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Big Break Ireland - Matt Melrose's Biography (2:41)
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Meet Matt Melrose, from Malawi. Melrose is a self-taught golfer who enrolled in the Australian Golf Academy where he went from a 18 handicap to a scratch golfer in just nine months. Matt currently competes on various min-tours and the Gateway Tour.
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-Hi. I'm Matt Melrose, 27 years old. I live in
Phoenix, Arizona, originally from Malawi in Southern Africa. I think
I was selected because for one I'm not bad on
the eye balls. For two, I think my golf game
is pretty good, and you know, I'm an interesting character.
I'm pretty well [unk]. I've got plenty of power. I
know that I've got plenty of game. I know that
I can play this game at the highest level. I'm
born and bred in Africa. You know, I'm- I love
that continent. I love everything about it. I was initially
born in Zimbabwe, and through a lot of the drama
that happened there. I'm [unk] family with [unk] of that's
going on there. Eventually, we've essentially lost our Zimbabwean passport,
so the country I was born in [unk] basically refused
me as a citizen of the country. As far as,
you know, me calling myself Zimbabwean, I'd rather goggle with
the gospel of [unk], you know what I mean. I
have a bit of sense of belongings kind of issue
if you wanna call them that. It's hard for me
to feel like I belong. I don't have a green
card here. I'm living here on a tourist visa at
the moment. I mean, this is what it is, and
I just keep going forward. Life in the states is
much faster than life in Africa. This is what I
do after a hard day of practicing and golfing, come
out here with my mates, and we have a great
time out on the lake. -Matt just [unk] things talk
about with girls, so you know, nice pilot, he's a
professional golfer. He [unk] for them and he's got accent,
so he's pretty much got all in lock down. -The
thing I wanna get out of this is I wanna
get, you know, another great life experience. I'm sure there's
gonna be some fantastic people. I'm sure we're gonna see
some things in Ireland. I'll be able to get few
more people to know who I am, and where I'm
from, and what I've got, and what I can bring.
It's a tough game, but you know, I like the
challenge of that. Basically, the way I look at this
is I have to work harder than everyone else. There
are millions of golfers who wanna professional. To go to
that next level and go all the way to the
top, you've just got to practice harder than everyone else.
You have to be better than everyone else. For the
meantime, I've got my blinkers on, and I'm working really
hard towards my dream.
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