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Golf for Beginners
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Millions of people hit the links to play golf recreationally, and many young stars of the game are inspiring others to try their hand at this difficult sport. In its “U.S. Golf Economy Report,” released in 2018, WE ARE GOLF, a coalition of golf’s governing bodies, found there was a 20 percent increase in junior golf participation in the five years between 2011 and 2016. Plus, there were 2.5 million golfers who played for the first time in 2016, up from 1.5 million in 2011. Even more exciting for the industry is non-golfers interested in playing golf doubled to 12.8 million. There has never been a better time to play golf. However, to the uninitiated, golf can be complicated. There are many different rules and all sorts of equipment to learn and lingo to follow. In fact, the experts at Golf Digest say that some people can be scared off even before they hit the green. Fortunately, all it takes is a little research to get started on learning about and ultimately embracing the game of golf. Here are six ways to get started. 1. Start off on a practice range and not on the golf course. The range is a great place to acclimate oneself to the game and practice your swings. 2. Hook up with someone who can show you the ropes. Going it alone can tame feelings of embarrassment from being new to the game. However, having someone in your corner guiding you can make it easier to learn and love the game. Work with a local golf pro or enlist the help of a friend or family member with some golfing experience. 3. Learn all you can about the clubs, including which kinds are used for various types of shots. While a golfer is allowed to carry as many as 14 clubs in a bag, you will not need that many when first starting out, nor do you have to invest thousands of dollars in a set of clubs. It’s possible to find used clubs online if you want to try the sport before committing. 4. Lean toward more loft when selecting clubs. Look for drivers that have at least 10 degrees of loft and fairway woods that start at 17 degrees, offers Golf Digest. This will make it easier for beginners to get the ball into the air and can reduce sidespin so shots fly more straight. 5. Pay attention to short shots as well as the long ones. Spend as much time practicing with wedges and the putter as the driver to really tighten up all of your shots. 6. Learn the proper grip and stance by working with a coach. Invest in a glove to avoid callused hands, as you’ll be spending significant time practicing. With these tips, novice golfers can get on the road to developing a great golf game relatively quickly.
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Be Aware! Common Sports Injuries
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Sports are a great way to meet people and engage in team-building physical fitness. Injuries can occur even when safety measures are followed. Awareness of certain conditions common to sports injuries can help people recognize injuries or even prevent them. Here are the most common sports injuries, according to Unity Point Health and a 2015 report published by Fox News. • Hip flexor strain • Achilles tendinitis
• Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) strain
• Concussion
• Shin splints
• Groin strain
• Tennis or golf elbow
• Ankle sprains • Shoulder injuries • Knee injuries
Speak with a health care provider and a physical fitness trainer to learn more about the best ways to prevent these injuries from occurring. In many cases, stretching and warming using proper form, proper footwear and gear, and building up intensity can help prevent injuries.
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Summer Sun Safety
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While protecting skin against harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays is important all year, it’s particularly critical during sunny, activity-filled summer months. The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends the following tips to reduce your risk of developing melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer and premature skin aging by protecting yourself against UV radiation from the sun: Limit Sun Exposure • Stay out of direct sunlight between peak hours between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. • Avoid tanning and UV tanning beds. • Keep newborn babies out of the sun. Babies over the age of six months can and should be protected with sunscreen.
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Block UV Rays • Use a broad spectrum (UVA/UVB) sunscreen with SPF 15 or higher daily. • Select a water-resistant, broad spectrum (UVA/UVB) sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher for extended outdoor activity. • Apply 1 ounce (2 tablespoons) of sunscreen to your body 30 minutes before going outdoors. • Reapply sunscreen every two hours or after swimming or excessive sweating. • Don’t forget to protect lips, ears and the tops of exposed feet with sunscreen. • Protect skin while in the car using sunscreen or transparent UV-blocking window film. Cover Up • Cover skin with long sleeves and pants for outdoor activities, or look for sun-protective sports apparel. • Wear a broad-brimmed hat, baseball cap or visor. • Protect eyes with sunglasses that block 99 to 100 percent of UV radiation. Check Yourself • Give your skin a head-to-toe examination monthly. • Visit a dermatologist annually for a professional skin exam.
