How chess and the violin helped PGA Tour winner Ryan Gerard get his tour card
'My swing lacks the aesthetic appeal that some other guys’ swings have. But I don’t care what it looks like. It’s repeatable.
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When I was 5, we moved to a house that sits on the right side of the 15th hole at Wildwood Green Golf Club, a semi-private course in Raleigh, N. C. Three years later, my parents went out one afternoon and left me with a babysitter.
I convinced her to walk down to the pro shop, get a cart and drive me around to play a few holes. My parents tell lots of stories about how they’d be looking for me in the yard and realize I’d walked onto the course. ● ● ● My dad played in college then professionally for a little while.
He was my coach for the first 10 years of my life and taught me the majority of what I know: the fundamentals, establishing routines. He taught me to work hard because just wanting to be good doesn’t make anyone special. ● ● ● My swing lacks the aesthetic appeal that some other guys’ swings have.
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