Solid Start to the Season in Charleston
I finished 10th in the Tarheel Tour event at Rivertowne Golf Club in Mt. Pleasant, SC this week. Rivertowne really showed its teeth in the final round with a scoring average of 74.5 for the field. The course started out wet and long until the wind kicked up and dried things out in a hurry. The final nine holes were a bear. My final round 71 shot me up the leaderboard from 24th to 10th.
I’m very happy with my first full event of the year. This was a big field of 133 players - the expected norm on an expanded Tarheel Tour this year. Still, it was a week that could have been much better. The swing changes I’m working on produced a lot of great shots allowing me to make 15 birdies on the week - tied for the most in the field with the winner of the event. Unfortunately, when the swing changes “slipped” I hit some very poor shots as well. This cost me being in contention yesterday. Overall though, I feel like I’m getting fundamentally better every day and this is a good sign for the future.
I’m shuffling around my schedule to ease the early-season travel burden. Next week I will stay in West Palm Beach, FL and play a small tour two-day event instead of traveling all the way back to Charleston. The schedule change will also give me some extra time to work on my swing. The following week I’m back on the Tarheel Tour in the match play event Bluffton, SC.