Blogging the Golf British Open

Tiger Woods after winning his last British Open

When it comes to golf not many people follow it and even less people like to watch it.  While I am one of the few ones in a small group who love to watch and play golf, this event catches my interest.  The British Open is one of the four major golf tournaments, in these majors every top golfer in the world plays in these four tournaments.  Each one of these four tournaments is by invitation only, which is why these tournaments are held higher than other tournaments throughout the course of the year.  What is different about the British Open is that it is the only major not held on American soil.  This is exactly why this golf tournament would benefit from a blog.  Since there is a six hour time difference, most players are half way done with their round by time people in the United States are waking up.  This brings up exactly what this blog would do for people if it were created.  Instead of turning on the television and wait for the broadcasters to show highlights of what they missed while they were sleeping, I would write about the highlights of the first nine holes.  This way fans would not have to wait and could read about what happened and an see updated leader board right away.  Other items I would blog about would be the weather that was effecting the play of the professionals and I would also follow some of the star players such as Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson.  This way if the person is not interested in looking at the whole field they could just scroll to the blog just about how Tiger Woods played.  This blog would not only convenient the crazy golf followers, but it would also cater to the fans wanting to follow the super stars of golf, given the time difference between the United States and Britain.

My Sports Autobiography

Some people say that they are born to do something or achieve something, I believe that I was born to love sports.  I was born into a family where sports was what we all loved to participate in and we all loved to watch.  My experiences with sports starts out when I was five years old when I began to play baseball at a local athletic club.  This became my first true love.  I was that kid who was out until dark playing toss with my dad and everynight and before a game I wore my uniform to bed.  Not only did I love baseball, I was also pretty good at it.  That same autumn my parents decided to put me into a soccer league at the same local athletic club.  I enjoyed playing soccer, but it did not give me the same satisfaction as baseball did.  That next summer my grandma asked my parents if she could take us to a pee wee golf league at Miami Whitewater Golf Course. My parents always wanted my brother and I to play every sport during our early childhood then we could choose just one to play later if we wanted to.  The first time we got to play golf in the golf league I was six years old, and that day would change the rest of my life.  I started to love golf because I had natural talent and it came really easy to me.  I began to play tournament golf when I was eight years old and won my first tournament that same year.  For the following years I played soccer, baseball and golf at the same time.  I began to play select soccer for a club team when I was twelve years old and I also began to play select AABC baseball around the same time.  This did not last long though because when I was thirteen I decided to give up soccer because it was to much travel and it was not my favorite of sports.  The following year I was on a baseball team called the Cincinnati Lightning, and this led me to quit baseball.  I had a bad experience with the coach of my team, so I decided to give up baseball together.  This left me with just one sport when I began highschool, and that was golf.  This was all I did, I did nothing but practice, all my focus was now on just this one sport.  I was already an above average golfer when I was playing two other sports and golf, but now I was able to put all my focus towards it.  I became a great high school golfer for my four years.  I broke several records at my high school, one in which I take most pride in was the low nine hole score, which happen to be my brothers, where I shot a three under par 33 to break it.  I also was all city of Cincinnati all four years, all league all four years and I was player of the year in my conference my senior year.  In April 2008 I signed on with Coach Darby Roggow to play golf for Tiffin University as a walk-on.  This was a blow to me because I felt that I was a great golfer and deserved to get a scholarship.  It did not take me long to earn one, because the next year I played in every spring tournament and was offered a scholarship the next year.  I am still at Tiffin University and as of this year I am a junior and I am one of our best golfers on the team.  As you can tell I really had no choice but to love sports growing up, but I am glad that I grew up in the environment that I did.  The athletic industry is one of the largest growing industries in the world, and I look to stay in the industry the rest of my life.  This is what makes me happy and I want to continue to work in the athletic industry.  One day I hope to become a collegiate athletic director for a major Division I school.  Not only do I plan on working in the industry, but I plan on participating in sports for as long as I am able to.