Well long story short, I will not be playing in this year's British Open.  Call it heartbreak, call it meltdown, I am definitely a bit beaten down after this journey that ended far too quickly.  36 holes in one day is ALOT of golf.  I teed off on Tuesday morning at 8:20am under eerily calm conditions.  The winds subsided for all of my morning round and allowed plenty of good scores to be registered by the field for the opening half of the day.  I struggled to a one over par 69, but still left myself in position with a good afternoon round to make my move.  After the morning 18, three under par was the number to get in.  Just as I rolled in my putt on 18, a huge line of thunderstorms coming from the southeast in France rolled in and led to a 4 hour delay between my first and second rounds.
    As I sat in the clubhouse with my caddie, Ben Scott, we listened to all the locals who had come out to watch talk among themselves about how Rye Golf Club was going to show it's teeth for the second round once the storms subsided.  I teed off my second round at 5:15 pm and knew that conditions would be windy throughout and that a well played round would put me in reach of a spot in the British Open.  On my opening nine holes, I began to confidently plot my way around the windswept links with perfect precision.  The pictures above indicate how firm the course really was.  Well thought out shots that followed the terrain would be rewarded.  I birdied my ninth hole of the day and turned in a 31 strokes.  I was back in the tournament and I was nine holes away from the promised land.  I just needed to keep the momentum going and play the back nine in one under par and I would have been in a playoff.  As I walked from nine green to ten tee box something caught my eye.  On a table in the clubhouse rested the British Open trophy itself, the Claret Jug.  For some reason, after seeing this trophy I got ahead of myself and began envisioning hoisting the trophy.   
    That turned out to be a curse in disguise, as right from the onset of my back nine I began losing control of my driver.  Left tee shot after left tee shot left me scrambling on Rye Golf Club from the tall heather grass that guarded the firm, brown baked fairways.  The one under par I needed was a distant dream as I finished my round at 9:20pm at night and the reality soon set in that nine holes of poor driving at the wrong time left me on the wrong side of the leaderboard.  I was so close to reaching my goal, but knowing how close I was with the right attitude can help me immensely for the remainder of the summer.  With no rest for the weary, I am teeing off today in Milan, Illinois for the John Deere Classic pre qualifier.  Yesterday was a long journey back home to the USA, but I feel well rested after a nice night's sleep and am ready to get after it today.  The game of golf just begs you to sit back on your loins and dwell on the past when things don't go your way.  I am not going to allow myself to go down that road.  Forward I go, and I know great things are well within grasp here on the foreseeable horizon.  Thanks for reading.  I can only be held down for so long.

It's the eve of qualifying and I am tucked away on the third floor of a bed and breakfast in Rye, England. I have had a full two days of quality practice in at Rye Golf Club under sunny skies and warm temperatures. The drive down to the course on Saturday went smoothly as I took my time and really paid attention to the road. Tomorrow on the golf course I am going to need equal the attention as rain is in the forecast. The golf course plays to a par of 68 which is quite unusual. There are blind shots to be found all over the course so it really helped to get 2 practice rounds in. It is as links a course as you can find where the elements really can make or break the severity of the course. As I mentioned, mentally I'm ready for any sort of weather and I going to go out tomorrow for 36 holes with the utmost patience. I'll be playing my game to the best of my ability and when I add up my total at days end I firmly believe that my scores will be indicative of my true potential. It's off to bed for me and I look forward to a great day tomorrow on the old links of Rye Golf Club. Thanks for reading.

I'm minutes from departing USA toward England and am ready to make things happen next week. I had a great week of practice and can't wait to put my best golf together for 36 holes on Tuesday. I have my old teammate Ben Scott, who lives in England, caddying for me. I am fully prepared for mother nature to throw everything but the kitchen sink at me. My game is sharp, my confidence is high, now I just need to go out and be myself and be patient. I can't guarantee I'll have Internet in England, but it I do I'll try and update before Tuesday. Thanks for reading and I'm ready to go play some awesome golf.

