Walking into the Loyola golf coach's office, I couldn't help but smile at what I saw: a golf bag with my name embroidered on it. Now I am officially a NCAA Division I athlete. This happened more than a year ago, when I just arrived at Loyola and was getting ready to play collegiate golf. Golf was the thing that excited me the most. I looked forward to meeting my teammates, going to my first practice, and playing in my first tournament. Over the past year, however, I have realized that golf is not my sole passion in life. While golf is still a part of what defines me, I have found myself paying more and more attention to finance. My goal slowly shifted from winning collegiate tournaments to excelling academically and being involved with finance-related activities. So this …show more content…
At first, I put the majority of my effort into practices and tournaments. This, ironically, alienated me from the rest of the school team, as many of them focused more on parties than golf. From there, I slowly turned my attention to academics for positive energy, and my efforts in school paid off significantly. As I narrowed my academic focus, I found that finance fascinates me the most. I joined two finance clubs at Loyola, and in them I was able to find people who were passionate about what they did. After one semester of participating actively in Rambler Investment Fund, I was appointed the alumni chair of the club. With this role, I established a few connections who currently work in the finance community. In the summer of my freshman year, I continued to build on what I learned by interning at the underwriting department of a Chinese finance company called Qilu Securities. As I became more and more involved in all things related to finance, I have found myself looking at Bloomberg during my spare time and chat about the plummeting oil price with my friends. Finance, like golf, has also become a part of who I
Contrary to what most think, an “Arnold Palmer” is not just a blend of tea and lemonade. One day, all might be able to swing a golf club like Arnold Palmer. Golf has been around since the thirteenth century and was introduced by the Scottish and Dutch. The main goal of golf is to reach the hole in the fewest amount of shots possible. One main difference between golf and many other sports is the lower the score the better. Regardless of the fact that the game was once banned, golf is now enjoyed by many (“The History of Golf”). Despite the images in common golf commercials, the golf swing is endlessly complicated.
The sun beaming down, burning his skin. Sweat pours down his face like a bucket of water. At this moment he knew… his journey to hole eighteen had begun. Step after step and swing after swing he is getting closer and closer. His opponent is close behind him in points and hole 18 is approaching. Swinging and missing and hitting the ball in the wrong direction sets him back. After finally making it in hole 17, he realizes it is going to take a miracle to win this match. He sets his feet shoulder width apart, he looks down at the ball and centers his body. The man takes one deep breath in and on the exhale, he swings with maximum force. Quickly he finds the ball flying in the air, approaching the pin with a bright red flag. The ball hits the green and rolls toward the hole. Within a matter of seconds, the ball disappears. It had made it in the hole. It was
Ever since I was a little kid, golf has been there. Golf has been something in my life that I can always fall back on and use to get some anger out of just to clear my head. No matter what it was, golf has been my rock. There is nothing like waking up at the crack of dawn to get out under the sun to play a game you love.
I guess it started when I was about twelve years old. My father took me to this place called a golf course. I did not know why or what we were here for, but I was interested in finding out. We entered a building called a clubhouse; then, he paid for a bucket of practice balls. I followed him to the driving range. Once we got there, he got a metal stick from his golf bag and gave it to me. I grabbed the stick, and he showed me how to hold it. Then, he told me to swing it. I swung it back and forth as careless as I could. He then said, "Son, you have one of the nicest golf swings I have ever seen." I did not even know what I was doing with that stick, but I guess my dad saw something I didn't. My father then decided that he was ready to teach me how to use the three clubs of golf: a putter, iron, and wood. He handed me the putter, and we went to the green. He explained to me that a putter is used on a green to get the ball into the hole. I took a few smooth swings back and forth to get a feel for a putter. He said, "Hit this ball until it goes into the hole." I was impressed with myself because it only took me six hits to get it in the hole. He laid twenty balls on the green, and he told me to hit every ball in with one shot. It took me about three hours, but I accomplished what my dad told me. He thought I was ready to try the next club, so we headed to the next location. We went out onto the fairway, and he handed me an iron. He laid out some more balls on the ground and told me to hit them towards the flag on the green. The first ball I hit did not even get close to the green. The rest of the balls I hit went either over or on the front of the green, but I never let another one fall short. My dad said, "Keep practicing until you hit all of the balls on the green." I kept practicing until all of the balls were laid up around the flag.