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Johnson the best player with only 1 major Commentary by DOUG FERGUSON Of the Associated Press
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Dustin Johnson was on the wrong side of history at the last PGA Championship. It wasn’t because Brooks Koepka, his best friend in golf, walked away from Bellerive with the Wanamaker Trophy for his third major championship. By finishing 10 shots behind, Johnson set a most obscure record by going eight consecutive majors at No. 1 in the world without winning any of them. And the beat goes on. He is back to No. 1 for the May version of the PGA Championship, still among the favorites at Bethpage Black because it’s a big golf course and he has big talent. He was a runner-up at the Masters and already has two victories this year. The No. 1 ranking means little more than pride. Having only one major in 39 tries? That’s a little more irritating.
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“Disappointed I wouldn’t go with,” Johnson said, perhaps realizing that 21 victories worldwide would not suggest his career has been a bust. “But a little frustrated sometimes just because I’ve had quite a few chances.” Some of those chances are as memorable as the one major he won. There was the three-shot lead at Pebble Beach that was gone after two holes in the 2010 U.S. Open on his way to an 82. He missed out on a playoff in the PGA Championship later that year at Whistling Straits when he set his club on loose sand without realizing it was a bunker. The 12-foot eagle putt he needed to win the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay turned into a three-putt par and a silver medal. Last year at Shinnecock Hills in the U.S. Open, he went from a four-shot lead to a four-way tie going into the last round, and then Koepka simply outplayed him. His only major was at Oakmont, famous for Johnson having to play the final seven holes without knowing the score because of a rules dispute. He won that 2016 U.S. Open with such a steady hand that it looked for sure more majors would follow. They haven’t. While it’s still early — Johnson is only 34 — he is eager to add to the total. Never mind the decades-old label of best to have never won a major. Now it’s the best to have only one major. Since the world ranking began in 1986, Johnson is among 12 players who were among the top 10 in the world when they won their first major and haven’t won another. The list starts with Ian Woosnam and Fred Couples in the early 1990s. It includes David Duval and Davis Love III. The more current group features Johnson, Justin Rose, Adam Scott and Jason Day, all of whom have reached No. 1 in the world. “It’s hard to win majors,” Johnson said. “If it was easy, a lot of guys would have a lot more than they do. But it’s just tough. They’re always on tough golf courses, and you’ve got to put four good rounds together. A lot of times that’s hard to do on really tough courses.” It seems ludicrous now because Tiger Woods is sitting on 15 majors, but getting that second one was important.
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Woods had won the 1997 Masters by 12 shots and then went 10 majors without. He changed his swing, his agent, his caddie. And then he held on for a one-shot victory at Medinah in the 1999 PGA Championship. “It was a big deal to get a second major championship and get the numbers to start to accrue,” Woods said Tuesday. “It just started the momentum, and you can see what happened in 2000, 2001 and 2002. But I think ‘99 was a big moment to kick-start all that transpired.” Rory McIlroy didn’t have to wait that long. One year and two months after his record-setting U.S. Open victory at Congressional, he won by eight shots at Kiawah Island in the PGA Championship. He recalls coming up the 18th fairway with a lead big enough to allow him to realize, “I’m about to become a multiple major champion.” “There’s a lot of one-time major winners,” McIlroy said. “But then when you can call yourself a multiple major champion, that’s pretty cool. You join another list, and then you sort of try to keep going.” He is now at four majors, one green jacket shy of the career Grand Slam. Jordan Spieth won his first major at the 2015 Masters, and the next one two months later (at Johnson’s expense) at Chambers Bay. He, too, is one major short — the PGA Championship — of a career slam. Koepka last year became the first player to win back-to-back in the U.S. Open in 29 years. Equally important was having two majors, even if he kept the same trophy. “You get the first one and it’s, ‘Oh, this is awesome.’ And then reality sets in,” Koepka said. “It’s not, ‘Was it a fluke?’ But there’s been a lot of guys who only won one. Can you turn that one in two? And from two, boom. Keep this rolling.” Johnson stands out among his current group of one-time major champions because he is a prolific winner. When he won by five shots in Mexico City, he became the youngest player since Woods to reach 20 PGA Tour victories. He hopes the next one is a major, the sooner the better.
