Oh Wyoming!

Well, this past weekend I made my way up to Cheyenne, WY to play in the WYOpen. The sumary is simple, best round ever, nearly struck by lightening, smart playing, win! Ha! I just spoiled the rest of this post but I don't really care.

So the first two rounds of this tournament were played at Dry Creek Parkway. This course is rather simple and straight forward and even with added out of bounds, one should still expect to shoot well under par. And I did exactly that the first round. I can't really explain what happened but ultimately I simply could not miss. I would throw my drive, and most of the time I was getting pretty close. And no matter how close I actually was my Summit just decided to go into the basket. It was a weird feeling, but man it felt good. I only had a couple of bogeys in the round and one of them came after bouncing my second shot off the basket and then watching the disc roll away. It was my first round that will be rated over 1000, not sure I was expecting that to happen. It also ended up beating the top three rated pros at the tournament as well. I am not sure I expected that but even those guys were giving me a hard time and saying I should move up.

The second round was no where near as good, but also served as the grounds to learn a good lesson. On hole eight I threw my approach shot to hole nine without realizing it. Ended up costing me a stroke and ultimately because another player shot a hot round during the second round I ended up tied after the second round for the lead. My putts also got to the point of being too nervous so I started missing short. This is a good reminder of just how important confidence is when you are putting. Ultimately this was still a round that I decided to play as smart as I could and still felt alright about the round. Oh, and I almost got struck by lightening right before the round started.

The third round on Sunday was held on a temp course at Little America's executive ball golf course in Cheyenne. I had never played this course before. Being tied with a local player who I think had played before was a tad bit intimidating. Ultimately I stuck to my plan of playing smart and easily won the tournament by three strokes after giving up three strokes in the last four holes. This course was simpyl amazing and so much fun to play. It is really sad that it is only a temporary course. I certainly hope that they are able to use this course again in the future. It was super fun.

Well, I got my win in Advanced and now I am going to start playing pro events, though a little different than I had intended to at the begining of the year. I am going to play all B and C tier events in open for the remainder of the year. That leaves just three events in oder to earn enough points to qualify for pro worlds next year. I am not quite sure that I will get to accomplishing this goal or not, but I am quite happy with having at least a little bit of time to accomplish this. I am still going to play Colorado States in advanced as I am hoping to qualify for Am Nats next year. I will be turning down cash to maintain my ameteur status. I think I really just need to keep playing smart and keep my confidence up in putting.