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2007 Aug-08
Link has right name, and game, for golfBy Larry Sullivan By sheer coincidence, UNC-Greensboro women’s golfer Jennifer Link of Mooresville caught up with a group of regulars on the Mooresville Municipal Golf Course. Then, she passed most of them. Playing from the same painted white-rock tee markers as the older – oops make that more experienced –golfers in the all-male group, Link connected on fairway-finding tee shots that traveled farther than some members of the foursome and just as far as others. Only a fortunate few managed to out drive her on a regular basis. The regulars on the course were getting in their weekly round, while Link was there for a more designed purpose. She was in the preparation mode, getting her game more in gear for an upcoming major women’s tournament. From appearances, she’s ready to roll. Next to Joe Greene, perhaps there is no better name suitable for a golfer than Jennifer Link. Some smart sports scribes, which leaves this particular one out of the fold, sometimes refer to the game of golf as one being played on the links. For Link, she is just as much at home on the greens as she is at home. Link may just be the most successful of all products hailing from the now-defunct but once-promising Mooresville Junior Golf Organization. It was a youth-based circuit aimed at preparing the next generation of area players to play the game the right way and with success. It blossomed throughout its existences, offering weekly camps jammed to capacity. Presently, and perhaps due in large part to the MJGO’s success, the Lake Norman branch of the nationally-known First Tee program now calls the MMGC its home base. It, too, is a fast-growing organization, which like the former group also conducts its own golf tournament that was held just this week. Link could well be the poster child for what the youth golf program can produce. She landed a deal to attend UNCG to play golf. There, she has continued to improve and upgrade her game. She is a regular participant in some area male female tournaments, and she is finding out that the only way to make herself better is to play with better golfers. She wasn’t about to hit her shots from the moved-up red tee markers usually reserved for the local course’s female players. She realized that hitting shots from the white tees would only make her a better player. She showed she has the distance to compete with the fellows in her most recent foursome. Link joined the group after making a birdie at the par-three 14th hole. Playing the remaining four holes to complete the round with the men, she more than held her own. She made par on each of the holes, including the tough and narrow par-five finishing 18th. Few in the foursome were to match her score. If memory serves, only one was able to actually beat her. Link can only get better. During this particular round, her dad, Eddie Link served as her golf cart pilot, her caddie, strongest supporter and toughest critic. She has the game to go with her golfing name. Bookmarkz |
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