First Round Schedule Change
The slight cold I’ve been pushing through since last Thursday is still hanging around. It’s almost gone, but it definitely effected my play today in the first round of the TarHeel event at Kannapolis. I haven’t been able to get a good, steady feel over the ball for the last few days. I’ve never noticed a correlation between being sick and the quality of my play. Sometimes I play fine when I’m under the weather…other times it seems to effect me more. It’s just about gone, so hopefully tomorrow will feel less like putting with winter gloves on.
I shot a 73 in the first round at Kannapolis CC. The course is playing very hard if you get off the fairway. They may be gearing up for the first stage of PGA Q-School in October. The rough is so bad in places that it’s hard to find your golf ball even when you know exactly where it is. Looks like they’ve been cutting their bermuda rough with a rotary mower so the ball settles down to the bottom. It’s definitely playing more difficult than when we played the Southern Open here last month. The greens are still a bit soft so it’s difficult to control the spin rate. But, about everywhere on the east coast is soft right now because of the hard weather conditions we’ve had this summer.
I changed my schedule for next week. Instead of going up to the Deutsche Bank qualifier in Boston, I’m going to play the TarHeel event in Monroe, NC. Couple of reasons for this. First, it was going to be difficult to get my entry to them by the deadline tomorrow. Most of the PGA sections have online applications, but the New England section isn’t quite up to speed yet. So, I would have had to print and overnight the entry. Also, I didn’t like the feel of my schedule with back-to-back Monday qualifiers in Boston and Utah. I’m going to look at playing one or both of the Nationwide qualifiers in Utah and Idaho, but it’s up in the air right now. All the TarHeel Tour events are definite and fit well into the build-up to Q-School.