Golf has and always will be one of the most important things in my life. I was around six or seven years old when I was first introduced to golf by my dad. Among four siblings, I was the only one who actually took golf and ran with it. Through golf, I met one of the most influential people in my life today, Charma Bell, or more notably, Coach Charma of First Tee - Delaware. Through her, I met with my current golf teacher, Becky Dengler, another First Tee coach and an LPGA*USGA Girls Golf coach based at Ed Oliver Golf Club. Learning about the game showed me there is much more to golf than actually playing it.

Through golf, I became a caddy at Wilmington Country Club. In the three years I have caddied, I have met over a hundred people who have impacted my life. For example, I met and caddied for the Chairman of the 2022 BMW Championship. And because of him, I got to caddy in the BMW Pro-Am group with Rory McIlory and learn about the many different parts that make a tournament.

During my time with First Tee, my proudest accomplishment was creating a community service project to fundraise for my local library to give them better supplies for the younger kids who visit it frequently. As I get older, I have come to realize what I am really passionate about. I discovered, through all the experiences I have dealt with in golf, that I want to become a teaching professional. One of the stepping stones to achieving this goal is to go to college and major in psychology or sports psychology. I could talk forever about how golf impacted me; honestly, it really has changed me.

Through Girls Golf, I am the confident, respectful, young woman I am today. I have learned valuable lessons through participating and eventually working in Girls Golf and First Tee. Emily went on to earn a J. Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship, one of the most respected scholarship programs in golf, and is now a student at Penn State in the PGA Professional Golf Management Program.

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