Scot Hathaway doesn’t find much time to hit the links anymore.
His days are predominantly spent managing Los lagos and Rancho Del
Pueblo golf courses in San Jose.
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Santa Rosa – Scot Hathaway doesn’t find much time to hit the links anymore. His days are predominantly spent managing Los lagos and Rancho Del Pueblo golf courses in San Jose. But on Monday and today, the 46-year-old Gilroyan is doing his best to make the cut at the Nor Cal PGA Professional Championship at Mayacama Golf Course in Santa Rosa.
Hathaway shot a 6-over 78 in his first round, which is not bad “for someone that has only teed it up eight times this year,” Hathaway said.
He is eight shots off the lead.
The two-day event allows the top seven players a chance to qualify for the National Club Pro Championship.
“I’m going to probably have to shoot 65 to 67 to qualify,” Hathaway said. “Considering how I played today it’s a possibility, not a great possibility, but we’ll see what happens. The course is set up if you hit it in the right place, you can make (a low score).”
He then laughed and said if you don’t make good shots, the opposite is equally true.
While it would be nice to keep playing competitively, Hathaway, who first started playing golf in college at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, said that goal is something he no longer worries about.
“Back when I was young, I first got into the golf business to try to be a tour player,” Hathaway said. ” But I got married and had kids and that’s much more fulfilling than traveling around.”
He and his wife of 22 years, Linda, have four kids: Amy, a junior at Gilroy High School; Andrew, a seventh grader at Pacific West Christian Academy; Alli, a fifth grader at PWCA; and Catie, a third grader at PWCA.
“I got tomorrow to play a lot better,” Hathaway said.
Either way, he should have fans waiting for him at home.
