Results from Ranking school a month later

I just have to say that since I have come home from Ranking School I have been very busy working on my game and on my motor home and other things to get ready to leave for the tour. I promise that once I am back on the road I will be much more diligent about posting. Anyways, back to the results from Ranking school. I could write about a ten page paper on the hole by hole analysis of each round, but for time and for the sake of my readers enjoyment I have decided not to, but to give you a synopsis of each round. For the first round I was nervous, but just wanting to get off to a good start. What I mean by a good start is one the doesn't put me in a hole for the rest of the week. According to those standards I succeeded, I had a good solid round shooting even par 72 only missing one fairway all day. The rest of the stats were good to hitting 10 greens (okay), but only having 29 putts (good). Happy with how I play the first round, but could see much room for improvement, came into the second round ready to go. Things did not get off to a good start for the second round. I started off the second round par, double, triple. Lets just say i was pretty devastated after that, although I was able to realize that this is a 72 hole tournament so there is a lot more holes to be played I came back on the next hole and made birdie. That was just about the last good thing for this round. Shooting 44 (+8) on the front nine, I was trying to do anything I could to keep myself in the game to finish out this round without making a fool of myself. I didn't do much on the back except make a birdie on the last hole to shoot 39 (+3) on the back nine for a 83 total. This round was very frustrating not only because of the obvious, the score, but I had the two worst bunker lies of my life in the same round, during a qualifier none the less. These two bunker lies cost me about 5 strokes alone, which still doesn't explain for all of the high score, but they were both on the front nine making it hard to keep my mental edge sharp. The third and fourth rounds were very respectable shooting 73 (+1) and 70 (-2). The third round I hit the ball well, but I just couldn't make any birdie putts. I only made one birdie through the whole round, but that also means that I only made two bogie's in the round. The last round was great, it could have been one of the best ball striking days I have ever had. I hit 15 greens in regulation (great) and had 31 putts (so so), but more than anything I was proud of myself for how I came back after the second round. My total score for the four rounds was 298 (+10), yeah I know I was +11 just in the second round. What I would give to get that day back, but that is what it is and I know that God has a plan for me and this is obviously in it because it already happened. So now the first tournament is in Guatemala Feb. 26th through Mar. 5th. I will be playing some small tour events between now and then to keep my game sharp. I will keep you updated.

Joe