Kids aren’t always the easiest to work with. Sometimes they act shy and don’t cooperate during a portrait session. Hyperactivity can also be a problem. However, at age 7, Yanah Rolston was one of the best kids I’ve ever worked with.
Yanah is an incredible golfer. She competes at international youth events. She has been golfing for four years and has already sunk two eagles and was just a few feet away from landing a hole-in-one.
Our paper was doing a profile piece on Yanah. I met up with her at a local golf course to snap a few portraits. She was excited to talk to our sports editor, Jeremy Hines, and pose for portraits.
Jeremy put her swing in perspective:
“Pound-for-pound, Yanah Rolston could outdrive the best golfers in the world. And she’s just 7 years old.
Rolston can drive a golf ball 160 yards. She weighs close to 45 pounds. That is an average of 3.6 yards per pound. Tiger Woods weighs 180 pounds. If he could drive 3.6 yards per pound of body weight, he would drive the ball 666 yards.
Tiger’s actual average is 290 yards off the tee.”
Keep your eyes on this kid. She could be leading the LPGA in a few years.
At age 7, Yanah Rolston has been playing golf for four years. Rolston has won 12 U.S. Kids tour events over the last three years. She qualified for the Callaway Junior World Golf Championship at Torrey Pines and finished 26th out of 48 golfers from around the world at Pinehurst, which had 19 participants from foreign countries. (C-T photo Max Gersh) ©2010
At age 7, Yanah Rolston has been playing golf for four years. Rolston has won 12 U.S. Kids tour events over the last three years. She qualified for the Callaway Junior World Golf Championship at Torrey Pines and finished 26th out of 48 golfers from around the world at Pinehurst, which had 19 participants from foreign countries. (C-T photo Max Gersh) ©2010
Great photos. Jeremy Hines could bring a smile to the fasce of the most hardened criminal. He was a journalistic mastermind the likes this world may never see again.