Trey Mullinax’s travel nightmare becomes dream week
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Picture this.
You’ve just gained your initially PGA Tour title, taken care of all the media obligations and now have to hurry in excess of the pond to get completely ready to make your debut in the Open up Championship. But you are in Kentucky with the Barbasol Championship components and your passport is property in Alabama, so – courtesy of the PGA Tour, which sets up a private jet – you fly south.
You repack, get a few hrs of slumber and then head for Scotland, the itinerary getting you by means of JFK and Dublin before touching down in Edinburgh. And that’s when you see the horrors at the hands of luggage handlers.
We’ll enable Trey Mullinax consider it from in this article.
“All my golf equipment were out of my (golf) bag when I bought right here,” Mullinax reported. “A good deal of golf equipment were being bent, and so we had to change and things like that. I guess likely by TSA, regardless of what, they took the irons out (of the golf bag) and place them not again in my golf bag. They had been just lying in the vacation situation.
“A pair of irons were bent and stuff like that.”
But his travel nightmare has turned into a dream week at the 150 th Open Championship played at the House of Golf. Soon after building the reduce on the range, he and Kevin Kisner were being the 1st two-ball out and Mullinax shot 6-beneath-par 66 Kisner shot 65. Mullinax will be in a position to snooze in a little bit longer Sunday just after relocating up more than 50 spots on the leaderboard.
“A small little bit of a blur,” Mullinax, 30, described his current condition. “I remaining my property at 5 a.m. Monday early morning, acquired right here at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, and then teed off at like 1:30 for 18 holes. I was really Okay Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday I was actually worn out. I have not slowed down. I actually haven’t experienced any time. I am really hunting forward to upcoming week having dwelling to my relatives and hanging out with my kids and celebrating the get, seeing some pals and stuff like that.”
Actively playing the Outdated System has absolutely woken him up.
“Obtaining to hit pictures I’ve hardly ever strike before,” he explained of the highlights. “My caddie has been very geared up for the pictures that we’re going to have to hit and the bump and runs you have to hit all around below.
“I feel really ready, and I feel like my game’s fantastic.”
And now his putter is back to usual, also. On Friday night, Mullinax discovered the lie of his putter was off by 2 degrees.
“I understood it appeared amusing. I was owning to notify my caddie, guy, I’m obtaining to forward press this a whole lot. I was like, gentleman, I you should not know what is likely on,” he stated. “The ball wasn’t rolling like it was in Kentucky. Undoubtedly I failed to drop it in two times.
I observed out nowadays that it was 2 levels off. I played a ton improved currently.
“Taking pictures 66 out listed here is by no means undesirable. I was just striving to maintain up with Kiz the full time. I necessarily mean, he was putting phenomenal. I begun building some putts. It grew to become sort of like who can make the most birdies? He created the most birdies. I sniffed him on the final gap. Could have caught a skin there with him.”