Personal Narrative: My Feeble Golf Career

The late Arnold Palmer, a four time masters champion, to name a few, once said, “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” This quote is the very anthem of my feeble golf career. It may look easy when pros like Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus perform at the highest major championships, but when you actually set your hands on the clubs, your entire point of view on the sport changes in an instant. Such letdowns like this one are abundant for amateurs like me, but this one was different. It had more meaning than any other time. It was the first of September, and school was just around the corner.
A few weeks after the kickoff of summer, I injured my arm doing karate. The list of things I could not do was endless like a river. I could not do anything for the better part of a month. One goal I had at the end of seventh grade was to work on my golf skills because when I go to high school, I want to try out for the golf team. I could not accomplish this because of my impairment-this means that on this one day, is the only opportunity that I would have to play golf since my dad and I had to plan around him working. …show more content…
After all, not all amazing athletes were always as good as they are now. Even today those unbelievably successful individuals are improving themselves to make their game even better. Through this experience, I have learned that failure is just a part of learning and that it will help you become better at what you happen to do. This is just the beginning of a long journey, and the path along the way will not be easy, so I am prepared to fail, but maybe just succeed a little along the way too. As Mr. Palmer would say, “Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.” I plan to strengthen my mind and character in order to be successful in anything I plan to do in life, whether it is golf or