I’m pretty disappointed after today’s opening round. I shot 75, three over par, which wasn’t what I had planned.

I really hit it pretty poorly most of the day. I managed to get something going a bit on the back nine but then had just a really poor finish.

I wasn’t even in that bad a place coming off the 15th green. I was level par and then I just hit a poor tee shot on 16, which led to a bogey. Then 17 and 18, as you know, are birdie opportunities, especially with my length.

Hit a good drive on 17 and then a slightly poor chip onto the green and ended up three-putting from 12 feet because I was just too aggressive at the wrong time.

Then standing on the 18th tee I was still pretty angry with myself and I chose the wrong club off the tee and hit my driver instead of my three-wood.  Misjudged the wind and put it in the bushes, chipped out, and then my third shot was a big push right into the water. My head had gone.

It was a good save at least, up and down from 70 yards, to save bogey. Just that wrong club on the 18th tee and I lost it from there really. It is what it is.

It’s strange because I felt good this morning before my round, my warm-up was good, and everything felt good. I was just ready to play. I didn’t start great and had a bit of a ropey swing but I managed to find something around the turn. I tried to press on but couldn’t, and especially with the wind, it was getting tougher out there, but we try again tomorrow.

Frustrating really, because I had expectations for myself about how I wanted to play today, but as the wind picked up with the pins as tucked as they were, it wasn’t easy out there. Then once you make a mistake it’s easy to get frustrated and then you keep making silly mistakes.

It was great though having my mum, dad, brother and coach out following me. Plus it’s nice to have familiar faces to talk to and take my mind off my game! I’m sure they will try to cheer me up over the next hour or so!

Anyway, I’m just going to forget about today and move on. I’ve got to go out there tomorrow (Friday) and shoot four or five under, like I know I can do around here, and think of it as a new day and try again.

I’m teeing off on the 10th tomorrow at 12:50, so fingers crossed I can have a better round and I hope to see even more support from the fans which really pushes me on.

Image: Harry Grimshaw