Garrett Phillips

Hey there, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with their families and have welcomed in the new year. I am especially excited for 2013. I don’t think I have ever been this excited about a new year!

I spent some time in Charleston with some friends and family. I just absolutely love Charleston. A friend of mine’s sister is in a band and played at Boone Hall plantation, which is a very historic plantation. If you follow the celebrity stuff.. it is where Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively got married. The plantation was absolutely gorgeous. There was an oyster roast that night and I don’t think I could have opened the oysters much faster.. I bet my friend and I had six dozen oysters between us. We also played disc golf twice while we were up there. I hate to say it but we lost 3 discs, there were some water holes and these discs do not float. Good news is that I’m pretty excited about my new disc that glows in the dark!

My favorite part of the trip was seeing the holiday light show on James Island. If you can ever see it, its a must. It’s like the ultimate Christmas light show. Apparently there are more than two million lights displayed.

My cousin’s husband is an incredible cook and he made some homemade pizza that was rockin! We had BLT pizza and buffalo chicken pizza, it was close but my favorite ended up being buffalo chicken pizza. It had chicken strips cut up and rolled in buffalo sauce, celery, and cheese of course.. AMAZING.

Last but not least, I am excited to announce my new sponsorship with Eggland’s Best. Eggland’s Best is owned by the Dixie Egg Company and they have been in the family business since the 1930s. They are headquartered in Jacksonville, Fl and have an egg farm located in Blackshear, Ga which is about 40 minutes from my home. The Eggland’s Best hens are fed an all natural and all vegetarian diet, which makes the eggs have ten times more vitamin E, 25% less saturated fat, three times more Omega 3 and 16% less cholesterol than ordinary eggs. I love eggs and I know they are an excellent source of protein.

I am so blessed to have this opportunity come my way and very fortunate that I am playing golf in 2013 on the Symetra Tour and partly on the LPGA. I will start playing in tournaments officially in March.

It’s offical.. I am a rookie on the LPGA tour for 2013!!

I finished tied for 33 at Final Stage of LPGA Qschool. I have category 17 status. What this means is that I have conditional status on the LPGA. From what I have heard I can probably get into at least 5-6 events next year. My tentative plan right now is to try to focus mostly on Symetra Tour and play the events I can get into. I would love to monday qualify every week but most of that depends on my finances.

I am really excited that I am officially an LPGA tour member, but I am slightly disappointed at my play at Qschool. I got sick the day before I left and was fighting a cold all week. Of course I get sick the most important week of the year! Everything happens for a reason tho and I fought thru it and ended up with some status!

Qschool is a pretty grueling week.. lots of stress lots of pressure. I felt it coming down the stretch the last day like I haven’t felt in a long time. I knew the last day I had to shoot around 5 under. I made the turn at 3 under, missed a 12 footer for birdie on the eleventh hole. It shook me up a little because it was the first putt of the day that I had putted without confidence. When I get that feeling coming it scares me because I know how I start to putt.

I parred the 12th and on the 13th I was a little in-between clubs. I had 129 to the hole, the pin was tucked in the back right, we thought that the wind was coming into us and I felt that my lie in the rough was going to grab. I was playing aggressive.. I needed 2-3 more birdies. I hit it too flush and hit it over the green. Made a crappy chip and made bogey. My 14th hole is a par 5 that I can reach in two, today was a little into the wind but again I was playing for birdies. I hit it to the greenside bunker and had a short-sided bunker shot, left it short in the fringe. PAR. My 16rh hole was a par three, I hit an 8iron to about 12 feet. My speed on the putt wasn’t enough and the ball fell to the right just a smidge.

That’s where I felt like it was over. I was upset with myself and the opportunities that I had created and didn’t fulfill. I three putted the next hole because I put so much pressure on everything that I left it about 5 feet short. I just folded coming in, I parred my last two holes, but I knew that I had been defeated. I hit the ball incredible the last two days and could only manage one under par each day. The problem is that I had to shoot so low the last day. I didn’t play well enough on the Legends course at all. I was plus 7 on the par threes on the Legends course. That is horrible, I normally play par 3s very well.

All in all, I am excited to be a rookie on the LPGA tour. I also have full status on the Symetra tour and after the year that I have had it feels that things are finally starting to turn a corner for the better. Once the schedules come out I will have a better idea about what I will be doing next year. Taking a year off this year has definitely put things more into perspective and has made me appreciate my job more. I am really looking forward to 2013 and saying goodbye to 2012.

