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Tell us about you. |
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I'm fifteen and I'm a sophomore at West Genesee
High School. I love to swim and play golf. My favorite band is
Rascal Flatts, and I like to read. |
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How long have you played golf? |
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My first memory of golf in general goes back to
when I was probably five or six. My older sister and I were in
the backyard with a few golf clubs. I accidentally hit her and
she hauled off and smacked me with one of our little metal
clubs. I guess I've always been around golf but I first took it
seriously when I was about 10 or 11. |
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What made you begin to play golf
and why do you continue to play? |
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My parents have always played so I kind of grew
up around the sport. We're members at Tuscarora so it has always
been available to me. I continue to play because it's addicting.
You have a good round but there's always things you can do
better. It's not an easy sport to quit. |
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Why do you take lessons? |
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I take lessons because I know that there will
always be things about my game that will bother me but I don't
know how to fix them. Golf is a really individual sport, but
that doesn't mean that you don't need advice from other people. |
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What do you enjoy most about golf? |
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I think the most enjoyable part of golf is
playing with people that love it as much as you do. It's such a
fun sport when you can enjoy it with someone else. |
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What is the best part
of your game? |
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The best part of my game is probably chipping
and pitching. Still, you can always improve on every part of
your game. |
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What is the worst part
of your game? |
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I would say the most challenging part of golf
is putting. Every course's greens are different, and you have to
slow down and take your time on every putt. I've learned this
through missing way too many one footers. |
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Who do you enjoy playing golf with? |
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I love to play golf with my friend Lauren
Hopkins, who was also on the golf team with me this year. She
always knows how to make me laugh and shake it off when I have a
bad shot. |
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What are you trying to improve with
your lessons? |
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I'm always working to improve every aspect of
my game, but right now, it's mostly my putting. |
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What's in your golf bag? |
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My irons are Tommy Armour 845s. I have an Adams
driver, and my favorite club is a 22 degree Nike wood. I can hit
it from anywhere. |
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What was your most
memorable golf round? |
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My best round of golf was probably at Radisson
this year at sectionals. I had a bad practice round so I went
into it really nervous, but I ended up taking off 9 strokes from
my practice round. It wasn't the best golf I've ever played, but
I had a lot of fun with the girls I played with. |
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What is your favorite golf course? |
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My favorite golf course, even though I didn't
play very well there, was Seven Oaks. My favorite hole there was
number ten. |
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Who is your favorite
golfer? |
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My favorite professional golfer is Davis Love.
Probably about three years ago he had an amazing sand shot that when
he first hit it looked like it was way off, but he had read the
green perfectly and it rolled all the way down and went in the hole.
It was probably the best shot I had ever seen and ever since then
I've really liked him. |
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What interests do you
have besides golf? |
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I love to swim in the fall. I like swimming and
golf a lot because you can be a member of a team but it's still
really individual. You have no one to blame but yourself and you
depend on yourself to get results. What you put in is exactly
what you take out. |
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How
long have you worked with Linda? |
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I've been working with Linda for a really long
time. I've gone to all of her summer camps and I've taken
lessons with her for the past two years over the winter. |
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What was your favorite
golf lesson? |
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My favorite lesson was the one that I took
right after I had gotten my Nike club. At first I couldn't hit
it and then she changed one thing in my swing an all of a sudden
I was nailing the back of the golf dome. It was a great feeling
because I had never hit a club like that before. |
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Why do you take lessons from Linda? |
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Linda's lessons are so valuable because she
explains things in a way you can understand. Watching your swing
back on the computer is so helpful because you can actually see
what it looks like and how you can fix it. |