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College golfer in hijab out to blaze trail for Muslim girls By ERIC OLSON Of the Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Noor Ahmed outwardly lives her Muslim faith, and even growing up in a state as diverse as California she says she encountered hostility on the street, in school and on the golf course. One of the top junior golfers in Northern California coming out of high school, Ahmed was a starter in her first year at Nebraska and the No. 2 player most of this spring. She is believed to be the only golfer at the college level or higher who competes in a hijab, the headscarf worn in adherence to the Muslim faith. Arriving in Lincoln two years ago, Ahmed sensed hesitancy from teammates mostly from small Midwestern towns and unaccustomed to seeing a woman in a hijab. She didn’t feel embraced until an unfortunate yet unifying event roiled the campus midway through her freshman year. A video surfaced of a student claiming to be the “most active white nationalist in the Nebraska area,” disparaging minorities and advocating violence. The student, it turned out, was in the same biology lecture class as Ahmed. Teammates offered to walk with her across campus, and one who would become her best friend, Kate Smith, invited Ahmed to stay with her. She didn’t accept but was heartened by the gesture. “That,” Smith said, “was when she realized how much each and every one of us care for her on the team, that it wasn’t just like, ‘Hey you’re our teammate.’ No, it’s ‘We want you to be safe, we want you to feel at home here.’” Having grown up in the post-9/11 era, Ahmed, like many Muslims in the United States, has been a target for bullying and verbal abuse. She began wearing the hijab in middle school. On the course, in an airport or even walking across campus she can feel the long stares and notices the glances. She said she has never been physically threatened — “that I know of” — and that most of the face-to-face insults came before she arrived at Nebraska. Much of the venom spewed at her now comes on social media. She has been the subject of several media profiles, and each sparks another round of hateful messages. She acknowledges she reads but doesn’t respond to messages and that an athletic department sports psychologist has helped her learn how to deal with them. “I’ve been called every racial slur in the book,” she said. “I’ve been told explicitly that people who look like me don’t play golf, we don’t have a right to exist in America, you should go home. It would definitely faze me a little bit, but it never deterred me. I’m really stubborn, so I’m going to prove you wrong, just wait. When people think they’re dragging me down, it kind of fuels the fire in me that I’m going to be a better golfer, I’m going to be a better student, I’m going to keep climbing up the ladder.” The daughter of Egyptian immigrants is from a close-knit family in Folsom, California, and she steeled herself for the cultural adjustment she would have to make at Nebraska. She dealt with loneliness and anxiety, especially her freshman year. She had difficulty finding a support network. There is a small Muslim community on campus, but she didn’t immerse herself in it. The demands on athletes are great, and they are largely segregated, eating and studying in facilities separate from those used by regular students. Nebraska coach Robin Krapfl said she was initially concerned about how teammates would react to Ahmed. Krapfl remembered meeting with her golfers and telling them about her. “I could tell by a couple of the looks and maybe even a comment or two that they weren’t 100 percent comfortable with that,” Krapfl said. “A lot of our girls come from small-town communities that are very limited in their ethnicity. It’s just the fear of the unknown. They had just never been exposed to being around someone from the Muslim faith.”
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they really are and not just what they look like.” Smith said she sometimes cringes when she and Ahmed are in a group and the conversation turns to politics, immigration or even fashion, like when someone innocently or ignorantly tells Ahmed that she would look good in a short dress or a certain hairstyle. “She can never wear a short dress, so why would you want to depict her as that?” Smith said. “You have to respect her beliefs and why she’s doing it. Also, I think a lot of things are connected to women’s beauty standards and how people don’t think she can look beautiful when she’s covered. I think she’s a really beautiful girl no matter how much skin she’s showing.” For all the challenges Ahmed faced, there have been positives. Some people have complimented her for living her faith as she sees fit, a Muslim teen who golfs in a hijab and lives in the United Kingdom wrote to says she draws inspiration from her, and a player for another college team approached her at an event to tell her she recently converted to Islam and just wanted to say hi. “I remember going and crying and, wow, I’m not alone out here,” she said. Ahmed said she’s naturally shy and a bit uncomfortable with the attention, but she hopes Muslim girls coming up behind her are watching. “I grew up never seeing anyone like me,” she said. “Honestly, I didn’t realize how much grief I was carrying, having never seen an image of myself or someone who looked like me in popular American culture. It’s a big deal. “Why are basketball and football so heavily African American? If I were black and I saw people who looked like me competing in that sport, that’s probably the sport I would choose. I think it’s really important when we’re talking about trying to make golf and other sports and other areas in American culture diverse, how important it is to see someone who looks like you and how it will fuel other people’s interest.” Ahmed started playing golf at 8, and her parents encouraged her to take the sport to the highest level possible. Wearing the hijab has never interfered with her game and she has never considered not wearing it on the course. “I think Muslim women who choose to observe it or choose not to observe it have the right to exist in any space they want to be in,” she said, “and I would feel like I would be sending a message that the hijab doesn’t exist in this place or it shouldn’t, and I don’t feel comfortable with that.”
