It’s been an eventful few weeks since my last blog, with golf, injury, withdrawals and now back to golf.
My game felt in control at Alwoodley down in Leeds for the Open Qualifier so I was really looking forward to the Staysure Q Series at Bramall Park near Stockport – the first of four events offering a chance to qualify for the Legends Tour PGA Event at Trump Aberdeen. I was real happy with my first round, 1 under par 69 to sit 5th equal overnight. I started the second with a birdie and was comfortable on 2 under. Then at the 6th suddenly I couldn’t put weight on my right leg! Turns out I had pulled a muscle in my butt ! Anyway I had to withdraw at the 12th and that was the end of my tournament…..I was raging.
How did it happen? Well, the week before I had been hitting drive after drive on the range trying to find something and could feel the muscle complaining in the morning…..I knew I was hitting too many balls but I’m a bit (butt) stubborn !!
My plan was to play Donnington Grove the following two days then back up to Lytham at the end of the week. As it turned out, I had to withdraw from them all along with Birkdale the week after. Never happened to me before so you can probably imagine how frustrated I was….particularly as I was in a good place with my game.
I gave the second Staysure Q Series a go at Mottram Hall but it was not pretty between protecting my butt muscle and rusty golf.
I then played the Senior Welsh Open Qualifier at Machynys Peninsula near Llanelli where, although I didn’t have my A game, I ground out a 76 which was a few shots too many for the five places up for grabs. Great course and a great week down there.
So now a couple of weeks off and happy to say that the muscle is back to normal with some help from John the physio. I’ve been spending some time on the mind game with Coach Pete and some of Karl Morris’s material…..he has some really good podcasts which are worth a listen, you can find them at “Karl Morris, The Brain Booster”.
Next for me is the LIV Asian Tour Qualifier up at the Fairmont with a few spots up for grabs for the tournament at the end of the month. Now that would be a thing if I qualified for that one……rebel!
Catch up soon…..
Calum