Awesome assignment- I was photographing the high school golf team at Farm Neck, which is right on the edge of Sengekontacket Pond, which itself empties into the ocean (it’s the pond in Jaws that the shark swims into). As if the scenery weren’t enough to seal the deal, I got to drive my own golf cart all over the grounds. YES.
Second time shooting golf for the Missourian. This was a loooooong tournament–and I only shot the back 9–which lasted about five hours, including a rain delay and the trophy presentations at the end. Whew. On the plus side, I got to use the 300mm, which I love…on the minus side, I had to handhold it because the monopod wouldn’t attach to the lens, and I needed to be able to quickly switch from horizontal to vertical framing. Whew.
The girl who won the tourney, Chelsea Schriewer (wearing the black shirt; Alisha Matthews, in the stripes, placed second), won by twelve strokes, tied the overall course record (as shot by a man or a woman) with a 66, AND got her first hole-in-one on the 16th. On the 16th, while she was hole-in-one-ing, I was, of course, changing lenses. CHANGING LENSES. Rotten, terrible luck. That’ll teach me to go out without two camera bodies.
Once again, these uploaded a little undersaturated…
