Back on the Road, Time to update

It's time to get back into the swing of things by updating everyone on everything that is going on. Well the plan was for me to fly home during the two week break then fly back for the tournament in Chicago. God had other plans for me and for my family, while I was home my grandfather, Pa, passed away to go home and be with our Lord, because of this change in plans I stayed home in Newbury Park for another week and missed the tournament in Chicago. It was a great time at home spending time with my family and friends, and because of the funeral I was able to see family that I have not seen in a long time. Now I am back on the road, back playing golf everyday preparing for tournaments and sharping my game for the long run. Last week the tour was in South Bend, Indiana, the home of Notre Dame, the real one for those of you who don't know I went to Notre Dame De Namur univ. which we called the fake Notre Dame. The weather was not very kind to us, it was cold and windy just about the whole tournament, with it raining on us a couple of times. Unfortunatly I missed the cut there, I had a good first round shooting 73(+1), but then I followed it up by shooting 78(+6) to miss the cut by 7 strokes. We stayed around that area for the rest of the weekend becasue I had my U.S. Open local qualifier the monday after the hooters tour tournament. The Qualifier was at South Bend Country Club, it was an old school type of course not long, but narrow with small greens that were very fast and deep rough all around the course. There were 70 players in the field and they were only taking 5 to the next level of qualifier with a large majority of these players being hooters tour players. I came out that morning ready to play, not knowing what it would take to make it I just told myself to not care about that and just play your best. I got off to a great start making birdie on my first hole, then making great par saves on holes two and three. Then I chipped in for birdie on the fourth hole and made birdie on the par 5 5th hole. 3 under par through 5 holes, what a great start. I made par on 6 and 7, but then I three putted 8 for boggie and 3 putted 9 from the fringe for another boggie to shot 1 under on the front nine. I made yet another boggie on the tenth hole to go all the way back to even par for the round, from there I made one birdie and one boggie and 6 pars to finish the round at even par. At the end of the round I didn't think that what I shot was going to make it. I go to the score board, which is where we turn in our scorecards and saw that there was only one score on the board that was better than mine with half the field up on the board. Then I had to sit around for another hour and a half to wait for the rest of the field to come in to see if I made or not. It was a nerve racking hour and a half I will tell you that much. When it was all said and done I tied for 2nd place only loosing by one shot to the winner. I was so excited I couldn't contain myself, after I played that day I had to drive the motorhome by myself to pittsburg, but I had no problem doing the 7 hour drive becasue I couldn't stop thinking about all the possibilities that might arise out of this. I mean if I make it throught the next qualifier I will be playing in the U.S. Open., thats a major on the PGA Tour. So now I am in Midway, Pennselvania getting ready to play in the next Hooters Tour event at quicksilver Country Club. I am really excited to see what is going to happen this week after the qualifier I feel very confident about my game and can't wait to start this tourney. I will be better about keeping my blog updated for everyone. I love hearing from you guys and keeping in contact with you. Feel free to email, post comments or call me any time.