Oct. 8, 2008

So, we shot a team record today which is pretty exciting seeing we knocked 40 strokes off our team score and 51 between all six of us from yesterday. It would be nice to justify a poor fist day by saying that the weather or course made the round play harder but that would not be true. For many of us the biggest force acting against us was our selves.

To be honest I don't think that one person on the team wasn't sold to the idea that we could dominate the field the next day. The practice round was amazing. Truly. We have never played a practice round in or around four hours until that day. After a few good minutes spent on the practice green we went back to the hotel to get settled in. Later that night we went as a team to grab a snack from TCBY. The team shared a good laugh when confusion arose over how to order frozen yogurt by following the "steps" to living a healthy life posted on the wall. Its something that you had to be their for to understand but just get the point that traveling all morning and playing all afternoon wears not only on your body but also on your mind. Our beds were calling our names early that day.

After playing a round that felt like it would never end the first day, we went back to the range and putting green to practice. Nothing tricky had to be fixed, we just needed to hit balls straighter and work on our putting which we did until dinner time. It would not be a typical golf trip without the usual Chili's restaurant dinner stop where you better believe that we take full advantage of the bottomless chips n' salsa and diet pepsi's. (Yes we tried to branch out the first night and go to a local Mexican restaurant but let's just say it was NOT a 9 on a scale of 1-10, although Broere might have been a 9 in the waiter's eyes!)

After dinner we had a team meeting in coaches room at the Hampton where we stayed. Together we all agreed that we had to figure out a way to be able to put a solid round together the next morning. Taking into consideration what the men's team (thanks Patie) has tried in the past we decided to mentally break our 18 hold round into 6 three-hole rounds in hopes of shrinking our goal and avoid playing a "numbers game" in our head. Coach also suggested for us to just take a moment out of each shot and visualize what it is we want our ball to do.

What ever it is everyone thought about today, it seemed to have worked.

We are just leaving West Virginia now, all of us eager to tell our funny stories about what happened in our round today. In the back of our minds we are all trying to come up with a way to ensure that our next trip to Austin Peay in two weeks will result in TWO solid round of golf. But for the time being we are taking the rest of today to enjoy the record breaking round we posted today and hoping coach will change this awful country radio station that's on right now!

Until next time,

Kim