Golf is crazy. Golf is humbling. I have been on the road now for three straight weeks, either in private housing or spending my nights in a hotel in towns that hardly appear on a map. It is this month long journey I am on the backward half of that is inevitably going to rejuvenate my season. Strictly from a results standpoint over the past three weeks, my performance has been nothing to write home about from a pure score standpoint. I missed three cuts and missed three Web.com Monday qualifiers. My golf game is starting to find flashes of brilliance from a ball striking standpoint and that hasn't been the case in a long, long time. This has me really excited. I am able to just go play golf, and let the mechanical thoughts stay at bay. The past week I was unable to convert on the greens, and made some silly errors on the par 5's. My wedge game was not crisp. Those elements made it tough for me to have enough legitimate birdie opportunities to get myself in position heading into the last two rounds. I drove the ball and struck the ball well, it just was a fraction off in terms of getting the ball close. It is hard to explain to you over a computer screen how close my game really is to being really good. My results as I said still haven't been where they need to be, but that is purely from the standpoint of me getting the scoring element down in my game. My game is in a great place right now, I have to just be willing to dive off the deep end and allow myself to go out there and do it.
I have one more week on the road. I will be playing in the final regular season NGA Tour event next week in Columbia, South Carolina. I am ready to go out next week and showcase my game in all facets for four days and give myself a chance for a win come next Sunday. Golf never owes anyone anything, but after the past three weeks of having to swallow the tough end of the stick, I am highly motivated to make next week mine. As I said, I am able to just go out and play the game with trust in my swing now that the mechanics of my game are falling into place. I have one more week to get this thing right. I never try to make any tournament any more important than the next, but with a real quite September waiting, I want to make next week an awesome one heading into my time off in September before European/US Q School gets under way in October. My season in 2012 has been a tough one during the regular season, but I am fully aware that for every person in developmental golf, it is all about peaking the last quarter of the year. I know that my game is in the absolute best shape it has been in at any point this year right now, and I am getting better every single day. The only thing I am dwelling on is what is happening in every waking second of the present, and forgetting about the past. I can't change it. I look forward to the future by visualizing my success. I am ready next week to put a stamp on how things are going to go for the remainder of the year and be ready for John Kelly 2.0 to finally emerge and be ready to go out there and take what is mine. Look up to the top of my blog for a reminder of what I have said all year. This is unwavering: It's my year. Thanks for your support, and I look forward to updating everyone on how next week progresses.
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