In the Field: Elliott Sadler (cont'd)

He does a great Rodney Dangerfield, and he did Caddyshack imitations -- everybody you could imagine. He did the whole thing, all night long.

So it was a couple days of cool stuff like that -- just neat, camaraderie things that you do with your friends, telling jokes and telling stories on each other. Old stories, because we're all getting old, now -- so we're telling stories of us when we were back in high school and all.

It worked out great and it was a great start to the weekend. Dad was at home for this trip, taking care of the businesses and taking care of mom and things like that, but my brother, Hermie, was at the course.

Hermie didn't play that good. I think he had a great time, but he didn't play that good. We all had a good time.

I shot 75-77 the first day and shot 79-81 the second day. I hit the ball great, but I couldn't putt it in the ocean, so I've got to work on my putting a little bit. I bought me a new putter, but it didn't work.

So I've got to go back and get me another putter, and that was what I was frustrated with last weekend, before I got going at the racetrack. If I could putt a lick -- and you can ask Dale Jarrett or any of the guys that play with me all the time -- if I could putt any at all, I could play that game really, really well.

Now, I don't think I could play the PGA Tour or not -- maybe the Hooters Tour or something. But no, I just need to learn to putt a little better.

If I had to relate my golf game to racing, my driver would be like Michigan, or Pocono or California -- where we're going this weekend -- where you spread it out, it's wide open down the straightaway at 200 miles an hour; which is kinda like hitting a 320-yard drive.

And then Bristol was like being in rough up to your knees, and you've got a pitching wedge and you just hope you can advance the ball 50 yards, and you've got to swing as hard as you can and really grip the club tight with your left arm and lock your wrists and just hit down on it and just hope it flies out.

That's Bristol, and that's my tip for the week.

Elliott Sadler, now in his ninth full season in the Cup Series, shares weekly with NASCAR.COM readers life on the road through staff writer Dave Rodman.