Somehow we managed to get Morgan to her high school golf team tryout on a whim. We figured it couldn’t hurt. She’s a beginner and might prefer to drive the golf cart than play, but if nothing else she would make some friends and look adorable in golf gear!
It’s very difficult to show up at a golf course with perfect strangers that play high school golf and try to fit in to the pack. Who knows, some could be heading to college on a golf scholarship and some could be Freshman like Morgan trying to see how they stack up. In either case, it’s completely nerve-wracking and I couldn’t be more proud of her for handling it with ease. I think I’ve said this before, but if I haven’t, I’m saying it again…I’m totally envious of Morgan’s ability to adapt in high-anxiety situations!As it turns out, everybody made the team! YAY! There are several upper-classman that will be moving on after this season, so the coach needs to get her team staffed up. I’ll take it…anytime I don’t have to agonize over a sports tryout, I’m in!
- This is Morgan walking to my car from the tryout…apparently in disbelief that she just made the high school golf team!
So here we are one month into Morgan’s Freshman year and she’s been at golf practice every day after school and two days a week, going from golf to soccer. None of this includes driving a golf cart and she’s still hanging in there!
We are learning as we go along here that there are Varsity and JV tournaments each week and you have to qualify to participate. We didn’t have any expectations of Morgan making a tournament but low and behold, she did!
All of the information about this golf team is posted through an app on our phones of course. When I saw her name posted at 11pm Monday night this past week, I immediately ran into her room to wake her up to tell her! Who am I kidding, she wasn’t sleeping…she was secretly watching Netflix in her bed.
Both of us were in a state of disbelief and her nerves really kicked in. Keep in mind, this is also the week of Homecoming and this tournament will require her to miss an entire day of school. We weren’t sure how she would get dismissed, where to go, how to get her clubs, etc. I don’t think it’s common to hop on the school bus with a set of golf clubs and where would she put them once she got to school!? She’s the only Freshman playing, so these little details are not things we are familiar with yet! Her nerves were so bad, she wasn’t even sure she wanted to play! Yikes!
Obviously she came to her senses and ended up having a great day on the course. She and her partner played in the Alternate Shot division, which is one of the hardest formats to play, and turned up in 5th place! The ONW JV team (6 girls in total) ended in 4th Place and ONW Varsity & JV combined got 3rd place out of 24 schools! That’s pretty awesome!
She really looked like she was having fun out there. I love it!
Morgan, you really impressed us!! I loved every single minute watching you play! And seriously, could you be any cuter!? Congratulations on qualifying for and competing in your first high school JV golf tournament! WE LOVE YOU!
Nanny and Papa joined us to watch as well. Anything that involves golf and these two come running…
Those are really good results out of all those golfers!! Look at all of them…
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