Why Golf Is Important To Me

Golf is my thing. I play to have time to myself to think, I play with family and friends for fun, and I play to hone my skills and be the best possible contender I can be when it comes to the competition side. So when I think about my personal biggest failure that I can recall, I would have to say golf is involved. My team at school is very good, we have heated tryouts every year just to make the team. As a freshman our golf team won state and I feel like that really set the tone for what was expected of the rest of us for our high school years. My sophomore year in school we had a completely new group besides a few of us, so we basically we 're starting from scratch, just because we were young though we wouldn 't consider this a "building

I play to have time to myself to think, I play with family and friends for fun, and I play to hone my skills and be the best possible contender I can be when it comes to the competition side. So when I think about my personal biggest failure that I can recall, I would have to say golf is involved. My team at school is very good, we have heated tryouts every year just to make the team. As a freshman our golf team won state and I feel like that really set the tone for what was expected of the rest of us for our high school years. My sophomore year in school we had a completely new group besides a few of us, so we basically we 're starting from scratch, just because we were young though we wouldn 't consider this a "building year". We played and practiced our hearts out and at the end of the season, came home with a 2nd place trophy. It was bittersweet, but we knew that next year was our year. Most of us played together all summer and when tryouts came around I put myself comfortably into the 2nd bag position. I won a few tournaments, and also lead my team to win larger division tournaments, where we played with schools that had 30-40 times as many students as we did. I just knew we would bring home the gold this year! We came into the state tournament strong, we play 36 holes the first day for seating, then are placed with like teams to compete for the win. My first 18 felt good. I had nice drives and things were falling into place, it was almost as if we could just coast through this tournament in my mind. As I rounded to start my second 18, something went awry. I felt like I wasn 't even in my own body when it came to my golf game, the level of performance wasn 't at all what I knew I was capable of. I started to fall apart mentally when I thought about how I felt I was letting my teammates down. I honestly don 't know how I kept my composure for those long 5 hours, but it was pretty much the worst round of my life. I finished up and headed