Adam's Tour - Winter Series (The Woodlands-Panther Trail) - Second Round

Score: 72

As you can tell now, I decided to play the second round yesterday. In fact, it went a lot better than I thought it would. But, how I came to the decision to even play is the real story. As I'm sitting there in our hotel room Thursday night going over the pairings for the second round, the first thing I noticed was that I was the second group off at 9:10am. We knew the weather channel had a forecast for freezing temperatures that night and it was supposed to be in the upper 20's when I was set to tee off. Right away, I'm thinking it was just too much. I had shot myself out of contention Thursday and now I've got to go play in this. Like I said in my last post, I was ready to cut my losses and head home.

Well, enter Danny Gonzales. Danny is a fellow player on the Adam's Tour and someone I've befriended over the last few months. We've been paired together a couple times in recent tournaments and have played a few practice rounds together. Not only is Danny a good guy, but Danny has the key ingredient to surviving freezing weather. From past experience, I knew he came equipped with a full cart cover and propane heater. It's about a $100 purchase that I'm starting to wish I had invested in when I started these winter series. For those of you who haven't experienced the cart cover and heater combination.....it's unbelievable. No matter how cold it is outside, it feels like 100 degree's inside. And the wind that makes riding in a cart even colder, is no longer an issue.

So now, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking if I can get to the course early and get set up on Danny's cart, I might just have a chance. I realize that it's starting to sound like this is the only reason I decided to play yesterday and that's not the case. But, it did make the decision a whole lot easier. And, hey, I shot 72 which only 6 people shot better than. In fact, had it not of been for two 3-putts coming in on the back nine, it could of been even lower. What's funny is this might of been my best round (start to finish) out of all the rounds I've played so far this month. Go figure. I was so close to not even playing and then one cart cover and a heater later and I'm playing the best round of the January series.

After finishing my round yesterday, Erika and I hit the road and drove straight back to New Orleans. That's why I'm a little late getting to this blog. We've got the next week and a half off so I'll be back out here practicing in hopes of making February a lot better than January. Our plans are to head back to Houston Feb. 1 for the final 3 events of the Adam's Tour winter series. Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm. Take care!