The Byron Nelson PGA Tour event was held at the TPC Las Colinas. Like all tour events, it was a collection of the world's best golfers competing to win the first prize of $1,170,000. Not bad for a 4 rounds of golf. It's interesting to see how differently the 157 golfers respond and react to the various issues that come up throughout their rounds.
Brett Quigley is a tour veteran that holds the distinction of winning the most money on tour over a career without winning a tournament. Brett and I met at Jack Canfield's Breakthrough to Success program last summer. He's really a fantastic guy and I had the privilege of following him on his second round Friday.
After pushing a drive slightly on his opening hole, he hit a super little shot under a tree that was easily 6 inches from perfect. Unfortunately, those 6 inches put him in a bunker as opposed to knocking it tight to the pin. An opening bogey. Next tee Brett hit an amazing 6 iron that took a terrible hop into another bunker with horrible lie. A couple more unfortunate bounces and it was a double bogey; 3 over after the first 2 holes. This was starting as a debacle.
About Brett's 16th hole of the day, a father and his son came up to me and asked if I knew Brett. I told him that we had gotten to know each other over the past 6 months and what a great guy I know him to be. This is when the father shared something that proved to be a great lesson. He said that he and his son had...
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