Greenwood, SC - Round 2

Golf is an individual game where a bad round is your fault and your fault alone. Having said that, I'd really like to blame something for today's round.

The golf course I played today (which is the primary course for the rest of the week) has horrible greens. The winter was very cold and it damaged most of the greens. On top of the winter kill, they aerated the greens 3 weeks ago and didn't fill the holes with sand. Despite being 3 weeks later, the greens look like they were punched last week.

I know that everybody had to putt on these greens, but there is a lot of luck involved with making any length putt. Hitting a solid putt just wasn't enough - even those would wiggle all the way to the cup. The scariest putt was a downhill one where you had to be careful with the speed, but you knew the softer you hit it, the more it's going to bounce.

All in all just not a great situation. It seems like every mini-tour golf course I play is either a rinky-dink layout or in horrible shape. Amateur golf plays the best courses in the state and usually plays them in the best condition. That's why I enjoy State Opens so much. The local PGA sections do a great job of securing great facilities and the courses are proud to be hosting the event.

Unfortunately, thanks to my horrible putting today (17 two putts and 1 one putt) I'm going to miss the cut.

Neil

Greenwood, SC - Round 1

I'm done with the Hooters Tour and will now give the EGolf Tour a chance for a few weeks.

This tour plays from Wednesday through Saturday - and we play on two courses for the first two days. After the cut, the final two rounds are played on the primary course. My first round today was a solid one - much better than any of the rounds last week.

Leaderboard

Scores and positions don't mean much right now because half of the field has played a different course. I play the primary course on Thursday morning.

Neil

Georgetown, KY Round 4

More boring golf. At times during the final round I hit it great, but I never found any consistency.

A final round 72 put me at T-62nd.

Neil

Georgetown, KY Round 2.1 and 3

Finally got some nice weather. Our morning re-start was delayed because of the heavy overnight rains, but things got underway at 10am. I birdied my first hole in the morning and finished the 2nd round with a birdie - resulting in a bogey free 67. That easily made the cut, but left me 8 off the lead.

The third round began at 2pm and I struggled in the afternoon, but finished with a 71. It wasn't pretty, but nothing this week has been pretty. I hope that in the final round on Sunday, I can find my swing - but if not I'm ok with playing ugly.

In case you missed it, check out Chris Erwin's scorecard from round 2. He shot a 59! The amazing thing is that he shot this with a 2.5 hour weather delay in the middle.

Leaderboard

Neil

Georgetown, KY Day 2

This has become laughable. Last week the tournament was shortened to 54 holes and this week we're dealing with more bad weather. Friday morning we had a 2.5 hour delay, which pushed my afternoon tee-time to 4pm. We then dealt with 2 afternoon/evening delays and only managed to play 9 holes.

I will finish my 2nd round early Saturday morning and then the 3rd round will start sometime around noon.

You can see results here.

Neil

Georgetown, KY 1st Round

72

Boring round. Didn't make any putts and hit it absolutely horrible for the first 14 holes.

Sunset Hills 2nd Round

One bad hole during a long day and that's all it took. Unfortunately the bad hole didn't even start out as my fault. I hit my drive on #11 just off the fairway. I didn't even watch it because it was heading for the first cut - but when I got up the fairway I couldn't find my ball. The rough on this course is very long. They haven't mowed the rough in a few weeks, but it was still unlucky to not find my ball.

Leaderboard

Neil

Sunset Hills 1st Round

I only got in 9 holes today. We had hard overnight rains that continued into the morning. Everybody was delayed 2 hours and when I made the turn at 6pm we saw strong thunderstorms on the horizon. We teed off on #10 then heard the siren. Play will resume on Friday at 7:30 and I'll have to play 27 holes.

There aren't thunderstorms in the forecast, but more precipitation is. This golf course is soaked. We are already playing lift, clean, and place in fairways. They've deemed EVERY bunker ground under repair, which means you can take it out of any bunker you hit it in!

Here's the leaderboard. I'm 1-under par through my front nine.

Neil

Out Of Arizona And Into The Heat

My last tournament was 6 weeks ago. A gateway event that I missed the cut by 1 stroke. Since then, I've been working in Arizona, patiently waiting for my last day or work. That last day was May 2nd - and now I'm on summer vacation. No more working, just playing golf.

My schedule has been updated. My first tournament of the summer begins thursday, May 13. This first tournament is a Hooters tournament - one of two I will be playing this month. After that I will play four Egolf events. The Hooters and Egolf Tours have significantly higher purses than the Gateway Tour so I wanted to play a few of them this summer.

All of these tournaments will put me on the road for 7 straight weeks. I'll then travel home to Wisconsin for a few weeks, then I'll get back on the road for another 7 weeks. Should be an exciting summer.

Before leaving Arizona, I rented a storage unit and packed up a majority of my belongings. I've posted a picture of my keychain. It's not very occupied - only car keys and a key to a storage unit. This picture is the definition of a man on the road - a man currently without a home.



Neil