Seaview Resort Galloway New Jersey
Well we are back from New Jersey and the Eastern Regional Tournament played at the Seaview Resort in Galloway New Jersey, which hosts the ShopRite LPGA Classic Tournament, a well laid out and typical Donald Ross course.
The first day we were paired with Alex Keener from NY and Andrew Wallace from PA, They had pretty good rounds of golf with only a very few crisis situations and just the usual crazy things that happen during the round. Bryson has suffered with putting woes all year where he has a good line but the speed is a little off and the ball just does not fall as expected, it's mainly a typical short power lip out putt like this one.
So today was no exception in that regard, he wasn't getting many GIR's today either, so couple that with the putts and it makes for a bad scoring round.
He still managed to scrape it around for an 81 which we figured to be about 5 strokes off of his ability to score.
Like I said he had 4 of those lip outs which had they fell would have put him in the ball park.
After the round he spent a good 2 hr's working on his putting, which was actually already pretty good but he was working hard on it anyway.
He ended up in 6th place on the day so we had a later tee time scheduled for Monday.
Monday he was paired with John Updike from PA and Jack Heath from Charlotte NC. both great players and great Dads/Caddies which usually makes for a great round of Golf and today was no exception.
However the lipout problem carried over into the next round as well with 3 more of those on Monday.
This is the last of our golf tournaments for 2010 and while we are sad to see it end Soccer is coming up along with other winter activities that we will enjoy as well.
This has to be a big mental block for him to overcome, since he had 7 of those in two rounds. Makes it hard to draw the putter back thinking of what might be about to happen. He went on to finish with another 81 and thinking what might have been .
He handles his scores, both good and bad very well, which is a good thing.
We are so haapy and proud of the way he conducts himself off and on the course.
He finished in 10 th place in the tournament, but like many players with just a break of two he could have climbed up at least a couple of spots.
That is the game of golf and all part of the character building benefits of playing the game.
The Seaview Resort is a nice place to play golf and the Bay Course has some nice views early in the morning at sunrise and all day long too with Atlantic City Poking up along the horizon of the bay, nice view.
Picture of Bryson with Atlantic City at his back
Picture of Bryson with Atlantic City at his back
Final Day Three some
L-R Bryson, Jack Heath, and John Updike
This is the last of our golf tournaments for 2010 and while we are sad to see it end Soccer is coming up along with other winter activities that we will enjoy as well.
We have been so blessed this summer with God getting us out and back home safely all year while enjoying the gifts that he has bestowed on us.
We don't say thank you enough, but I know that God knows our deepest thoughts and how we appreciate how wonderfully blessed we are, and that we a extremely thankful for those gifts.
With his blessing we will be here to do it again next year.
