Obviously it wasn't very difficult to have a 19.00 average at the Marathon. I played really well to get a 19.00 avg on my own and thankfully Anders played one shot better than me and we ended up scoring lower (18.96) than the goal I set for us. :)
It's a really strange that I probably have played my best eternite-tournament ever on the 4th and 5th of April, not exactly when I'm supposed to play my best minigolf. It's a pretty easy course and I've played there a lot of times, but I think the biggest part is that I actually had good concentration on almost all of the 234 holes I played.
Anyone who know me good knows that I normally have a very tough time beeing 100% satisfied with a competition. Having played 19.00 should probably be an exception to this, but I can think of more than a few situations where I was just stupid for playing the shot instead of braking my concentration and starting all over. I will give you a couple of examples of this.
Optical illusion, my 9th round. A slow shot with EC07 Uppsala Damen is played and I've had some rather hard ones in my previous rounds. The thoughts running in my head was "Play slow, but not to slow, but not to hard either. Maybe like before. No slower, but not that much. Don't play it hard." When the clubhead made contact with the ball I knew that the only way it would be an ace was that if the ball passed 0-1cm on the right side of the hole. The ball hit the back edge of the hole 2cm right of the center and jumped out, probably with a big mark in the surface.
Labyrinth, my 12th round. I placed the ball and took aim and then an alarm went off in my head. "The ball's not placed in the exact correct spot. It's too much to the right, you'll miss left!". Thinking that the alarm is rubbish since the ball has always been in the correct place I ignored the warning and played my shot. Guess where it ended up. Yep! Left edge and it came back to me like it was shot out of a cannon!
The conclusion of these interesting thoughts is:
1. Always listen to alarms going off in your head.
2. If you can't agree with yourself on how to play the shot, stop and try again.

Time to sign off and go to lunch. Or maybe I'll just sit here taking a nap to recover some of my lost sleep.