CAN I STILL COMPETE In Professional Golf Or Is It Time To Move On?

good morning sleepyheads it's a little drizzly morning here I'm driving to the golf course to play a little bit of mini tour golf I don't know if I missed mini tour golf I just want to play better in tournament golf because my experience of the good good Championship sucked and uh it motivated me to kind of get my head out of my rear end and play a little bit better when I do compete so the rolling Red Tour is back here in Jacksonville and of course I love Deer Creek and it's a great model a one day event followed by a two-day event so this is day one of three but it's a one day shootout tournament I can work out some of my Kinks and I just hopefully find a bit of comfort in tournament play as I progress through this week and on to whatever the rest of the year holds competitively oh for the rolling Red Tour came back to Jacksonville and I felt like throwing my hat in the ring and playing a little bit of tournament golf to uh to just see see what's up because like I said uh at the start of the start of the tournament my good good Championship experience was terrible my attitude was so bad so this opportunity presented itself and this format that Kevin runs is awesome because it's a one day tournament followed by a two-round tournament so it's it's 54 holes if you if you want to commit to all of it but you could just do the 18 holes you could just do the 36 hole player like myself who maybe wants to just test the waters again with competing it's an awesome format a player like who I used to be who had conditional status and needed stuff to play in this format is incredible because you have essentially two opportunities to make some money to win a tournament to get those experiences one in the form of an 18 holder that kind of mimics Monday qualifier so that's great if that's your conditional player or you want to go down the Monday qualifying route then the 36 hole format the opportunity to potentially sleep on a lead close a tournament feel what good golf winning golf needs to be like for multiple days [Music] thank you [Music] fifth t-box check-in we had a scrappy little par there on four feeling good feeling a little nervy though but hitting Greens in Fairways and rolling it well putting the cameras away for a little bit so I can Focus pretty good start just like my nerves were there but just a steady four pars to start my round and then uh on the fifth hole par five is it's very reachable part five I didn't hit a good tee shot went for the green and two hit it just over the the green side bunker so if it hit in the bunker we're fine but because it kind of carried the bunker hit hard five yards over this green on the left side of the greens out of bounds and it went out of bounds so I made double bogey uh and then I just my attitude was great and it just kept kind of plugging along but unfortunately I just missed short par put after short par part after short par putt no birdies made four bogeys on my day and that double William shoot six over 77. I enjoyed it enough but I was kind of quickly reminded that that tournament golf just simply isn't for me anymore I I don't have the the schedule to allow myself to prepare and build confidence and I it's it's Hit or Miss what my attitude was is gonna be like and thankfully my attitude was very good this day it was very very poor in the good good championship and I shot the same score there uh and I hated every second of it so I thought this was an opportunity to kind of maybe get some better feelings potentially feel a bit more confident if I want to play the 36 hole event and then maybe do the Florida open qualifying but this this round definitely made me realize tournament play is is certainly uh in my rear view mirror for the for now and for the foreseeable future but this tour I want to I want to play more I want to compete more but I have to be so realistic that I don't prepare enough and I don't play enough to be comfortable in tournament golf but that's where this tour I think is an incredible model to someone out there that potentially wants to turn pro or is a professional golfer that's trying to find stuff to play because when I had status when I played full time if it was conditional status I'd play around the Toronto area I'd find mini tour golf here in Florida but they were kind of like few and far between every two to three weeks and that's hard to keep yourself sharp whereas rolling red he has an awesome thing that's almost every week with a one day followed by a two day so it's a good investment it's like a thousand dollars basically for both of those events guaranteed persons like you can your good golf will go a long way on this tour and I remember that and I want that but that's just not my my space right now and I'm okay with that but it was fun to try I'm glad I didn't play the 36 holder because it just potentially would have sent me down a really negative path and and that's not where I want to go I want to stay positive I want to be happy for my family and for myself and and for YouTube so I can't recommend this tour enough and Kevin is running a great show and he said hey Andrew um anything you can do to help and anything I can do to help I'm there so if you're interested in playing the rolling Red Tour there's membership prices there's member entropies there's non-membrane entry fees and it's more expensive to enter as a non-member from event to event said hey anyone that watches this video if you want to join the tour reach out to him and he'll give you a hundred dollar membership your membership basically goes down by two three hundred bucks pretty remarkable because if you join the tour your member entry fee from event to event is like forty dollars cheaper than the non-member so this hundred dollar membership basically pays for itself in two events so if you do want to pursue any Tour golf if you are a mini tour player play The Rolling red I highly recommend it I wish this was around four or five years ago when I started this Channel and I was documenting my play because this format I feel like I could have thrived in it I would have built confidence and drawn a lot of confidence from it because at the end of the day the best way to get confident in tournament play is to play a lot of tournaments and if I try to play a tournament every six months every 12 months every 10 months I'm playing with luck I'm asking to be lucky that I can just be carefree like I am if I play with my friends or if I'm filming and have that happen in tournament play and tournament play is a whole different ball game the nerves the attitude the pressure all of it's so different than just recreational golfer practice golf so you need reps if you want to be a good tournament player you need reps and the rolling red offers reps so just it's it's linked below they've got Live Score it's got all the great stuff that a good mini tour has if you want to join the tour just when you do it email Kevin email the Roland Red Tour message him on Instagram just say hey I saw Andrew's video and I want to claim that hundred dollar membership uh my playing days are done like I was gonna do the Florida open qualifying nope it's uh no no no no no no no I'll stick to being a stay-at-home dad who hits balls in the garage and and makes YouTube videos about Golf and golf clubs and training AIDS and all that sun fun stuff and hopefully you stay along for this ride and enjoy it with me um yeah so we'll see in the next video [Music]