Dear Seven Year Old Sabree,
When you started golf, you had no idea the journey that it would take you on. At seven years old, you went to the golf course to watch your dad and uncle play, and even though you were more interested in playing with the plastic toy snake than you were the actual game of golf, your perspective would soon change.
By the age of ten, you would start playing competitively and form an attachment to the challenging game. The hardships that you would endure would be evident towards your seriousness in pictures, but your parents would be so happy that you were playing and showing emotion for the sport.
At age eleven, you joined the Brad Brewer Academy and it pulled you away from the school chorus program. You don’t know it now, but practicing will soon feel like a chore to you. However, at age thirteen you will grow to love the game of golf. You will become obsessed, so brace yourself. At age fifteen, you will win your first Florida Junior Tour event. It will be the FJT Cypress Lake Open (13-15) and you will post scores of 68-73 to secure your first ever victory. But that is not all, less than a month later you will capture another Florida Junior Tour win at the FJT Rocky Bayou Open (13-18) with scores of 72-73. You will finally feel success, and you will feel like you are doing well at this difficult game.
But don’t lose sight, young Sabree, because things will become harder for you. At the age of fifteen, you will injure your wrists and be forced to take six weeks off from golf. The anxiety and pressure will build over your break. Persevere; you can get through this hard time. Because at age seventeen, you will sign to play on the women’s golf team at Western Kentucky University and at age eighteen you will fall back in love with the game. Suddenly, through your struggle and hardship, you will realize how to change your perspective on the sport. You will begin to appreciate the competition, the challenge, and the various complexities that you will encounter in each round. No two rounds are the same, and you will love that. Golf is a game to be played; it is not a matter of life or death.
After having realized that the only way to truly lose, is to not play at all, I hope to at nineteen years old grow closer to the game and continue to rediscover the love I once had for it.
Sincerely,
Sabree Lefebvre
