Spring sports have sprung into action, meaning the women’s golf team has started their season. The women’s golf team, which has eight girls on the team, isn’t quite the same as the men’s team, which has twenty-one current athletes. That doesn’t mean that the girls aren’t having as much fun as the boys. 

     “It’s really fun. It’s super supportive. we’re a really solid team,” sophomore Madelyn Perkerewicz said. “There’s not a lot of separation between the guys and girls, so we all hang out.” Perkerewicz has been on the women’s golf team ever since her freshman year and wishes to continue in the sport. 

     “My personal goal is to make it onto varsity,” Perkerewicz said. “There are people on the golf range that can hit far, and I’m barely making a hundred, [so] that is a goal.” 

     The team meets at the Spring Hill Golf Course’s driving range, practicing from 3:30 to 4:45. “Our practices consist of using the driving range to practice long balls, and then we use the putting green to practice chipping and putting,” the girls’ head coach Kelli Baker said. “Then a lot of our kids will go out and play a few holes on the golf course.” 

     The women’s golf team competes against other schools in the same league in tournaments. The girls are placed in groups of three and play with two other girls from different schools. 

     Tournaments allow girls to improve their skills and meet other kids who are also interested in golf.

     Golf is a sport that you can play until the age where you no longer enjoy it. Golf is a sport where there is no skill requirement, age, or status in order to begin. 

     “Hopefully we’ll start attracting more kids [to play],” Baker said. “It’s really fun and pretty lowkey. It can be as stressful as you want it to be. If you want to be super competitive, then you can go out and play more golf, [so] it’s kind of up to the individual.”