{"id":50,"date":"2010-01-28T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-12-01T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T17:40:48","slug":"becoming-par-excel-through-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/becoming-par-excel-through-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Par | Excel through Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one of the InnerGolf members night events I was approached by AlfaGolfer and Mark which runs the GTA Amateur Tour (see: http:\/\/www.gtaamateurtour.com<\/a>).\u00a0 They gave me a quick 10 minute run down of the tour, why they are doing it, and what’s it in for me.\u00a0 I know in couple of my previous replies that I will start playing in more tournaments this year, well, this was an opportunity to show people that I am a man of my words and I want to do what it takes (as long as it doesn’t break the bank) to get better.\u00a0\u00a0 With that said, I decided to join the GTA Amateur Tour probably just making their lowest class (13.1-19.1 handicap).\u00a0 Well, I don’t quite qualify yet, but I’m close, and I think with tournament play it will definitely bring a new element to my game because I will be surrounded by players better than I am, and in an environment of pressure and excitement.\u00a0 I always firmly believe in order to get better, you must always play with people that are better than yourself.\u00a0 Not only that, and quite important, is that if I improve my game, my clients in the future will want to play with me more often because I may be better than them, and its natural (I think) to want to play with people better.<\/p>\n

Mark and Brad were very helpful, and pretty much the day after I signed up I got a call from Mark helping me setup everything that I need.\u00a0 I think, if you sign up earlier you get a goodies bag worth $300+ & since majority of the courses in this tournament are high end\/private courses, it’s like you got a private membership for only $155!\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a steal!<\/p>\n

But that is not all, as a member of this tour, you will also be registered with the GAO\/RCGA Handicap.\u00a0 I’m sure anyone that plays golf knows about these two organizations.\u00a0 So this will be my bed to keep my stats tracked and my progress on different courses.\u00a0 I do remember TourIQ asking me if I will be keeping stats on my progression and I definitely will with this system in place.\u00a0 I just finished editing my profile, and here it is:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rcganetwork.org\/Member\/MemberProfile.aspx?ID=785252<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see my older scores, and other places I’ve played last year that wasn’t a league\/tournament game.\u00a0 I thought I’d played more than that last year, but I guess not \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 This year, I’m looking forward to playing with you guys, and making new friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At one of the InnerGolf members night events I was approached by AlfaGolfer and Mark which runs the GTA Amateur Tour (see: http:\/\/www.gtaamateurtour.com).\u00a0 They gave me a quick 10 minute run down of the tour, why they are doing it, and what’s it in for me.\u00a0 I know in couple of my previous replies that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremychoi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}