SO YOUNG, SO GOOD: Salem’s Resovsky leads Rocks to elite golf meet

Four years ago, 11-year-old Brooke Resovsky was so fascinated by her dad Andy’s golf hobby, she asked if he’d take her to the driving range.

Like all parents who love to see their children share in their recreational interests, Andy Resovsky enthusiastically obliged.

“Driving home from the driving range the first time, my dad said he thought he saw some potential in my swing,” Brooke Resovsky recounted. “Honestly, I didn’t see it.”

Falling under the category of “Father Knows Best”, Brooke agreed to take a few lessons from an instructor at High Velocity Sports in Canton.

Meteoric rise

Fast forward to September of 2024 when Brooke Resovsky carded a 79 at the challenging Fieldstone Golf Club of Auburn Hills to win the girls 11-14 division in a Top 50 Junior Tour event.

“That was the first time I shot in the 70s and I was like, ‘Wow, this is fun! I can shoot in the 70s’, but I knew I needed to work hard the next summer to get really good.”

In October of 2024, Resovsky qualified as an individual for the MHSAA Division 1 state meet — as a freshman!

Last week, she fired a 77 at Northville Township’s Salem Hills Golf Course to help propel Salem’s team into its first D1 state meet since 2005.

“Earlier this year, I started shooting high — low 90s, high 80s — and I didn’t like it,” Resovsky reflected. “So I practiced just about every day, three hours a day, for three straight months.

“I still wasn’t where I wanted to be because I was overthinking. I’d hit a bad shot and think about it for a while. Eventually, I realized that if I hit a bad shot, I had to put it behind me and focus on the next shot. That’s when I started shooting lower again.”

(To check out a video of Brooke Resovsky’s impeccable golf swing, click here.)

Salem Head Golf Coach Hope Warkoczeski said there is one primary reason for Resovsky’s golf prowess at such a young age.

“Her work ethic is amazing,” Warkoczeski said. “Whenever she has downtime, she’s practicing.

“She arrives early to practice and stays late. It takes that kind of dedication to qualify for the state meet her first two years of high school.

“It has been fun to see Brooke lead this team as a sophomore. Obviously, qualifying as an individual like she did her freshman year is cool, but to lead an entire team to the state meet like she’s done this year has been so much fun to watch.”

Under the guidance of Fox Hills instructor Dan Thomas and Warkoczeski, every phase of Resovsky’s game has elevated over the past 12 months.

“Probably the best part of my game is my driving,” she said. “At the beginning of the year, I was hitting my drives about 210, 220 yards, but now I’m driving the ball about 240 to 250. That’s huge because now I’m hitting a gap wedge or sand wedge into the green compared to before when I was hitting an eight or nine iron.”

As humble as she is talented, Resovsky embraces the team portion of high school golf.

“I’m so proud of my team; everyone works so hard,” she said. “Hope sat us all down at the beginning of the season and told us if we all work hard, we can make it to states as a team. We were all like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’ But Hope was right.”

Just like her dad, who saw a glimmer of potential in his daughter’s swing following that first trip to the driving range.

That glimmer is now a sunburst — all because of Brooke Resovsky’s dedication to getting better.

Ed Wright can be reached at 734-664-4657 or edwright@socialhousenews.com.