Summer Golf Begins

The students at Sean's school returned after Memorial day to take exams. Most of his buddies at the club-who attend other schools-had been out for a week or more. He is out today. Academically, it looks to be the best of his three terms of the year.

But in golf, things had not been trending well.

Sean has been in a bit of a rut, not hitting the ball well, and hasn't really scoring well either. His rounds were mostly mid-to high 70's. He hadn't shot anything below 75 in a while, whether in a practice or tournament round.

He played in an AJGA event Easter weekend, but shot a disappointing 80-79 and missed the cut to the third round.

His high school won their relatively uncompetitive region but finished a disappointing 3rd in the state championships. Sean traveled with the team to these tournaments as an alternate, but did not compete in the events. He just hadn't shot the low round the coach needed to see from him to separate himself from some of the other kids on the team.

And then the club's junior challenge ladder series began, but Sean lost his first 3 matches.

Taken together, it was a siren call that something needed to change.

We made two consecutive trips down to see Bobby. The first didn't really change much, but the second of which seemed to really help. But he's reworking a swing. The head swims with thoughts.

We'll just have to see where this goes. There are big plans for the summer, with three full AJGA tournaments, two or three AJGA qualifiers, qualifiers for the US Jr Am, the US Am, and the State Am. He's made the field for the State Jr Am.

You'd hope he was playing better leading into June.

We'll just see where this goes.