Hassan II European Tour

This week I am in Agadir, Morocco playing in the Hassan Trophy! I arrived in Morocco on Sunday. So far this week I have seen and done a lot of cool things. One of the golf courses is inside the Palace walls and until Monday no one had played the course in 10yrs!! I was in the first group out on Monday so there were absolutely no divots anywhere! It was unbelievable! Definitely one of the most amazing courses I have ever played. On Tuesday we went over to the secondary course to play a practice round. The course was ok, but couldn't compete with what we played the day before. Other than golf we have been going out to eat at the marina here in town every night and even went to the local "suk" market. It has been a cool start to the week. Tomorrow is round one and looking forward to the week. The tournament is a pro am format so I will be playing with a amateur tomorrow and Friday. It is going to be a lot of fun and hopefully a great week. I will post something when the week ends. If you want to follow scores they will be on the European Tour website.

eGolf Morocco Swing

I am a little late on the blog but have had an interesting couple weeks so I will do my best to share what had been going on. I traveled to Morocco with the eGolf Tour to play in two events that were held by the eGolf tour but also sanctioned with the Moroccan Tour which is the Alps tour. The first week we played in Marrakech, Morocco. Marrakech is located inland in Morocco about 2 or 3 hours east of Casablanca at the base of the Atlas Mountains. The city was very nice and very different from anything I had seen previously my first couple times here in El Jadida. As for the golf, we played at Samana Golf Course. The course was a desert style course. It was a fun course to play as we were getting a lot of roll off the tee and the course played pretty firm. I played well the first two days shooting 68 68 and was sitting t4 going into the weekend. Was very happy with the start and felt like I was in good position to make a run for a win or a good finish. The weekend went ok for me just wasn't able to make any putts, shot rounds of 72-70 to end t11 on the week. That was good enough for $4,300.
After the conclusion of the tournament we got on a bus to make the 3hr trip to El Jadida! It was an interesting trip. We got lost once which didn't surprise me much and the bus we were in was way to big for the roads we were driving on. We made it safely late that night and I found out that I was staying in one of the hotel suites with another friend. We had met the manager of the hotel in a previous trip and he hooked us up with on of the nicest rooms in the place!!
The tournaments started much the same was as the first tournament did for me. I shot an opening round 66. After that things went downhill unfortunately. The weather made a turn for the worst and so did my game. The second round I shot a 73. Played ok for the most part just had some tough holes and didn't home many putts. The final two rounds were not very good either. The third round we had some brutal weather! Very windy and rainy. I shot 78 and made a quick move to the back of the field. The final round shot 74, just one of those weeks. I was ready to move on to the next week.
Overall the trip to Morocco was good fun! There were about 100 players from the eGolf tour and for most was their first trip to Africa. I think most everyone had a good time, I know I always enjoy seeing new places so it was a good time for me. Up next I will be playing back in Morocco in the Hassan Trophy European Tour event in Agadir. Looking forward to it as it will be my first European Tour event! I got in the event from my win on the Challenge Tour last year in Morocco. Sorry for the late update and thanks so much for following!!