Saturday at the FUTURES Tour was relatively uneventful for me.  My threesome consisted of Haley Gildea, a tour rookie; Julia Huh, an amateur from Maryland; and second year player Anastasia Kostina from Russia.  None of the golfers had a spectacular round and none made the cut.

Anastasia has some name recognition because she and her sister, Maria, are the first Russians to participate on any tour in the US.

Sunday was much more interesting.

My threesome was Sasha Medina, Song Yi Choi, and Briana Vega. 

Sasha, is in her seventh year on tour.  She had a decent front nine, but lost her focus on the 10th, where she three-putted from about two feet.  She went on to shoot 79.

Song Yi is one of the players who I carried a bag for last year.  This is her second year on tour.  She has spent most of the year in the top five on the money list.  Song Yi had an up and down day, but scrambled to finish with a 1-under 70.  She seems much more confident this year.

Bri, of course, was the winner of Big Break VI.  She shot a respectable 73, but was penalized one stroke for slow play.

Each player had someone to carry her bag, Song Yi (mother), Bri (father), and Sasha (tour player Cristina Baena), so my only tasks were to speed ahead to find where tee shots landed and be unofficial scorekeeper.  As a group we were very slow.  Although Bri got the penalty I think Sasha was more deserving because of what I thought to be an excessive pre-shot routine.  Bri isn't blameless though.  Her father carries her big tour bag.  He's not young and the bag is big and getting heavier by the hole.  I think it would benefit her if she switched to lighter carry bag.   

On the whole it was a pretty good week.  When asked, and I did, Kim Welch won't tell whether she won Big Break.