Personal Essay: A Passion For The Game Of Golf

Throughout my life, I have always had a passion for the game of golf. Golf is something that relaxes me and teaches me patience, as well as hard work and determination. Throughout high school, I have been apart of our golf team. Over my 4 years on the team, we have had an extremely talented team. Numerous county championships, as well as two district championships. We had the talent to win a state championship to say the least.
Last year, we successfully made it to the state championship in Pennsylvania. As a team, we were ecstatic. We had a very strong team on our hands. Coming into the state championship, we, including myself, did not have the right mindset in order to win. We were too cocky heading into the match, we had a chip on our shoulders. We had the talent to go out
In the regular season, we steamrolled our competitors and were able to make it back to the state championship a second year in a row. With the determination to win, we trained, practiced, and learn from our mistakes from last year. Teeing off in the 2017 State Championship I was not nervous, but confident in myself and my golf game. With four holes left to play, we had a one stroke lead on the competitors. Unfortunately, our competitors had made a great run to come through ad steal the trophy away from us. We were heartbroken knowing that that was our last high school golf match. We came in second place in the state, just a few strokes behind first place.
Although We did not get the job done on that day, our coach couldn't of asked better from us. With four holes to play we were right there in the thick of it, we could've won were as last year, we had no chance of winning at all. That's what he was most proud of. This experience taught me to believe in myself, and hard work leads to success. Looking back on it, i'll miss the times that I had in high school and the life lessons that it taught