Seven North Texas young golfers have returned from an unbelievable time at California’s world-renowned Pebble Beach Golf Links.
“This is hole 18 green, and we just have the coast along the side for your first shot. “It’s pretty scary not to go in the water,” Mansfield High School senior Maggie Pham told in a video interview from the golf course.
“This is a bizarre place to be. Steven Suges, a senior at Grapevine High School, stated, “The backdrop is absolutely beautiful.”
Pham and Suges are members of First Tee, a non-profit organization that teaches golf and life skills to children and teenagers. They were one of seven Dallas and Fort Worth chapter members invited to compete in the Pure Insurance Championship.
Junior players were paired with pros in a competition broadcast on The Golf Channel.
“It is definitely a little intimidating,” Suges said. “I’d say my first brush with the camera was on the fourth hole. I was in the middle of the fairway on the fourth hole, shooting the pin with my rangefinder. I looked just past the pin and saw a camera peering right down at me.”
“Definitely on the first tee box, I was shaking,” Pham recalled. “But my pro asked, ‘How are you feeling?'” I said, ‘I don’t know, I’m a little nervous,’ and he said, ‘We’re just going to have fun out here, it doesn’t matter.’ I ended up blasting a drive down the middle, so everything was fine.”
