Personal Narrative: The State A Golf Tournament

As an eighth grader on a sports team, I was one of the youngest players on the golf team and there were a lot of high hopes for me because I had been golfing ever since I was very young. The previous year, there were many seniors that graduated and I actually made the varsity team. There are a total of five players from each school that make it to the the State Tournament if they qualify as a team. All season, I was the number five golfer which meant that I could be replaced at any time if I started to struggle. Knowing this scared me a lot because I wanted to impress the older golfers and I didn't want to let them down. This added pressure, on the other hand, made me want to practice all the time in order to improve myself and contribute to the team as much as possible. I would stay late after practice, tag along with the older golfers and play with them, and I would also ask the local …show more content…
I immediately knew what I had to do. I had to work harder than ever in order to make it to the biggest tournament in the state. The State A Golf Tournament. Although I had proven myself as being one the the better golfers on the team, there were always players that were older than me that despised me being on the varsity team. As the State Tournament approached, there was a senior that wasn't quite as good as me but always put up a good challenge. A couple weeks before the tournament, he texted me wondering if he could take my spot to State and I didn't want to be mean to him because I knew that he was older and much bigger than I was. In response to his text, I told him to ask coach because I knew the coach had my back and wouldn't let anyone take the spot that I deserved. I felt bad not letting him go because I knew it was his last year and he wanted to live it to the fullest, but I also knew that I had a better chance at helping the