Hello from just north of Houston, Texas.  I last left you from Port Saint Lucie, Florida.  I finished the second round of the NGA Tour event with a 75, but my ball striking was much better.  I headed home for a week and a half to catch my breath and get ready for this week in Texas.  While I was home I was able to meet with my sports psychologist Jason Selk.  We were able to reinforce several elements in my game.  We really stressed getting unattached from results by zeroing in on the process of how to get there.  This hasn't changed in the least over the past several months.  1) Have FUN 2) Have a RSF (relentless solution focus) of 10 out of 10 each day 3) Fully trust and believe in my game plan.
    At home over the last week and a half I was also able to really simplify my mechanics.  I turned my attention back to the basics and focused my attention on rhythm and grip pressure.  This has helped my ball striking exponentially and has made making a great swing all the more easier by not having too many swing thoughts under the gun.  The first round of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament starts for me tomorrow at Deerwood Golf Club in Kingwood, Texas.  I have spent the last two days getting a great game plan in order and finding my bearings out there.  I feel ready to go out there over the next four days and play golf to the best of my ability.  I can remember like it was yesterday when I was very young, the first big junior event I ever played in.  It was in Kingwood, Texas at a sister course to the one I am playing this week.  I remember the butterflies I had on the first tee, and when the tournament concluded I can remember standing behind the 18th green with my Mom and Dad and rehashing how much fun I had that week.  It all comes full circle, and I can assure you that at the end of this week I look forward to having that same feeling of excitement at the conclusion of play.  Golf is a game and it is one I am blessed to have discovered.  It's my passion and I still get that youthful feeling of exuberance every day.  By keeping it simple I can discover my full potential.  Thanks for reading and it's going to be a great week of competition.  I'll keep you posted!

    I am back in the USA and a piece of my heart was left on European soil.  I was in 13th place heading into the last day of Q School in Lisbon.  The top 29 positions advanced to second stage.  I faltered in the final round with an 80 and my hopes of obtaining a European Tour card vanished in the blink of an eye.  It came unglued early in my fourth round where I suffered back to back double bogeys on three and four and was unable to regroup from there.  All week I told you I had a three point game plan:  I wanted to have fun, trust in my game plan, and be a 10 out of 10 from an RSF(relentless solution focus) standpoint.  I succeeded in obtaining my goals in all three areas, but the final round I was unable to execute the swings necessary to get where I needed to be.  The first three rounds I struggled with my ball striking, but my chipping and putting were absolutely superb.  The poor ball striking caught up with me in the final round as I was unable to chip and putt at the same remarkable level.  It hurt really bad, and to be honest it still hurts, but I have to move forward.
    I flew home on Sunday, and made a quick turnaround to Miami, Florida for a Web.com qualifier.  I got off to a sluggish start, but finished strong on my back nine to register a 69 on a easy golf course.  It took 66, and my train of pars early didn't provide enough offensive firepower to qualify.  I made the trip north from there to Port Saint Lucie, Florida where today I played in the first round of the NGA Tour event at PGA Golf Club.  I struggled mightily today in breezy conditions.  I carded an uncompetitive 83, one of my highest rounds in my professional career.  I have tried putting a finger on what went wrong today, and all I can come up with is that I was unable today to put myself into the present as I kept looking backwards at the last few days mentally.  The moment some adversity hit me today, I wasn't ready to cope with it. 
    Without sugarcoating it, the last five days have been really tough.  Everyone in life has to deal with some really hard spots.  I am in the middle of one of those moments.  As I have preached over the last month about relentless solution focus, it is imperative that I stay true to that.  The problem of dealing with the cards I have been dealt the past few days requires a solution.  I can sit and whine and moan or I can pick myself up from the bootstraps and fight and work through it.  I'm going to do the latter.  I'm going to go out there tomorrow at PGA Golf Club and stay true to my game plan and have fun doing it.  Then I'm going to go home for two weeks and work really hard at getting my game into peak shape so that I will be ready come October 23rd to play exceptional golf in the US Q School which starts for me in Houston, Texas at Deerwood Golf Club.  Thanks for reading and much brighter days are ahead.  I have said it all year, it's my year.  I haven't ventured from that statement at any point and I stand by that belief.  I'll update you on how tomorrow went and how my practice is coming along back home next week.  Forward I go with a smile on my face.

I have arrived in Portugal and have played two practice rounds on the course I will be playing this week. The first round begins tomorrow and I am excited and ready to go perform my best. Last week I left you from Callaway Gardens. It was a course where the vast majority of the holes left me with a wedge in my hand on my approach shots. I didn't have my best week with the wedges, thus I struggled from a results standpoint with rounds of 74-70.  It is a new week and I have flushed this from the system. I hit a bunch of quality shots and the next 4 days will provide me the canvas to paint a beautiful picture on the course with my clubs. My focus hasn't wavered in the least. I need to have a relentless solution focus of 10 every day, execute my game plan fearlessly, and finally go play the game of golf as a game and have a ton of fun.  If I do those 3 things all week well, then I will be ready to perform at my best. Thanks for reading and I look forward to updating you on the week ahead. It's going to be an awesome one. Three keys, lets go out there and be great in each one!