Thoroughly depressed after today!
Had a GA state am qualifier at Atlanta National. Shot 83!
I have no idea what qualified as I didn't stick around. (Will post a link to the full results later in the week). As I finished, 24 others had completed and 8 were better than 83 so therefore I figured I had no chance (only 24 out of 94 to qualify). Some poor dude managed a nifty 102!!
Tee to green, I didn't hit anything too bad. Found one nasty bunker which cost me a double. Made another double when what I thought was a good layup on a par 5, found a nasty downhill lie. What's getting me down is that I hit the edge of 6/7 greens and could only get my chips to about 7 or 8 feet and missed all the par putts.
I just heard Graeme McDowell say on the Golf Channel that he realized a couple of years back at Birkdale that if he was ever to win a major, he would need to get a great short game. Obviously, if I am ever going to get near scratch, mine is going to have to improve drastically.
For now, I feel thoroughly deflated! Will take a few days away from golf and see what I can take from it later in the week :(
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