The consideration of the New Zealand golf world is currently on a 12-year-old kid with practically no experience, who acquired clubs, and contended in ball shoes. Bayleigh Teepa-Tarau won the nine-opening contest at the Points Games, a public rivalry for young people intended to advance variety among the country’s donning youth.
Bayleigh was described as not being very interested in sports until a few months ago when he decided to try golf. Bayleigh finished with an 87 in the Stableford scoring system, and despite being given a handicap due to his lack of experience, he still floored spectators as he demonstrated a knack for the game that is typically reserved for those of years or play, or at the very least months with a professional coach. Bayleigh was non-verbal for the majority of his life, and he The 12-year-old took a shot at three adjusts, and partook in the sufficiently game that his family enlisted him in the Points Games for the experience. They had no idea he would actually win it all.
He helped his school win the team championship as well as the individual title. Bayleigh’s response to the question of what he liked most about golf was brief and to the point.
“The thing I love about golf is hitting my driver. I dreamed about coming here and finishing in first place and I had a lot of fun.”
Bayleigh’s father believes there may be some advantages to the fact that he is so good at golf, despite the fact that most people might think that being on the autism spectrum is a disadvantage when it comes to learning a sport.
If he misses, it doesn’t really bother him that much. He simply prefers hitting, so he truly couldn’t care less. And even though he has been told a lot about how good he is over the past few days, he doesn’t know how good he is.
Whetu Wiremu, a teacher’s aide who works with Bayleigh in cognitive behavioral therapy to assist him in integrating into society and living life to the fullest, may have been more proud of him than his win.
“He never used to even talk to anyone,” says Wiremu. “I’ve done heaps of work with him for the last couple of years just to get him out of his shell and into sport and I just treated him like I treated all the other kids. For the last two weeks, it wasn’t really about taking them out on the course to practice golf. I was taking them out to practice golf etiquette and all that stuff.”
Where Bayleigh goes from here remains to be seen. Clearly there will be enormous interest in whether he needs to push ahead with golf genuinely, on the grounds that he has a colossal talent for the game — or whether he’ll simply continue to hit balls for the sake of entertainment. Assuming anything this is an update that we are in general equivalent, and staggering ability can be surfaced simply by giving individuals a brief period, consideration, and care.
