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5 Questions With Kelsey Gibson

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 2, 2007

Kelsey Gibson is a home-schooled sophomore but plays golf for King this season. Gibson was a member of Tampa Prep's three consecutive state tournament teams from 2004-2006 (she started playing as a seventh-grader) and last year was the Class 1A-District 14 medalist.

You got any interesting golf stories?

Of course. ... Well, one of the funnier ones is hanging out with my friends at the golf course and watching people have to do bow downs when they lose on the putting green.

What's a bow down?

It's when you have to get on your hands and knees and bow down and say, 'You're the greatest.' It's actually something we do out at Walden Lake Golf Course in Plant City. It's more of a kids' thing, but sometimes other people get involved. My dad Jeff lost the other day to this kid, eighth-grader Hamilton Brown, and he had to bow down.

When's the last time you had to bow down?

Oh gosh, let's see. It's been a while. I think the last time I had to do it was against Hamilton Brown, the same kid that beat my dad. He's really a great putter. It's hard to beat him. I think I had to do five bow downs.

Sounds like you like to make things interesting. You do that out on the golf course, too?

Oh yeah. One of my best friends is A.J. Newell, she plays for Northside Christian. If we're playing in a tournament and we play together, which is a very rare treat and this is probably the reason, we actually have bets going on the side in the tournament, whether it's match play, stroke play, whatever. Sometimes me and some of the guys out at Walden Lake in Plant City do the same thing. Golf is a great game, but when you're playing with friends it definitely gives you the opportunity to make things more interesting.

What do you wager?

There have been bow downs. I've personally never had to do this, and thank God for that, but at my dad's old course you used to have to crawl on your hands and knees from the tee box to the clubhouse if you lost. The other day I was playing with my older brother, Patrick. I had his belt on, I had taken it from his room that morning, and he wanted to play his belt against my Ford trucker hat. We went heads up for nine holes ... and I lost my hat and my belt.

Adam Adkins

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