I'm overdue for an update. Over the last 2 months I haven't been overly busy with tournament golf as I'm saving up for a hard push at the end of the year with q school. Of the few events I've played I shot a bunch of rounds right around par, but nothing crazy to note. Over the last two weeks I competed in two web.com Monday qualifiers in Lawrence, Kansas where I shot a 74 and Springfield, Missouri where I shot a 70. Both attempts did not grant me access to the tournaments.

I completed round one today on the Swingthought Tour in North Augusta, South Carolina. I shot a 3 over par 74 today, which leaves me well back on a very scorable course. There was already a 61 posted this morning. Where I struggled today was with my iron play and putting. To take a bigger picture look of where I'm going the rest of the year with my swing, I have to play each day with my swing cues and beliefs inside my swing system. Without being too technical, I am working really hard on fluid rhythm and coiling in my backswing properly. I have simplified my system into 4 words: rhythmed-out leveraged coil. I can make as many small tweaks to my swing as I want, but any variations and swing thoughts have to come from this system.

All year up until last month, I would go week to week with a new swing thought on what felt good at the time. In order to put 100% faith and trust in my swing in competition, I have to have a repeatable golf swing that I believe in. My system: rhythmed-out leveraged coil allows me to do just that. Today my swing wasn't where I wanted it to be, but I'm going to press forward with hard work under the practice guidelines of my swing system. I'm ready to go play a great second round and go from there.

I head to Canada Saturday for a PGA Canada Monday qualifier, then 2 additional tournaments, an Adams Tour event in Texas and the New England Open in Vermont before heading to Scotland for first stage of European Q School. It all comes down to visualizing a shot, trusting my swing(rhythmed-out leveraged coil), then being an athlete and feeling it out and doing it. I make it harder than it needs to be sometimes, but I'm glad that I now have established my swing system. This is huge in my long run success and consistency. Thanks for reading and great things are coming.