Why go?

It's about freedom. Work feels like jail sometimes. I live here, work here, and play here. Hitting the road this winter is about being free. Going where I want to go, doing what I want to do and playing wherever the heck I feel like it.

Being a golf professional certainly has its perks but a flexible schedule is not one of them. Now that the first hint of cold weather is here, its planning time for my two precious fall excursions.

The first is a trip to Clemson. This has to happen sooner rather than later. The plan is to fly to Charlotte on Friday, November 11th. Drive to Clemson, hit up Tiger Town Tavern as soon as I roll into town (right after I see my little sis of course). Go to the Clemson/Wake Forest game the next day. AND if the scheduling works, Auburn plays Georgia in Athens the same afternoon. If I can make it out of bed the next morning, I will play golf with the boys either at the Cliffs or the Walker Course. Sometime that night, I will drive back to Charlotte and fly home. GOD'S COUNTRY.

The second trip is to Bermuda. I play in the Bermuda Goodwill Golf Tournament every year. The second week of December is a great time to play golf in Bermuda because the weather is still good, the golf courses are in great condition and the tournament field is really good. Mid Ocean might be one of the best golf courses on this planet. Port Royal isn't bad either. My team stays at the Coral Beach Golf and Tennis Club. We stay in a cottage about 50 yards from the beach. You haven't lived until you try kite surfing on Elbow Beach or tried to drive a scooter on the wrong side of the road in Bermuda.

If there is a third trip before the new year, I hope its as good as the other two.

I don't ask or get too much time off but when I do, I make the most of it. That is why in January and February, "this trip" will be the trip of a lifetime.