Girls Golf Seeks to Improve in Spring

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Kaitlyn Stuard and Alyssa McCutcheon

The girls golf team just finished their season and look to improve on their scores and recruit more players for the spring season.

“We have already made a lot of strides and improvement from last spring to this fall,” head coach Mark Burgen said.  

The girls have been pushed to their hardest by their coach to get where they are now.

“We have some fundamentals [to work on] for each girl,” Burgen said, “but those fundamentals will get assessed, and that’s going to improve a bunch next spring.”

After two years of work, the girls think they are ready for state preview. There they will travel to the state championship venue to compete against other top ranked teams in the state.

“As a team I think we need to focus more during practice,”  junior Molly Yarbrough said.

Burgen also wants to pass down leadership to the girls and attract more girls to play on the team for the spring. A larger team would help garner potential to have multiple teams qualify for district and region.

The girls say that they have definitely improved but want to improve even more. This is based largely in part to each girl’s average score decreasing compared to last.

“This year I’ve really improved a lot,” Yarbrough said. “Coach Burgen has really pushed me to do my best and try hard at every practice. I’ve really cut down some strokes.”

The girls know that the mental game for golf is always important.

“The most important thing I’ve learned while playing golf is to just concentrate and focus on one shot at a time and not worry about each little thing,” sophomore Hannah Wood said.

Wood says that although the team had both good and bad tournaments in the fall, she is looking forward to the spring.

“I just see us getting better when the spring season comes and working to improve,” she said.