April continues to be a good month for me!! I played well in Atlanta this week at Towne Lake Hills with scores of 70-70-73 which was good for 4th place. Three under is my best 54 hole score so far, and I feel pretty good about the state of my game right at the moment.

I played in the final group for the first time, and I was a little "nervy" and opened with a 3-putt on the first hole. I never made anything until a 30 foot birdie on the last hole, and only had 2 birdies all day compared to 10 the first 2 rounds combined. When in the last group again, I will be better I promise!

I had a weird thing happen to me the second round that I might never forget. I played the front 9 in good form with a 33, and arrived at the 10th tee obviously feeling great. The hole is a par 5 that is reachable. I pushed my tee ball down a slope but had a swing but no view on the hole. I was about 230 out and hit a good rescue. I ran to the top of the hill in time to see my ball land and kick a little right. I figured it was just short or in the green side bunker short right. Anyway, we got up there and could not find it, and figured it went into a lateral hazard to the right; the hole did slope that way and the ground was bare.

I took a drop, chunked my 4th shot which rolled back into the hazard. I was able to play that shot onto the green, and when we got up to the slightly elevated green my original ball was on the fringe less than 20 feet from the pin!!! It must have gotten a great kick we could not see, and the ball was in a depression between the bunker and the putting surface. It cost me 3 strokes because I made 7 instead of a most likely 4. I kept it together by shooting 1 under the rest of the way but turned a 67 into a 70 just like that. Instead of being tied for the lead going into the last round I was 3 back. Oh well, in the future I will always go up to the green and look for a ball... I should have been more positive!

I am off to Augusta next week to play at Jones Creek. (wish it was Augusta National!! Ha Ha!) I feel full of confidence and ready to contend. The time to win is here!