Personal Essay: Becoming After Golf

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I realized the type of person I was becoming after golf started consuming my life. People started gravitating toward me, offering me assistance with golf and presenting me with once in a life-time opportunities such as allowing me to play some of the hardest courses in the world. I have travel the country, met celebrities and hundreds of new people. Along the way I have been scouted by colleges and achieved success all through the game of golf. Golf is the greatest way to meet important people, establish friendships and create business. For instance, I played golf with Michael Jordan at Shadow Creek Golf Club. Shadow Creek is where Jordan hosts his celebrity golf tournament, which also means he practices there when he
At the WSGA tournament in Oregon I mentioned in the previous paragraph, there were thirty-five junior golfers between the western states who were nominated for the “Outstanding Citizenship of the Year” award. A male and female were selected from each state. I was chosen to represent Nevada along with a female participant I grew up with in the same golf program, The First Tee, mentioned before. (h) When we arrived in Oregon, we hounded by reporters asking questions about our nomination. Each nominee was interviewed independently by a panel of six state golf directors and Granville Brown, the WSGA President. (d)Being the president of WSGA, Brown announced the winners for the “Outstanding Citizenship of the Year” award. To everyone’s surprise both the male and female award came home to Las Vegas for the first time in thirty-four years. I was also nominated for the First Tee Outstanding Junior Golfer of the Year Award. Only twenty-eight junior golfers in the country are selected. Once nominated, the junior and his or her golf coach must complete a service project with ideas of increasing teen involvement in golf. The nominee with the best service project receives a twenty thousand dollar scholarship. Lastly I went to a regional golf tournament at Badlands Golf Club. Scouts from colleges around the country came to kids from Nevada play golf. In the tournament I hit my fifth career hole-in-one on a par three hole to secure first place. I was offered full ride scholarships to USC, UNR, Alabama State, UNLV, Alcorn State, and TCU. Hard work and dedication has earned me awards in out on college radars