tAylor Babcock’s path to the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia, can only be described as circuitous.
Turns out that wasn’t a bad thing for Babcock, the master golfer at Farmington, an upscale private club with more than 2,800 members.
Go back to her teenage years growing up in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where Babcock was a three-sport athlete, excelling at basketball, volleyball, and golf. She played golf regularly at Lake Oswego Country Club, but admits that the game wasn’t her first passion.
That all changed one summer when, as a prep, she renovated her swing with the help of Jerry Mowlds, director of instruction for nearby Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club. It was a transformative experience. The perpetually driven Babcock reduced her deficit from 15 to nearly zero.
Babcock, in her words, won “five or six championships” as a junior in high school and began competing in top-level Oregon Golf Association events. She credits her parents for allowing her to enthusiastically pursue…