By Cherry Crayton
University Communications

During her second golf tournament this season, Kaylin Yost, a junior on Campbell University's women's golf team, shot an 81 in the second round. She had scored a 75 in the first round on the 72-par Fazio Course at the Red Sky Ranch and Golf Club in Wolcott, Col. So hitting an 81 in a round? Not good.

Her parents couldn't make the trip to watch her compete at the Golfweek Conference Championship that September, so she called them after her second round. For about an hour and a half, she sobbed over the phone to her father, Tom.

She told him: "I played poorly." "I let my team down." "I let myself down."

Her father listened. Then he told her: "You've always been a fighter. Keep fighting."

The next day Yost shot the lowest score of the final round — a 67 — matching her collegiate low and helping the Fighting Camels finish fourth in the 18-team tournament.

That turnaround, Yost says, is the perfect example of how her parents have taught her how to approach golf and life: "Never give up, because the next day can always be better."

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