Sydney Amerson '22 Recruiting Profile

My goal is to play collegiate golf on a competitive team to contribute and make an immediate impact. Since I started playing tournament golf at age 13, I have always dreamed of playing college golf at a top-rated program. 

 I am a senior at McBee High School in McBee, South Carolina, which is a small, public high school with a graduating class of around 60 students per year, and 500 students total in the student body. I am currently ranked number 13 in my class and have a 3.8 Cumulative GPA and a 4.1 Weighted GPA. I am a member of the National Honor Society, National Business Honor Society, National Beta Club, FCA, and FFA. I am also a member of Brenda Cranford's Competitive dance team, where I compete on the state and national levels in tap and hip hop dancing. I also trained in Pointe Ballet which helps me with balance and core body strength. 

 I have only been playing golf for five years. At the age of 12, I decided to stop playing softball and switch to golf. That summer, my grandparents bought me my first set of clubs, a second-hand women's prince set from a yard sale. Now, this set was not your regular starter set by any means. They were made of pure steel. It only came with your basic irons, a 3W and 5W, and an old blade putter.

 Due to it not having a driver, my grandmother had an old early 90's Ladies Bertha driver that she gave me to use; the head on it was smaller than a hybrid club these days. Later that summer, I went to a golf camp at our local country club. Throughout that week, I began to pick up all the skills he was teaching us very quickly. The golf pro asked me to come to the next camp a couple of weeks away, so I did. At the next camp, I picked up more skills and knowledge and even won the longest drive with the old Bertha. By the end of the summer, I was hooked, and I knew golf was the sport for me. At the end of that summer, I tried out for my school golf team and made it. I began taking private swing lessons from scoring in the 130s to the 110s and playing as the number 4 player in the State Championship for my school in just four short months. By the next school year had picked up more technique, skills, and knowledge that I was not only playing for the girl's team, but I was the #4 player on the boy's team. I competed on both teams for two years, competing on both Boys and Girls State Championships. 

 While I was competing with the boys, the two years allowed me to build the strength and ability to play from longer yardages. After playing the longer yardages,  I had a hard time going back to the shorter T's and fewer yardages. I began to notice I was much stronger and played better from the back T's and longer yardages. So, I started working on my short game so that I would be able to play just as well from the shorter yardages when playing in girl's tournaments. However, I am now at the age and position in my golf game that I need to build that strength and ability back up from the longer yardages to compete at the college level. 

I am eager to advance my golf game and be able to play at the college level. I believe that the experience it would give me would help me not only become better at golf but a better person. The values and principles of the advanced level of play at the college level would help not only in the course but in real life.