An Early Start

Want to jump start your athletic career? Get a hole in one in front of thousands of fans.

At the recent LPGA tournament at Blackhawk Country Club near San Francisco I talked with 13 year old Casie Cathrea. She's just a freshman at local Livermore High School who was virutally unknown until hitting a hole in one during her first round, after qualifying for the professional event earlier in the week. But her low score was years in the making. Cathrea says she picked up her first club at five and by seven was entering tournaments. While Cathrea didn't make the Friday cut, her golf career is just teeing off, and despite fierce competition she says she is determined to play the game.

"My goal is to just keep doing it until I don't want to anymore. Even if I don't get on tour I'll probably go out and teach people or help people who are on tour, something like that."

For now Cathrea plans to finish high school and attend college. She says she thought the tour was going to be easy but now realizes how hard she will have to work. She's learning that hole in one's just don't happen every day, in golf or in life.