So my journey moves on, and this time I didn’t play myself out on day one.
The Paul Lawrie Tartan Pro Tour hit St Andrews the last two days, with a mix of pros including many Ladies European and Europro Tours arriving to take on the New and Jubilee Courses. The weather couldn’t have been much more Scottish if it tried – we were met with flat calm and 20 degrees St Andrews on day one (yesterday) and a 20mph North Easterly wind and 13 degrees today. The overall scoring was very good with the winner, Jamie McLeary, posting 9 under. The results can be found at https://tartanprotour.co.uk/
You will have all heard and possibly experienced 1st tee nerves. Well…….yesterday I was in the first group off, with around 20 onlookers – including Open-winner, Paul Lawrie and my son Gav. I was addressing the ball thinking: if I keep my head the same distance from the ball then impact will occur and something will happen – and it did and off it went down the fairway. I exaggerate but it is, and always will be, a great feeling to get the first one away!
I finished 7 over: +2 yesterday and +5 today, which pretty well reflected my golf and the conditions. Good not to shoot any big numbers though. I was comfortable and played good confident golf on day one but today my swing felt off from the word go, so I was pretty pleased to hold the round to 5 over.
One thing I need to do is work on my shotmaking in a left to right wind – I find it a challenge. I’ll share what we work out to improve this in a future blog.
I played a with some good golfers from the Europro Tour so learned a bit from them – gosh they do play and walk quickly though!
So what now? Practice for a couple of weeks ahead of the next tournament in Germany early October at the Olching Club, Munich.
I’ll leave you with a line from a song……
“Dance your own dance, sing your own song and live the life you dreamed of till the dreamer is gone”
See ya
Calum