Forgive me for being absent from my blog over the last few months.  I've been busy trying valiantly to make my dreams and goals a reality.  I last left you with the opportunities I had in Guatemala and the PGA Tour Canada Q school.  Unfortunately, my trip to Guatemala produced poor results and a missed cut.  It was an unreal location though with the course being built on the side of an active volcano.  I will never forget the scenery and consider myself lucky to have traveled there. 

    I went from there to the Canadian Q School in California.  I played steady, but not solid golf, and at week's end I once again found myself looking from the outside in.  I missed obtaining my card by 2 strokes.  TWO.  I knew my game was close and over the last couple months I've played various Monday qualifiers and several 4 day mini tour events.  I haven't broken through the barrier of the Monday qualifiers yet this year, but am close.  I have racked up two top 15 finished on the Adams Tour and NGA Tour in the 3 events I've played in, so I've 100 percent shown I can compete in 4 day events, I need to find a way into some more elite fields though through success in Monday qualifiers and q school success. 

    This past Tuesday, I had a remarkable opportunity that presented itself from being the 1st alternate at US Open local qualifying in Saint Louis on May 13th.  I received a call from the USGA and was given a spot into the sectional in Columbus, Ohio.  I was competing against 120 other guys, 70 of which were PGA Tour members.  It was the first time I had been in that arena since the 2007 US Open.  While my results were poor, it felt so good to walk the same fairways with many of the best players in the world.  It was an opportunity I would have liked to have conquered, but regardless it was a breath of fresh air to have that chance.

    Moving forward into the months of June and July, I have a handful of Web.com Monday qualifiers, several 4 day Adams Tour events, and a really special exclusive event in Pittsburgh starting on June 30th.  It is called the Frank Fuhrer Jr. Invitational.  It features a very small 40 man field which will be vying for a lucrative $200,000 purse, with the winner taking home $40,000.  This will be a great chance for me to get into the winners circle and I'm excited and honored about getting the exemption to play.  The picture above is of a man who missed the bus.  This more or less sums up the first half of my year in terms of the goals I've set out for myself to get into the PGA Tour system.  I can assure you the next time that bus comes around, I will find myself firmly planted in a seat in the front row.  Thanks for reading and the support.  I am supremely confident that I will be breaking out this last half of 2014.  Stay tuned right here for updates.