ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Picture this.
You’ve just received your to start with PGA Tour title, handled all the media obligations and now have to hurry about the pond to get ready to make your debut in the Open up Championship. But you happen to be in Kentucky with the Barbasol Championship components and your passport is home in Alabama, so – courtesy of the PGA Tour, which sets up a personal jet – you fly south.
You repack, get a few hrs of rest and then head for Scotland, the itinerary having you by way of JFK and Dublin in advance of touching down in Edinburgh. And which is when you see the horrors at the palms of luggage handlers.
We will let Trey Mullinax take it from in this article.
“All my clubs were being out of my (golf) bag when I obtained listed here,” Mullinax explained. “A lot of golf equipment were bent, and so we experienced to alter and stuff like that. I guess heading via TSA, what ever, they took the irons out (of the golfing bag) and place them not back again in my golf bag. They had been just lying in the vacation case.
“A pair of irons were being bent and things like that.”
But his vacation nightmare has turned into a desire week at the 150 th Open Championship played at the Home of Golf. Just after building the cut on the variety, he and Kevin Kisner have been the first two-ball out and Mullinax shot 6-underneath-par 66 Kisner shot 65. Mullinax will be able to rest in a bit for a longer period Sunday following transferring up a lot more than 50 places on the leaderboard.
“A small bit of a blur,” Mullinax, 30, described his present condition. “I remaining my property at 5 a.m. Monday morning, bought right here at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, and then teed off at like 1:30 for 18 holes. I was essentially Okay Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday I was truly drained. I have not slowed down. I actually haven’t experienced any time. I’m genuinely looking forward to next week getting residence to my household and hanging out with my kids and celebrating the win, seeing some good friends and stuff like that.”
Playing the Old Study course has certainly woken him up.
“Finding to hit photographs I have never ever strike right before,” he reported of the highlights. “My caddie has been quite geared up for the pictures that we are likely to have to hit and the bump and runs you have to strike about right here.
“I experience incredibly geared up, and I really feel like my game’s superior.”
And now his putter is back to ordinary, too. On Friday evening, Mullinax discovered the lie of his putter was off by 2 degrees.
“I knew it appeared humorous. I was getting to inform my caddie, gentleman, I’m obtaining to ahead push this a great deal. I was like, guy, I really don’t know what’s likely on,” he explained. “The ball was not rolling like it was in Kentucky. Certainly I did not lose it in two times.
I found out now that it was 2 degrees off. I performed a lot much better currently.
“Shooting 66 out right here is under no circumstances lousy. I was just attempting to hold up with Kiz the entire time. I signify, he was placing phenomenal. I begun creating some putts. It turned form of like who can make the most birdies? He manufactured the most birdies. I sniffed him on the last hole. May possibly have caught a skin there with him.”