Joseph Wittmer Mrs. Blackwood Language Arts 8 17 March 2017 Golf Hole Did you know that there are 25.13 million golfers in the US? Millions of these golfers are not satisfied as they walk off a driving range. Most golfers are not practicing efficiently and they become very frustrated while practicing. The game of golf was created for fun, but most people do not enjoy it. The new solution is Golf Hole!
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.
Golf is different than any other sport I’ve ever played. Golf challenges the body, mind, and soul. The average person doesn’t think a lot about golf, or thinks that it is not a challenging sport. Once they have played it is a different story. Golfing is not just taking a swing at the ball, it involves several tedious techniques and strategies such as; making sure you are aimed where you want the ball to go, your hands are in the right spot on your clubs, your knees are slightly bent, etc. In the book “The Mind at Work” a member of the UCLA Graduate school of education and Information Studies, Mike Rose, states “With time and practice, all this becomes routine, automatic.” We are asked to compare Rose’s work with intelligence that we as students have acquired through our lives thus far. Something that I have worked for and learned about since I was young is golf. I
Golf has gone down a long road to get to the widely popular sport it is today. Golf is a sport where the player uses a long shafted club to propel a small, hard ball around a large area of land known as a course, using as little strokes as possible. Par is the number of strokes a first-class player should normally require for a particular hole or course.There are many different parts to a golf swing such as: grip, stance, swing, and position. There are two basic golf clubs: irons and woods. Golf became a pastime in Great Britain in the 17th century and spread to all around the World. King James II’s Act of parliament banning golf from Scotland because it was a distraction to archery lessons and military training, was the first written evidence that golf ever existed. People still played golf at the time, even though it was
There are many phenomenon’s as to why people find golf boring or lethargic. I am going to lay out for you, a few critical points on how to change your perspective on the trials of golf. The critical steps in becoming a good golfer are what people tend to overlook, or they try too hard and become frustrated and give up. The ever-changing mentality, evaluating the swing, and finally playing the hole are the three key things to potentially having a more positive outlook on the game of golf.
Whenever learning to swing a golf club so that your shots go long and aligned, there are several things that you have to perform properly. Because different parts of your body require to do specific things, understanding how to swing a club perfectly requires training. In fact, the motions need to become 2nd nature in order to be reliable. Step1 Practice your grip. Whenever swinging the golf club, keep your hands in one place.
Golf is defined as a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles. The object is to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible (2017 Dictionary.com LLC). It is a very popular sport throughout the world and it is only increasing in popularity. It is a game that takes time and effort to master, but can prove to be a great, relaxing sport that anyone of all ages can play.
Get the best beginner golf club set Golf has always held the reputation of the gentleman’s game and enjoys quite a lot of popularity among the people who play it and the ones who wish to play it. At one point it was quite an expensive game, however, now that has luckily changed thanks to cheaper golf clubs becoming available for people to buy. While many think golf is just standing in a grassy hill and hitting a ball, the play goes a lot deeper than that but eventually boils down to the type of clubs that one uses. If you are playing golf for the first time, it is best to get yourself the best beginner golf club set for a minimal price while offering all the functionalities to help play the game properly.
Sand Creek Station golf course is a place where you can get all different smells from the grass, flowers and trees. This course is one of the best course in Kansas. Also when you are at the course you can only hear the sound of golf clubs hitting the golf balls smack center of each club face of each golfer's clubs. Feeling grass at sand creek feel’s so good it makes you feel like you are walking on a soft pillow with head indention all over the pillow. Although you think it has a bad view it has one of the best views. When the sunsets you can see the full beauty of the course when you can see all of the fog just hanging over the course, for most stunning view you will ever get when playing on the course.
There is nothing worse than swinging a golf club and feeling the golf club slipping through your hands, because if that happens you're almost guaranteed a terrible shot. And unless you're Tiger Woods it's very hard to stop the swing when you're half way down to the ball. I have no idea how Tiger does that! Anyway, if the weather is very hot and humid the chances of your grip slipping as you're swinging goes way up.
Sports are a great way to bring people together and encourage friendly competition among people from all walks of life. In general, a sport is usually some form of physical game or activity performed by two or more people. One such example would be golf, often dubbed the "rich man 's sport" throughout its history. Golf has undergone many changes since its creation in the early 15th century, but has remained one of the more expensive sports as far as equipment costs go. When discussing the impact that different technological advancements in the materials used in golf have had, I 'm mainly looking at how these adjustments have improved performance.