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It all sounds like a pretty normal week for a guy who missed the cut. Played pretty good, played on the bad side of the draw, and did not make enough putts.

Top to bottom, every player out there (except Tiger) has many weeks like this a year.

Thanks for this post, Andrew. Especially from your 'on the bag' perspective of countless week-to-week performances, it carries much weight.

However . . .

With all due respect, this was way beyond "the wrong side of the draw." I can tell you that I had six guys in this tournament -- a collective of many hundreds of cuts made -- and those that played in the afternoon (to a man and to a caddy) said they had never seen play continued under such conditions. John Riegger told me it was the worst he had ever experienced and that play should never have resumed after the first suspension. In fact, all five groups that started before him in the afternoon were waiting for him on #9 tee. With the teebox literally underwater and a forced carry of more than 240 yards into the wind and rain, it took the field more than an hour to play that one hole!

I was there with Jeff, his caddy Chris and his wife, Ashley, when play finally was called and the Evacuation Van arrived. The rain was still driving, and even with umbrellas, we were all beyond soaking wet. On the entire back nine, when golf balls hit fairways and greens, we could see the splash. At least, until it got so dark we couldn't see anymore.

And that ain't right.

As you said, next week comes for most on the PGA TOUR. But it does not come for Jeff, and that is what is so tough about his experience this week. Still, that was the hand he was dealt, and that was the hand he played.

And, IMHO, he played it well, indeed.