Tough Week

As you know I had the misfortune of playing this week through injury. I had hoped I would be able to work through the pain and stay calm and take it easy. At least get through the first couple days of pain, make the cut and hopefully by weekend pain is gone... Not the case. Because of the location of the spasm (under right shoulder blade) there was pain on the back swing however, the real problem was on downswing and finish I found myself leaving a lot of balls out to the right because my body wasn't allowing me to finish swing. That led to a lot of work on the short game or just a really really long putt... and I had a lot of those.
It's certainly dissapointing to have missed the cut but as I look at the number of great players that scored about as bad I did I realize I played some fairly decent golf through injury. Never once did I quit or give up due to pain and always tried to get myself right back in the game. I hope it's a character builder for when it comes to count and I feel healthy. I hope it's not long before this goes away, the most unfortunate thing about all this is how excited I was about competing in the Times Colonist which usually leads to good results. Second, how well I had been playing leading into this week. I felt like I was in the perfect place to have a strong finish. Either way, this had never happened to me where I have had a physical injury (other than flu) and had to make the decision to play through pain or WD. Another life lesson on the course and like I said before I hope it helps in the long run.