on tour
“TOUR TALK”
Cut lines and gallery
ropes
Steven Jeffress
[email protected]
I
am writing this from Hotel Sky, in
Korea. The last month has been
fairly busy, with the first couple of
events for the year on the Japanese
Tour.
My first event in Japan was being
played in Nagoya, The Token
Homemate Cup. The course was in
great condition with tight fairways
and quick greens. It was a course
that was set up perfectly for me and
typically Aussies have done well in
the event at the past as it is pretty
similar to what we play back home.
I shot one-under-par 70 the first day
which I was happy with, a solid start
to the Japan assault for 2014 and had
me running 30th. I started the second
day really strong and was two-under
through 8 holes. Then I hit a little
speed bump. I bogeyed 9, 10 and 11
to go back to even par and around
the cut line. As is often the case with
many of us about this time of the
week, my thinking got a little ahead
of me and I started thinking about
cut line, which is not the way to think
with 7 holes to go in your first event
of the year.
I ended up three-putting the last
hole to miss the cut by two shots
which was a disappointing result
knowing that at one stage I was
sitting in about 15th position. Bu