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A common question I am routinely asked is, Did your father introduce you to golf? While the technical answer is yes, he is the first person to put a club in my hands, it was my grandmother who paved the path for me to learn the sport.In 1964, at 43 years old, my Mexican abuelita, Mami Cuy, began to play golf when her brother introduced her to the game. Slowly her passion began to develop and grow. In 1965, she and her family joined Club de Golf Mexico in Mexico City, a course that was ranked in the top 100 in the world at the time.It wasnt until recently that I realized how uncommon it was for a woman to introduce her family to the sport. During her time, not many women played. Mami Cuy didnt fit the protocol of the time though. She attended school up until the third grade, but, despite her lack of schooling, she did everything within her power to educate herself. According to my father, there wasnt a time when she didnt have a book or magazine in her hand.When she married her first husband, she married into wealth. He owned an import and export business based out of Brownsville, Texas. Tragedy struck when he passed away from a brain tumor in 1955. Left behind with four children, my grandmother took care of them on her own with the help from some loved ones. She was beautiful and poised, but more importantly, she was strong and resilient. Perhaps thats why she was initially drawn to golf, a sport that requires so much mental toughness.She helped run her deceased husbands business but realized she needed help with the financials. A family friend recommended an accountant he knew, and not long after what started off as a business relationship turned into love. In 1960, she remarried and had three more children. With seven children at home, she certainly had also developed the patience needed to play.My grandmothers passion for the game so was infectious that she inspired her brothers and other family members. My uncles Armando and Javier and my father, Alejandro, were most influenced by their mothers love for the game. Armando became obsessed. One year, he called my father and said, Im quitting golf. Come and get all my clubs. My father said he acquired 12 sets of golf clubs from Armandos brief hiatus. Javier went into construction and built and designed several golf courses in Mexico. My father went on to play college golf and became a head pro at a golf course in the United States.I was told that Mami Cuy loved golf because she relished the good shots. When my father and his brothers would get home after a round and sit at the dinner table, he said it wasnt unusual for them to start going over all the terrible shots they hit. His mother looked at them one time and said, You know, I dont hit very many good shots, so the ones I do hit well, I try to focus on those.For my grandmother, golf was more than just a game she played with her sons. She used it as an opportunity to teach them respect, honor and kindness. She used it as a way to be with the people she loved and to give back to those around her. She continued to play after her second husband also passed away from a brain tumor in 1970. Golf was an outlet she used to grieve and mourn the loss of someone she loved to play golf with.Beyond the gift of introducing my family to golf, my grandmother appreciated the privilege to play. It was through that privilege that she was able to help others.Jueves was a young teenage boy who caddied for my grandmother at Club Cocoyoc before she joined Club de Golf Mexico. He had a bad left leg due to a car accident. Wanting to help, my grandmother brought Jueves to see a doctor who was an orthopedic surgeon. Mami Cuy paid for his surgery, and the use of his left leg was more or less restored. The doctors wife then invited Jueves into their home and he stayed there until he graduated from high school. Years later, my father helped his brother, Javier, with the construction of a golf course just outside of Cocoyoc. When my father went to the Club Cocoyoc in search of Jueves, he found him with his sleeves rolled up, wearing a tie surrounded by papers with a plaque on his desk that read, Head Bookkeeper.Jueves got up to hug my father and said, Give a hug to Mami Cuy. I will never forget her.I never had the opportunity to play golf with her and my interactions were limited. She continued to live in Mexico City while my father started a new life in the United States. By the time I was born, she had slowly stepped away from the game as she had no one to play with any longer. Sadly, she passed away from Alzheimers in 2004.Now that I know her history and love for a sport that would one day change my life, I cant help but wish I could play just one hole with her. I would love to experience the joy she had in sharing something she loved so dearly.My father put it best, I can never forget her happiness on the course, especially with her children. She was alive at the course. Air Jordan 10 Cheap . -- Gus Malzahn finally had his day in Fayetteville. Wholesale Jordans China Free Shipping . Having already announced that the race will start May 9 with three stages in Northern Ireland and Ireland and finish in Trieste on June 1, the rest of the route was unveiled Monday. http://www.jordanshoescheapsale.com/jordan-retro-6-for-sale.html .Y. -- Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone has drawn on his Syracuse connections once again by hiring Rob Moore to take over as receivers coach. Jordan 17 Shoes For Sale . 