My Most Important Lessons Learned In Golf

Some people say that they golf to relax. I however cannot understand that statement. Personally I would rather just throw my first three balls directly into the river and drop my fourth two hundred feet from the green. And I’d rather build castles in the sand trap rather than try to pitch a ball out of it. But somehow in the seventh grade I found myself on the junior high golf team. Although I didn’t know it when I wrote my name on the sign-up sheet, golf would teach me the most important lesson I would ever learn. At golf we practiced on a large and empty space between the school and a pond. On this particular day I was having a difficult time with hitting my ball towards the flag my coach had set up for aim practice. My balls always either went too far or not far enough, or they’d bounce off the school or go directly into the pond. While I was practicing I felt kind of disappointed in myself, I wasn’t doing very well. At the beginning of the season I had been in golf and track, but I had quit track thinking it would help my …show more content…
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