Why I love golf...

The reason I love golf is because it seriously saved my life. I know, I know its just a game they say...Well for me it really did, after taking two pieces of shrapnell in my lower back, doing anything active seemed impossible and in 2005, I left the army with little hope that I would ever gain that drive that I had when I was an athlete competing among my peers. I was in my first year of school at Texas State University and I was offered a Jr Golf Coaching job and I jumped on it, part of the perk of the job was free golf at the course and I started really playing golf. I lost a lot of weight and more importantly gained that drive to compete and my mental health has never been better. I live in West Texas and hope to grow the game for jr golfers and also bring wounded veterans out on the course and show them what I learned on the course. You can compete, you can be active and golf did that for me...So call it just a sport, it save me.

You know you love golf when your driving down a highway and look off on the side of the road to a big open field and imagine how you would play that field!