Its been a month since my last confession. It has been an eventful,exciting month as I am whipping myself in shape for the tour which begins in a week and 2 days in Hammond, Indiana. In past seasons, I had dreaded the 4-6 week break in the middle of the senior tour. This year I needed the 6 weeks to re-evaluate and re-train and re-tool in order to succeed in the last 4 tournaments......which I plan to achieve. An example of the "new"standards occured Saturday in a senior regional in Turnersville,NJ ; a center that is high scoring no matter what the pattern as long as the humidity is below 30 . This weekend it was 70 to 80% causing intermittent inconsistent approaches that bothered at least 1/2 the field......even a few guys in the top 1/2 had sliding and leverage problems on certain pairs. They really didn't bother me as I shot 162 (strikes only on the left, chopped 6 10 and missed 9 pin) 198 clean....couldn't carry the left lane,,,,,and then it happened.Out stepped the big stopper......the mother of all games lost......with 4 splits and 2 1pin misses a 135. Up until last week, my mental game would have allowed me to accept this as a negative repeat of history, one that I never was able to recover from. I sat myself down after that game and started to laugh.....not a nervous laugh or laugh of desperation......it was a funny laugh when I questioned myself as to what the fQXK happened........my choice was continue thinking to myself what would happen.......or take control of the process and let the outcome happen..........which was the choice I chose. 236, 216,189,203, 202........... from -105 to -74. It doesn't seem like much , but to me it was acting on a decison...an excercise in not letting outcome ruin process. I belong out on the senior tour,,,,,,,and thats where I'll be throughout the month of August.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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