Q-School - Round 3

Today's Score: 78

You ever experience deja vu? Well, the way I keep playing this golf course seems awfully familiar. Check out these numbers compared to the first two rounds.

Fairways in Regulation - 6/14
Greens in Regulation - 10/14
Putts - 33

Nothing's changed. I'm still struggling with confidence off the tee. Sometimes I'll hit a good shot and find the fairway and other times I'll miss it bad left or right and have no shot. And the bad shots aren't necessarily biased to a certain club. I've hit it in the briar patch with anything from a driver to a 3-iron. But one hole later, I've hit those same clubs perfect right down the middle. There's just no consistency....or is it that there is no confidence which is why there is no consistency. It's like that old saying, "which comes first the chicken or the egg?"

I feel like LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson. He's a good guy, smart, practices hard, has a will to learn and always strives to be a better player. Yet, come game time, he continues to make the same mistakes and has hard time handling the pressure on the big stage. That's the only way I know how to describe what's going on. I came here feeling good about my game, played two great practice rounds and woke up Tuesday morning ready to go. Unfortunately, every moment since has been a struggle to say the least. I wish I knew why.

I did make my first putt since making a 7 footer for birdie on #1 during the first round. This one came on the last hole today from about 12 ft for par. Huge! Between my dad and I, we figured out that we were wrong 5 times today in our reads on the greens. That's a lot for one round. Putts that look straight break across the hole, and putts that look that they're gonna fall off the world stay straight. These greens can make you look really silly sometimes. In fact, after three rounds playing with 6 different people, I've yet to see someone make a putt longer than 15ft. And that's being a little generous. So, I guess I can't feel quite as bad but still it would be nice to see the ball go in the hole once in a while when you really need it to.

One more round tomorrow. It's going to take a great score to make it through and I'm hoping there's one out there for me. All I can do it keep doing what I've been doing. Try my best and see what happens!