When Zac Wolfe arrived home in Melbourne after winning the U.S. Kids Golf Boys 6 and Under World Championship in North Carolina, he was met with considerable media attention. Newspapers, television, you name it. All saw him the same way: the cute kid with shorter golf clubs winning a big event and holding a trophy almost as big as he. What they missed, though, was how Zac sees himself.
“I’m a serious golfer,” he says. And he is.
Yes, he is cute. Very. But to leave it at that would be to belie Zac’s natural competitive spirit and his intuitive feel for the game. This is a golfer who has worked hard and achieved some cool things. He just happens to be six years old.
There are two layers to the Zac Wolfe story. The obvious one tells the achievements but the other digs deeper, to what goes