Hello from Kodak, Tennessee.  The last four days from a golf standpoint have not been classified under "fun".  On Monday in Davenport, Iowa I struggled to a four over par 75 on a tough golf course and missed advancing through US Open local qualifying by two strokes.  A one round qualifier is always either feast or famine, and my game really never surfaced all day.  It has been very painful for me the last few days I am not going to lie because I really wanted to play this year at Congressional in our nation's capitol.  It wasn't meant to be for whatever reason.  I ventured from Iowa to Tennessee where I now stand for my 7th Hooters Tour event of the season.  It is a nice course we are playing this week, but the scores are going to be tremendously low because the course is playing very player friendly with nice greens and bountiful wedge shot opportunities on the vast majority of holes.  I struggled again today with an even par 72 that is going to put me at days end way down the leaderboard.  I want to say it wasn't a hangover from my play Monday, but I know internally I still have been struggling to cope with not reaching my goal.
    A lot of times things happen for a reason.  Fifteen minutes ago I was really down in the dumps about my round today as I was going to lunch at Subway right after I signed my card.  The Subway employee asked the guy behind me how he was doing.  He replied "Not great, I just lost my job from the post office."  Here I am sulking about a bad round of golf and this poor guy just got fired from the only thing he knew.  After paying for my meal I sat down and the table next to me all bowed their heads, grasped hands and said Grace before they ate.  I once again came to the realization that you know what, I really do have it great.  I was hungry, so I decided to go eat without even thinking about it.  There are millions of people out there that when they get hungry they don't have the luxury to just eat at will.  I still am frustrated with my golf the last few days, but I quickly gained some much needed perspective at lunch today.  Tomorrow is a new day.  I am going to play great and know that I really am fortunate to be in the shoes that I'm in regardless of the outcome.  Thanks for reading.