Rarely do I sing the praises of juniors that I've become aware of but there's one young lady I feel I should mention.
Amari Avery, 17, is one of a scant few Black golfers in the field at the Augusta National Women's Amateur this week.
Her father contacted me around the time she won a junior world championship at six years old and was trying to navigate the expensive territory of junior golf by following Earl Woods's handling of Tiger.
This week she's rolling down Magnolia Lane playing a big tournament at one of golf's most recognisable venues.
Amari is one of 85 invitees to the Augusta National Women's Amateur and it is not lost on her that as the daughter of an African-American father and a Filipino mother, she is one of a few Black female golfers to be able to experience the famous links.
Amari's father Andre tried to follow Earl Woods's book Training a Tiger to the letter, compelled in part because Amari and Tiger share the same birthdays, were born in the same county, have similar mixed-race backgrounds, made holes-in-one on the same course, and both won junior world championships around the same age.
Andre even once entered her into a junior tournament as "Tigress Avery".
She's good but I've seen so many young players with wonderful potential fail to make it, mainly because of parents, coaches or the game suddenly becoming complicated and no longer fun. Hopefully, Amari will be an exception.
Out of Bounds: When golfers get angry, they lose their sense of happiness. Even if they are good looking and normally peaceful, their faces turn livid and ugly. Anger on the golf course makes them age prematurely, and every bad shot allows peaceful sleep and happiness to evade them.