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Throughout the course of the 2010-2011 season, MVNU senior Jay Ruffner will write a weekly blog about what is happening with the team.

"On the Green for the Final Time" (posted on May 16, 2011)

Well, what is there to say?!

The last three tournaments of my college career were miserable.

Our invitational. Rained out in the second round.

Malone Invitational. Same thing.

Cedarville Invitational. Rained out, both rounds.

I have never, that I can remember, had a tournament cancelled in my college career. It happened though, three tournaments in a row. I was shocked. I have grown very accustomed to playing in the worst conditions possible and as many times as we've hoped for a tournament to get cancelled because the weather was terrible, it never has.

When Coach told me that Malone's tournament was cancelled the second day I said "Yea, ok". He then tried to reassure me that the tournament was actually cancelled but I didn't believe him. It was only after I spoke to Coach Hyland, from Malone, myself, that I actually believed the tournament was cancelled.

What a miserable season. I haven't had a season as bad as this in four years, weather-wise.

Anyways, let's move on to my collegiate grand finale, conference.

My play was certainly a big disappointment. I had been playing very well and practicing very well coming into the tournament and thought I was going to tear it up. I didn't. That's golf, though, somedays you have it and you may have "it" for a week or two weeks and it can be gone the next. Just like that, it's a fickle game.

I had a good time in the final 27 holes. I got paired with two players that I am very familiar with, one being a very good friend of mine and the other, a guy I've played with about 40 times in college. It was nice to go out in a fun, relaxed environment, playing with people I enjoyed being around. It's been quite a career.

I can't say what my future plans are as far as golf goes. I'd like to think that one day I could be on TV playing, I'd like to think I can work hard enough to get to that point. We'll see, I'm going to work at it for the next few years, hitting it pretty hard daily. I've planned 6 - 8 hours of practice a day for my summer schedule. I'd like to see if I've got potential at the next level. I love this game and have worked so hard at it for the past 11 years of my life and while I'm not even close to where I want to be, I feel it would be a mistake not to try to do something at the next level. I feel as if I owe it to myself and all the people that have supported me throughout the years.

Anyways...

I had a great, fun, awesome career at MVNU. It was a blast. Of course there were times that I despised being out playing in the weather that Ohio brings us but all in all, as I look back I don't regret a thing. I wish I would have played better, practiced harder and made more of a mark. Oh well, I had fun and that's what this should be, fun. It's a game after all.

Thank you to anyone and everyone who reads my blog and supports MVNU Golf and MVNU athletics.

It's been a fun ride!

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