I am so thankful that I have my health and that my friends and family have been there thru thick and thin. Thank you y’all for being there for me when times got tough and supporting me in this dream I have been fighting to fulfill. Love you all.

Already staying busy, with a wedding this weekend in Amelia Island, Florida and plans to go to Charleston just before Christmas. A friend of mine, his sister has a new CD that she recorded and we are going to go up there with his family and watch her play. I can’t wait to go to Charleston, it is one of my favorite cities!

Peace and Love Y’all

Hooray!! I made it through the first stage!

A few weeks ago I played in the first stage of Qualifying School for LPGA tour. There were 240 players who attended the first stage. We played at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, FL. We played the Legends and Champions courses the first two days and then played the Champions course the final two rounds. They cut the field to top 70 and ties after day two and 60 and ties advance to stage 2.

Personally I thought it was weird the field went from 240 to 70 to 60 and ties. Seems to make more sense if it went 240 to 120 to 60, but hey I don’t make the rules and I am sure everyone has an opinion.

I finished 2nd, and honestly played my best tournament ever in terms of my score. I would have to say the reason for that is I have mentally been in a much better state lately and also I was making a lot of putts. You can read about the article here: Golfweek

I felt pretty old in terms of my age and experience being at Qschool, but I have been really wanting to only go back when I was definitely ready. I like having goals that are realistic and attainable. Qschool is a huge monetary risk and I know I am ready and willing to take on this challenge. It is amazing how many people have the fortunate opportunity to go back year after year, I don’t think anyone realizes that this is only my second time playing in the LPGA Qschool.

I have been working with Mike Shannon at Sea Island for a few months and he videoed my mechanics and from that video and his explanation I gained a lot of confidence knowing that I was actually doing a lot of stuff right and he told me that I just needed to focus on making putts and not necessarily my “stroke”. Sometimes you just need some face to face instruction to really understand what is going on. Since working with Mike, I love to putt now, I am finally seeing the ball go on my intended line and that is not something I have been able to say in the past. I am much more confident over two footers, which was my nemesis at European Qschool this year and in the past. So mentally I am better but I have also gotten some great instruction so its a chicken and egg deal, am I making putts because my mind is more free or am I making putts from better mechanics??

I was also hitting the ball really great and a few months ago I did some serious work with my instructor Hank Smith at Frederica. He changed a few things that he had never mentioned before in terms of my footwork.. I had always watched his footwork and loved it but we have never gotten this in depth about it. Anyways, it’s helping a bunch and especially with my chipping.

As for now, I took a week off and rested up and now getting back into my workouts. My workouts are so important to me now and something I used to take for granted. I believe it is because in college I had a bad back injury from doing dead lifts and got scared to workout.. then from not working out for so long I got pretty lazy with it. I have come to realize my workouts are almost more important than my practice. I focus on my muscles that are weak and ones that I want better movement. I do not over-do it though. That’s where you can get injuries and/or do some damage to your body that might be bad twenty years from now. I really hope that I never have to have any knees or hips replaced. I guess that’s sort of a test I am taking on in my mind with my body similar to that with my car– I am anticipating my car making it to 300,000 miles.. I am at 210,000 right now, ha.

Ok so I’m starting to rant about workouts and my latest instruction and somehow threw the mileage of my car in this post. I am just really happy about my state of mind and I am looking forward to stage II and playing golf again next year!

Stage II will take place in Venice, FL which is located south of Sarasota. I have never been that far south before but I am sure it will be great. I think they used to have Qschool stage I there in years past before they combined the LPGA and Futures Tour Qschool last year.The field will be 216 players, with NO CUT and top 70 and ties will advance to Final Stage.

Oh and how great has this weather been lately?! Love that summer is over!

So, yes, I have been highly MIA for this year. I apologize to my friends and fans. I would just like to update everyone on this year.

In February I moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. I am living with a good friend that is helping me focus and re-group this year on what is important to me. He has been extremely gracious and I am so grateful to have people around me that believe in me and my abilities as a professional. I never thought that I would live in Florida and I never thought that I would enjoy it, but it has been great and I am meeting a lot of cool people. I miss my home in Georgia, but it has been a nice refresher to take a break from the spotlight this year.

