So, for me it's an interesting story so I figured I'd ask others...
I played football when I was younger until I broke my hand and couldn't find a reason to keep playing and getting hurt again. So I stopped playing football and didn't really have a sport to go to. I wasn't (still aren't) a great basketball player and was a great 1st baseman but didn't have the speed necessary for High School Baseball. In 1996 my town was still on that line of racial challenges in some areas with Golf being one of them. I was never compelled to try it because it was a "white people" game.
Later that year Tiger Woods turned pro, I was infatuated with him. He was an American black man dominating at such a young age. It made me fee like golf was accessible to me too. I followed Tiger that first year and then he won the 97 Masters walking away after all of the tension around his participation racially. I saw that and said "im in"
My buddies were all affluent guys with the best golf gear, on the golf team and much better than me at the time... But I went to Kmart and spent my McDonalds paycheck ($5.25 an hour) and bought a set of clubs and some top flight balls. I went out and fell in love with the game. I joined the golf team and rarely shot in the 90's but had a great time.
Over the last twenty years I still look back at that minute when Tiger slipped on that green jacket and smile because I would've never taken up the game without it.
Now I get to go to Vegas and play in a THP Event and it all goes back to that moment in time.
I played football when I was younger until I broke my hand and couldn't find a reason to keep playing and getting hurt again. So I stopped playing football and didn't really have a sport to go to. I wasn't (still aren't) a great basketball player and was a great 1st baseman but didn't have the speed necessary for High School Baseball. In 1996 my town was still on that line of racial challenges in some areas with Golf being one of them. I was never compelled to try it because it was a "white people" game.
Later that year Tiger Woods turned pro, I was infatuated with him. He was an American black man dominating at such a young age. It made me fee like golf was accessible to me too. I followed Tiger that first year and then he won the 97 Masters walking away after all of the tension around his participation racially. I saw that and said "im in"
My buddies were all affluent guys with the best golf gear, on the golf team and much better than me at the time... But I went to Kmart and spent my McDonalds paycheck ($5.25 an hour) and bought a set of clubs and some top flight balls. I went out and fell in love with the game. I joined the golf team and rarely shot in the 90's but had a great time.
Over the last twenty years I still look back at that minute when Tiger slipped on that green jacket and smile because I would've never taken up the game without it.
Now I get to go to Vegas and play in a THP Event and it all goes back to that moment in time.