LA QUINTA, Calif. – Joey Crook walked off the ninth green of the Stadium course at PGA West deflated after carding a nine.
His Monday final round of the Golf Channel Am Tour Senior National Championship was trending in the wrong direction. He was sure his front-nine 52 had squandered his one-shot overnight lead in the Senior Snead flight (for handicaps 20.0 and above).
“At the turn, I had the self-talk,” said Crook, a golfer from Minter, Ala., playing in his second Am Tour national championship. “I said, ‘You are fixing to lose this thing.