For the first year, Liberty Christian Academy is offering a boys golf program. There are five golfers on the team this season. Members of the team are Zack Dames Jack Duvel, Jed Moss, Caleb Schneider …
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For the first year, Liberty Christian Academy is offering a boys golf program.
There are five golfers on the team this season. Members of the team are Zack Dames Jack Duvel, Jed Moss, Caleb Schneider and Zack Thiele. Kameron Bagby is the team’s head coach. Josh Dames is the team’s assistant coach.
The team is practicing every day during the week. The players also practice on their own during the weekends, Bagby said.
“It’s been a learning curve, but they’re all excited to play,” Bagby said. “They’re all athletes. They’re picking it up really quickly. We’re just ready to compete.”
When the team started practicing, they spent a lot of time golfing rounds. The goal was for the players to develop a love for the game of golf.
The Liberty Christian golfers are still getting used to how the ball moves after they hit a shot and also how the ball bounces off terrains. Bagby said. They are also adjusting to reading the greens when putting.
“I don’t know if they’re quite to the point of reading greens and making 35-foot putts,” Bagby said. “But if we can make the straight ones, I think that’s going to keep the scores low enough to be respectful. So that’s kind of what we’re working on at this point.”
Bagby believes the golfers’ competitiveness will help them with the nerves of competing during matches.
“These guys are all extremely competitive,” Bagby said. “They want to win. You got to have the right mentality going into something that these guys are playing against players that a lot of them grew up with it. They’ve been playing since they were six. None of these guys grew up with golf. They just recently as a group last summer played like their first golf match.”
The players who are on the team this year all decided they wanted to play when the school announced the start of the program. Bagby hopes the roster size will expand in the next few years.
“The guys that are playing are all very close and they all just collectively decided to play,” Bagby said. “The goal would be for these guys to get other kids in the school interested. That’s the goal of the school is to have more extracurricular activities for guys that don’t necessarily play basketball.”
