The Walking Scorer

The qualifying tournament for the Web.com Tour, gateway to the PGA Tour, is this week at Whirlwind GC.  I walked Thursday and Friday with Chip Lynn, Bruce Woodall, and Mark Baldwin.  For some reason the walking scorer chairman used the same scheduling algorithm that the tour uses, and I ended up with the same group both days.  We played the Cattail course Thursday in strong winds, and Devil's Claw Friday in calmer conditions.  Mark did well, and was T8 after shooting 69-67.  He has a 2-iron that he hits off the tee most of the time, about 280, only using the driver for reachable par 4's and 5's.  Chip had 71-68.  Bruce struggled, shooting 78-72, with a lot of missed short putts and a few errant drives.  Chip missed some shots, too, and was prone to a sort of primal scream that had vague hints of profanity, but was mainly unintelligible.  After Friday's round he apologized to me for his language, and I forgave him, told him that Suzann Petters...

I worked the PGA Tour Champions Qualifying Tournament last week.  Nothing terribly interesting happened on the fairways, but ... When I was about 33, playing at Glastonbury Hills Country Club, Tim Petrovic, the star of the Glastonbury High School golf team also played there.  I never met him or played with him, but I knew of him.  And followed his golf career from time to time, as he played on the PGA Tour, and got on TV once in a while. He led the tournament after 3 rounds, at 18 under par, and finished in the top 5, got his card for the "senior" tour.