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Valentino Dixon By Drew Davison Of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Valentino Dixon’s introduction to golf came when the warden dropped by his 6-by-10 cell at Attica Correctional Facility in New York with a photo of the iconic 12th hole at Augusta National and a simple request. Could Dixon draw the hole with his colored pencils? The warden knew Dixon had the talent. He certainly had the time. “I hadn’t heard of the 12th hole, let alone Augusta National,” Dixon said. “Nothing about golf. Never paid a second of time to golf, it was always football or basketball where I come from.” Dixon didn’t want to disappoint the warden while serving 39 years-to-life after being convicted of killing a man at a street party in his hometown of Buffalo in 1991. The warden, after all, held great sway over his living conditions in one of the nation’s most notorious – and dangerous – prisons. But the last thing he wanted to do was irritate his fellow inmates. “They might take my credibility card away, they may say he’s drawing golf courses, what’s going on here,” Dixon said. “You don’t want people to think, hey, he’s too close with the administration and this prison.” So Dixon set about drawing. Some times that went on for 15 hours, with Dixon finding solace drawing the colors of the grass against the brilliantly white sand and blue sky . The warden loved the image, though that’s hardly where this story ends. Dixon made more golf course drawings, hundreds of them from pictures he saw in Golf Digest and other magazines. It wasn’t long before they found other eyes. In their reflection, he found support and more believers in his innocence. His conviction was vacated last September, but not before he had spent 27 years in prison. Earlier this spring, Dixon found himself in a place far removed from his former home. He was at Augusta National for the Masters; it was both eerily familiar and strikingly foreign to him. He walked down to Amen Corner and saw the 12th hole he knew only from pictures. He met Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, whom he’d only seen in magazines. It felt like home. The drawings had taken him here day after endless day, when there seemed no end in sight and no reason for hope. “I just wanted to cry,” Dixon said. “I mean inside I was crying but I held back the tears, you know, because it’s just so much more remarkable and awesome in person. And I’ve drawn that 12th hole about eight or nine times and it’s nothing like seeing it in person – nothing. It’s just like the most wonderful thing that I can see in the world right now.” After spending more than half his life in prison, Dixon might still be there if not for his art. He might be protesting his innocence, too, if not for a Golf Digest writer who answered his letter in 2011 as a submission to a monthly narrative called “How Golf Saved My Life.” “Golf is saving my life right now because I had almost 20 years then and I was on borrowed time myself,” Dixon said. “I didn’t know if I was going to live one day to see it to the next.”
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Some of his friends in Attica didn’t. They took their own lives. “I made sure that I kept my sanity,� he said. “You know people lose their way.� Golf Digest’s Max Adler set the wheels of justice in motion when he replied to Dixon’s letter. Seven more years passed before he was finally free. “I was actually an art major in college, so it’s like this is golf and art and the human condition all coming together,� Adler said. “I’m of course skeptical that this guy is wrongfully convicted, but the fact that art was sort of a redemptive force for him. I thought I’d like to know more about that.� Adler visited Dixon inside Attica, and saw his colored pencils ground down to the nub. His daughter Valentina’s efforts gathered more momentum as, first, two attorneys got involved and then even more when students from Georgetown University’s Prison Reform Project took up the cause. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place when a new prosecutor took over in Erie County and reviewed the case. Another man already incarcerated pleaded guilty to the murder. “Twenty-seven years, it’s just a miracle,� Adler said. “And it’s a miracle that we ever even heard from him.� Dixon walked out of prison on a day filled with bright sunshine, eager to rejoin the free world. He had to learn how to use a cellphone and adjust to modern life after a generation behind bars. Now he gives inspirational speeches and shows his work in a gallery, most recently in New York. Dixon says he’s not bitter. His mother, though, still bristles when the subject of his incarceration comes up. He was imprisoned on her birthday, and she refused to celebrate any of them for the next 27 years. Dixon and Adler came to the Masters to complete their journey in the place it really began. His art brought him here, just as it freed him from prison. “The artwork, it’s like God was speaking to my soul,� Dixon said. “He was just saying you know it’s gonna be all right, you hang in there.�
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Why the PGA of America believes North Texas can become the ‘Silicon Valley’ of golf By Drew Davison Of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FRISCO, Texas — Sitting in a ballroom at the Omni Frisco Hotel, just steps away from the Dallas Cowboys’ billiondollar practice facility known as The Star, golfing great Lee Trevino spoke of the PGA of America moving its headquarters to Frisco. Trevino, the six-time major champion and North Texas native, has no question that the PGA will match what Jerry Jones and the Cowboys brought to the city. “I know Frisco was very excited when Mr. Jones came up here and built the practice facility and did what he did,” Trevino said during a PGA of America event this week. “But he didn’t do anything that we’re not going to do. I’m here to tell you — the PGA is going to be phenomenal.” That is what PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh envisions to build in the coming years. Waugh believes Frisco can become golf’s “Silicon Valley” with the PGA of America coming to town. The sport has so many different organizations that it’s almost impossible to have a central “golf” headquarters. The PGA Tour, which runs every significant tournament outside of the four majors, is based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The USGA, which runs the U.S. Open, has its headquarters in Far Hills, N.J. Then there’s Augusta National Golf
