Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Last Go Around
Tuesday was my last regional tournament for golf in my high school career. We needed to get in the top 3 to move on as a team and we had a very good chance of moving on and even winning. We got to the course and you wan to look like you know what you are doing and aren't nervous but in all honesty I wanted throw up. As I warmed up he nerves went away a little bit but I still had them as my name was called to the first tee. We were told the order to tee of and of course I was first. I stop there waiting until I was given the ok to go which seemed like an eternity of me standing there wiping the sweat from my hand on my towel. I stepped up to my ball and piped it down the middle. My heart was racing and I felt so good after that shot. I finished he day with an 80. It wasn't good but it wasn't ba but like every true golfer I wasn't happy. I knew I could have played better. But the real story of the day was Andrew Blackburn who shot a round of 66 which was 5 under par. He was the winner by 3 strokes and propelled our team to the win by 5 strokes over Sycamore. Our whole team was excited to win a regional title but nowour focus is on Monday for sectionals. The goal has been to get to state all year and this is our shot. I don't want my season to end Monday in St Charles. I really don't want to go to state unless my team is there with me. We know that we can do this but we are all going to have to play a great round Whig we haven't done yet this year but I can feel that it will happen Monday and we will get to state. This time people won't be suprised.
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I love your title because it elicits both the end of things and the nature of golf itself, as you round the course once more. I like your line "You want to look like you know what you are doing and aren't nervous but in all honesty I wanted to throw up." This humanizes you and makes the anxiety involved here a little more palpable. Then you follow this up with the line "...which seemed like an eternity of me standing there wiping sweat from my hand on my towl. I stepped up to my ball and piped it down the middle." These are good details and they work well to put us in the moment. I like, too, that you end it with the idea that you're going to prove the nay-sayers wrong this time.
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