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Caroline Brown’s golf journey has been an unconventional one as the LaGrange High junior has developed into the golf team’s best female golfer. Golf was never on Brown’s radar until tragedy struck.

Brown suffered a major head injury after a serious biking accident during eighth grade, leaving her with a brain bleed. While she recovered, the doctors placed a long-term limitation on her: no more contact sports. Brown had to give up soccer, and while she was looking for another sport to dip her feet into, she found golf.

“After my biking accident, I went to Top Golf with my grandparents, and it took me a minute to hit the ball straight, but once I did start hitting it straight, I was hooked,” Brown said. “I decided to try out for the golf team once I got to high school, and I’ve really gotten into it.”

It was love at first sight. Her passion for golf quickly dwarfed any love she ever had for soccer.

“I love the team, I love the coaches, I love the sport,” Brown said. “I never really loved soccer; it was just something I played.”

Many of the other girls that have been on the LaGrange High team the last few years have been multi-sport athletes with a focus on another sport that was not golf, not Brown. 

Brown has become so dedicated to the sport that she is hoping to continue playing well beyond high school. As she sits in the twilight of her junior season, she has started to focus on what comes next. 

“I really would like to play in college,” Brown said. “With how much I’ve grown to love the sport, I don’t want to let it go anytime soon.”

Despite regularly being in the lineup the last two years with golfers that were older and more experienced, Brown has been the unquestioned no. 1 golfer on the team the last two years. The junior has been on a steady path to improvement the last several years and has taken 10 strokes or more off her average each season.

“My freshman year, I would shoot around like 120. Then my sophomore year, I would shoot like in the 110s, kind of around there, maybe low one hundreds on a good day. And then this year, I’m starting to shoot in the low 90s and high 80s,” Brown said.

Brown’s dedication to getting better has seen her shave off so many strokes since her freshman year. 

Just this week, Brown shot a personal best 87 at the Lowndes Lady Viking Invitational on Monday.

“I really started off hot on the front 9,” Brown said. “I went down there and played a practice round the day before, and that really helped me figure out where to land the ball.”

Even as she reaches new heights, Brown’s appetite for getting better has only grown. Putting is still a work in progress for Brown and something she plans to better before her senior season in blue and white.

“Putting is definitely my weakness,” Brown said with a chuckle. “It’s pretty funny because when I started out putting was my best, and right now it’s not too hot.”

If it’s the weekend and the weather is nice, Brown is not a hard person to find. Just check one of the local golf courses, and the odds are that she will be there playing a round.