NCAA Regional Selection Day

St. George, Utah here we come. Only 9 hours away from beautiful Longmont, Colorado we will be teeing off on the 10th-12th of May. We are SO excited! The conference call was great, it's just like March Madness but not on tv. Anyway, the golf course, Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club, looks pretty amazing. Look for the results on golfstat.com on the 10th. It's live scoring.

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It's Not Over Yet

We did it. We won. With a 3 shot lead over UTEP going into the final day, we ended up winning by 2 strokes over East Carolina University. My team is the greatest team in the world. Everyone contributed, Kathryn's amazing playing the first two days, DMC's steady playing the whole tournament, Meghan's big final round, and Stace's red numbers the last two days. Incredible team effort! Meghan, Stacey and I all had a birdie on the last hole. Way to make it interesting right? The ECU team watched it all. It was incredible and I'm grateful and honored to be a part of it. Onto regionals...

An Unwanted Countdown

I don't want it to happen. The realization of growing up has hit me as four of my teammates are about to graduate. This is our last tournament together and I am beyond sad. Our relationships have grown immensely since the day I came to Memphis and I consider them great friends. I don't want this chapter in my life, or theirs, to be over. I know this team with them on it and it is hard to stomach the thought of them not being here next year. It is a time all of us go through and I got a taste of it in high school when Kelly and Brianne graduated leaving Steph and I to fend for a state championship by ourselves. I have hope, why wouldn't I, because our fourth state championship was soon to follow. I must admit it is a bit different in college seeing as we aren't going for our second straight NCAA title. I wish. But it is something we all must endure. The pain of growing up. Needless to say, I am excited for them as they enter life after college. They are amazing people with potential unlimited and I know whatever they set out to do, they will do it if they truly want it. My last entry, the Tiger Woods quote fits in right about here. As my other teammates, three to be exact, who will be returning and I have to bring up some freshman next year. It will be different for all of us but who said change isn't a good thing?

“I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.”
-Tiger Woods

Update

So a little update.

Travis came into town this weekend. I'm sure everyone knew that so it is really only news to me. Let me entertain you with the story. We were playing at Chickasaw CC and I was on the 4th hole walking over to my ball by the cart path. I hear the cart coming behind me and thinking it is just my coach I just kept walking. Then the cart pulls up next to me and HOLY MOTHER Trav is sitting in the cart too. I've never felt so surprised in my lifetime. I couldn't believe he was sitting there. I thought I was dreaming. It was very surreal. I was speechless. It was very cool.

We spent Easter weekend watching the Masters which was great. My family from Louisiana came up and we had a crawfish boil in our front yard. There was about a million pounds of crawfish and people ate for hours. It was a good time. Church on Easter followed by a sweet brunch made by me wrapped up the weekend. Not much happening but quality time for sure.

My car was in the shop for the past two weeks so I've been maneuvering myself through town on my friend's bike and various rides from friends. It sucked but when does car trouble not suck? It's fixed now so that's great.

Our last tournament before conference was held just outside of Atlanta. My teammate Stacey won which was awesome because she won there last year as well. So props to you Ms. Tate! Conference is on the 21st-25th which is very exciting.

School is over May 3rd for me. Hannah and Cady (my sisters) are flying out on the 1st to hang in Memphis and then drive back with me. Very stoked for that. Neither of them have been here yet and I'm anxious to see them.

10 Year Anniversary

This year marks the 10 year anniversary of Tiger Woods' legendary win at Augusta National. This next weekend he will try to earn another green jacket this weekend. Phil Mickelson won last year and Tiger missed out on winning his last Masters for his dad, Earl who died last May. I predict a dominating performance by Mr. Woods even though he shot +1 yesterday.

Fun fact: 10 years ago, before he set the record of -18, he shot a front 9 score of 40 (+4).

Let the magic begin.