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Club in Georgia, which runs the Masters, and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in Scotland, which runs the British Open. That’s why the PGA of America, which runs the PGA Championship, is excited about what can be created with its move to North Texas. “We want to create a community of golf,” Waugh said. “We have the chance to turn this into more than anything that’s existed in golf.” The $520 million project includes everything from two 18-hole golf courses to a short course to retail space to an Omni resort. The 600-acre development is being built on the northern end of Frisco, just west of the Dallas North Tollway and south of U.S. 380. The golf courses, “East” and “West,” are expected to break ground by the end of the year and open for play in 2022. The East Course will be the more challenging course where the 2027 and 2034 PGA Championships, as well as other PGA-sanctioned championships, will be held. Gil Hanse is designing the track that will stretch more than 7,600 from the back tees. “It’s a site that has tons of potential, but it also has a few issues that we have to work on and get rectified, soil being one of them,” said Hanse, who has helped Colonial Country Club with its renovations in recent years. “We’ll have to use some shaping, some creativity, actually move a little more dirt than we would like to, but I think at the end of the day my partner Jim Wagner and I are always trying to create golf courses that look and feel like they belong there.” The West Course is being designed by Beau Welling as a more playable, “fun” setup designed for golfers of all levels.
“You can still challenge the best players in the world to get a score and protect par in the way you place hazards and the way you design green contours. But the totality of being able to do this, to get people here, being together, sense of community, gathering, golf is still a recreation and needs to be fun for all levels.” The courses will be owned by the City of Frisco and the golf facilities will be open to local high school golfers. Waugh has high hopes for the game with the move to Frisco and all the possibilities that exist from it. He sees golf as becoming even more popular and the PGA of America using its 29,000-plus members to grow the game. “We can make it more welcoming, more inclusive, more available,” Waugh said. “We can make the game look a little more like the world. We can maybe make the world look a little more like the game.”
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Re-discovering a love for the game By Stephan Wiebe For the Tribune
Ever since he was 3 years old, using a wooden spoon to hit a Ping-Pong ball around the halls of his Moscow home, golf has been life for Chris Williams. By middle school he was beating his NCAA Division I athlete brother, Pete, on the hills of the University of Idaho Golf Course; in high school he won the Idaho 4A state title four straight years; and during his college career at Washington he was at one point the No. 1 amateur golfer in the world. “There were a lot of things that went right for me,” Williams said. But it wasn’t always smooth sailing for Moscow’s best golfer. Williams, 27, is taking a break from his six-year professional career to finish his degree at the University of Washington and decide what’s next, whether that’s a return to pro golf after a short hiatus or something new. He said he takes the ups and downs of the mentally fragile game of golf harder than most. Five years on the Mackenzie Tour in Canada without moving up the golf ranks has taken its toll. “I was playing a tournament out in Miami (in December) and I was flying home, and I was like, ‘I’m wiped. I’m overly tired and exhausted,’ ”
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Williams said. “The past five, six years after college I kind of lost the love of the game, which is why I picked it up in the first place when I was like 4 years old running around Moscow. “It’s been nice to kind of step back and see it as a game, and not a job anymore.” That love of the game is why Williams originally became so good. In the early days it wasn’t like a job, even though Williams was spending most of his waking hours on the golf course. “Every birthday I’d get a new club,” Williams said. “My birthday is June, so all summer all I wanted to do is play golf because I had a new club.” His dad, Varnel, introduced him to the sport and became his biggest golfing buddy. But he never felt pressured to play. “My dad kind of made it fun,” Williams said. “We’d take a football out on the course. It’d be like, ‘Dad I’m not going to play this hole, let’s just play catch.’ And he’d be like, ‘OK, cool.’ ”
A young phenom By middle school, Williams started to realize golf might be able to take him somewhere. He doesn’t remember when
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he first started beating his big brother — who is 10 years older, played D-I golf at Idaho and spent time as a pro. He just remembers always really wanting to beat him. Chris would practice and practice and practice to get ready to play Pete whenever he came home for breaks. “At a young age we were really competitive,” Chris Williams said. “When I was 13 and he was 23 I wanted to beat him. Being around him and his team certainly made me better.” When Pete saw how good Chris was, he pushed the family to try to let Chris travel and play in more national tournaments. Chris was almost always one of the top placers. “He was always my biggest support,” Chris Williams said. The earliest tournament that stands out to Williams is the 2005 4A state tournament in Rexburg during his freshman year at Moscow High. Williams was the only freshman in a field of 48 seniors and one junior. He went on to win the tournament in a playoff. “I’m just this little (freshman) from Moscow playing in sneakers — not even playing in real golf shoes,” Williams recalled. “It was like my team and my coach and that was the only people rooting for me. “I was so nervous, but I just sort of channeled it in a (good) way. It was like, ‘I’m actually doing OK.’ I felt like I’m in over my head, and then I end up doing well.”
