As superstitious as R is (all golfers are like that), my spirit has to hop over to a new ball after every Birdie. One, to keep the Birdie ball as a souvenir, and most importantly, there’s only one Birdie in the life of a golf ball…right?

Well, it’s been a while since we had a Birdie (fluke‘s don’t count), so we were a bit rusty in the procedures after hitting one. We were on the Par 5 Ruby 3 at Discovery Bay and hit a spectacular drive (off the yellows though). Left with 230 yards to the green, we opted to play safe and lay up to around 100 yards. Spot on, almost…115. Good enough. A pitching wedge got us onto the green in regulation, but we were 45 feet from the hole. No way could we get this in…hold on…smack right in the center of the cup! BIRDIE…

We were so happy, at least we remembered to take a picture of the hole, we forgot to switch balls. So we teed off #4 (Par 4) with the Birdie ball and landed right in the middle of the fairway. There was a temporary green on this hole, about 60 yards shorter. This took the elevated green out of the picture and it was a simple pitch of about 75 yards. Got pin high to about 3 feet from the hole. But how do you putt on a temporary green? The surface was so uneven and the grass so long…AGGRESSIVE! Straight in the hole.

Oh no! We forgot to change balls at the 3rd! So two Birdies in a row, with the same ball…Hmmm…Maybe there can be more than one Birdie in the life of a golf ball…

100320 Discovery Bay, Ruby 3 (Par 5)

100320 Discovery Bay, Ruby 4 (Par 4) temporary green