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

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Photograph this.

You’ve just received your first PGA Tour title, taken care of all the media obligations and now have to hurry over the pond to get ready to make your debut in the Open up Championship. But you’re in Kentucky with the Barbasol Championship components and your passport is dwelling in Alabama, so — courtesy of the PGA Tour, which sets up a personal jet — you fly south.

You repack, get three hrs of slumber and then head for Scotland, the itinerary getting you by means of JFK and Dublin prior to touching down in Edinburgh. And which is when you see the horrors at the palms of baggage handlers.

We’ll permit Trey Mullinax choose it from in this article.

“All my clubs were being out of my (golf) bag when I obtained listed here,” Mullinax reported. “A large amount of clubs ended up bent, and so we had to adjust and stuff like that. I guess going by means of TSA, whatever, they took the irons out (of the golf bag) and put them not again in my golf bag. They were being just lying in the journey circumstance.

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

But his journey nightmare has turned into a dream 7 days at the 150^th Open Championship performed at the Residence of Golfing. Right after producing the minimize on the range, he and Kevin Kisner were being the initial two-ball out and Mullinax shot 6-less than-par 66 Kisner shot 65. Mullinax will be ready to slumber in a little bit for a longer time Sunday immediately after relocating up extra than 50 spots on the leaderboard.

“A minor bit of a blur,” Mullinax, 30, described his present condition. “I remaining my household at 5 a.m. Monday morning, got in this article at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, and then teed off at like 1:30 for 18 holes. I was essentially Ok Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday I was actually exhausted. I haven’t slowed down. I definitely have not had any time. I’m really on the lookout ahead to subsequent 7 days getting dwelling to my loved ones and hanging out with my kids and celebrating the earn, looking at some friends and things like that.”

Playing the Aged Class has surely woken him up.

“Getting to hit shots I have under no circumstances hit just before,” he mentioned of the highlights. “My caddie has been pretty geared up for the photographs that we’re going to have to hit and the bump and operates you have to hit all-around below.

“I feel quite ready, and I feel like my game’s fantastic.”

And now his putter is again to ordinary, far too. On Friday night, Mullinax identified the lie of his putter was off by 2 degrees.

“I realized it appeared funny. I was owning to convey to my caddie, man, I’m getting to ahead push this a ton. I was like, gentleman, I really don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “The ball was not rolling like it was in Kentucky. Definitely I didn’t eliminate it in two days.

I found out nowadays that it was 2 degrees off. I performed a lot superior now.

“Shooting 66 out listed here is under no circumstances undesirable. I was just trying to retain up with Kiz the total time. I signify, he was placing phenomenal. I began generating some putts. It grew to become sort of like who can make the most birdies? He made the most birdies. I sniffed him on the final hole. Could possibly have caught a skin there with him.”