Hey Everyone,

Yes, it’s Monday, but Friday’s newsletter was stuffed with tons of news and results, and I left two things off that I wanted to call to your attention.

First, I wrote a digital book called Bay State Golf: Volume 1. You can buy it for $30. It has reviews for the 168 courses I’ve played on my quest. If you purchase it now, you get every updated volume for free. Each year, I will update the book with every new course I played in the previous season.

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Second, the Northeast Golf Show is this coming weekend to Gillette Stadium Fieldhouse. I’ll be there taking photos and videos for the show. Stop me and say hello if you see me!

There’s a bunch of stuff going on all weekend, and they gave me some promo codes for tickets, club fittings, and VIP Passes. Buy tickets here.

BSG = $5 off General Admission and $10 off club fitting

BSGVIP = $15 off the VIP Package, which is full of perks and free stuff from great vendors.

It was looking like Thorbjornsen was on his way to posting his most professional performance of his career. With four holes remaining in his round on Sunday, he sat in 10th place in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Through 68 holes, he had made four bogeys and one double bogey on a course with trouble lurking around every corner. He was never in contention to win, but he posted rounds of 70-71-71 to hover around the top 20 all week.

Then, he made three double bogeys on his final four holes and plummeted to T33.

This is the second time Thorbjornsen has kind of exploded in the final stretch of a weekend round this year.

On Saturday at the American Express, Thorbjornsen made some big numbers coming home. He missed the cut, which falls on Saturday at the AmEx.

In the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, he started his final round on the 10th hole. He played holes 6-9 in in 8-over par, including a triple-bogey on 17 and a quadruple-bogey on 18

While it wasn’t an “explosion,” Thorbjornsen made a bogey on the 18th hole in the second round of the Cognizant Classic last week to miss the cut by a shot.

Less troubling was how he finished the WM Open. He held the lead with three holes left and made bogey on 16 and 17 to finish T3.

This is looking like something that should be monitored. And while he should play well enough throughout the year to earn status next year, these lost points could make the late summer a little more stressful. They could also impact his chances at the Tour Championship.

Thorbjornsen has won at every level he’s played. He’s won the U.S. Junior (beating API Champion Akshay Bhatia), college events, a state amateur champion, and the Western Amateur.

I’m still driving the Thorbjornsen bandwagon, I’m just on the lookout for some potholes as he figures out how to close out important rounds and tournaments.

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