I didn't manage to win a spot at this year's Open Championship in my qualifying event at TPC Michigan on Monday. I played with Scott Hend and Camilo Villegas, both were good fun to play with, the weather was cold and windy and as a result the course played considerably harder than it had for my practice round the previous week. I am disappointed not be coming home for the event but I will play in the Milwaukee Open instead of Royal Birkdale.

I decided to spend a few days in and around Detroit sightseeing as I had a week off. Again my position on the reserve list got very close and I was debating travelling to Washington on the off chance I would get into the event, but as I moved from 17th to 3rd reserve very quickly and on Tuesday lunchtime I wouldn't have been able to play a practice round, as it was I never got in so I continued with my sightseeing. I will play all of the events up until the US PGA so a week off might not be such a bad thing, as I prefer not to play more than four events in a row.

Detroit is "Motor City" as I said last week, but until you drive around Detroit and the neighbouring city's you don't realise the impact that Ford alone has had on this area, there are multiple office buildings, hospitals, colleges, universities, libraries and many other places named after the family, all of which will have involved large financial contributions. I went to the Henry Ford museum on Tuesday and had expected it to be all about cars, specifically Ford cars but it wasn't. Henry Ford had started collecting memorabilia when he was alive and it has ended up as a huge museum. There were many fascinating things, including: the bus that Rosa Parks was on, four presidential cars, including the one JFK was assassinated in, the rocking chair that Abraham Lincoln was sat in when he was shot. My favourite exhibit apart from the Ford GT 40 was the Dymaxion house a silver round house that was designed by Fuller in 1946 it had many forward thinking ideas within it that we are now using today and some of the things are still too far advanced and we haven't as a society started using.

Thursday I went to Detroit Zoo and had a great time, we were one of the first people through the gates and managed to get one of the sort after passes to hand feed a giraffe.

Friday was the 4th of July, so it was a holiday in America with parties and events planned, I drove the six and a half hour drive west to Moline, Illinois for the John Deere Classic this week. It was also my accountant's birthday, I'm not so sure his numbers will have added up when he is counting his candles!!!

I had a quiet weekend, I watched the final of Wimbledon on Sunday, what a classic it was, I thought Federer would do a Tiger and win at the end, but this time the script had a twist and Nadal stole the show.

I'm looking forward to playing again this week and hoping to continue with the positives from my previous events.