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Trevon Branch High School Golf: Autobiographical

My favorite club was my sand wedge. I fantasized about playing against Tiger woods using nothing but this favorite club. I could hit my sand wedge 100 yards time and time again at the age of fourteen. Around the green, I could chip over bunkers or play a bump and run on almost any terrain. Other players had several wedges they used inside of 50 yards. I primarily used my sand iron. A gap wedge or a pitching wedge was always plan-B inside of 50 yards. I could vary the loft by placing the ball at different points in my stance. I could hit a knock-down shot that only hopped once or I could fly it past the hole and get it to spin back. My friends back at school would come out to watch some of my golf tournaments. They began to call me “Short game Sean” and I developed quite a little following by the time I was a sophomore in high school. Even the highly respected football and basketball stars appreciated my golfing prowess. I was offered free private lessons because people wanted to be associated with my brand. 

As a junior, I was hitting my driver consistently 275 yards. I could hit my five iron 225 yards and I almost always stayed in the fairway. If I landed in the rough I was excited about my next shot. Watching Phil Mickelson as a youngster made me yearn to be a top-notch scrambler and grinder when I had to. My father would bring his camera to my golf matches and try to film all my shots. He became pretty good at narrating these videos and uploaded them to a private YouTube channel. He received some professional help editing these videos and then we would make the links public, and tweet them out to different colleges I wanted to attend. I always got up two hours before my carpool left and went down with my golf team to practice at the driving range. I would hit at least two small buckets of balls before I left for school. My coach would meet me at the range and engage me in the drills he created for that day. I would always start with my sand wedge to get in my rhythm. I would progress through the bag until I was comfortable with my long irons and hybrids. I would only hit a couple of 3-woods and drivers because that was reserved for weekend golf practices. It was a routine I was used to. When I was done with my homework at night I would go on YouTube and study the swings of the golfing greats. I decided my swing was similar to Davis Love III and I read every online story that was written about his time as a PGA star. His swing seemed so effortless but somehow he struggled with back problems for a large portion of his PGA career. I did not want to fall victim to the common golf injuries and I would continually stretch to make sure I was loose before I took any full swings.