I just traveled with his family down to the Bahamas. It was an incredible experience and it was my first time going there. You name it, I think that we did it, my favorites were snorkeling, deep sea fishing and paddle boarding. The island we were staying on had very few vehicles and almost everyone traveled around by a golf cart or bicycle. The views were so amazing and the water was gorgeous, I just loved the pace of life down there. Traveling made me miss going to places on the tour.

Speaking of the tour, I have had no status on any tour this year so that has led me to take a “forced” break. I have been able to get my life a little more organized and do some things I have been wanting to do, like visit my dad. I hadn’t seen him in ten years so it was good to spend some time with him as an adult.

On a lighter note, I am heading to LPGA Q-school this year! I am so excited and definitely know that it is time again to go back. Playing on the LET last year, made me realize that I can and do have the ability to play at the highest level. The first stage starts September 4 in Daytona Beach, Fl.

Bye, for now.

Hello All,

I have been home for about 6 weeks now and so glad to have some time off. Traveling really wore me out! I have been catching up with friends and playing a little bit of golf. My season, unfortunately is over. There are two more events on the LET schedule, but highly unlikely that I will get into them. The one in India is only reserved for 45 LET members and the Dubai event is one of the best women’s events of the year, so basically everyone wants to play in that one. My rookie status just isn’t great enough to get into Dubai. After thinking about my year, I thought it was pretty poor in terms of my golf scores, but in terms of experience, my best year ever. To top it off I qualified for the Open, which was a huge goal of mine.

My plan and preparation is to go back to LET Final Stage Q-school. This starts January 15th and will be held at the same location as last year, La Manga, in southern Spain. I feel very confident in participating in the qualifier again and I hope to play in as many events out there as I can next year. This year I played a mere 10 events when I could have played in 17 out of the 26. Cost of traveling, qualifying for the US Open, and just knowledge factored into how many events I played. After meeting some people and getting more acquainted with people I already knew out there I don’t see any problem with me being able to stay over there more next year. I really love the LET and being a part of the tour. There are a lot of great competitors out there and I know the experience really helped my game this year.

The past couple of weeks I have been playing some with Rebecca Durham. She and I won the high school state championship together when I was a senior and she was a freshman. She just graduated from Stanford and will be playing in the Final Stage of LPGA Q-school the first week of December. She will also be playing in the LET Q-school in Spain in January. I wish her the best and looking forward to having some competition with her in the off-season to prepare for Q-school. Please watch out for her!

I am really happy that I already have a year of the LET under my belt, several of my friends that played on the LPGA this year are taking their golf play to Europe as well. They are phenomenal players, but unfortunately have lost status on the LPGA or are not happy with the amount of starts they are getting. Just to give you an idea, both of them were rookies on the LPGA and only were able to play in 10 events.

I am sorry but that is pretty sad that there are so few events for new players to participate in on the LPGA. I understand the economy is not great, but last week 33 players competed in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and this week there are 66 players in the Titleholders event. Yes, these are special events, but at the same time I feel as if there should be more players allowed to play and less limited field events. I don’t know why it is getting to this.. Regardless, I think this is extremely affecting the future of women’s golf in the US. I don’t see how letting 20-50 more players into the field makes the tournament that much more expensive. Where is the justice for the future players? Paying $5,000 for an entry fee to attend LPGA Q-school to play in only 10 events for the following year does not seem like a fair play to me. I would like to attend LPGA Q-school next year, but I feel like it depends on how they plan to take care of rookies. How is being able to play in less than half events on the schedule fair?

Someone mentioned to me that in the past 4 years only 5 players have moved out of the top 50 on the LPGA. I have not researched to see how factual this is, but if you are in the top 50 on the LPGA, in the business world that’s what one would call job security. You are able to play in 90%  of the events, some of which have no cut, so therefore just showing up puts you ahead on the money list. I know I keep going on and on about this, but I want my friends to understand what is really happening. This is one of the reasons why I am playing in Europe, and I will not be surprised if more Americans tend to go overseas.

