Saturday, March 13, 2010
I'm going to try and make this short because I need to close this chapter in a hurry. I ended up missing the cut in this marathon of a tourney this morning. I got in 10 holes Friday night before the sun set. I closed last night birdieing 3 of my last 4 holes in the dark to get my round to one under par for the day, 3 over for the tournament. I knew in my head this morning I had 8 holes to make 3 more birdies. After getting up and down on 11 and 12 this morning for pars after shaky iron approach shots, I made a routine par on 13. Thus I had 5 holes left to make 3 birdies. I played 14 like a professional and hit my pitching wedge from the middle of the fairway to 1 foot for a tap in birdie. 4 holes to go, 2 more birdies needed. On fifteen this hole summed up my first two rounds perfectly. I got away with a drive that was technique wise not very good that should have leaked a little bit right, but I saved it on the downswing with my hands and released the club and the ball found the middle of the fairway. I had 197 yards to the pin on this par 5 for my second shot. On the second shot I leaked it again just a hair right of the target. It ended up plugged in the face of the right bunker so far down that I couldn't see one dimple on the ball. I was only 20 feet from the flag hitting my 3rd shot, but I did well to even get the ball out of the severely buried lie I was in. Had that ball been two inches left of where it ended it would have kicked left and I would have had a realistic eagle chance. Instead I chunked my 4th shot in the sand and it once again buried in the lip of the bunker. The comedy of errors and just plain aweful luck from one swing resulted in a double bogey seven and ended my week on a sour note. A matter of inches sometimes is what can make this game so brutal or so rewarding. I am hoping that the inches go the other way on Monday when I tee it up in the Transitions Monday Qualifier in Tampa. I most definitely earned my spot in the qualifier getting through the brutal pre qualifier last Tuesday as mentioned. If I can tweak my swing just ever so slightly where I can get the club moving in sync better with my body, the ball is going to start flying straighter and on target and I should have a wonderful chance at playing a fantastic round of golf on Monday. Going to go get a good workout in, since this is hard to do on the road and have a nice meal. Good evening and I'm going to get it done on Monday. It's my time.
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