Friday, August 6, 2010
85. There I said it. That's how many strokes it took me to get around today. I have no one to blame but myself. I took a quadruple bogey early and steadied the ship by making two birdies to close out my front nine and turn in two over par. However, a triple bogey on my 10th hole derailed me. For the first time in quite a long time I let the golf demons get to me and I more or less put my mental toughness in a blender. Sure, I wasn't hitting it my best, but I could have grinded it out coming in and I didn't do that. I am not mad about shooting 85, I am mad that I more or less lost it mentally. I tried to put the blame on the fact that I was playing in a group today with 4 amateurs playing a scramble and it took us 5 hours to play. I was back on a junior golf level with the way I acted on the course. I didn't throw any clubs, or shout any obsenities, but I didn't have the swagger of a professional golfer. I'm no psychologist, but I think I realized that I still haven't let the Turning Stone Monday Qualifier go in my head. It just was totally uncharacteristic for me to fold it in like I did today, and the only thing I can rationalize is I am still held up on the ramifications of Monday. Well this shocked my system the hard way back into reality and I can now move forward with no regrets. This was my highest round of golf as a professional and it was embarrasing. The good news is the sun will come up tomorrow and I have a final day tomorrow to play a solid round of golf and erase this 3rd round disaster from my memory forever. I am playing great golf, I just slipped up today and for some reason flipped the switch off. I'm going to flip the switch back on tomorrow rest assured. I head from here to Springfield, MO for the Nationwide Monday qualifier. You never want to make an event bigger than it is, but I really want this one on Monday. It was last year that the Springfield Nationwide event left me 2 shots away from changing my life forever. I need to play my way back into the tournament, so I can give myself that same chance.
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Best wishes today and next week. I hope history repeats or improves itself next week.
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