The best person I ever competed with was a guy on my high school golf team. His name is Will. He was a year younger than me I believe. He was on the varsity team freshman year. He was incredible. He had access to really nice facilities and had lessons every week, but he worked his tail off and man did it show. He was always our lowest scorer. I never even sniffed his numbers.It was crazy seeing someone that good. I believe he may have a chance to get on the tour. In high school he was consistently +1-3 in matches. I was amazed every day. He was the best player I played with and against.
Another person that I played with always got me to play my best. We had a bit of an incident his first year on the team(won’t go into that), and since I kinda had a bad taste in my mouth when it came to him. So even if it meant a meaningless putting contest, I wanted to beat him. I wanted to beat him more than anything. It was fun having someone like that to compete against. He certainly made me play my best because I wanted to have a lower score than him more than anything in that moment. He was very good don’t get me wrong, but all I wanted to do was beat him.
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