Who
is Amber Weller...?
I can see it now.
Alex Trebek on the famous game show Jeopardy
giving contestants clues.
Let me demonstrate.
If I was working at Jeopardy and preparing
the clues, here is what I would provide
contestants:
- Woman golfer who
grew up on a herb and flower farm in
Exeter, Rhode Island and began playing
at the age of 7
- Woman golfer who
is also a professional illustrator
- Woman golfer who
as a young child would walk a mile a
day so she could practice at Rolling
Greens Golf Course in North Kingstown,
Rhode Island
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However, Amber Weller is such a complex, multi-faceted
individual that literally every television screen
on the Jeopardy game
board could be utilized, and contestants would
still have trouble providing the right interrogatory….
Who is Amber Weller?
I first ‘met’ Amber Weller several
years ago at Woodland
Greens Golf Course located in North
Kingstown, Rhode Island. It really wasn’t
a meeting per se, rather it was me observing
a young woman diligently practicing on the putting
green. She would stroke putt after putt obviously
working on a very minute part of her stroke
to improve. After she left, I asked someone
who that young woman was and they said …
who is Amber Weller.
That was approximately five years ago, and
it was until recently that I ‘reconnected’
with Amber Weller at the Eagle
Quest Golf Dome in West Warwick,
Rhode Island. During this past winter, Amber
has been giving lessons and working on her game.
Due to RhodyGolf.com’s commitment of supporting
women’s golf in the state, I asked Amber
if she would be willing to be our next PRO-File.
So, the story begins that Amber began playing
the game at 7. On weekends, she would see her
father taking her brother to the golf course
and she was always left behind. Being ‘left-behind’
was a concept and state of being she would overcome
time and again as she became older. Finally,
after persistently asking her dad to take her
(persistence is a hallmark of Amber) he relented
and Amber found her way onto one of Rhode Island’s
many golf courses. Amber didn’t realize
that when her dad said she could join the Weller
golf outings, that meant going at 5 am in the
morning as not to interfere with the rest of
the golfers on the course.
Any possibility of Amber holding up other Rhode
Island golfers soon dissipated. Because of commitment
to the game and her personal obligation to excellence(another
Weller quality) she would walk about 4 miles
every day to practice golf at Rolling Greens
Golf Course in North Kingstown. This eventually
led to her beating her grandfather at the tender
age of thirteen.
After defeating her grandfather, Weller set
her sights on competitive golf. Amber played
in both the Junior Challenge Cup was the first
competitive event and then play American
Junior Golf Association (AJGA).
In addition to the junior challenge golf she
also played competitive highschool and Ocean
State Women's Golf Association.
Weller also received the distinguished The Nathalie
A. Price Memorial Scholarship.
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