Season Recap - Lots of Positives
The Tarheel Tour played its final event, their Tour Championship at Firethorne CC, while I was down at Stage 2 of Q-School last week. The end of Q-School (for me) and the end of the Tarheel Tour season marks the end of my season and provides an appropriate place to recap a very good year. The highlights:
- I had my first “quality” professional win - The Southern Open on the Tarheel Tour.
- I finished 6th on the final Tarheel Tour money list. This is by far the best money list finish I’ve had since I turned pro. Finishing in the top 10 was a goal of mine for the season.
- I made it through Stage 1 of PGA Tour Q-School with flying colors, finishing 9th. I also gave myself a very good chance at making it through Stage 2, eventually finishing 33rd.
- My “primary tour” scoring average of 70.63 on the Tarheel Tour was my second-best in 5 seasons. The 2004 Gateway Desert series was the only lower scoring average, and I believe conditions were substantially more difficult on this year’s Tarheel Tour.
- In multi-round events, I had 5 top-5 finishes and 8 top-10’s.
- I made 16 of 21 cuts on the Tarheel Tour.
All of this was in spite of 5 weeks of downtime when I was playing very well (1 week early in the year for the Flu and 4 weeks with a broken toe).
The big carrot was making it to Stage 3 of PGA Tour Q-School because that would have guaranteed me at least conditional status on the 2007 Nationwide or PGA Tours. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out. But, I’m still very happy about my season and the progress I continue to make.