Trey Mullinax’s travel nightmare en route to St. Andrews

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Photograph this.

You’ve just gained your first PGA Tour title, dealt with all the media obligations and now have to rush over the pond to get all set to make your debut in the Open up Championship. But you are in Kentucky with the Barbasol Championship components and your passport is household in Alabama, so — courtesy of the PGA Tour, which sets up a private jet — you fly south.

You repack, get three hours of sleep and then head for Scotland, the itinerary getting you as a result of JFK and Dublin just before touching down in Edinburgh. And that’s when you see the horrors at the fingers of luggage handlers.

We’ll allow Trey Mullinax just take it from right here.

“All my golf equipment were being out of my (golfing) bag when I obtained listed here,” Mullinax mentioned. “A whole lot of clubs have been bent, and so we had to adjust and things like that. I guess heading via TSA, no matter what, they took the irons out (of the golfing bag) and put them not back in my golfing bag. They were just lying in the vacation circumstance.

“A few of irons had been bent and stuff like that.”

But his travel nightmare has turned into a dream 7 days at the 150^th Open up Championship performed at the Household of Golfing. Just after building the slash on the variety, he and Kevin Kisner had been the 1st two-ball out and Mullinax shot 6-below-par 66 Kisner shot 65. Mullinax will be capable to slumber in a bit longer Sunday following transferring up far more than 50 spots on the leaderboard.

“A very little bit of a blur,” Mullinax, 30, described his present condition. “I still left my home at 5 a.m. Monday early morning, acquired below at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, and then teed off at like 1:30 for 18 holes. I was actually Okay Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday I was seriously fatigued. I haven’t slowed down. I actually have not experienced any time. I’m really looking ahead to upcoming 7 days having household to my loved ones and hanging out with my children and celebrating the earn, viewing some pals and stuff like that.”

Taking part in the Aged Study course has absolutely woken him up.

“Getting to strike shots I’ve hardly ever hit in advance of,” he explained of the highlights. “My caddie has been quite well prepared for the photographs that we’re going to have to hit and the bump and operates you have to hit close to listed here.

“I sense really geared up, and I experience like my game’s superior.”

And now his putter is again to normal, much too. On Friday evening, Mullinax discovered the lie of his putter was off by 2 levels.

“I understood it seemed funny. I was acquiring to inform my caddie, guy, I’m having to forward press this a whole lot. I was like, gentleman, I really do not know what is heading on,” he claimed. “The ball wasn’t rolling like it was in Kentucky. Definitely I did not shed it in two times.

I found out today that it was 2 degrees off. I performed a good deal much better right now.

“Shooting 66 out right here is under no circumstances undesirable. I was just attempting to continue to keep up with Kiz the total time. I imply, he was putting phenomenal. I began building some putts. It became sort of like who can make the most birdies? He designed the most birdies. I sniffed him on the past hole. May have caught a pores and skin there with him.”