fairly deep rough onto the green.

More to come tomorrow for sure!

One of the best things about the Internet is meeting new and interesting people from around the world. Andy, from Home of Golf TV seems like a great guy and is producing some terrific online videos that I wanted to share.

I’m reposting his first episode because it really sets the stage for what he’s up to but would mention that he managed to snag some time with Nick Faldo recently.

Find the Fairways.com is giving away some great golf freebies… to enter the contest write a blog post (that’s what this is) about “What’s in your golf bag?” And you can also tag another golfer! I’ve been tagged by two bloggers… Scott from Swing Reminders and Pink Diva Golf. How lucky am I to have been tagged twice! Yes!

What kind of golf bag?

• Black Slazenger Stand Bag

• Driver: Nike 4450 I think… ($99 bucks with stiff shaft straight out of the used bin at Golf Galaxy!). Can’t wait to play it for the first time soon.
  
• TaylorMade R5 3 Wood
• Tommy Armour 855 - love these hybrids!
• TaylorMade rac OS2 Irons
• Odyssey White Hot blade putter
• Warrior (beware of spam) wedges

• Tees
• Various pencils, ball markers and more
• Swing reminders
• Tape (for my fingers)
• 2 or 3 gloves (no particular brand, whatever is cheap)
• Tons of balls
• A few sleeves of RAW balls
• Old bag of chips
• Half full water bottle
  

While I fix Episode 14, Posture 2… what a mess! Coming soon!