my favorites.
>> Definitely one to keep an
eye on another great year at
Augusta. Here’s Ari with
another golfer who
made history.
>> A weaker first at Augusta
golf, crazy Japan gets the
country’s first major
championship. But another Asian
country is looking for its
first
tour pro. They may find him here in Houston, Texas. Where a
here in Houston, Texas. Where a
16 year-old golfer begins a
pressure packed climb.
♪ >> Making history as a track.
>> Making history as a track.
♪
By step.
Ascending to the summit.
No, he has no Poly of Europe
and a summit is not at the top.
It’s at the bottom of a cop.
That swing by swing.
He practices for hours a day
during the week 7 to 8 more
hours every weekend.
>> was born in the U.S. raised
in Houston but school engulfed
more than 8,000 miles
from Augusta away from the lush
greens in his l e is among the
peaks of
the Himalayas.
>> The Jerry now he’s become
big do you use a pen on.
And I assure book of jave years
swing.
>> His grandfather Brian, a.
>> I picked it up and her young
age. My
grandfather and we spent a lot
of good games like memories.
And that’s that’s something
I remember. I think about golf
us remember
those days us to plan a golf
Not since my grandfather in
Nepal, the run. A name is a
major part
of history.
>> Forge a beer golf. Maybe his destiny. The sport is in
his destiny. The sport is in
his blood pumping in that
>> Influential family Nevado
golfing in the Bala stopping by
>> You see the run. A family
used to
run Nepal. His grand uncle was
part of Iran. A prime
minister’s delegation who made
a trip to the United Kingdom in
1917 the British took them to a
golf course showed them the
game and gift of them clubs
when they came back to Nepal.
The prime minister ordered a
course built. And so the
creation of golf
in Nepal, traces all the way
back a 100 plus years to jave
yours, It’s a lot of pressure
that I
have. But.
>> My my family, they’ve
they’ve really made me realize
like how what what this
opportunity is to
me and.
>> I really would mean a lot to
be able to go on to play
professionally. Nepal has no
golfers on any of the world’s
top golf tours. Jave years.
Opportunity is to eventually
become the first Nepali tour
pro.
But that’s years away. And his
immediate opportunity is at
Augusta seeing it all on TV
it’s you never really would
imagine that you get that
opportunity to be able to do
it yourself if you’re qualified
for the drive chip and putt
finals
last year.
>> With his first swing in
Augusta National became the
first person of Nepali descent
to ever play. The course was
everything Indiana could have
possibly
ever imagine.
>> And especially see him out
there putting the 18th green
was something that, you know,
one only dreams of back to back
nines on the drive-in ship gave
Jay your lead going into the
♪
he hit his first punt with
precision.
The final putt from 15 feet
just needed to be within 4 feet 8 inches over. How does my
8 inches over. How does my
♪ So gratifying. This.
So gratifying. This.
♪
I was just a day.
A big sigh of relief through
the tape.
>> Back at home. Jave years
become a bit of a celebrity at
Westwood
Country Club.
>> And half a world away there
celebrating too, although the
In the bottom, you know, and
then keeping track of his
progress still only 16 and a
high school sophomore jave
year. Take should step
by step the next step is
finding a college. Both the
gulf and academic power.
Swing by swing. With the gulf hopes the whole
With the gulf hopes the whole
nation relying on his climb.
Jave years. Ascent is a long
one. Making history is a track.
Jave your penned a summit is not at the top of any mountain.
not at the top of any mountain.
It’s at the bottom of the cup.
>> Jamie erdahl said kinkaid