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Back at the bottom ... but not for long Williams accepted a scholarship to play golf at UW and quickly realized he was in a whole new world of golf during his freshman season in 2009. He was on a top-five team in the nation, with one of the best college golfers in the country in Nick Taylor, and he was struggling. A few months into the season, his team played in a tournament in Hawaii and Williams didn’t make the cut. He was stuck practicing alone in the rain in Seattle while his teammates enjoyed paradise. Then, he got a phone call from Taylor. “He called me and said, ‘We need you. You’re good enough,’ ” Williams said. “It was just sort of like, ‘Yeah, this guy has confidence in me, I need to have confidence in myself.’ ” The next tournament was the Battle at the Beach in Long Beach, Calif. Williams won it with an 8-under-par 205. And just like that, he was back. Williams became the first Husky to ever win Pac-10 Freshman of the Year honors. He
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placed ninth at the NCAA Championships at the end of the season. By then, Williams was all in on trying to become a professional golfer once his college career was done. He finished his four-year college stint as one of UW’s most decorated golfers. He was the school’s alltime wins leader, a two-time All-American and the world’s top amateur in 2012, among other honors.
Challenges pursuing a pro career Williams’ final tournament as an amateur was the 2013 U.S. Open. He received an exemption due to his amateur ranking, so he didn’t have to qualify for the event. Suddenly, Williams was thrust from the mostly mild spotlight of college golf, to the bright lights of one of golf’s biggest events, and now he no longer had a team backing him up. Despite his greenness, Williams tied for second after the first day. His name was up there above Tiger
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Woods and many of the other golf legends he’d idolized growing up. Then the next day, it all went downhill. “The next day, I laid an egg,” Williams said. “I was making bogeys and double bogeys and I went from second to way off the leaderboard.” Williams said his early pro days were a roller coaster. He signed a deal with Nike and got brand new clubs he wasn’t used to — a mistake, he says. There was no longer a school backing him up with coaches and trainers and a schedule. He realized he had to be his own travel agent, pay his own way and figure everything out for himself. On top of it, all the other golfers were out vying for the same spots in these prestigious tournament. Friends were hard to come by. Williams said he wishes he would have found a mentor — someone who had been through it before. He also wishes he hadn’t started tweaking his swing and trying things he’d never done before. “I just put so much pressure on myself to be better and to play well and I just kind of got in my own way,” Williams
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said. “I kind of talked myself into trying something new for the first time and it didn’t work. “If I would’ve changed one thing, it would’ve been to never change (anything) … just knowing my golf game better than anyone.” While Williams wasn’t where he wanted to be, he was still a professional golfer. He played most of his six-year pro career on the Mackenzie Tour in Canada. Last year, he split time between the Mackenzie Tour and Tour Latinoamerica. Last year was Williams’ best year as a pro. He tallied three top-10 finishes, including a tie for second in the Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open in June, in which he shot a 24-under-par 261. But he started to struggle toward the end of the year, and again missed the cut to advance out of the Mackenzie Tour. So he decided it was time for a break. He’ll finish his degree in sociology this summer. In the meantime, he’s enjoying playing golf for fun again. Williams hasn’t decided what he’s going to do next. He said he’s interested in being a golf coach, and he hasn’t ruled out a return to professional golf. “Getting my mind off of it for the time being will be beneficial,” Williams said. “Golf has been great and done so much for me and got me to so many places. It was bigger and better than I ever anticipated.”
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