Almost Lost My Mind!!
“Started with a lost ball. Finished 10th.”
The Plan was everything this week-Mentally holding together was key.
17-under at PGA Tour Americas in Toronto.T10 finish..I’ll take it.
Course fit my strengths—iron play and smart targets.
Could’ve contended with a hotter putter.
But I kept it clean, committed to my prep, and let birdies come to me.
This is what I teach—because I live it.
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“Lost ball on the FIRST hole…”
This could’ve spiraled fast.
Gettable par 5. Great tee shot. Spotter never saw it.
Coming off a missed cut, I almost went to that dark place:
“Here we go again…”
But instead of spiraling—I meditated.
Focused on my breath.
Reset. Hit the provisional to 10 feet. Made par. (I eagled that second ball to get par)
That moment saved the week.
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All right, just finished 10th at the PJ Tour America’s event in Toronto. Solid week obviously. Uh T Green was really solid. If I had made some more putts, definitely could have contended. I mean, I can think of four, five, four, five foot putts and I missed off top of my head. Lost by six shots. So, wouldn’t have taken much to be in the mix to win, but it was a good course for me. good course fit because the strength of my game is iron play and it was definitely a second shot golf course and you know the severity of missing the green short side was pretty big here and you know being able to hit my irons well and practice what I preach which is playing smart golf and having good targets it was really that’s what this course was so you know I hit my irons very well I rarely shortside myself. I can only think of a couple times and they were they were good targets, just bad swings. And so I pretty much put it in the correct spot often all week and just kind of let the course come to me. Shot 17 under. Made plenty of birdies. Just need a few more, but 10th place is uh pretty good. We’ll take it. And uh yeah, just trying to practice what I preach, not trying to force birdies, avoid bogeies, and did a pretty good job with that. The other point I was going to make is kind of talking to the point like how do you get your mind right after a bad event or something terrible happens? I actually started the tournament with a lost ball in the very first hole, a super getable par five. I don’t know what in the world the spotter was doing, but the ball landed like 20 yards away from him and somehow he never saw it. Never even just never even came close to seeing this ball. It wasn’t going to be in a good spot. It was going to be a punch out, but still we should have found the ball. Never find it. And coming off a missed cut in Colorado, I definitely could have and I almost caught myself saying like, “Here we go again.” Like, “Awesome start.” like, you know, this is not going to be a good tournament. Like worst possible start. I mean, OB on one lost ball. But I mean, I literally I just what I did like how to stop the spiral and stop digging even more when you’re down is just I literally just started meditating. I just started focusing on my breath because if I could focus on that, I had no ability to focus on the fact that I just gave two shots away to the entire field in the first minute of the golf tournament. And so I just focused on breathing and then I, you know, my provisional was in decent spot. I just focused on the target. I just was able to again almost be in a meditative state and not even allow myself to think negatively when I definitely could have and hit a solid forearm. Again, I had a good target and I pushed it about six yards uh to the right, but I was aim appropriately like nine yards left of the hole. I hit this to about 10 ft and I make the putt for par. So that was really probably the biggest part of my tournament was being able to handle a fluke lost ball in the first hole correctly.
