Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving (and we are still golfing in Southwestern Idaho), it’s been a year since I had gotten through the Qualifying School with a full exemption.  And WHAT a year!

 

I just wanted to touch base with everyone, and let you know how much I appreciate your support, interest and especially your enthusiasm for my golf adventures.  As you know, I didn’t go through the Qualifying School this year, mainly because I didn’t see what I had to gain.  The nine spots with the right to Monday qualify doesn’t fit my life right now.  But I’m not saying that I won’t go through this process in the future and especially if the Tour goes back to the old format where there are full exemptions available.  (I’ve posted on my journal a description of the new Qualifying process).

 

I’m back to work in the trucking business at Prime, Inc, a job that I’ve always enjoyed.  Having taken basically a year off, there is plenty to do……..and I’m happy to be back at it.   And without the job flexibility that Robert Low (owner of Prime, Inc) has always afforded me, I would never have been able to pursue this dream.  For that I will always be grateful.  And Robert was a great pro-am partner in the Greater Kansas City Classic last July!

 

I will also continue to work with my two main sponsors; Tamarack Resort (the ski hill is opening this weekend) and Hopkins Financial Services helping them promote their businesses.  I’m proud to be associated with these two Idaho companies.

 

I’m still working with Dave Bartels on my golf game, I will always try and improve, and I’m going to work on my fitness and especially some of the issues with my neck.  If I choose, next year I will try and play my way into some Champion’s Tour events through the Friday/Monday qualifying process.  I will continue to compete, somewhere, somehow. 

 

I’m going to start posting snippets of my year on Tour to my journal.  It will serve two purposes:  one will be the archiving of the memories and secondly any of you that are interested, can read my ramblings.  The journal is useful because it is a convenient communication for those of you that WANT the info.  I’ve always told you that I would not abuse your email address, so these frequent journal postings will not come by email.  I will use the email distribution only occasionally to keep in touch.

 

And you can influence what goes in the journal by emailing questions of topics that interest you.  So let me know what you want to hear about.

 

Scott Masingill Champion's Tour Journal or

 

http://journals.aol.com/primescot1/ChampionsTour/

 

Again, this last year was an adventure, it truly took on a life of it’s own.  Thanks to you for being part of it, hope to continue to hear from all of you.