I was able to manage my game this week enough to get inside the cut to make it to the 2008 PGA TOUR Qualifying School. The tournament was held at Kinderlou Forrest in Valdosta, GA. The only thing I knew about the course before hand is that it would be long. The course tips out at 7700 yards long. To put that number into perspective, the longest US Open in history was held at Torrey Pines in California. This course was 7600 yards long. With a mix of tees the course on paper was probably a little more than 7500.

This is long by itself, but when you throw in wind gusting about 30 and a constant 20 most of the day you have a serious test and a much longer golf course. One day I played with a player who had qualified for the Nationwide Tour event at this same course earlier in the year. I asked him how the course played now compared to when he played it. He said the same except the wind didn’t blow, the fairways were firm (more roll on drives), and the rough wasn’t as high. Needless to say we had our hands full. 

The first day I played horrendous shooting an 80 to start my week. This was bad, but after seeing the scores come in I realized that one good round would change the tide awfully fast. Knowing this I regrouped and reminded myself that no matter what happened I wasn’t going to press and attempt to force something to happen. I shot 72 for my second round and was the second lowest score of the day. This jumped me up about 30 spots to T19 for the tournament. I played well enough the next two days (77, 75) to finish inside the top 37 and ties and earn a spot in the Qualifying Tournament.

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