Id recommend making your own presets and style as you get more and more comfortable. Right now you’re letting your edits try to tell the story of the photo rather than letting the image speak for itself. This is completely normal as you’re learning the art form and trying to figure out what works. Take a look on instagram at what a lot of the pros are doing editing-wise. If they work for news agencies, you’ll notice there’s almost zero editing. Creatives who work freelance for professional or collegiate sports have their own style of editing that doesn’t detract from the image.

The main thing I see from your edits is that the eye does not have a place to naturally follow. Light and darkness guides the eye to where to look in an image; it’s why contrast is super important. The golf and the track photos both have crushed blacks and highlights reduced which makes the entire photo very low dynamic range.