Jamaica 2015 Day 3

We had to get up and be prepared for breakfast at 7am because today was the first day of the golf tournament.  We made it in time to get something to eat then we had to load onto buses and were driven the 15 minutes or so until we were at the Sandals course in Ocho Rios.  There we were given a chance to get more coffee of quick food (mostly fruit) while the sorted everything out. We were supposed to wear team colors (meaning country colors) for the first day of the tournament. Daniela and I had some Peru shirts that we basically made (not easy to get Peru shirts of the correct color i Boston), but I started out with a Captain America T-Shirt which most folks laughed at quite well. I did indeed switch to Peru colors before we took the group picture and started and all of that though.

We were split up into teams by nationality so we had a couple from Peru where he was a travel agent but she worked for Avianca Airlines.  They were Juan and Yanina. Our caddies were Alfred and Shirley. They were there to give us advise and help us through the game.  We started at hole 7 and had to play through all 18 holes in the course. There were 17 teams and it would have taken to long everyone from 1.  I started as poorly as you would expect with balls rolling on the ground. Eventually though I was doing a fair bit better by the end. I would not say I was good but I was definitely much improved. Alfred did a lot to help me through it all. I still have a fair slice to the left, but it is not as bad as when I started.  We also met a golf pro from the course who played a couple holes with us and  gave us tips and helped us score better for those holes towards the end.  He could easily hit the ball 250 yards plus. He was left handed also which was neat though the last shot he did was right handed using someone else's club and he still hit that as far as the left handed shots he was making. Quite impressive.

The tournament for the day took a few hours and we were among the last teams to finish (not the last but later).  We got the bus back to the hotel and I crashed for the rest of the afternoon while Daniela went down to the beach and the pool. At 8pm we went to the dinner which was buffet Mexican downstairs in the hotel.The chili and the fajitas were good. After that was a couple hours of Fiesta Latina with a DJ who didn't know enough about Latin music but they survived. The party was supposed to move on to Liquid night club in the hotel but it is such a small night club one of the Sandals people called it the closet. We decided to go to the piano bar and have a drink. The pianist played a couple of songs for us and then left. We stayed outside for a few more minutes then headed to the room to get some well deserved sleep after a long day.