Exactly 48 minutes after walking off No. 18 at Rebsamen Golf Course with Jeff Krupsaw and Randall Hunhoff, I started the Levy Loop and completed it in 24:42 with splits of 12:19 and 12:23. My legs were dead. It was still hot and humid but pleasantly dark and quiet and I felt pretty good, considering.
Randall and I teed off at 4:20 p.m. It was blisteringly hot and as muggy as it gets here. Jeff caught us at No. 5. I had three doubles and a bogey through the first four. We got about a 10-minute break in the shade as we waited for Jeff. I drank a liter of cold water and took four ibuprofen, and doubled No. 5. So, four doubles in five holes. But for the rest of the day, I had one double and one triple, seven bogies and four pars. I scored 93, with nines of 48 and 45 — my best round this year. The ibuprofen and a Zone-diet candy bar I ate in the middle of the No. 8 fairway saved me. Plus it rained lightly the first three holes on the back and the temperature dropped into the mid-80s, I think. We finished in near darkness. It was about 10 minutes short of being as dark as it was the night Erin Vratil holed out from 90 yards last summer and none of us knew it until we found her ball in the hole.
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