Hello from Saint Louis, Missouri.  After spending the last three weeks on the road it is nice to come home and relax for a week.  Since I last updated I had a bum day at the Monday qualifier in Lawrence, Kansas for the Kansas City Monday qualifier on the Nationwide tour.  From there I went to Gulfport, Mississippi for a Hooters Tour event.  After two rounds in Mississippi I was in 9th place heading into the weekend.  My game was really sharp, but I had a poor showing over the weekend and dropped to 40th place at the conclusion of the tournament.  I have been playing some great golf lately, I just need a little bit more consistency day in and day out to string together 4 rounds so I can contend for a title.  I now need to turn the  small spark of fire into an inferno.  I am very close and I can feel it.  I head out Monday for two consecutive Hooters Tour events in Augusta, Georgia and then Columbia, South Carolina.  These are my last two regular season events on the Hooters Tour for the season so I really want to go out in style.  The week after South Carolina I have a very exciting opportunity coming up that I can't wait to reveal to you guys in the coming week or two.  In the mean time stay tuned and I look forward to updating with reports about playing some great golf.

    Breakthrough!  Today was a really special day for me.  Yesterday I knew I had a heck of a mountain to climb today with my remaining 13 holes.  I made 6 birdies this morning like I needed and posted a 68 to make the cut.  To finally dig down deep when I really needed it really lights a fire under me.  I play week in and week out to win tournaments, but today felt like a win even though I barely made the cut.  The obstacles I faced this morning after the adversity I felt yesterday coupled with the fact that I overcame this bolsters my confidence.  The event has been shortened to a 54 hole event due to the inclement weather that has wreaked havoc on Rogers, Arkansas this whole week.  That gives me one round tomorrow to play as well as I can and further climb the leaderboard.  Today ranks right up there as one of the most proud moments I have had as a professional golfer.  I may very well not win this week, but today proved to me finally with some tangible proof that I have the guts and talent to play this game at the highest level.  Tomorrow is going to be another great day and I finally have a springboard to rocket me forward with some real confidence.  Thanks for reading and I look forward to carrying the momentum into Monday in Lawrence, Kansas.

    Hello from Rogers, Arkansas.  Also the home of Walmart.  As their saying goes, "Always low prices".  However my golf scores are not always low at Lost Springs C.C.  The name of the course about summed up my play today.  LOST.  We have been plagued with weather delays, so I finally teed off my first round of golf a day after I was originally supposed to.  I opened up play today with an unimpressive even par 72 on an easy golf course.  I got in 5 additional holes in my second round before darkness suspended play.  I am two over in my second round, thus leaving me 13 holes tomorrow.  I am going to have to string together golf of six under par tomorrow morning on my last 13 holes to make the cut.  This is my fourth year playing in a tournament here at Lost Springs and I have just never got anything going on this course.  I like the layout and enjoy the course, but my game has just never shown up here. 
    Tomorrow I plan on changing that.  Six under par for thirteen holes is a lot to ask out of anyone, but I am going to go out tomorrow morning with my head high and try and give myself as many chances at birdie to do just that.  I can look at tomorrow as a challenge to really go low.  I have to or I'll be headed home early.  No matter how tomorrow turns out, I will be headed to the Kansas City area Saturday where the next Nationwide event is being played.  The qualifier is in Lawrence, Kansas.  Home of my arch rival, the Kansas Jayhawks.  I'm going to go into the lions den on Monday, kick him square in the mouth with a low round, and get the hell out of there with a birth in the Nationwide event in Kansas City.  I played in the event two years ago as many of you are aware, and once won an AJGA event on that same course, so I am salivating at giving myself another chance.  I'll keep you posted, but first and foremost I want to make a bunch of birdies tomorrow.

