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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Thursday September 9 2021 15 Talented golfer with a lot of time on his side • By Chris Barclay COOPER MOORE isn’t the first sportsman to be put off his game by the garish neon lights of the Las Vegas strip or Fremont St, downtown. On his first visit he stayed in the MGM Grand, where Mike Tyson made a relatively meagre living in Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club. He’d bare his soul throughout “Undisputed Truth”, a cautionary tale for boxing fans as the heavyweight champion of the world detailed how he squandered millions of dollars worth of purses. A prodigiously talented golfer, Moore made his most recent trip to Nevada’s desert oasis in 2018, and three years on, until recently, he has been whiling away his afternoons teeing off against painting ground sheets suspended in a Christchurch garage. Fortunately this is not a story of unfulfilled potential, of opportunity squandered – it’s quite the opposite as Moore has been walking the fairways of Clearwater and Waitikiri since the downgrade to alert level 3. While global sport’s household names have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic – Tokyo’s Olympians had anything but an authentic Games experience – PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN STOKED: Talented junior golfer Cooper Moore could return to Waitikiri, one of three clubs he plays out of once Covid-19 alert level restrictions allowed; Pegasus (right) is currently his favourite course. Here he plays for a Canterbury junior team against China in 2019. aspiring athletes have also had to live with measures required to contain the virus. Moore, who turned 13 in June, still has time on his side though, elite golfers, like tennis players, tend to start very, very young in this day and age. After all, he swung his first club right-handed as a four-yearold, and by the time Moore was eight he had made the cut for an International Junior Golf Association tournament. He was 10th on the leaderboard, and the Marshland School pupil learned his lesson, ditto dad. “Being in Las Vegas we made it a family holiday as well, it wasn’t just about golf,” said Jayden Moore. “We were playing golf and going to the strip and seeing what was happening there. By the time we got to the third round, Cooper was pretty tired, the 40 deg C heat took it out of you.” When the Moores returned in 2018, they adopted a business before pleasure approach for the World Stars of Junior Golf tournament. “We had a detailed plan. We stayed 25 minutes from the strip, close to the course. After eight days of golf, we had the holiday,” Jayden Moore said. Work before play paid off as Cooper, a member at Clearwater, Russley and Waitikiri, won the boys’ nine-10 years grade at the extra hole at Paiute Golf Resort. “That was a really good experience for us to see where he was at. It was also an eye-opener to understand what golf was like on a world stage,” Jayden Moore said. • Turn to page 16 Bobbi | Bowflex Max Trainer User I lost 15kg in 10 weeks. That is ridiculous. The fat just melts right off. I mean, it absolutely changed my life! CALL NOW! 0800 665 665
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