Quality Qualifiers

My US Open qualifier came and went with out much to say. I started just fine but hole #5 destroyed much of a chance for me yesterday, at Serrano Country Club. I fought on knowing that it was virtually impossible to recover but I wasn't going to give in. I have to say, it's never fun to be in that situation. Maybe you're stronger at that sort of thing but for me, I fight and struggle to keep positive and moving toward the original goal.

Hole number five did me in like no other hole I have ever played in tournament golf. I have never had a score that...that...outlandish (?). Oh, to have had a chain saw. I would have taken out a little aggression on that tree. Well, several trees if you get right down to it. 

Right now some people will be saying, "Buck up Byron. Just get over it." Some will say, "Take it easy everybody has times like this out there." To these I say, "Yes!" Buck up and take it easy. Sometimes you don't know to laugh or cry and for me it's easier to laugh and get over myself. It's a game in a manicured park with beautiful weather. Nope, I didn't make the cut...I barely made it on the scorers sheet. But I didn't quite. I didn't fold and in four days I head to Texas for my next event. 

Will I think about #5? Will I let it bother me? Will I take a chain saw? I think I'll just go play golf and let the ball fall where it should. 

Thanks Bob, Barb and Bryant for coming out and encouraging my day. Thanks Deryck for lugging the bag around - great job! Thanks to you all for reading and here's to our future failures and successes. I feel a bit like Abraham Lincoln at the moment (I wonder if he ever felt like this little guy?)

Hit'em hard and look up,

Byron

PS. And...congratulations to John Ellis for being the medalist at Serrano CC qualifier.