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1st Place
U.S. Kids Golf
Euro Championship Scotland 2014
May December March 2014 2016 2018
Atonly 6 years old, Asher Joseph, 7, already changed the game of golf, breaking records and beating scores of high schoolers with ease. Joseph crushed his competition at Cape Coast Conference and placed first while the Edgewood team placed first at both districts as well as Cape Coast Conference. Kyle Thurow, 12, a senior on the team has had
years of experience and admires his teammate’s abilities. ““He is a really good player, especially considering his age,” Thurow said. “We play on courses that are set up for high schoolers who hit the ball a long ways and he’s in 7th grade and beats us so it’s really impressive.”
Joseph’s first experiences with golf began on Father’s Day at the Spessard Holland Golf Course in Melbourne Beach when he was only six years old. The kids play free event was just the start of Asher’s genuine and natural passion for the sport.
“It was in 2012 when I took him and his older brother out, I just saw something in him,” Angelo Joseph said. “He never really struggled much, the first month or two, he had a really good feel for golf striking and he was playing for three months without any lessons.”
While winning is common for Joseph, with over 100 wins in local tournaments, that does not mean every day on the course is a trophy winner.
“The most frustrated I’ve ever been was when I was playing really bad in a world golf championship
that is very important to me since there is a
certain status you need in order to enter,”
Joseph said. “In the World Golf Junior Championship, all the best juniors from across the world play in it.
Ever since Joseph laid his hands on a
golf club, he was winning tournaments.
In the first three or four months of playing
at age six, he finished in the top ten at Regional US kids, and placed second
at the Florida State Championship. As a child, what stood him apart from his other competitors was his mental strength that kept him going throughout the games.
May October 2018 2018
“Asher’s always had extraordinary mental strength, he wasn’t like the kids that if they had one bad hole they would give up,” Angelo Joseph said. “He never had that, he would plod along and keep going, he would still focus like he had a chance to win a tournament.”
Those who have met or played golf with Joseph know he is a man of few words, but his father says that off the course, he embodies a completely different personality.
“He’s totally unemotional on the golf course, his emotional outlook does not change,”Joseph said. “He talks a lot and is a really funny guy with people he knows really well, he can do 50 accents and the jokes he tells are hilarious.”
Joseph’s routine starts at around 4:30 in the morning, beginning with completing any homework from the night before, since he spends three hours on the golf course and plays in the dark until 9:30 at night.
“The day before regionals, he had to play in Fort Pierce walking eighteen holes, pushing his bag, for four hours,” Angelo Joseph said. “He practiced when got home from the tournament until 8:30pm and then played another 18 holes on Monday for Edgewood.”
For most student athletes, their friends and peers usually are very aware of their successes, but Joseph tends to keep his golf career separate from his friends.
“His best friend in elementary school didn’t even know he played golf, spending two or three hours playing golf, and his best friend never knew,”Angelo Joseph said. “Even after winning tournaments, he would never fistbump. He would have 8 holes in one in a row, and he would just pick up the ball and
walk away.”
Now that Joseph competes at a high
school level, balancing school and golf can be a challenge at times.
‘He really loves competing, the fact that he’s good in golf is secondary,” Joseph said. “The challenge is that colleges are looking at his results, the stress of doing well is starting to get to him. The one thing we are trying to do is trying to enjoy the process, and not
worry about the destination.”
3rd Place
HJGT National Championship 2016
2nd Place
North Florida Junior Open 2018
1st Place
Central Florida Junior Open 2018
1st Place
Cape Coast Conference 2018