Maddie Propst: A Short Story

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For Maddie Propst her day started early Sunday morning as she woke up at six in order to be ready to travel to her next golf match.
“When the team travels to a match we leave around seven or eight in the morning. That way we get there in enough time to play a practice round or too on the green and get use to the course.” Propst said, “We (the team) then wake up the next morning and make sure to have breakfast as a team before going to the match.”
The next morning Propst and her team rose with sun to fit in another practice round before the match.
At ten Propst lined up her trusty number three Titleist, the only type of golf ball she would use. As she lined up the shot the audience went silent and the match started. For the next four hours

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