Monday, March 8, 2010

Sitting here in Orlando in the middle of one of the craziest stretches of golf in my life.  Let me take you through it.  I completed all four rounds last week in Ocala, FL with the Hooters Tour.  It was ashame because the course was really a special layout, but needless to say there couldn't have been more than five strands of grass on the whole premises.  The greens were pure dirt and it made the whole week a crapshoot.  I told you earlier that I am in the midst of reworking my short game.  Well this wasn't a very good week to test it out because I looked foolish trying to make solid contact off dirt around the greens.  I made the cut which was nice, but didn't do much of anything right after that.  Well last night I flew to Puerto Rico to try the PGA Tour Qualifier.  I ended up missing my first flight from Orlando because my name is on the "no fly list" and I was rushing to make the flight as it was from Ocala.  I took the later flight and got to the resort in Puerto Rico at 1am.  I woke up at 7am and went and played the qualifier blind having not seen the course on 6 hours rest.  It was a demanding golf course off the tee and I hit a few wayward tee balls early and turned in five over par 41 on the first nine.  Just like that all that travel and boom I'm out.  I hurried back to my hotel, gathered my things and got back to the airport to catch a flight back to Orlando tonight.  I was in Puerto Rico for less than 24 hrs.  Some excursion!  Tomorrow morning I am getting up at 6am to drive to Tampa to play the Transitions PGA Tour pre qualifer.  Luckily I have played the course before, so I know where to hit it on this course.  That will mark the 6th straight day of competition.  I will have Wednesday off as I travel from Tampa to Amelia Island, FL in the NE part of the state.  The Hooters Tour will resume Thurs-Sunday.  If I successfully qualify through tomorrow and make the cut in the Hooters Tour event I will have played competitively 11 of the last 12 days.  I have never done that and I am flat out tired and a bit burned out.  The reason I am putting myself up to this is because I want to play on the PGA Tour.  You can't play if you don't try to qualify the last time I checked.  The travel is hectic, I'm exhausted, but I wouldn't have it any other way.  Unfortunately my game still isn't where I need it to be.  I knew that coming in.  If my game was good for this stretch I could have really rolled with it, but w/ the struggles I have had it seems relentless due to the nature of the scheduling.  I would like to play a solid round tomorrow to stop the bleeding and head to my one off day w/ some momentum.  I'll keep you all posted.  Good night, I'm tired. 

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