As I mentioned, Brandt played in the Arrowhead Jr. Golf Tour Coca Cola Championship at Beaver Creek in Zachary. He teed off Friday morning at 8:05 and at the end of the day was in a 3 way tie for 1st place with a score of 71 (1 under par). Saturday the 3 leaders teed off together. Another great match. Brandt and one of the other boys in his group remained tied for 1st going into Sunday's match with a score of 74 (2 over par). Sunday's match was unbelievable. Brandt started with a birdie on hole 1 and remained in the lead for 17 holes. At one point he was 3 shots ahead, but the other player didn't give up, he just kept coming after him. When they got to the 18th hole, Brandt was 1 stroke ahead, but had a bad shot and ended up with a bogey which put the 2 of them tied again. This put them in a sudden death play off, so we went back to #8 - they tied it...#9 Brandt skyed his 3 wood, then hit his next shot in the water :( this opened the door for the other player and he won the hole over Brandt, taking 1st place for the tournament. For their round Sunday they shot a 68, which is 4 under par. Brandt was 6 under after hole 14, but just couldn't put it away. The other golfer was good and he wasn't going anywhere.
Brandt handled the weekend like a champ. Saturday we had so many people following him. A writer from The Advocate (Baton Rouge's newspaper), WAFB - Channel 9 Sports, a friend of Brandt's that we haven't seen in a year or more came out to watch Sat. and Sun., a friend whose son went to school with Brandt at Starkey saw the article in the paper and just showed up to watch, and a friend of ours, Tim Guedry, came and watched Sunday. We had our own little entourage. It was really cool.
It was a crazy, but awesome weekend. I think I went through every emotion I had. I told Daddy, at one point Sunday, I was so nervous, I thought I was going to throw up. I have never felt that way in my life, even when I played volleyball. Not long ago Danny and I were talking about how much we enjoy watching him play golf and how it was a whole lot less stressful than baseball was...I take that back now.
The Advocate writers did a great job reporting the tournament, but I do want to say how impressed I was with the last article of the weekend in The Advocate. The writer did a great job capturing the true essence of the day, not taking anything away from either golfer. That means a lot to the mom of the golfer that didn't win after giving it everything he had through 56 holes of golf, with all eyes watching. Also, on Arrowheads website www.arrowheadjgt.com they put Brandt's picture on as the runner up. I have never seen the runner up on the site, just winners. Thanks Mr. Paul!
Brandt plays again Saturday at Santa Maria.
Stay tuned and hang on...we still have a lot of golf ahead of us.
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