Friday, April 15, 2011

    I'm going to try and keep this as short as possible because no one likes a whiner.  I ended up missing the cut today by one shot, but the way I did it makes me want to pull my hair out.  I came to my final hole today 5 under for the event and one shot inside the cutline.  I blocked my drive right, but my ball bounded further right on the bounce and continued rolling and rolling until my ball settled right on the out of bounds line.  My playing partners and I got on our hands and knees and couldn't tell whether or not the ball was in bounds or not.  So I pulled out my cell phone and called the rules official.  He came over and pulled out his fishing line.  Under the rules of golf your ball is in play if any part of your ball touches the inside edge of the out of bounds margin.  The rules official wrapped the fishing line around both out of bounds stakes that were in between my ball and pulled the line taught. 
    As it turned out my ball lay less than one centimeter on the wrong side of the fishing line.  My ball was out of bounds and less than one centimeter on my final hole cost me making the cut and being in great position to make a run up the leaderboard and being cut after 36 holes.  I made par with my second ball and signed for a double bogey after the penalty of hitting it OB.  That is how life goes sometimes.  I'm not going to sulk over one crap break.  I am going to hold my head high, learn from what happened and move on.  I head to New Orleans next Thursday morning where I am going to successfully qualify for the PGA Tour Zurich Classic on April 25th.  My game is in great shape, and today isn't going to hinder my confidence moving forward.  I'll update next Friday night with a report from New Orleans after the conclusion of the pre qualifier.

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