The Individuals Behind ShipSticks delves into the journeys of our workers, each on and off the course, and the experiences that encourage the work we do for you.
It began with a set of pink golf golf equipment. And pink golf balls, pink tees, and, after all, a pink glove. How else do you get a ten-year-old lady hooked on golf?Â
For me, although, golf wasn’t precisely elective. My dad, Steve Dresser, is a PGA skilled who owned and operated the longest-running golf college in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina, a.ok.a. the Golf Capital of the World. So when your yard is a driving vary and your playground is the short-game space, it’s form of inevitable you’ll find yourself swinging golf equipment as an alternative of, say, training pirouettes.
From the second I might wrap my arms round a membership, life was golf. The odor of freshly lower fairways, the thwack of a well-struck drive, the hum of carts rolling by – such was the soundtrack of my childhood. Most of my free time was spent at Dad’s college: eavesdropping on non-public classes, pounding vary balls till my arms blistered, hauling trash luggage larger than me (incomes my hold, after all), and becoming a member of the workers for night vary classes, the place the blokes drank chilly beers and I nursed a grape Gatorade.
By highschool, all these hours on the vary had paid off. I used to be competing repeatedly and, a lot to Dad’s dismay, outdriving him. Golf had graduated from a summer season interest to full-on obsession – the type that shapes weekends and futures.
It finally led me to Converse Faculty, the place I performed golf competitively, met teammates-turned-lifelong associates, and found one other ardour: writing. English majors, like myself, spend a variety of time obsessing over compound sentences, Oxford commas, and proofreading roommates’ papers. And someplace between correcting a dangling modifier and attempting to cease 3-putting, I noticed writing and golf aren’t so totally different in any case. Each require rhythm, timing, consideration to element, and a willingness to attempt, fail, tinker, and take a look at once more.Â
My love of golf and my love of language finally led me right here: ShipSticks, the place I work as a copywriter and content material strategist. I began in customer support after graduating in 2019, studying the ins and outs of the enterprise from the bottom up – answering questions, fixing issues, and seeing firsthand what golfers really want. That basis formed the way in which I method my writing as we speak: from the angle of somebody who loves golf (and touring to play it) simply as a lot as you do.
I write content material that helps golfers plan journeys, get there easily, and savor each second on the course. However essentially the most rewarding half is that my writing doesn’t simply sit on-line – it travels with folks. A golfer headed to the Sandhills of Nebraska may use certainly one of my guides to plan their journey. A gaggle certain for the Sandhills of North Carolina as an alternative might stumble throughout my weblog and resolve to seize a desk on the restaurant I like to recommend after a bucket checklist spherical on No. 2 – as a result of sure, I’ve tried the meals (and drank one thing stronger than grape Gatorade). The Myrtle Seaside programs I identify the perfect bang in your buck? I’ve performed them, misplaced balls in the identical spots you most likely will, and might let you know precisely why they’re price it.
Each weblog, information, and suggestion I share is rooted in many years of residing the sport – from swing suggestions I picked up from Dad to programs I’ve performed firsthand – and written with the identical care I’d put into planning my very own journey.
However my bucket checklist isn’t amassing mud, both. I’m on the market chasing these subsequent nice golf journeys similar to you, and I hope the work I do right here could be the spark that conjures up yours.
Writing about it, sharing it, serving to others expertise it – that’s my manner of leaving a mark on the sport I’ve beloved because the second I picked up that first pink membership.Â
