Cary's Adelyn Rosado will compete in Drive, Chip, and Putt Championship at Augusta National

"That was perfect," Ryan Webb said as Adelyn Rosado smashed a drive.

Perfect is something all golfers search for. It's not something many find, especially when they are eleven years old.

"Big thing we are working on with Addie, she swings a little too far left," Webb said.

Okay so it's not perfect, but it's pretty close. Webb is the Director of Instruction at North Ridge County Club in Raleigh and is Rosado's coach.

"Addie doesn't get rattled very easily," Webb said. "I put her against some of my best players and she always seems to step up to the plate."

Rosado is one of the best junior golfers in the world. She won the U.S. Kids World Championship in Pinehurst, NC as an eight year old in 2020.  This April she will compete in the Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at Augusta National.  The event is played before the Master's on April 3rd.  Rosado has made it her goal to make the championship after competing in qualifying events the last several years. She even watched her friend Kylie Chung in the championship last year which provided some inspiration.

"When my friend Kylie got interviewed I was like really sad that I didn't win," Rosado said. "So when I got home I got all of my stuffed animals and I was pretending that I was in an interview."

Rosado started golfing at the age of four. It started as just a fun family activity and quickly became something more.

"It was let's go putt and let's get some ice cream," Adelyn's father Raymond Rosado said. "Maybe it was once or twice and then we'd kind of look forward to it. And then it kind of just grew from there."

By five she had a coach and by six she was starting to compete in tournaments. Adelyn is also coached by Andrew Kiger, the Director of Instruction at The Club of 12 Oaks in Holly Springs. She makes time for basketball in the fall in winter, but come summertime you'll find the family living in Pinehurst where Adelyn plays golf all day with her friends.

"They aren't thinking 'I'm out here grinding,'" Raymond said. "They are laughing and competing. They are good. They are competing, but they are having fun."

Adelyn dreams of one day golfing at Wake Forest University. The family tries not to think too far beyond that.

"We'll be there to take it as far as she wants to take it," Raymond said. "Behind everyone of these elite junior golfers there's parents that are helping and encouraging."

Equally as important as Adelyn's golf education is her culture. Her mother Diana Rosado is from Taiwan. Adelyn attends Stough Magnet Elementary in Raleigh which has a mandarin immersion program. Adelyn will speak mandarin most of the day at school and speaks it all the time with her grandparents.

"The culture is really important to us," Raymond said. "We've gone back [to Taiwan] a couple times. When she was four and also six. It's for her language, for her relatives and her culture."

Win or lose at Augusta, Adelyn is proud of her accomplishment and so is her family, both here in North Carolina and on the other side of the world.

"I don't really care if I win because my goal was just to be at Augusta," Adelyn said. "So if I win that would be like really cool."