The Japanese Tour is another tour that I would like to consider at some point if I can ever figure out the website! In 2011 they had 34 events scheduled with $36million in prize money. In 2010 the LPGA had 24 events with $32million in prize money. The LET in 2010 had 25 events with a prize fund of around $15million (all of this I received from Wikipedia). According to people I have spoken to about the Japanese Tour is that it is very expensive to go to Q-school and you must pay for a translator while you are there. I have tried to check out the website, but unfortunately it is all in Japanese! My point is not to bash the LPGA, of course I want to eventually be a part of that tour and represent my country, but what I question myself is how is it going to happen when you have a very small option to compete?

Becoming a great player can take some time and experience. I plan to play a full schedule on the LET next year. Gain some more experience and confidence out there and be fully prepared to go to LPGA Q-school next year, but only as long as I keep my LET card. If I can’t keep my LET card, then what is the point of trying to participate on the LPGA?

On a lighter note, I am looking forward to my favorite holiday next week: Thanksgiving. My mom and I are hosting around 25 people at our house for the day. I am hoping it will be a great day because we are planning on eating out on our porch outside. I have been busy at home trying to clean up the house. Last weekend we freshly painted some outside doors and I have a little bit of pressure washing and yard work to do early next week. I really enjoy doing these kinds of things, it is sort of a hobby for me.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and I would like to say that I am thankful for all of my friends and family for their continued support and for our troops for keeping our country safe. I pray that they come home safely and SOON!

Good Morning World!

I had a rough sleep last night and decided to check out my website this morning.. lots of junk mail that needed cleaning up! It is amazing all the spam from the internet I get on this site. I am currently visiting my cousin and her family in Nice. I am loving being here for the week off, and so glad to have some downtime after last week. Nice is amazing, I thought the Florida Keys had the bluest water I had ever seen, but the Mediterranean here tops it. I love being able to see all these amazing cities, it is really a chance of a lifetime.

I had a decent golf week last week in Malaga, Spain; we were located very close to Puerto Banos which is a very ritzy, touristy area. My roommate from college lives in Madrid and after seeing her during my layover at the airport, she remembered she had a friend that works at LaQuinta (the course we were playing). Juan set me up with a friend of his to caddie for me! I was so thrilled to have a caddie because the course was super hilly. Lots of upward shots into the greens and just not a place where I wanted to pull my clubs and exhaust myself. It really makes a different on my energy level not having to pull a trolley.

My caddie was Estefano and on Thursday night he picked me up from my apartment and toured me around Puerto Banos.. we walked along the water and saw all the boats then had a drink at a great little spot where we could people watch. It really reminded me of Puerto Vallarta, where I played a Futures Tour event back in 2009. There were lots of restaurants by the water and shopping and cute little hotels. I really wish I could figure out how to upload some photos on here so you could see them!

It was such a relief to have Estefano with me that week because outside of golf I was not having such a brilliant time; we are trying to save money by renting apartments and stuff, one of the girls I travel with told me when I arrived late on Monday night that I was staying in a room with a caddie. Not to be rude, but I never met the dude and he was a boy. Something very unexpected and I was really upset I was going to have another bad week because of this mess. If it was anyone else they would have had a hisssssy fit. I decided that I would try to find some other people to hang out with that week and just come home late since four of us were sharing one set of keys…

I would like to note that I truly understand the meaning of “Spanish Time” now. I am not sure if I was impatient because I was having such an annoying week with my living situation, but honestly there was never any rush to do anything unless you were in a car on a highway (getting whiplashed around as if you were trying to win the Daytona 500 while being in a discoteca). One day it took twenty minutes for the empty restaurant to get me a croissant, which was right in front of me and un coca-cola. Come on people!

www.openfemenino.com   This is the website for the tournament if you would like to read more about the events and the winner, Melissa Reid. I watched the last two groups come in and Lee-Ann Pace, a friend from South Africa, three putted her last hole from about 20 feet to placed second. It was horrible to see, you never want to see people throw up on themselves. All in all it ended up being a great week and I moved up a few spots on the money list, but I am so happy to be with my family right now!

I am off to go get ready for the day, my five year old second cousin is going to her horse riding lessons this morning and then we are headed to the Circus!! Ciao!

I’m back in Europe and I am loving being back overseas. I really enjoy this tour and I am hoping to do well these next five events. Last week in Austria, was a great week overall. I was disappointed in how I played on the weekend because my ball striking was so well. The course was in perfect shape and the greens were rolling quick. The course reminded me of the one in Turkey, it was a little tight and fast.

