Author: Dad

Thirty Eight girls, many of them on their way to play college golf in a few weeks descended on Lake Placid for this years New York State Jr. Amateur. After the first round there is a solo first place leader with the only round under par for the day and that is our B. Still […]

Golf is different than many other sports in that many of the best players do not win very often so where you finish actually matters. In majors tournaments there are often 150 extremely talented individuals (from the qualifiers that might have started at 2000) and only one is going to be champion. There are many […]

This was a very exciting round for the B. She started the day in 3rd place six strokes off of the leader, 5 strokes out of 2nd place. For the first seven holes, she was flawless shooting nothing but pars. For all seven of those holes, she was on in regulation, 2 putts, and the […]

Conditions were difficult today with lots of gusty wind and inconsistent greens but Jordan pushed through to finish the day with a +6 with 18 holes still to play. She has overcome bigger deficits before and is certainly not ready to throw in the towel. She along with the leader and second place finisher from […]

SuperMom took B to Virginia yesterday where she played the first of two practice rounds for this weeks tournament. This afternoon, she played her second. T time tomorrow will be at 8:54 and there should be a live leaderboard. https://tournaments.pkbgt.org/Scoreboard?TournamentID=23402 Link to the live leaderboard above. Warm up Today Image of the storm that prolonged […]

B needed her fix. She thrives on competition and announced to SuperMom and dad on Sunday that she had signed herself up for her first Met Jr. PGA tournament of the year. The ground rules were no spectators and no blog. She wanted to do it old school and she came back to the old […]

This will be our shortest blog….B is flying home tonight from Missouri with her head held high and ready for the next tournament. Sometimes even the best athletes have bad outcomes and this was one of those for the B. Being exceptional in the aftermath of a bad showing is what makes a champion. This […]

https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/9535038454128199110 Link to the leaderboard above.

Jordan shot a +10 today in Missouri to end the day in 55th place. The last two days of practice rounds had been nothing short of brilliant. B made it all look easy. On Saturday she chipped in 2 birds, and a third hopped in and out. Yesterday she holed out an eagle. She was […]