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It's
been a good couple of weeks in a funny kind of way.
Even though I had a missed cut in Puerto Rico to start
with, I have been doing some great swing work and have
finally started to see the club in the positions I've
always wanted to get to.
It was great to get an invite to the Puerto Rico Open
but it was probably a little too soon to be testing
my swing tweaks in strong winds. However, it enabled
me to sneak in a practice round for the Tavistock Cup,
which was hosted this year at Isleworth Country Club
in Orlando.
It was my debut representing my new club Lake Nona with
team mates Graeme McDowell, Ross Fisher, Peter Hanson,
Retief Goosen and Henrik Stenson. The Tavistock Cup
is effectively a golf club world championship with Isleworth
and Lake Nona being joined by two new teams - the Albany
Club from the Bahamas and Queenwood from the UK.
The event boasts one of the best fields in golf, which
is how the Tavistock Group are able to raise the millions
of dollars they do each year for their Foundation.
I partnered Ross Fisher the first day to shoot eight
under par in the better ball portion but that only helped
to leave us five shots back of the Isleworth team.
The second day was individual stroke play with all six
players scores to count in an aggregate format to decide
who would take the Tavistock Cup home. Fortunately the
Lake Nona team all shot under par for a 18 under par
total to come from behind for victory.
I managed to post a seven under 65 to win the low honours
and get my name on the Payne Stewart Salver, which is
definitely an honour to have my name linked in anyway
to his.
It was great to see the hard work paying off with my
swing and I managed to close out the tournament with
a 3, 3, 3, 3 finish including one of the best shots
I've ever hit on hole 17 for an eagle 3. It's something
I can take lots of confidence from back to Europe next
week where I can keep on improving and continue this
form on the European Tour in Spain.
I won't be counting this as my first professional win
but it was a world class field and you've got to start
somewhere!
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