The Hoosier State

Winona Lake, Indiana

August 1, 2013

We are wrapping things up with our tournament in Indiana and getting ready to hit the road once again, this time to Detroit. We leave tomorrow and we have about three and half hours of driving ahead of us. Relatively this will feel like nothing compared to our 13 hour commute to Indiana.

This week has gone really smoothly so far. This has been my first week in the state of Indiana and everything has gone well.

 There is plenty of farm land in this state including tons of crops right along the golf course.  One crop they are definitely nailing is corn on the cob. We had some at our tournament chairman’s house and it was spot on.

The tournament chairman at this event is a high school golf coach locally in Warsaw, Indiana. He has a lot of his players in the field. One of his players is currently T3 heading into the final round. This is not just a unique story because this is his local course. William Petro of Warsaw, Indiana is playing in his first ever golf tournament outside of a high school match.  His career low going into this tournament was 73. In the first two rounds he went 69-68. This is quite the story through two rounds. We will see how it turns out in the final.

Every week our tournament has a social activity for the players. This week the social activity was pretty unique. We held a fishing tournament on a pond surrounding the No. 9 fairway. This was a great fun for the kids and staff that were involved. The social activities are always fun, but this event was really unique that made for a good turn out and great experience.

Fishing was this weeks social activity

The food this week has been fantastic. Along with the great corn on the cob, I also had a roasted duck sandwich for the first time ever. I wasn't sure about how I would like it, but it was delicious. My host dad was telling me this area has a ton of duck and is known for producing it. I was glad I was able to try it here because it was delicious.

Tomorrow we head out en route to Detroit for our next event.  

The sun making its way over Stonehenge Golf Club before the first round