CCIW Championship part 1

Now the weekend is over and so is the first part of the CCIW Championship, but first to St. Francis Invite. We didn't play that well and we couldn't win our title again but our focus has been on the CCIW so back to that now..

During the first day it was really windy, some of the people said it was 40 miles/hour so it was really hard to play. The day after is was "only" about 30 miles/hour wind and just after a few holes it started to rain, but that didn't effect me much. Then on the 9th hole it started to snow, yeah I'm telling the truth. After a couple of holes it got so cold and at one point I couldn't feel some of my fingertips. I didn't play that bad actually, but my finish was really bad so I finished with a 83.

Overall we're currently in 5th place and about 30 strokes from the leaders which is pretty much, but it's still 36 holes to go!

//Kristian Söderström - Chicago, IL

Second tournament tomorrow

The weekend is over and I have had my first and only class for the day. During the weekend we had our first tournament at Red Tail Run GC which I wrote about before. We didn't do that well, but not bad either. I shot 81+78 and hit so many good shots the last day, but my putting was awful. Overall I think we finished at 8th place out of maybe 17 teams.

Tomorrow we got our next tournament at Wedgewood GC and some of you that have been following by blog maybe recognizing that name since last semester we won that tournament and shot school record. It's going to be fun to play there again and we're definitely trying to win again. Last time I shot 74 there and I'm going to try to beat that score tomorrow.

//Kristian Söderström - Chicago, IL

First tournament

The weekend is over and so is our qualifying rounds. I started both rounds really bad, but I bounced back and played really overall. I shot 76 (+5) on Saturday and 74 (+3) on Sunday. The funny thing about these two rounds was that I was 10 over par at the three first hole at the course and then 2 under at the rest and on Sunday I shot 3 under par (32) on the back 9 which was awesome, I have never had such a good score on 9 holes, but it doesn't matter really since you have to play good for 18 holes and not just 9. Since I shot +8 over two days I'm currently ranked number 1 in the team, but it's close.

On Friday I'm going down to Decatur, IL with the top 5 guys and Coach Rob for our first tournament. We're going to play 18 holes on Friday and then 18 on Saturday as well. I'm really excited and it would be even better if I would get my new putter before that. If not I get to borrow Coach Rob's putter, thanks Coach!

When I get back from the tournament we probably get to talk with each other again which will be great and these couple of days when we can't talk to each other will probably do good!

Here is the course we're going to play: http://www.decatur-parks.org/redtailrun/layout.htm
From back tee it's about 7350 (!!) yards, crazy..

//Kristian Söderström - Chicago, IL

Qualifying rounds

This weekend we got our qualification rounds which is going to determine which guys in the team that's going to play the first tournament next weekend. Most of us have been playing at least once at Highland Park CC which is out home course and I think all of us are excited for the weekend.
Tomorrow I'm going to play with Andrew and Axel which is going to be fun and I think we'll make some kind of leader board for Sunday.

Tomorrow it's also 6 weeks left until I'm going back to Sweden again which feels good. It's only 6 or 8 weeks left until I get to be with you again, I really miss that.

Next time I'm writing here you will get the results from the weekend!

//Kristian Söderström - Chicago, IL