Well, we headed to Kentucky to play Crooked Creek with high hopes of good weather and a good time. Turns out, the weather was AWFUL! This was not a surprise to me, though, because last year it was on the verge of Antarctica weather! I remember sitting in the cart in the practice round shivering, being barely able to move, and wondering how I was going to possibly play the next day. Well, it was not much better this time.

The first day came and went without any great events. The weather was terrible, as it always in the spring. It was about 35 degrees and raining. The sad thing is we consider this decent weather in spring. It rained about half the day and let up the second half and we had some better weather. The course always seems to be in awful shape when we are down there. This is because their fairways are Bermuda grass and stay dormant until mid summer, apparently. The fairways are just mud with a bit of grass sprinkled here and there. It is not so fun when you have to aim for the rough. I kind of feel like we are punished for hitting it in the fairway. Oh well…

We did not play very well the second day. It was a solid 25 degrees Fahrenheit and windy. Ideal conditions for golf, obviously! But at least we got out of class and got to play some golf.

On to worse news…

This tournament was, in my eyes, my collegiate worst. I had high hopes of playing well in this tournament and I really did not hit the ball too bad. I was missing on the wrong sides of the hole by four or 5 feet and short-siding yourself to tucked pins is never good. I need to learn how to not fire at pins and just take my medicine sometimes and hit it to the middle of the greens and make par or birdie with my putter, not a 7-iron or 3-wood. I am still learning a lot about this game. I learn something new everyday and I have been playing since I was about 11. Golf is funny in that sense - you can never perfect it. I have played every sport in the world and there is absolutely none harder. I will argue that to the day I die. That little white ball just sits there and laughs at you while you attempt put a series of unnatural, seemingly impossible motions together to hit it X number of yards down that fairway, on the green, and into a hole about 5 inches wide. It is a tough game and I am still learning.

Well, it looks as if we will get some good weather this weekend as we travel to Tiffin, Ohio to play Mohawk. It is a course I have never seen before so it should be interesting!

We are a young team and we are going to struggle at times. We will experience a lot of growing pains, but we have a bunch of dedicated guys. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and we all know it.

Stick with us, Cougar faithful…