April 14-15, 2008

Hello to all, 

So I took quite a hiatus from my journals and am sad to inform you all this is one of my last. I am the lone golfing senior graduate of the 2008 class. It has been a great four years and the ending I am sure will be bittersweet. As the days continue towards graduation and as I am still jobless, I wonder how my life will be changing without being part of a golf team. Truly the friends I have made both teammates and competitors have taught me a lot about golf and life in general.

Well that’s all the sappiness you will get from me for now. So here is a little recap because I know I am behind in my journals and you need to know the facts. The women’s team is currently in second place to Rocky Mountain College by over a hundred strokes. I am not saying we have given up on beating Rocky but for us the conference was lost in the fall. Our current goal is to beat Rocky in the remainder of the tournaments and to make it to Nationals.  

As for our first tournament, well we don’t really talk about that one. It wasn’t pretty and from the results we understood that playing better golf was necessary. It could get any worse really take my word for it.

As for our conference play we had our first spring conference tournament right here in Lewiston at the Lewiston C.C. But before I talk about our play in the tournament I just want to thank all the supporters who donated hole signs for our scramble. As a team we all really appreciate the generosity of your sponsors.  Also I want to thank everyone for coming out on that beautiful Saturday and playing golf with all of us. It was great to see parents and pillars in the community come put to support the Warrior Golf Teams.

Ok back to our first tournament. Well it was cold, rainy, and we had to walk thirty-six holes on a very hilly golf course. Good thing we are young, fit, and ready for anything thrown at us. It is amazing how quickly weather changes, Sunday for our practice round it was in the high 70’s and sunny. Monday was just the opposite. As a team we were very excited to battle Rocky on our home turf. They beat us up pretty badly and we wanted to make sure they knew they were in Lewiston, home of the Warriors.

The first round of the day was very cold and quite wet. As for conference play Lewiston C. C. always plays as the most difficult course of the year. As for me I wasn’t very happy about my start. But I got my head back into the game and ended up playing well as the standards of the day were high. I ended up shooting 81 just one off the lead. Not bad for doubling two of my first three holes. As a team we did well, seeing as we were ahead of Rocky. Juanita shot 80, Cort 85, me 81, Alana 85 and Sue Bird 84. Leading always feels nice. We came in at 330, Rocky was five behind with 335. As the day continued the weather improved but everyone seems to be dragging. The day really wore on all of us. Again my start was rocky but I knew that I couldn’t give up. Everyone on our team looked exhausted, including myself. Sticky fingers again shot 80, Cort 86, me 85, Alana 85, and Sue Bird 93. We got beat by one for the round but we were still leading by four. We were all taken back by our high number, other than Sticky Fingers, and knew that to win we must play smart. On Tuesday the weather got a little nicer but well I still didn’t consider it nice weather, just nicer than the horrible weather we experienced Monday. Again I started off poorly, obviously I need to work on my starts. Well the story plays out just as we had hoped, we beat Rocky. Sticky Fingers and Cort came out shooting both with 78s, a great score. Alana also faired well with an 81, me with an 83 and Sue Bird with an 89. We were very pleased seeing as we beat Rocky by seven for the day and eleven for the tournament.

Stay tuned to our season because I really believe we could do some great things. The next Frontier Conference Tournament is next Monday and Tuesday down in Salt Lake City, hosted by Westminster. Can you all pray to the golf Gods to send us good weather because as of now it’s supposed to blizzard. 

I promise I will be back again here soon with another golf tale. Hope you all have a great week keep watching, good things are going to come from this team, I guarantee it. 

Samara (aka Shooter, aka Cheddar, aka la capitana) Kluever