Friday, April 12, 2013

14 year-old professional Phenom

With The Masters golf tournament starting up yesterday continuing through Tiger Woods has not seemed to be the major headline of the tournament, rather 14 year old golfer from China Guan Tianlang makes history as the youngest player to ever compete in a major golf tournament. Tianlang was the winner of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship which helped put him in this position to be able to compete with the best players in the world in this tournament. To even think about a kid playing in this tournament at my age of 18 is crazy, but the fact that this kid is in eight grade and has not even experienced high school is unbelievable that he is competing a such a high level. On top of being the youngest to ever compete in this golf tournament, he amazed many viewers yesterday as he played unbelievable on his first day in the match shooting a 73 just one over par putting himself in place to qualify to making the cut. He has already surpassed all the expectations on the first day by playing this well, so if he makes the cut that would be a remarkable accomplishment. He only weighs about 130 pounds and he is able to crush the ball with his drives putting him in position for success which is so impressive. I will continue to watch this tournament over the weekend and no matter how Guan does in the rest of the tournament he will still be the headline story. I am excited to see where this kids future goes starting at such a young age and from this start he might go down as one of the best golfers of all-time if he can keep up the work and live up to his current hype.

 

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