Tim Gavrich
Age: 18 (as of 10/10/07)
Handicap: 0.3 Index, at last notice.
Residence: Avon, CT
Home Clubs: Hop Meadow CC, Simsbury, CT (Geoffrey Cornish, 1961); Pawleys Plantation G&CC, Pawleys Island, SC (Jack Nicklaus, 1988)
My father introduced me to golf when I was six. I made a double bogey on the first hole of golf I ever played (313 yards, 1st hole at Hop Meadow CC), which I deem pretty darned good.
My first taste of golf course architecture came one night when I was 7 and my family was eating dinner in the dining room at Hop Meadow. Service was slow that night and my father distracted me by starting to draw a golf hole on the back of his paper place mat. That drawing is "NLE," but the curiosity-cum-passion it sparked will live as long as I do.
I attended the Westminster School (Simsbury, CT; NOT Atlanta, GA, as many people around here [see below] claim as their high school alma mater) for four years, playing for the golf team each spring. In my sophomore year I attained what still stands as my greatest golfing achievement, the MVP award at the end of the team's best season in its history.
I am a freshman at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA. I am on the golf team, and I am proud to say that I played well enough in practice to make the traveling squad for three of our four Fall tournaments. One week ago, I played the best round of competitive golf I have ever played, shooting 69 down in a tournament north of Atlanta, GA. My career goal in golf is to qualify for a US Open someday (as an amateur, of course).
Outside of golf, I fancy myself a bit of an intellectual/nerd. I'm told by many people that I'm the oldest 18 year old they've ever met; I've always found more interesting company in the adults around me. however, college is teaching me to embrace my youth a little more.
I plan on majoring in English and supplementing that major with a healthy dose of Philosophy, Politics, and Business courses. I see myself working for a little while in the corporate world, but I really want to teach English at my high school alma mater for at least a couple years at some point in my adult life.
Sorry for the verbosity. I should also mentioned that I tend toward long-windedness.
--T.G.