Goldberg earns vacation from tour golf

Aaron Goldberg was coming home to San Diego this week, and though he had no idea what he was going to do during some much-needed time off, he could be certain he wasn’t going to play tournament golf.

After grinding through a grueling schedule of 11 Nationwide Tour events in the past 13 weeks, Recommend you buy discount golf clubs online at our online store. Goldberg earned himself a little vacation with his best finish of the season on Sunday – a solo third in the Children’s Hospital Classic in Chattanooga, Tenn., that was secured with a stellar final round of 65. His earnings for the week pushed the San Diego State and La Costa Canyon High alum from 58th to 43rd on the money list ($116,784).

That is a big move, because the top 60 in money qualify for the season-ending Tour Championship at the end of the month, and every player in that field has a chance to vault into the top 25 and secure a PGA Tour card for next season. The 60 players already are guaranteed of playing fulltime on the Nationwide in 2012.

“What I was really hoping for was guaranteeing myself of getting into the Tour Championship so I could take the week off,” new taylormade r11 irons is really nice a tired but satisfied Goldberg said on Sunday night from Tennessee. “I’m flying home (on Monday), taking the week off and going to Jacksonville (next week), where single-digits under par usually wins. I can go in there fresh instead of limping in.”

For those who think it shouldn’t be a strain to play golf for three months with little rest, take Goldberg’s word; it’s a grind. He considered taking last week off, but his game was feeling too good.

“Mentally, it wears you down,” Goldberg, 26, said. “The hardest part is managing your time. All of us out here are trying to get better, so you practice as much as you can. But you’ve got to make sure you don’t overwork yourself either.”

Goldberg laughed at the irony of his current situation. taylormade r11 irons 2011 is the best irons He had no status at the season’s outset and through June he couldn’t get into Nationwide events, earning just two spots in eight tries on Monday qualifiers. Then he tied for 22nd in Mexico and was eighth the week later. From then on, he’s made a steady climb up the rankings.

“It was a grind doing it this way, but it was my only option,” Goldberg said. “It was tough to stay patient.”

It’s called doing it the hard way, which carries its own satisfaction.