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 Posted: 08/13/10 5:35 pm ::: Dakoda Dowd: 'I had a hole in my heart' |
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Dakota was angry enough to give up golf and eventually dropped out of high school. "She experimented with alcohol, smoked a few cigarettes. She hung with an edgy crowd and shut everyone else out," Johnston wrote.
Dowd finally has made peace with herself and has returned to golf. Next month, she will enroll at Daytona State College, a four-time winner of the women's junior college national championship, and she will begin working toward an LPGA career.
http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-tours-news/blogs/local-knowledge/2010/07/dakoda-dowd-i-had-a-hole-in-my-heart.html |
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DAYTONA BEACH, FL (May 31, 2010) – Daytona State College is proud to announce the signing of Dakoda Dowd, winner of more than 185 junior tournaments and once ranked as the nation’s top female for the graduating class of 2011. Dakoda is also the second youngest player to ever compete in an LPGA event having done so at the age of 13.
http://www.daytonastate.edu/marketing/pr/dowd.html |
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For a time, she gave up golf. She dropped out of school. She experimented with alcohol, smoked a few cigarettes. She hung with an edgy crowd and shut everyone else out.
She doesn't mind talking about that journey. The last year has been an epiphany, recapturing her golf game and finding some inner peace.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jul/07/070500/sp-i-had-a-hole-in-my-heart/ |
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Good grief, I remember when this kid played in the LPGA Ginn Open, it was a heart wrenching story that got an ESPY nomination.
But that was just the beginning of the story.
It is all a good read...
Finally, How in the hell does an amateur kid play 185 tournaments let alone win that many? That is a lot of frigg'n trophies. |
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