Golf
I began playing golf when I was six years old. My parents taught me how to play by using plastic
golf balls and hitting them in the back yard and trying to get them into a bucket placed a few yards away. I made my high schools golf team and was
voted Most Improved Player my junior year and Most Valuable Player my senior year. The two greatest moments that I had while playing for my High School golf team
was #1) Playing at Oak Hill Country Club and #2 Playing in the rochester golf sectionals. Oak hill is a very famous golf course located in Rochester, NY. The PGA tour has
played a number of events there, most recently in 2003 the 85th PGA Championship was held there on the same course that I got to play four years in a row while playing
for my high school.
Just now watching Tiger woods, Sergio Garcia, and Phil Mickleson walk the same course that I did a few months earlier was quite a great feeling.
They only beat me by a few stokes. My other greatest memory was being able to play in the High School Secionals. Sectionals is a golf tournament for high schoolers and the
only way to qualify is by finishing in the top 20 in the qualifying tournament. I eneded up being the last qualifyer to make the cut and got to play at a course in southern New York.
Where SUNY Cortland holds their golf matches. I eneded up not playing very well in the tournament but the experience was worth it and made me a much better golfer and I learned alot
from watching the other guys in terms of how they conducted themselves on the course and how they played the game.
One thing that I always did after I finished playing in my high school matches was tell my mom about my golf day at the course. I would tell her every shot, where it went, how i felt about it, what I did wrong to make it not go where I wanted, everything. It sounded something like this "On the first hole i hit my drive into the left rough, about 170 from the hole, 6 iron to just short of the green then I dinked my chip to barley make it on the green and three putted for a 6, double bogey." She could always tell if I had a good day or a bad day by how long it took me to get through my round of golf, the less strokes the shorter time. She listend to an average of 45 shots each time I went out and played, which was my overall high school average for all four years.
I love watching golf on TV too, even though at times it gets boring. My favorite golfer is Sergio Garcia because of his character.
He is always full of energy and talking to the crowd. If I played on the
PGA tour I would definatly talk to the crowd, from shot to shot and get them involved as well, Like the movie Happy Gilmore. I wish the PGA would be more like that, in terms of crowd involvement because being out on a course
with everyone watching can be quite intimidating and if you talk to the crowd it helps highten the mood.
Random golf facts about me:
Lowest 9 hole round: 36 (even par) with 2 37's
Lowest 18 hole round: 74 with a 76 close behind
I won the longest drive contest at a golf tournmment I entered: I won a brand new pair of golf shoes valued at $130
I always take three practice swings... always
I am supersticous when I golf: I can not have anything in my pockets, I use a different Tee each hole, and I sing songs in my head when I golf, helps me relax.
Oak Hill Country Club
Just now watching Tiger woods, Sergio Garcia, and Phil Mickleson walk the same course that I did a few months earlier was quite a great feeling.
They only beat me by a few stokes. My other greatest memory was being able to play in the High School Secionals. Sectionals is a golf tournament for high schoolers and the
only way to qualify is by finishing in the top 20 in the qualifying tournament. I eneded up being the last qualifyer to make the cut and got to play at a course in southern New York.
Where SUNY Cortland holds their golf matches. I eneded up not playing very well in the tournament but the experience was worth it and made me a much better golfer and I learned alot
from watching the other guys in terms of how they conducted themselves on the course and how they played the game. One thing that I always did after I finished playing in my high school matches was tell my mom about my golf day at the course. I would tell her every shot, where it went, how i felt about it, what I did wrong to make it not go where I wanted, everything. It sounded something like this "On the first hole i hit my drive into the left rough, about 170 from the hole, 6 iron to just short of the green then I dinked my chip to barley make it on the green and three putted for a 6, double bogey." She could always tell if I had a good day or a bad day by how long it took me to get through my round of golf, the less strokes the shorter time. She listend to an average of 45 shots each time I went out and played, which was my overall high school average for all four years.
I love watching golf on TV too, even though at times it gets boring. My favorite golfer is Sergio Garcia because of his character.
He is always full of energy and talking to the crowd. If I played on the
PGA tour I would definatly talk to the crowd, from shot to shot and get them involved as well, Like the movie Happy Gilmore. I wish the PGA would be more like that, in terms of crowd involvement because being out on a course
with everyone watching can be quite intimidating and if you talk to the crowd it helps highten the mood. Random golf facts about me:
Lowest 9 hole round: 36 (even par) with 2 37's
Lowest 18 hole round: 74 with a 76 close behind
I won the longest drive contest at a golf tournmment I entered: I won a brand new pair of golf shoes valued at $130
I always take three practice swings... always
I am supersticous when I golf: I can not have anything in my pockets, I use a different Tee each hole, and I sing songs in my head when I golf, helps me relax.
Oak Hill Country Club