Tomorrow is a travel day for us as we fly out in the afternoon, arrive about 3:00pm then make the 1 hour and15 minute drive up to Mesquite. We are playing 6 rounds of golf: Sunday morning at Wolf Creek, Monday morning in a 140 person skins game at Falcon's Ridge, the tourney starts Tuesday at Falcon's Ridge, Wednesday we play at Oasis Canyons, then Thursday at Coyote Springs. If either of us finish in the top 4 in our flights we'll play in the Friday Championship round at Casablanca. Otherwise we'll play elsewhere in Mesquite or Vegas.
My game has been up and down over the last five months. It started with a very rough putting stretch in late November through December. I've since got that back in order but my game has been plagued by periods of poor ball striking. Sometimes lasting for an entire round or just part of one. Here is a look at my most recent rounds on my index. Scores from 79 to 98 and all in between. Just a bit inconsistent. Hopefully the good golfer shows up.
This year the Mesquite Am is using the 12 month low index for golfer to cut down on sandbagging, so I'll be playing to an 8.4 index. Personally I feel like this punishes the honest golfer whom keeps honest scores in his index year round. We'll see how it works out in practice. To me why not just watch for exceptional scores and adjust the index of those golfer retroactively to all rounds played in the tourney.
We'll time to go wash up the clubs and finish packing. Have started sorting and scripting this afternoon. Here is a look at what I'll be wearing for the golf rounds. Going to be bright as usual!
The tourney is supposed to be placing a widget on the home page that will allow viewers to see how golfer are performing after each round, so if you'd like to follow along visit the Mesquite Am website starting Tuesday night.
