andrew scott jensen

Sorry, for the delay.  Some untimely things have been taking me away from the blog.

My personal life has been going through some friction in the past weeks and writing on the blog has really slipped from my priorities.

As for the golf, it is no surprise that it has also fallen victim to my weakening emotional state.  Last monday I played a Pro Am in Ottawa at Rideauview.  It was a a very fun day with a lot of familiar faces and some good golf on top of that.  Unfortunately, a severe storm rolled and cut the round short.  Check out the pictures on my site of the day.  We then had a fantastic dinner and I had a lot of time to have some great conversations with some of my golfing “mentors” Brad Fritsch(who finished T4 last week on the Nationwide!!) and David Mathis of the Nationwide Tour.  It was very encouraging to talk with them and get some fresh insights into life on Tour.

I then headed to Mississauga and proceeded to experience first hand how a struggling personal life gets in the way when trying to play golf under the pressure of competition.  I could not think straight at all, my focus was very far from the golf course.  I played awful, the worst event of the year.

I am not discouraged; thankfully enough, I could identify and chalk the poor play up what was happening to me off the course.

I spent the weekend caddying for a good friend of mine, and it was great to watch the play of the top guys in the field, and also have someone to talk to about the issues I was going through.  Even without practicing at all, I feel that the weekend was very beneficial for me as a player and my improvement.

I am in a better place emotionally and mentally.  I’m hopeful that this will allow me to focus better on the task at hand while I play this week.

We are in Seaforth, Ontario this week and so far it was been a great time.  This is a small town of 2000 people that are so supportive of us as aspiring players.  We have been treated so well, its been very comforting.  The course is a very fun course that will yield a lot of birdies.  I hope to free up the head and just let the birdies happen.  If I do, it will be a great week come Sunday afternoon.

I’m holding onto the idea that last weeks was Brad’s week to make a charge on the leaderboard, and that this week will be mine!

I unfortunately didn’t make the cut this week in Montreal.

This has been the hardest missed cut to handle so far.  It’s been difficult because I played well both days, but couldn’t get anything to drop.

Unlike past missed cuts where I putted badly with many 3 putts and poor strokes, I putted the ball very well in Montreal.  My lag putting was great and my short putting was very solid.  But, it didn’t seem to matter how well the ball was stroked, it still couldn’t find the bottom of the cup.  In those 2 rounds I had 10 putts that looked great but could only amount to lip outs.  If only half of those had dropped my weekend would be much more exciting.  Frustrating, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.

Thankfully, there are a lot of positives to take away from those rounds.  I struck the ball great, handled my emotions very well, was very strong mentally, and putted well for the first event in months.  All of this amounted to a missed cut; this is a tough job sometimes!

I am very confident about the next event in Toronto.  If I can continue doing what I am doing, it’s only a matter of time until I really break through and get in the mix on the weekend.

My patience is being tested like never before!

I’m playing in a pro am at Rideauview on Monday, and I’m very excited.  There’s going to be a lot of good players there, and it’ll be great to put my game up against them.  Monday will be a great day for the putts to drop and for both my confidence and cash flow to increase.

I’m off to watch the women play the Hunt for the day.

I fired an even par 71 yesterday in my first round.

It was a nice way to get back after 3 weeks off.  I hit the ball great and gave myself a lot of good chances, the putter was solid, but the ball was touching every part of the hole except the bottom.

Hopefully I can do the same thing today and just have the ball find the bottom of the cup.  I play at 2 this afternoon.

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After a much needed break, here is my latest update.  Bare with me as the blog rust may be evident.

The tour stops down in Montreal this week.  From what I have heard and experienced so far this week, this event is high class.  It is ran much like a PGA Tour event, and it’s treated on that level by the fans, sponsors and media.

I am very excited to showcase at an event that’s as big as this one.  I played 2 pro ams early this week and have seen the course and I like what I see, this will be a great test for my solid ball striking of late.

I came back to Ottawa this afternoon and will stay here Wednesday to watch the pro am at the Canadian Women’s Open.  It will be great to see some of the best that the LPGA has to offer playing my home course.

I plan to head back and get in some last minute range time prior to teeing it up Thursday morning at 9 am.

This is everything I have been working for over my time off, I am so excited to start back into the routine of playing tournaments every week for the next 4 weeks.

I am slowly working on my fall playing schedule and it excites me what the possibilities are for playing tournaments into December.

For now I am focused on this week in Montreal and playing the best I can for those 4 rounds.