As 2017 comes to an end, Dom and I decided to wander off to Holywood Golf Club to get a couple holes in. For those who don’t know, Holywood is the home course of golfing legend Rory Mcllroy. Thanks to Sport Changes Life, The Rory Foundation and all the work the fellow golf scholars do at the course, I was able to get on no problem.
As I approached the first tee box, I completely whiffed on my first attempt at the ball. Then on my next swing, I absolutely crushed the ball but unfortunately, it landed about 50 yards to the left deep in the woods. After hitting multiple bad shots, mixed with a good one here and there my confidence began to grow. On the par 5 11th hole, I crushed a drive up the fairway and then rolled my next shot about 20 yards down the fairway. Then I took an iron right up to the top of the green and chipped in for my first every birdie! If anybody was watching they would have called it luck and I wouldn’t have disagreed, but a birdie is a birdie and I was hype regardless.
As my basketball career is coming to an end, I look forward to learning more about the game of golf and using Kristen and Dominic as useful resources of help over the next couple of months. I went from missing the ball completely, to finishing the day with a birdie. My birdie was on the 11th hole, but decided to end the day and a high note and not move onto the 12th hole.
(Here is a picture taken by my roommate Dom Diaz, for anybody who reads this far into my blog. I will fill you in on a secret, I didn’t actually hit this ball, and it isn’t my real swing. 100% just did this for Instagram)