I stayed with a friend of mine from Paris who is also a rookie on the tour. We had a great time rooming together. We stayed in one of the host hotels which was about five minutes from the course and about fifteen minutes from downtown Weiner Neudstadt, which is about thirty minutes from Vienna. I think she ate weiner schnitzel every day! The weather was perfect, probably around 80-85 degrees. It was definitely a nice change from the hot Georgia weather I have had lately!

One afternoon we met some other girls at their hotel and walked around the square downtown. There was an outside market set up by the locals where they had everything from handmade clothes and jewelry to flowers. I think it is really cool how most of the European cities I have been to have a main square and then lots of streets coming from that square. It is like that here in Prague this week as well. Which has been so cool to see. I am hoping tomorrow to have more of a change to be a real tourist and tour the city more in depth, there is a pro-am tomorrow at the course and I will not be able to play the course, only practice.

The Ladies European Tour set up a shuttle bus to Prague on Sunday after the tournament was over, so I arrived in Prague late Sunday night. We are staying about twenty minutes from downtown on a tram and we are just a five minute walk from the host hotel where we catch the bus everyday. I love how organized this tour is! The course is a 30 minute bus ride into the country. The course seems to be fairly new and in perfect shape. It reminds me of a Tom Fazio course because the greens are big and have quite a few slopes to them.

Today I played my practice round and it was off and on raining and the wind was blowing around 20-30mph! It was tough to pull the trolley in the wind the whole time. I finished after 16 holes because it started raining sideways! Looking forward to some downtime this afternoon and maybe finding a place to get a massage.. wish me luck!

Tonight was so interesting that I just had to blog about it. My mom and my grandmother show up and just as they arrive, my grandmother uses the restroom and the water in the toilet comes back brown. We turn on the sink water and it is brown. Apparently, the city of Vidalia somehow broke the water line to the hotel at the fancy Quality Inn and were in the process of fixing it. My mother immediately wants to move to another hotel and ends up getting the last room at the Hampton Inn according to the corporate Hampton Inn number that she called. My grandmother is just having a great time and says that she hasn’t had a more interesting day like this in years!

Everything that could have possibly went wrong tonight did and thank goodness for late tee times. I have had two days like this during this summer and I just hope that it doesn’t become a regular occurance! My mom ended up leaving me at the Quality Inn because I wasn’t packing all of my belongings quick enough for her to race down to the Hampton Inn to make sure that the last room there was actually hers. It seemed that a lot of the other golfers that were downstairs complaining were trying to find a different hotel as well. I mean redish-brown water is just not something that you really want to mess with in south Georgia!

I call my mother because I realize she just left me at the hotel and she tells me that they are hungry and that Nana needs to eat soon. We end up going to the restaurant that I went to the night before and sitting at the same table. It is such a small world that the man sitting next to us has a home in St. Simons. After dinner I had to finish packing up the rest of my stuff to leave. It’s amazing how scattered my belongings can be in just a day! Plus I overstocked my room with food from grocery shopping and had several extra trips to the car.

We arrive at our new hotel that has very nice clear water.. head to the room and we can’t get the door open, so my mom goes to the front desk to get another key. My grandmother jokes and says I can’t wait to see what happens next! Haha we just laugh so hard. My mother comes back with a new key and STILL cannot get the door open. So I’m like please just go get the lady! She goes and gets the lady and basically we have to body slam our door to open it. We get settled in and Nana apparently can’t find some prescription pills she needs, my mom doesn’t have a toothbrush, it seems like the list just went on and on tonight.

My grandmother says “boy, is this how your life is?” .. actually, sometimes yes. I travel so much that I know something during my week is probably not going to go as planned, and that is ok.. it’s usually a fun adventure and something we can all laugh about during and after the events occur.

Hey Everyone,

Well my travels are picking back up again and I am back on the road!

