JAIME VILLARREAL 

1001 DAYS HAS PASSED

What were you doing on Oct 29th, 2017? There was no coronavirus, the Astros tied the world series 2 to 2 with a loss from the Dodgers even though we won the World Series. Trump was in his first year with "Making American Great Again." Well, I know what Jaime Villarreal was doing during that time. He was celebrating his 11th win in the tour final tournament of the 2017 season. It was his first victory of the season where he was so close to an unthinkable feat by going the entire year without a win.  Little did he know, this would be a prelude of things to come in the next 3 seasons a total of 1001 days of futility. A thought I often ponder is how our league parallels the PGA tour. Jamie parallels to  Tiger Woods in which he exploded on the league with more accumulated wins like no other player. He was the first and only player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was well on his way to walking the fairways with the "golf gods." But just like Adam and the apple, Samson and his hair, and Tiger and the smashed window.. it was Jamie and the pole dancer.  No, I'm not going into any details(wink, wink) it took him 1001 days to win again. Villarreal has several second-place finishes over this span but never a win. He needed that extra boost from Hal Gregory to motivate him to help him win and keep his exclusive member of the Hall of Fame. Hal Gregory has been so close in the past few tournaments to get his marching papers signed by the board to become the second player to enter the fraternity of one. Jaime wasn't going to blow up any balloons for that celebration on his watch.  His 37 on the back gave him a four-shot winning margin victory which was the largest of the season. Hal would have to settle for a second-place tie with newcomer,  Eric Brown. Congratulations, Jaime Villarreal. Sometimes the journey in life will take you places that may seem dark and lonely just reminder I will always be by your side to pull you through, of course, it will cost you a joke or two but I will be there.       

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