![\"Coronado](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-golf-0130-031.jpg\")
Coronado Golf Course pro Mark Geddes played in his third PGA Tour event. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\nMark Geddes was supposed to play in the Farmers Insurance Open last year, but he had something more important come up.<\/p>\n
Geddes\u2019 third son was due the week of the tournament, and young Max Geddes arrived the day after Harris English\u2019s victory at Torrey Pines.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to miss the birth of my son,\u201d Geddes said.<\/p>\n
No doubt.<\/p>\n
The local pro at Coronado Golf Course, who was born and raised in Liverpool, England, had qualified for the 2025 Farmers several months earlier. Thinking ahead, Geddes swapped his spot in the 2025 Farmers with Santaluz assistant pro Cavin McCall, who had an exemption for the 2024 World Wide Technology Championship in Cabo San Lucas.<\/p>\n
Geddes earned another opportunity to play in this year\u2019s Farmers and played the first two rounds. He opened Thursday with a 76 on the North and carded a 74 on the South in Friday\u2019s second round. It wasn\u2019t enough to make it to the weekend, but it was a time to remember.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good,\u201d Geddes said. \u201cIt\u2019s just hard. This golf course is hard. I don\u2019t do this for a living. I\u2019m fortunate enough where I\u2019m playing here for fun rather than it\u2019s my job. So I\u2019m kind of fortunate in the sense that I can just trust what I\u2019ve done to this point and have more fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both rounds began with early bogeys and a double bogey that put him four-over before he really got going, but Geddes also responded both days with second nines that included two birdies Thursday and three more on Friday for solid finishes.<\/p>\n
What were your expectations coming into the week?<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt pretty good,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just get kicked in the teeth on the first hole, and it puts you in reverse a little bit. Then you\u2019ve got to try and find your momentum again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a couple of holes where you can kind of be aggressive out there, but you\u2019re playing a lot of defense, for the most part. At least I am, as somebody who plays golf once a week, at most.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was good. It was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coronado Golf Course pro Mark Geddes played in his third PGA Tour event. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n
Geddes came to the States two decades ago on a golf scholarship to Grand Canyon University, where he earned All-America honors. He turned pro out of college and played on several mini tours as well as the Canadian Tour before pivoting in 2017 when he joined the PGA Associate program. Geddes has spent the past decade working at Coronado GC, although he scratches the itch to play in local events.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere so many great players that don\u2019t make it,\u201d Geddes said. \u201cIf you are good enough, you will make it. But you\u2019ve got to have opportunity and timing and at some point you\u2019ve got to realize that you\u2019ve got to pay the bills. There\u2019s family to take care of. That\u2019s my goal now instead of trying to play full time, taking care of my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was Geddes\u2019 third PGA event. In addition to the Farmers and the Worldwide Technology Championship, Geddes played in the 2021 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime you get the opportunity to play any events of this stature, it\u2019s meaningful,\u201d Geddes said. \u201cI\u2019d like to do this more often and make a habit of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rule breakers<\/p>\n
Two spectators ducked the rope line late in the day along the 18th fairway and raced to the other side. They were scolded by a marshal as they exited after risking being hit with a low flyer from Justin Lower\u2019s group on the 18th tee.<\/p>\n
An 8-year-old waiting with his dad for the proper time to cross summed up the situation: \u201cThey did a bad thing,\u201d<\/p>\n
Tip of the day<\/p>\n
Signing autographs for kids outside the scorer\u2019s building after his round, David Ford was asked what advice he would give to young golfers. First and foremost, he said, is to have fun. He also advised working on short game. And finally, \u201cWork on things you enjoy. The more you work on things you enjoy, the more you\u2019re going to enjoy the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Good advice for young \u2014 and old.<\/p>\n
Record pace<\/p>\n
Justin Rose\u2019s two-round score of 127 broke the tournament\u2019s 36-hole record of 129 that Rose shared with Tom Lehman (2005) and Lennie Clements (1996). Rose did it when he won the Farmers in 2019.<\/p>\n
At 17 under for the tournament, Rose is well within range of the tournament record 22 under. Tiger Woods (1999) and George Burns (1987) both shot 266, though those scores came before the South Course redesign in 2001.<\/p>\n
Parting thought<\/p>\n
Always a day late and a dollar short \u2026 With the bottom dropping out of the silver market (down 25 percent) and taking a hit in gold (down 8 percent) on Friday, it would have been wise to move into parking lot futures.<\/p>\n
Valet parking at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines went from $75 on Thursday to $115 on Friday, with market forces expected to push it even higher over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The car should come back washed and waxed for that price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Geddes was supposed to play in the Farmers Insurance Open last year, but he had something more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[32496,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-157554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}