on the Canadian professional tour filed away under `F' ...for frustrating.

Swan headed home after missing his second straight 36-hole cut on Friday at the $125,000 B.C. Tel Pacific Open at Mayfair Lakes Golf Club in Richmond, just outside Vancouver.

The 37-year-old pro fired a four-over par 75 on Friday over the 6,641 yard layout to finish at six-over 148. He missed the cut by five shots.

As was the case a week earlier at the $100,000 Payless Open across the water in Victoria, Swan's putting stroke separated him from those who survived to play on the weekend.

At Mayfair Lakes, Swan needed 34 putts each day. "You've got to go round in 25 to 29 putts to be competitive,'' he lamented. "That's five shots a round, just on the putting green. I only had two one-putts all day Friday. I didn't have a three-putt at all -- but in two days I just never got on a roll on the greens.'' Swan, who has revamped his swing in the last year, was happy with his ball striking. He hit 15 greens at Mayfair Lakes on Thursday and hit 11 on Friday as he pressed to make the cut by going at the flag on the back nine.

"When you're not making putts, it automatically puts pressure on the rest of your game,'' he said. "I felt I had to start hitting it close to make a birdie.'' Birdies were rare for Swan in British Columbia. After carding eight in a sizzling 67 at the Payless Open Pro-Am, Swan had just three birdies in his four tournament rounds.

Like fellow Bermudians Dwayne Pearman and Cornell Bean before him, Swan said it's difficult to fly in for two tournaments and expect to be successful on the competitive Canadian circuit.

"You've got to go at it all summer -- you've got to play week in and week out,'' he said. "You can't do it two weeks at a time. You have to be in the environment week after week, and you have to shoot sub par golf to be competitive out here.'' The stumbling block, as for all Bermudians, is the cost of giving up a regular pay cheque at home for the vagabond life of a touring pro abroad. "I'd do it tomorrow if I could afford it,'' Swan said. "The challenge for me is figuring out how to do that.''