Pennypacker - give this thread a read, adjust the advice given by all participants to your own circumstances, and see what happens
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/9...87/?highlight=

Nice, I'll definitely dive in. Thank you very much for sharing!

U.S. Senior Open qualifying yesterday, well over 100 guys for 4 spots. I haven't been playing much golf at all as of late let alone competing, a couple of things at home have required my constant attention.

The results https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/3383334

Take note that everybody under par except me either played the PGA Tour or currently has full status on Champions Tour.

I certainly didn't do anything special except make more putts than usual. Ball striking was probably a 5 on a 1-10 scale. Not sharp. Felt good to make putts.

Playoff with Billy Mayfair for 2nd alternate, the only player on earth to defeat Tiger Woods in a playoff on tour. He didn't want any of me, he'd heard the rumors, he didn't even show up. Didn't really expect him to as he teed off quite early and 2nd alternate has about as much chance of getting in as I have hooking up with Salma Hayek.

But technically I did defeat him in the playoff. So by the transitive property I'm thinking I've beaten Tiger Woods in a playoff.

Long day, teed off at 954am, took 5 hours to play because you have to walk in USGA events and this course was not walker friendly. Especially with 97 degree heat. One player went down walking off 18 green and had to be attended to. Then wait until 7pm for everybody to finish before showing up on the first tee for the playoff. Not to mention an hour commute each way. Left home at 745am, got home at 845pm. And that's typical for guys trying to make it on any tour.

Cliffs - I still got game.

Aweswome - nice round!


Any Monday Qs for the Champions Tour coming up? Any big events on your upcoming calendar?

pretty damn impressive

nice work BO.

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nice

I know what Lloyd Christmas would say!

Nice work, don't forget the trip report if Salma slides into your DMs.

Will do. Would be an embarrassingly short TR though.

Congrats BO, that's awesome stuff!

Can you explain WTF all the dudes shooting high 80's are even doing there though?

Happens at any tour/open qualifier, both under and over 50. Before the qualifier I looked at the field and only identified 22 guys with a chance. The other ~100 were irrelevant fillers. Every player that finished under par was on the list. It took 4-under to get in, the highest anybody not on the list finished was even. It’s a pretty big gap. I’ve got several friends that didn’t make the list that are damn good players without question. It’s just a totally different animal in qualifiers.

Congrats. The course sounds like a beast.

Was Stankowski on the list, lol?

Yep, Stanky posted +1.

So you're the second alternate but have no chance of getting in? How come? Does no one ever withdraw?

I’m 2nd alternate from this site and there are 33 qualifying sites total.

If a qualifier WD’s he is replaced by the 1st alternate from that site. If an exempt player WD’s he is replaced by the 1st alternate from the top ranked of the 33 sites. I don’t know where my site will be ranked amongst the 33.

I’ve got two longshot chances. 2 of the 5 guys in front of me at this site WD. Or 1 guy from my site WD’s and enough exempt players WD and my site is high up in the rankings.

got it, thanks

During the times of COVID, you are drawing very live I think.

lol, clicked on new posts and saw this near the top, beginning to understand why you're so nitpicky regarding my definition of "amateur"

congrats on 2nd alternate, super impressive

Yeah, I might be a little too close to the subject matter to chill. Same with quiz shows.

But I do appreciate the congrats. Thanks.

GF said the same thing. Point is valid.

You could also do a mass Tonya Harding.

i'll be your Gillooly campfire, shoot me a pm
(just kidding you fbi ****s)