JOHN YANG: Finally tonight, most high schoolers spend their summer vacations hanging out with friends, but not Genesis Lewis.

She's spending hers gearing up for an international golf competition.

The North Carolina Rising senior will be on a U.S.

Junior golf team selected by Coast To Coast International Athletics to compete in an upcoming tournament in Australia.

She's taking a break from the driving range to join us now.

Genesis, how long have you been playing golf?

GENESIS LEWIS: I've been playing since I was 4 and started competing at 7, so probably about 10 years now.

JOHN YANG: How did you get started?

GENESIS LEWIS: My dad would take me to the golf course when he goes to the driving range and I would just admire how he swing his golf club, which brought me more into the game as well.

JOHN YANG: And what is it about golf that you like?

What appeals to you about it?

GENESIS LEWIS: It's a very strategic game and I really like playing and watching things that requires your brain power when it comes to making decisions or trying to discover something.

So the strategic party game is really my favorite part.

JOHN YANG: In the history of the LPGA, there have only been eight black members.

I wonder what it's been like growing up playing this game and not seeing a lot of players who look like you.

GENESIS LEWIS: It was very tricky because when I was younger, I would try to make friends on a golf course and like a lot of them didn't really try to be friends with me.

They'd be friends with each other.

Especially when I start getting better at the game and start improving more, they kind of distance themselves away from me.

So that was a big drawback for me.

But as I got older, I realized that no matter what, you got focused on yourself.

And I got to a point where I almost put my clubs down and just play for fun.

But then my dad let me join the Twigs Golf association, which is where they encourage other black young women into golf.

Help them out, give them that sisterhood.

And along with that, seeing more black individuals like ourselves on the golf course.

JOHN YANG: Twigs is a triangle women in golf.

You live in the Research Triangle in North Carolina.

Talk a little bit more about what you got from the group and what you got from the other members in the group.

GENESIS LEWIS: I got networking skills.

Not only that, meeting other mentors.

They also have us big sisters to help out, younger sisters, which are the younger kids helping help out with golf, being that older sister that they probably never have.

And along with that, we also started learning some new other golf skills that help us enhance our game.

JOHN YANG: So you now mentoring young people, sort of passing along what you got from the other members when you were younger?

GENESIS LEWIS: Yes, I've been mentoring one girl for the past two years now.

JOHN YANG: And talk about that.

Is it rewarding?

Does it make you feel good?

GENESIS LEWIS: It makes me feel good.

But I also see myself in her as well, because some of the things she may not experience the same things that I went through, but because I've been through so much, I know where to stop and where I do not want her to experience the same things that I experience.

So I'm kind of like oversighting her, not only with golf, but also as a person.

So that gives me feel like I'm an older sibling because I'm an only child.

JOHN YANG: Now, I know you're headed off to Australia for a tournament.

Tell us about that.

GENESIS LEWIS: Yes.

So on July 5, I will be flying to Australia, and I'll be staying there for about two weeks.

And we will be practicing as a team, as a collective, among other individuals who have been picked to play on the junior team as well.

JOHN YANG: This isn't your first time playing in Australia, is that right?

GENESIS LEWIS: Yes, sir.

My first time playing Australia is when I win the Champion Tour when I was in third grade at the age of eight and I competed in Australia because I won the tour champion.

JOHN YANG: What's ahead for you?

Do you want to play golf?

I know you're on the high school team.

Would you like to play golf in college?

GENESIS LEWIS: Yes, sir.

I like to play golf in college.

Along with that, when I become an LPGA golfer.

JOHN YANG: I've seen your name on some recruiting webpages, so I was wondering if colleges are talking to you.

GENESIS LEWIS: Yes, sir.

Colleges are still talking to me.

And I haven't made my final decision yet, but I'm still looking.

JOHN YANG: Well, good luck with that.

Good luck in Australia and Genesis thank you so much for your time.

GENESIS LEWIS: Thank you for having me.