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It’s the kind of attitude Woodstock Academy coach Rich Garceau wishes more members of his Centaurs boys’ golf team had.
Senior Mason Stewart stepped on to the tee on the first hole at the Great Neck Country Club in New London May 23.
The results of his first swing were not exactly pretty. Stewart failed to recover from it on that hole where he finished with a double-bogey 6.
But the rest of the round went a whole lot better.
Stewart rallied and finished with a 37, his best effort of the season.
Unfortunately, it didn’t come in a winning effort as the Centaurs fell to Waterford, 5 ½ - 1 ½, to drop to 7-4-1 on the season and 0-3-1 in Div. II of the ECC.
The loss followed on the heels of a 5-2 loss to undefeated Killingly.
“Other than East Lyme, which is in Division I, the best golf as a division is being played in Division II,” Garceau said. “Even the matches that we have lost, we were always in it. The competition is very stiff in this division. On Thursday, we lost to a good team at Waterford. No shame in that. We still have some good teams that we will be hosting in the days to come and I have no doubt they will be a fight to the last stroke. I have confidence in our players that they can get over the hump and get a win or two in the next couple of weeks.”
The key will be to get more players in the same scoring mode as Stewart.
The closest teammate to Stewart May 23 was Owen Borski who finished nine strokes back with a 46. Jake Starr and Robert Maheu both carded 47s.
Things were better in the match at Killingly although it didn’t show up in the result.
Stewart shot a 43 but freshman Kyle Brennan and Maheu were just a stroke in back of the senior and Jake Starr was just one back of them.
It’s not the physical part of the game that’s haunting the Centaurs players, it’s the mental.
“We need to get ourselves to the mental part of our game where we stop thinking about what could go wrong and start believing that it is all going to go right. These are skilled athletes who have the golf skills to succeed in any sport. They need to find that in themselves now,” said Garceau.
The Centaurs have just four matches left on their schedule. And three of the four are against some of the best in the ECC.
Marc Allard
Sports Information Director
The Woodstock Academy
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