I am alive and well.  The past two weeks have found me in San Antonio, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana for two PGA Tour Monday Qualifiers.  As most of you all are aware, the Monday qualifier for someone in my shoes is painstakingly annoying when you first arrive because I have to deal with the pre qualifier that eliminates the riff raff and terrible golfers that have no business being there for the Monday qualifier.  I shot a 73 in the San Antonio pre qualifier and a really nice 68 in New Orleans to breeze through the pre qualifiers at both sites.  Unfortunately, I shot identical 75s at both Monday qualifiers.  The knockout punch during both Mondays were two carbon copy blocks to the right that left me in the weeds.  I had to write down a triple bogey on my scorecard in both rounds and in a one day shootout, this forces you to play basically flawless golf for the rest of the 17 holes.  The annoying thing is that the other 17 holes I was playing steady, solid golf.  Unfortunately one bad tee shot during both rounds got me in trouble.  My miss pattern has to be better, even if it only creeps up 1 out of 50 swings, the big miss with the tee ball has to be eliminated from my rolodex of shots.  PERIOD. 
    I have been trying my hardest to use my brain to figure out what it is mentally and physically that is causing this and am working hard to solve it.  So far, I am chalking it up to needing to be more patient from start to finish and realizing that I don't have to put the full court press down on every shot.  I don't have to hit the heroic shot and birdie every hole.  If I did that,  I would be legendary because noone has ever come close to making birdie on all 18.  I am human, and I will continue to make mistakes, but I absolutely have to minimize my mistakes to a much lesser degree.  I feel really good about my game, and I have felt really good about my game for about 2 months now.  With that being said, I have to keep improving and start getting results.  I'm not going to be happy with just making cuts and getting by.  I'm ready to start winning and getting through these Monday qualifiers successfully.  That is how good I feel about my game, and I think it is 100% crazy if I felt otherwise.  I'm driving to McCormick, South Carolina for a 4 day NGA Tour event that starts as usual on Thursday.  I'm ready to go out and play well and get the ball rolling.  From there, I head to Athens, Georgia for my first Nationwide Monday qualifier of the year on April 30th.  I'm ready to take the next step, and I hope you all are ready to enjoy the ride.  Thanks for reading.