It’s Time
Monday, April 13th, 2009What an amazing weekend of Masters golf! I find myself sitting here post tournament reflecting upon 4 days of pure excitement, and 4 days that left me thinking about my own golf game. This past year has been the longest break I have taken from playing golf competitively, and from even practicing on a regular basis. What’s interesting is that I cannot seem to come up with a good excuse for why this happened. My last year of college gave me a glimpse into the kind of player I could have been, and now 5 years later, I am mad at myself for putting something that meant so much to me, to the side. I work each day with people on developing their golf game in the gym, and this time of year, coaching high school players on how to make golf a part of their life, both things that I love dearly. But in the back on my mind, there are quite a few what-ifs and unanswered questions that I didn’t realize existed until this past week. Of course this lead me to a quick google search to see if I could still find my old college scores, and instead I managed to run across a picture that was in the Seattle Times after I won the WSWGA State Championship in 04′. 
Why on earth this picture is still around, I don’t know. I’m glad it is though because it gave me a chance not only to laugh tonight, but to think about that time in my life and how much I loved to play the game then. With all this in mind, I decided that as I turn 27 today, I am going to begin to put the pieces back together in my golf game, and am going to compete again this coming summer! Along the way, I will share with you the good, the bad and the ugly of what will surely be an adventure. Fair warning though, if you hear someone yell fore on the golf course and you happen to be standing on the left side of the fairway, it will probably be me! (I have a tendency to hook the golf ball, so watch out!)
