Most golfers that spend hours practicing with their hundred dollar clubs have a dream of going pro. One tournament you have to finish in the top 10 is the Wisconsin amateur. This event was held at Merrill Hills Country Club in Waukesha. If you ever played at Merrill Hills you would agree that due to the narrow fairways, with extremely fast greens, it is one of the hardest courses in Wisconsin.
Every golfer thinks the course they play is hard until they play Merrill Hill Country Club. One problem you’ll notice if you miss the fairway is the trees. To make this shot worst, the rough hides the ball. If you are lucky enough to find your ball you will be stuck with a shot you have to keep under ten yards unless you want to attempt to go through the trees. At Merrill it doesn’t matter how far you hit it Wisconsin Golfer explained it at trying to hit a golf ball in a hallway.
If you get stuck with a downhill putt, you’ll be lucky to keep the ball on the green. Most of the greens have a back to front slant. With a back to front slant will make a downhill chip or putt that will not stop by the hole. The hardest chip to land on target is uphill chips. Even if you land it near the hole the ball won’t be going fast enough into the green to stay there. If there is too much backspin on the ball thanks to the back to front slant it could end up of the green.
None of the 300 Amateurs that golfed Merrill Hills shoot under par. To be invited to this tournament you would have to one of the best 300 golfers in Wisconsin one of these golfers shoot a 97 my dad can beat that. The winner of this tournament stared his round with a three putt triple bogey. When winner finished his fourth round he was four over par.
You would agree that due to the narrow fairway, with fast greens, Merrill Hill Country Club is one of the hardest courses you ever seen but if you don’t believe me you are in for the hardest round of your life.
Cheating, the plan B of winners.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
A Day No Pigs Die
A Day no Pigs Would Die is a short novel with some sad but true messages from the way that Robert Newton Peck wrote. This story brought up some points of how sometimes the right thing to do is not the fun thing. One of these is how they had to kill Rob’s pet pig for meat so they would not starve. Death is a big event, when someone dies you have to take their work and they don’t give you any warning. At the end of this novel Rob’s dad died, he knew he was going to die some of the last words he got from his dad was 12 is a boy and 13 is a man.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
All Summer in a Day
On a planet where it rains 365 days a year and the only school was built underground, in this kind of world everyone is sad. It is hear a bully has a choice if he wants to make it a depressing place for nerds but he’s really digging his own grave. The short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury made a point on the fact that the loser ,the one who is bullied, now may become the winner at the end.
Every year you get new classes and teachers in school. Some years you will get lucky by getting the nicest, smartest teachers but the year you get a bad teacher could change how a kid acts for his entire life. In this story there is a child named Margot and on the first day that the sun came out she missed it because the teacher didn’t think of checking to see if all of the kids where there. When I was in 5th grade my teacher had favorites and most of them were teacher pets. She let them do less work than other kids.
Teachers can ruin a year but a bully can ruin multiple years and they never go away. A bully is an aggressive person who threaten or mistreats weaker people. Margot was not faster or stronger than the bully but she was never sad because of it. William tried harder to torment Margot the more he lost, because less and less people liked him. My cousin went to school with 700 kids per grade. Their high school had three school buildings one for freshmens and sophomores, another school for juniors and seniors, they also had a school just for trouble makers so they would not affect anyone else.
Life is like marathon, you can be in first place in the beginning but you may end up in last place by the end. Next time you are making fun of someone think about how you may end up working for them.
Every year you get new classes and teachers in school. Some years you will get lucky by getting the nicest, smartest teachers but the year you get a bad teacher could change how a kid acts for his entire life. In this story there is a child named Margot and on the first day that the sun came out she missed it because the teacher didn’t think of checking to see if all of the kids where there. When I was in 5th grade my teacher had favorites and most of them were teacher pets. She let them do less work than other kids.
Teachers can ruin a year but a bully can ruin multiple years and they never go away. A bully is an aggressive person who threaten or mistreats weaker people. Margot was not faster or stronger than the bully but she was never sad because of it. William tried harder to torment Margot the more he lost, because less and less people liked him. My cousin went to school with 700 kids per grade. Their high school had three school buildings one for freshmens and sophomores, another school for juniors and seniors, they also had a school just for trouble makers so they would not affect anyone else.
Life is like marathon, you can be in first place in the beginning but you may end up in last place by the end. Next time you are making fun of someone think about how you may end up working for them.
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