It has been a tough past 5 days on the golf front for me.  I made it safely to San Juan Puerto Rico Sunday night, but my golf game didn't seem to travel with me on Monday.  In fierce winds on a relatively simple golf course I managed a 75 on a day where it took 67 to get in the PGA Tour event.  It was another case of being unable to keep the bogeys and double bogeys off my scorecard.  I headed from there to Tampa, Florida to play in the PGA Tour pre qualifier for the Transitions Championship.  The conditions were once again more beneficial for flying a kite rather than playing golf.  Sustained winds of 25mph plus made the golf course ridiculously tough.  It was roughly 100 guys playing for the top 14 spots and ties to advance to the Monday qualifier.  I played beautifully all day, but made one bad swing on my 13th hole and ended up registering a quadruple bogey 8 on the hole and shot a 74.  I missed qualifying by one shot.  Had I made a decent swing from the fairway on 13 rather than dunking it in the water, I walk away with a par,and I would have finished in 3rd place.  That is how fine a line I have been battling lately and it has been quite frustrating not getting the results I have wanted, but being so painfully close.
    Today was the first round of the NGA Tour in Ocala, Florida at Golden Hills Golf and Turf Club.  I was determined to not let my mishaps the previous week deter me from excelling this week as I teed off this morning.  I got off to a reasonable start on a golf course that is quite challenging and at week's end will not yield many low scores due to the challenge that it presents.  I made a birdie on my 11th hole to get my round back to even par for the day and gained quite a bit of momentum as I had 7 holes left to finish my round off in style.  For whatever reason, my game went into hibernation and I bogeyed 4 of my last 7 holes for a 76.  Once again, a frustrating finish to a round that seemed destined to be a good one.  I have seen a lot of crazy things in golf in my profession, and over the past three weeks since I arrived down in Florida to start my season, for whatever reason the game has just not been coming easy to me.  I am flat out not going to play exceptional golf week in and week out.  However, it has been hard to swallow that the previous three weeks have really been uneventful and my golf has been quite lousy.  I know I am really close to finding my form again soon, it just is going to take some perseverance, and trust that the last few weeks have just been a bad stretch of golf that happens in my sport.  I am once again going to push the delete button from my memory bank and start over again tomorrow.  I can do nothing from the past.  Tomorrow starts anew, and I look forward to going out there and giving the course hell from the moment I walk on the property.  My game is close, and I am ready to go show it.  Thanks for reading and results will fall my way shortly.