    Once again sitting in the airport thinking about what could have been.  I gave it my all today and shot a two under par 70 but fell three shots shy of the number needed to qualify.  I have really been upbeat all year after disappointments, but this one for whatever reason really stings.  I felt that today was going to be my day and I was ready to play great.  I chipped in for par today on my fourth hole and I thought that was the swing of momentum I was going to need to make a surge the rest of the day.  However, missed putts and several untimely poor breaks stalled any momentum I had and I just couldn't scratch and claw my way far enough into the red by days end.  I hate losing.  I mean I really hate losing and I am sick of losing.  I am headed home tonight and I know tomorrow I will feel better about today and realize I actually did alot of things well today, but with the nature of Monday qualifiers didn't register quite enough birdies.  So where do I head from here?  I am going to stay the course and keep working harder than my competition.  I will be putting in some quality gym time and really keep after it on the range this week in terms of further refining the swing changes I am trying to make.
    I leave on Saturday for London, England.  I fully intend not to return back to the United States without having successfully qualified for this year's British Open.  I keep saying that my game is really feeling great and how confident and excited I am.  With that being said, I am beyond due for this skill set of mine to be rewarded.  I know I can't press and become impatient, but I have to keep believing that.  Golf is filled with adversity and this has been a definite period where I can't let it get the best of me.  Okay so enough with the serious talk.  I'll leave you all with a funny story.  I'm sure most everyone has seen Tin Cup.  If you haven't, well first shame on you, and second go get out from the cave you were living in.  Yesterday in my practice round I was playing right in front of Lee Janzen.  What makes this funny is on two consecutive holes I was over a hill where he couldn't see me.  He hit into our group with his driver and the first time I had to jump out of the way so the ball didn't hit me.  On the next hole his ball nailed my golf cart some five feet away from me.  I thought this was a surreal moment.  Instead of Roy Mcavoy shooting chili peppers up Lee Janzen's ass, Lee Janzen was shooting chili peppers up my ass.  Pardon my French, just quoting the movie.  My, oh my!!!!  Anyway I'll update before I leave for England later this week.  The really only part of this upcoming trip I am worried about is the two hour car ride I have to make on my way from London airport to the course I am playing.  If I can survive driving once again on the wrong side of the road, the golf part is going to seem easy!  Over and out from Hartford, Connecticut.

    Hello from Hartford, Connecticut.  I have been up in the New England area since last Tuesday and have had quite an eventful weekend passing time between the PGA Tour Travelers Championship pre qualifier and Monday qualifier which is taking place tomorrow.  I breezed through the pre qualifier last Wednesday with a 73 and headed 2 hours down the road to Boston and spent four nights with a great friend of mine Dan Costigan.  My first night in Boston the Bruins won the Stanley Cup and the whole city was out to watch it.  We had a great time.  On Friday I was fortunate enough to play at a golf course called Myopia Hunt Club.  It is in the picture above and is ranked as the 32nd best Classic course in America.  What a treat that was to play.  Friday night Dan and I took in a game at Fenway.  What a special place for baseball fans and you could just feel the history oozing out of the park.  As an avid sports fan this was definitely something I was excited to check off the bucket list.  Finally to round out my weekend in Boston we went to the parade that the city had for the Bruins for winning the Stanley Cup.  It seemed like the whole city once again was out and everyone was so passionate and excited to be there.  It could not have been a better last four days and it was great to take it all in.
    Getting back to business, tomorrow is going to be a great day for me.  I had a quality practice round today and put together a wonderful game plan on how to attack Gillette Ridge Country Club.  I have the greens completely mapped out and know the exact shots I need to hit tomorrow in order to be successful.  I am excited about the way I am hitting the ball and truly believe tomorrow is going to offer me up a great reward as long as I can play my game, walk with confidence, believe in myself from start to finish, and finally have patience.  I tee off at 8:27 am tomorrow and look forward to updating everyone with some great news.  Thanks for reading.

    I am back in Saint Louis for the week.  The Greensboro qualifier did not go quite as planned for the entirety of my round.  I shot a two under par 70 and missed qualifying by four shots.  I turned in two over par and shot myself out of the qualifier but I was really proud of the way I hung in there on the back nine and shot a four under par 32 to close out my round.  It can be hard to take away the positives after missing on back to back days in qualifiers but I did do some great things and can move forward from there.  As I said before this month and a half period I am really narrowing my competitive focus on PGA Tour sanctioned qualifiers.  These events require a slightly different breed of golf because they are one day events and require a nice round of golf to get through.  I will be in Saint Louis over the weekend before I head to Hartford, Connecticut next week to qualify for the PGA Tour Travelers Championship.  The last two times I have played golf in the Northeast I have missed qualifying for the events both times in playoffs so I definitely want a bit of redemption.  My game really is rounding into form and I just need for one break to fall my way.  I've been logging alot of hours in the gym and course lately and am excited for it all to payoff shortly.  There would be no greater satisfaction than entering my first PGA Tour event as a professional in Connecticut two weeks from now.  I'll keep you posted.  Thanks for reading.

Hello. I am currently in the Memphis airport waiting to board a plane to Greensboro, NC. I shot a very disappointing 73 today in the St. Jude PGA Tour qualifier and missed by 4 shots. I was extremely excited to play today because there were only 59 players for 4 spots, but my game went into hibernation from the sixth hole on. I three putted the par 5 fifth hole for par and played the final 12 holes in two over.
It is critical for me to put this behind me before my feet hit the ground in Greensboro because I play again tomorrow in The Rex Hospital Open Nationwide Qualifier. This is the only opportunity I have ever had to play in two PGA Tour sanctioned qualifiers on back to back days so I am hoping this mulligan I have been given tomorrow will end up with a better result. I am playing great. Today was just a small hiccup and tomorrow in Greensboro is going to be an exceptional day. Keep your fingers crossed, I'm ready to play great tomorrow.