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And beyond the admiration for his skills, there will have been envy - what Pakistan would give to have their own Rabada right now - followed by a sigh, because they would remember, more than most, that it wasnt long ago that Pakistan seemed to hold the trademark on young speed demons.Last month Bangladeshs Mehedi Hasan became only the 13th player to take a Test five-for before his 19th birthday. Of the previous 12, six were Pakistanis, four of them fast bowlers. And that list doesnt even include the likes of Mohammad Sami, Mohammad Zahid and Shoaib Akhtar, all of whom managed the feat in their early 20s.It is in this context that the supposed current travails of Pakistani fast bowling are measured. Of the five quick bowlers Pakistan have taken to New Zealand (Mohammad Amir, Imran Khan, Rahat Ali, Sohail Khan and Wahab Riaz), and will most likely retain for the Australia leg of the tour, only one is under the age of 28 - Amir, who has already lived a life far more eventful than most people his age have done.The tours to New Zealand and Australia are significant - perhaps the biggest since, well, this summers trip to England. And despite the players protestations about how the Tests in New Zealand are likely to be more difficult than those across the Tasman Sea, its obvious where their legacies will be defined.Pakistan havent lost a Test series to New Zealand in 30 years, while their two wins in Australia since 1980 came in dead rubbers after they lost the series. The tour to Australia is how ex-players define how hard Test cricket is. They tell stories, of big, hairy men, ready to kill them at a moments notice.Pakistan will go to Australia for the first time in 17 years with a realistic chance of returning victorious. But, perhaps for the first time in living memory, their worries are primarily over their fast bowling. Its an odd feeling for a Pakistan fan. Decades of experience tell them that it will be up to the teams batsmen and spinners to ensure that the fast bowlers efforts wont be in vain. And while over the last six years this team has busted one Pakistani myth after another, it would appear that their brand of spin-heavy control cricket might finally come undone down under.Twenty months after Wahab became a household name, 11 months after Amir made his return to the national side, the concern for Pakistan fans, and their captain, remains with the fast-bowling unit. This isnt what the script promised.There are a lot of reasons for why Pakistan find themselves in this situation. As always, the finger-pointing goes back to domestic cricket, where a combination of helpful pitches, substandard balls, and the fact that the cricket season is in the winter end up helping mediumm-pacers and discouraging old-school Pakistani fast bowling.dddddddddddd The result is that in the current season of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, there are as many as ten medium-pacers who have taken over a dozen wickets at under 20.Then you have to consider the nostalgia bias - far more prevalent than any recency bias - that affects the Pakistani cricket fraternity. If they are to be believed, there were a dozen or so fast bowlers in the 90s who would have all been world-class if given enough of a chance (usually stated as: If Wasim and Waqar hadnt destroyed their careers). Yet the numbers dont bear that out. During Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis golden period - 1990 to 2003 - the other quick bowlers (those who took at least 20 wickets) combined to average 34 with the ball. Thats what the current five fast bowlers achieve - mostly in less helpful conditions.And thats the crux of the issue really. The myths that feed Pakistani exceptionalism might proclaim otherwise, but has there ever been that much depth? Right now Pakistan are operating with what should have been their second-string attack. Is this attacks performance any worse than those achieved by second-string attacks in the past? And are these bowlers as bad as is being suggested? Not really.Amir still doesnt have a full season under his belt; Rahat performs a very specific role, which he has nearly always succeeded at; Imran and Sohail, in helpful conditions, have delivered repeatedly. And Wahab is far better than his critics suggest. For all his proclivity to being smashed around like a drum, only four bowlers who have taken over 30 wickets in Asia over the last decade have had a better average than him.For all their limitations, the West Indies series, where they supposedly failed to turn up, was an exception rather than the rule for these bowlers. For six years they have operated mostly in unhelpful conditions and delivered more often than not.But as always, the thoughts turn to the what-ifs and the potential. Thats why the young speed demon will always be favoured, for his promise makes even his possible ineffectiveness worth it.In that ideal world, Pakistan would have gone on this tour with an ageing Asif ready to say his goodbyes, having spent six years tutoring Amir and a Junaid Khan who wasnt made of papier-maché. With Wahab ready to bowl on tracks that suit his style of bluster, Pakistan would have started the New Zealand series with fast bowling their strength rather than their supposed weakness.In the real world, though, Pakistan have travelled to the southern hemisphere with five pacers, all with question marks over them, wanting to change history. They may be able to affect what will happen, but theyll never change what has already gone by. And that, it would seem, will never be good enough. ' ' '