I love being in the South and I loved being in Richmond a few weeks ago. What an awesome week that was; being there just feels like home to me. Plus it’s a really cool city. My friend Jeff, who caddied for me for the week, got us out at a course called Kinloch on Wednesday. It was just fun to slip away from the tournament and play with him and have a relaxing day. We could not have asked for more perfect weather and I ended up shooting a 68!  Playing out there gave me a lot of confidence going into the weekend and I just knew that I was going to have a great tournament. Well, I didn’t, but it was nice to see a lot of friends on tour that I have not seen in a while. It seemed like everyone was asking me about where I had been. I randomly played golf with a this guy  at Country Club of Virginia on Friday after I had finished my round. This is one reason I love playing golf, because I love meeting new people. His brother just started a clothing company called PAHR, so check it out! I have one of their shirts and I love it.. it is actually long enough and has a great fit: www.pahrgolf.com

On my week off I got a putting lesson that a friend had set up for me and I feel like my putting is starting to shape up. It seems that I take bits and pieces from several people that have helped me out and mesh it all together. One day I just know it is going to click and that’s when it is going to get scary fun.

Yesterday I played in a scramble at Brunswick Country Club, which is a course where I live, and we shot 20 under and placed 3rd! We pared our last hole, unfortunately to lose by one stroke! BCC is a fantastic Donald Ross golf course built in 1920. It has those classic mushroom-shaped greens and they are smaller than today’s average greens.  Davis Love III grew up playing that course and his father used to tell him that if he could play there he could play anywhere. BCC also has the best fried chicken in town!! One of the guys that I played with used to play on mini tours for a long time and I think that he might try out for the senior tour. He is probably one of the better players in my county that is not professional. Anyways, he used to have a lot of putting problems and he gave me a few tips as well to help me. So yet again, I am feeling excited about my putting!

This Week I am in Vidalia, Georgia. It is only two hours from my house, so it was just a jump shot away! I have actually never played golf in Vidalia, but I am happy to be playing a professional event in my home state. There are so many awesome golf courses in Georgia and I like it when they are shown off. Speaking of that.. the PGA tour will have it’s second annual McGladery Classic on one of my home courses, Seaside at Sea Island Golf Club, the second weekend of October. So watch for the tournament on television so you can see where I am from!

I am looking forward to a great week this week, I have been kind of stressed because this tournament is over on Sunday and then I will leave Monday afternoon to fly to Europe for 6 weeks. I have been busy trying to make sure all of my ducks are in a row and all my flights are set up appropriately. I am also very excited that this trip I will be able to go and visit my cousin who lives in Nice, France.

I tee off at 1:50 on Friday and I am happy that my family will be coming to watch. My mom rarely gets to come to golf tournaments and I am hoping that she will bring my 90 year old grandmother as well. The last and only time my grandmother was at a golf tournament she squealed when I made this long putt to win my first college tournament.. it was hilarious!

Check out my live scoring at www.lpgafuturesscoring.com

What a great experience it was to be at the Women’s Open. I enjoyed the whole week and was happy that I was in the tournament. I am not pleased with my play but it’s ok, at least I was there. The greens were very tricky and really tore my confidence up. I met Christie Kerr in the trailer this week and she was astonished at my height. She was like boy you are tall! I also played a practice round with Angela Stanford, so that was neat to watch her play on TV during the weekend.

On Friday I ended up not being able to play all day because of the delays my tee time was going to be around 8:50pm, so I knew I would not play at all. My mom, Bill and I ended up going to a tempurpedic store and hanging out there for a little bit. Bill was wanting to look at some back stuff and so that’s what brought us in there. I ended up meeting this woman named Kathy who was friends with the owner. She is a chiropractor and just moved to town and her husband, Dustin, works at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. I was asking her about seeing someone because my back was hurting me and she said she didn’t really know anyone since she was so new to the area. She ended up calling her husband and long story short he said he would be happy to see me. So Joe and I ended up going to the training center that afternoon. They fixed my back and rubbed my muscle out and told me when I have some time they would love to have me back out here and they really think they can fix my back for good! I am thinking about coming back out to Colorado before I head back to Europe. I know it would be a lot of help, what a blessing of being in the right place at the right time! Thank you Dustin and Bill for helping me, you guys are awesome!

For the last two days in Colorado Joe and I went to the Cheyene Mountain Zoo, which was really cool. We were able to hand feed the giraffes lettuce. I was a little nervous about what they might do, but they were super friendly. My favortie exhibits were the hippos and the monkeys that kept swinging on the ropes!

We also drove up to the top of the mountain to Will Rogers shrine, which rang throughout the week every 15 minutes. It is eleveated at 8,000 feet and what a view it was from the top! You could really see how much the course sloped away from the mountain from up there.

I am off to Cincinnati for the Nationwide Tour event this week! It will be fun to watch from outside the ropes!