Personal Narrative: Golf Or Sport

Golf has been under fire for several years now about its legitimacy as a sport. People all have their different takes on the matter which has caused many debates to arise. The more popular claim is that golf is indeed a sport. What is a sport? According to Dictionary.com a sport is:“an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of acompetitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling,boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.” Golf is a sport because it meets all the requirements found in the definition of sport; It requires physical exertion, is played in a competitive manner, and requires a overwhelming amount of skill and time. Not to mention golf is literally used as an example in the definition of sport.

I believe that golf teaches people life lessons. Golf has life lessons on every tee box, fairway, bunker, green, and hole. Every hole is different golfers must keep their cool in order to perform well consistently. Golfers will have good shots and they have bad shots but like my mom says to me, “Do not let one bad shot affect your entire hole.” Similar to life, golf has ups and downs. In life and golf if the golfer put away what just happened he or she will be back on track to be happy in life or get a good score on the hole. Bobby Jones, a historical golfer said, “Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.”

It just always seemed like something that I had to do. Ever since I was ten years old I’ve been playing, practicing, and talking about golf. I always have had a love for the game, but I never really thought about how stressful and painful it made my life. Even at ten I thought my future had already been planned for me. I was already thinking of life as a professional golfer. I was certain that I would go play golf for a big college, and instant fame would soon follow. It wasn’t until the last couple of years that life has changed for me.

Four years ago I would have never expected to be a golf team captain. Due to my variety of hobbies and interests, I like to consider myself a jack of all trades so it was hard to decide on what sports to play in high school. Upon asking my father if he had any recommendations, he told me that if I could learn the fundamentals of golf I would have a tool that could benefit me for a lifetime. I wrote down golf on the dotted registration line and, well, forgot about it.

Presumably, there's always some sort of thinking that comes to my mind for doing something for the new. Anxiety flows into my veins and out pops the questions of if I was going to be alright. I thought I wasn’t.

On a cloudy spring morning on our home course at Medina Country Club, I watched the all the other groups in front of me tee off at my first golf match. After we finished our first hole, one of the girls on the other team recorded her score as a four. I counted ten. A big knot grew in my stomach. I knew I would have to confront her. I am typically a person who keeps to oneself. I had joined golf team in order to be more social, but this was out of my comfort zone. As we walked to the next hole I timidly explained to her that she scored a ten. She turned around to give me a hard glare. Annoyance of my accusation flowed off of her. Fortunately, it turns out she was new to golf and did not realize that whiffs counted as strokes. Facing that conversation

No matter what through life everyone is going to face failure and everyone is going to have to bounce back in a positive way. The one time I faced failure was when my golf team did not qualify for the state golf tournament. Even though for the past four years our golf program has qualified for this prestigious tournament. Three years of which I was on the varsity team for. So heading into my Senior year my team and I were all excited to face the season as if we never stopped from where we left off from last year. Leading up to the season I was playing every day and I was traveling around Ohio playing in Northern Ohio Junior PGA tournaments. I was playing some of the best golf of my life and couldn't wait for the season to start. Sadly I suffered

The excitement I had for golf then still continues today! Golf has blessed me with numerous friendships and opportunities. I am so glad to have people supporting and encouraging me to continue my collegiate golf experience! The spring season here at Scholastica has started and I am excited to get outdoors soon!

I believe my involvement in rugby, golf, flute and charity have contributed hugely to both my emotional and my development of skills. Throughout my time playing rugby I developed a huge range of skills. Through my time playing in the forwards and being involved in the scrummage saying to my teammates I'm here with you I'm working is just applicable to a team project I will have to do. Adaptation of a hardworking ethos where resilience and giving my all was paramount. Through my golf playing of golf I have developed a positive, optimistic and enthusiastic I have learnt to be patient and calm in my decision-making. Another key skill learnt from golf is adaptability. Throughout my time golfing I was placed in tricky situations, I learnt how to

I’m from the boing of the trampoline and from turning myself up and down, from spinning around to flipping at the same time, to the sound of a cracking backs to fixing them

Last year, was when I transferred from another school and I thought I would have a rough time fitting in. So I decided to join the golf team and ended up making the varsity team. Golf is an activity that makes me feel like I belong to a group where we do something we all love to do. When I’m on the course and begin to swing the club, gives me a good feeling and a place to relieve stress. Also, I have made a lot of friends. You feel like family. All of the girls on the team got along so well and I knew that coming to Burlington Central was a decision I wouldn't regret. Then for my sophomore year I applied for Peer jury it’s one of the most entertaining activities to do within the school. I learn a lot of things to become a better me and try

From a young age, I have always been involved with golf. My father is an avid golf player and would always take me out to the course with him. My seventh grade year was when I took golf more seriously and competed with the high school golf team. Competing with people who had more experience than I did gave me a motive to start practicing more and striving for better. During my eighth grade year, I had been able to place first in a few matches, beating players I had competed against the year before. As I entered high school, I realized that I could now qualify to go to European championships and compete with other golfers from around Europe. The championship lasted two days and the weather was always cold and raining. Golfers traveled from

I had pulled my scorecard out and added up my scores. The 18th was a dogleg left par 5 and with a par I shoot 78. A score that would make it through to districts. Following an arid tee shot, I disobeyed my coach in club choice for my second shot. The dominos began to fall and one bad shot followed another. I took a triple bogey on an easy hole and I knew as soon as I picked my ball up out of the cup that I had let people down. Waiting was the worse part of the whole process, it just dragged out the failure. After an hour passed and the news was given that I finished fifth, just short of being in that top four. That was the longest bus ride home ever. It was the start of a new fire and a new beginning.

Thanks for your response. I’m sure it wasn’t an easy decision and I’m not trying to tell you who you can hire or fire; I have no right to make that statement. I’m only saying that if more people would have taken the time to let you, and your management team, know how the overwhelming majority of us feel about Tara, maybe your decision would have been different. Unfortunately, I/we didn’t do that. People seem to have a propensity to write when there’s something bad but don’t have the same inclination when it’s good.

I’m with con, I think golf is more about game is not about a sport. Everyone can play golf. Also, golf is not that hard to play. It’s more about fun and challenging people. I don’t see that it’s about race or moving a part in your body or you need to run for it. Actually it doesn’t require a Wight or pacific age to play it.