Serious Win/Lose Pressure Worked

I felt good about my golf game at the PGA School Q-School Pre-qualifier. After a month of grief in August with my long game, I had it back. My up and downs were solid.

But, just when I needed some birdies to bail me out of bogeys, they didn’t happen. On two holes I really blew it. I got real worried that I would not make the qualifier.

Something happened to me on the last day. I got fired up with the pressure. My brain said “no way” can I let this go.

The birdies came back. I made it.

There’s still a lot of golf to go---three more qualifying stages.

A New Adventure---Q School

I’m off to the new pre-qualifying stage of Q-School in La Quinta, California. The PGA has added this stage for the first time. Unfortunately, I’m missing the last Grey Goose Gateway tournament in Florida.

I’ll be playing though in the Sidney Frank Memorial Tour sponsored by GGGT. It’s open to the top money earners from the Florida and Arizona locations. We’ll start on September 25 in Desert Mountain, Scottsdale, Arizona.

One thing about golf----we get to travel to interesting places.

I’m feeling better about my long game. As for the birdie/bogey ratio, I still have some work to do to conserve birdies.

A Valuable Experience

After two days at my first Nationwide tournament, I had a “very colourful” scorecard, to quote my mother. I was among the top five players for birdies and bogeys. Not a good combination!

I’m working on figuring out what happened. I want to use the lessons for the next Nationwide. The course was different from those I’ve been playing on since January: longer yardage, longer roughs and faster greens. I made way too many mistakes out there.

I feel I belong though. It was great to see guys from my college days and summers as an amateur. The next time I’ll be there the whole time---that’s my goal.