The WHS Golf team played a duel match with Rolla HS today at Oak Meadow Country Club in Rolla, MO. The Tigers scored their best team score of the season carding a 198. We were bettered by Rolla's score of 160 as Jake Drenniak from Rolla led all golfers with a 35.

We went into today's match trying to work on knocking down shots into the wind. We had a difficult time with the high winds Monday at Conference so we worked on that at practice Tuesday and again today in our match. Some of my golfers are finding playing the ball back further in their stance slightly awkward and a little out of their comfort zone. This late in the season we are not trying to change our swings, but to give ourselves more options for shot selections should we face high winds at Districts on Monday. We have been fortunate this week to get lots of play time in order to prepare for the State tournament.

I was very proud of James Richardson, one of my Senior golfers, as he gave up his Varsity position for today's match so that we could honor one of our Freshmen golfer's who will be leaving us after this season. Freshman Evan McWilliams got a chance to play varsity thanks to James and he was very appreciative of the opportunity. James' great sportsmanship and team loyalty is what playing at Waynesville is all about. With team member sacrifice such as James', we can hold true to our Motto that we may not always win on the course, but we will always be winners off the course. Thank you James and Evan, we will miss you.

Scores:

Jacob Morriss, team medalist with a 45, Wade Howser 47, Dylan Reynolds 51, Fred Boone 55, Evan McWilliams 66, James Richardson 54, Austin Adams 61, Collin Ronje 58, Woo Song 58, and Raymond Owens 58.