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Home TurfDon golfers finish second in team’s first home match, Leavy and Kaim emerge as early team leaders By Xavier Alejandro September 8th. 2:50pm. Time for the school day to end and the golf matches to begin. Upon arrival to Papago Golf Course, the Dons’ home turf and site of this year’s “J Golf Phoenix LPGA International” tournament, the golfers get split up into the five different tee times for the three teams: Saguaro, Campo Verde and Coronado. After some last-minute warm-up putts and with nine holes of match play ahead, each competitor gets ready to rip. Before each set of three golfer’s tee off, there are pre-game butterflies but as soon as they put the ball up on the tee, players have a desire to murder that ball down the fairway. Junior and team leader Danny Leavy noted that “it was fun to play on a course that we had an advantage on.” Papago is the home course for CHS’s golf team, which makes it easier for the home players to know which clubs to use and when. As the opposition peered, a Don took a 5-iron club out for what seemed like a close up shot, and the ball landed five feet from the hole, all spectators could say was, “good job.” As the Dons came towards the end of their match they lost with 186 strokes against Saguaro. Yet they were able to pull out a victory against the Campo Verde team. Danny Leavy (11) and Zach Kaim (10) led the team in scoring at Papago. During the three-day Apache Junction Invitational, held September 1st – 3rd, both Leavy and Kaim came within one shot of earning a medal. |
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