    I'm sitting in a Houlihan's in Springfield, MO trying to wrap my head around the realization that I will not be competing in the Nationwide event this week in my home state. I had to withdraw today not because I quit but because I had one hole remaining as the rules officials took us back off the course for the second time due to weather delays. Rather than wait around several more hours to play one hole of golf where I was far away from qualifying, I decided to WD and move along to Arkansas to get ready for an Adams Tour event that starts Wednesday. I actually was playing well most of the day, but right before we got called in the first time for weather I hit a shot on 12 out of bounds on a shot that wasn't that bad. The out of bounds is everywhere on Millwood CC and it got the best of one shot of mine today by a foot. If that ball stays in play I would have been in great shape to get back on track. I was one under at the time and had to settle for bogey. Anyway it stings right now knowing I didn't get "invited to the party" so to speak. I'm going to move forward with my head high. I fully intend to play great in Rogers, Arkansas this week. I have no time to dwell on the past. Here is to a week of good golf, healthy eating, and productive workouts. As long as I keep controlling what I can control and maintain a positive, confident attitude I soon will reach my potential. Thanks for reading.

    Hello from Garden City.  I have played three rounds of golf thus far in the Adams Tour event here in Kansas and it has been up and down.  Yeserday I played a really good round of 67 to get myself back in contention heading into the weekend, but today I let all the hard work slip away with a 75.  To be honest today I am really pretty mad at myself for the lack of mental discipline I had going.  The final two rounds of this tournament I play with four amateur partners and I let the format put me in a bad mood.  I had to put up with a 5 hour round of golf with amateurs that really don't know the ins and outs of professional golf.  This is one of the outside distractions that I knew going into the week I would have to deal with head on.  I had a terrible 8th hole today that derailed my round and I took a triple bogey.  For the next 6 holes I let my guard down and I was totally in a bad mood about everything about today.  I have to be better than that. 
    This is my fourth year as a pro and my fourth year playing in this tournament.  By now you would think I would be mature enough to handle what comes with playing in a pro-am.  It is something I have to do only a handful of times each year, but tomorrow I am not going to let the little things that go along with this format bother me.  Tomorrow is going to be a great day and I am going to get back to the right frame of mind.  After tomorrow I head to Springfield, Missouri to qualify for the Nationwide event at Highland Springs.  As most of you remember in 2009 I came within 2 shots of winning the tournament, so it all starts Monday at the qualifier where I look to build on what I accomplished there two years ago.  First and foremost though, tomorrow I am going to act more like the 26 year old that I am, and play a polished, professional round and get the momentum going for a GREAT week in Springfield next week.

    I just completed my first round of play in Garden City and I struggled to a two over par 73.  I turned in one under par but just wasn't really hitting quality shots.  After the round I sorted things out.  I was really struggling with alignment on the course today and if you can't aim where you want to hit it before you pull the trigger the ball surely isn't going to go where you want it to.  Tomorrow morning before I play I need to further engrain my alignment before I play by laying a club down.  I feel confident tomorrow that with a proper warm up session I will have a great day on the course tomorrow.  I am going to get a good nights rest, forget about today, and wake up tomorrow and have a great day.  Thanks for reading.

    I am currently in Garden City, Kansas on the morning of the first round of the Southwest Kansas Pro Am.  I missed qualifying on Monday in Omaha for the Nationwide Tour's Cox Classic.  I shot a 71 on a day where it took 66 on an easy golf course.  It just wasn't my day.  Last week I battled a strong summer cold that kept me sidelined for three days last week due to complete fatigue.  It probably set me back in terms of keeping my stride and continuing my steady practice, but I think overall it was nice to have a mid summer break, even if it was forced.  This is my fourth year playing in Garden City, so I know the course and know alot of the people that help support this tournament.  I am looking forward to going out today and playing the best golf I know how to play and building on that each day moving forward.  I know a win is coming soon for me, I just need to stay patient and go out and play golf my way.  I'll keep you posted on my results.  You can also follow this week at http://www.adamsgolfprotourseries.com/