Hello My Friend,
Well the season has come to an end on the Canadian Tour and it is nice to be home. I finished the season 76th on the Order of Merit earning $10,651 and kept my card for next season. This was my best season on the Canadian Tour and it is nice to have my status secured for next year. The Canadian Tour is an excellent place to play as the skills learned and improvement I have made while playing the tour is what is needed to move up to the next level.
In the off season last winter I made some swing changes working on getting back to basics and my natural swing. The improvement was obvoius and I am pleased with the progress that was made this year. Early in the season I had to go back to Canadian Tour Q-School to secure my card for the 2009 season, and was successful in doing so. From there the Tour began in Mexico where I got off to a strong start. From Mexico the tour moved to Canada where my play was a little up and down. When our last regular season event, The Canadian Tour Championship, came up I was sitting at 83rd on the money list and needed a strong finish. I was successful there with my best finish on the tour earning a check of $3,500 and guaranteeing my card for 2010. It felt good to have a strong finish in a tournament which was very important to me.
All season long I was working on the Swinkey project. As you may or may not know the Swinkey is a multi-functional golf training tool that I invented. It has been exciting starting my own business and seeing the idea of the Swinkey begining to flourish. I sold over 70 Swinkeys to the guys on the tour and those guys don't pay for anything so that shows how good the product is. Go to the driving range at any Canadian Tour event and you will see half the players using the Swinkey. It's a nice sight.
At this time in the season many players will be going to PGA Q-School. I would love to go but at this time my expense account is very low and I feel that the best move for myself is to take the winter and work full time on the Swinkey, my golf game, and put myself into position to have a great season next year. 2009 was my fourth year of full time professional play and I have had sponsors/investors help me out financially. This has been great and I couldn't have gone for it like I have without this support. I feel that I can only go back my supporters so many times and I would like to support myself. The Swinkey is the road to supporting myself and over the winter I am going to work very hard on the Swinkey business and my golf game so next season I can go out and be self sufficient and play some great golf.
The past years competing and traveling as a Professional Golfer has been a great advernture. I have learned so much about golf, myself, business, the world, my mind, fitness, nutrition, coaching, and being a professional. Over the winter I am going to take all I have learned and set myself for next season. I will get the Swinkey business going, continue to hone my golf game, work on my fitness regularly, and get my mind in a place where I am ready to play some great golf next year.
Thank you for your support and be sure to check out http://www.swinkeygolf.com/ as we are making some big upgrades to our website one of which is to open our online store, which will open for business this Friday October 23rd.
ESPN Golf Talk Radio (California), and The Golf Club Radio Show (Hawaii) will be doing a features on us this Saturday, October 24th. Here are the instructions for listening in online if you are not able to tune in 'live' via your radio.
0825AM PST: http://www.espnradio1280.com/ and when you go to that site click the "Listen Live" button on the top left hand side of the page, you can't miss it...I would test it prior to make sure you can get the sound!
11:00AM PST: http://www.radiogolfclub.com/ for this one click the "Listen" button on the left hand side menu bar on the sites home page...again, please test prior to make sure you can get sound.
I look forward to hearing from you all upon the launch of our online store and after the Radio shows.
The best new email address to get ahold of me on is:
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Thanks and take care!
Brian B
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