The boys’ golf team is extremely excited to start their new season. With a few matches already played, OHS hopes to win the district-wide championship. The school is positively certain that the boys team can bring home the gold.
Jeff Williams has stepped up as their new coach this season. Long time players are excited for the possibilities their new coach will bring to the program.
“I’ve coached boys golf for about 18 years. It’s my first time on the boys’ side over here,” said Jeff Williams, boys’ golf coach.
With the start of this new season, Coach Williams plans to run things differently. This will steer the team towards a newfound success and the growth of their skills.
“He said he’s gonna run things a lot differently, but honestly I think that’s a good thing, sometimes different things are better,” said Noah Kaoni,senior.
Coach Williams’ goal with boys golf this season is to greatly improve the team overall.
“The Deer Valley cup, and the state tournament is a really good goal, but really just keep getting better everyday. We had a really good start to the season with tryouts,” Williams said.
He hopes to achieve this by motivating the team to help each other and to improve their team building skills with one another.
“As long as we focus on pushing each other and getting better, good things are gonna happen. Coach Cross left a very good team; they seem to support each other,” Williams said.
Following a legacy set up well, Coach Williams is going to continue to help the team improve this season through building the players relationship’s with each other
“This year with Williams he is more of a team chemistry guy, so we got to build our chemistry and we gotta get up there,” said Colby King, senior.
Although golf is a physical sport, players describe it more as a mental sport. In other sports like basketball and football, there are people yelling and it’s difficult to focus in that environment. In golf however, everyone is silent; making it easy to let the player’s intrusive thoughts control them and make it more likely to mess up.
“It’s you versus you out there,” King said.
Golf is a more time consuming game, with that extra time your mind can work against you, causing mental fatigue and making you slip up when you take swings.
“You gotta persevere through the bad shots, you gotta push through, and it’s tough,” King said.
Overall the boys golf team is looking to go above and beyond this season, improving their already great skills and winning matches along the way.
“We’re just going to keep improving. We had a great season last year and we just want to keep getting better,” Williams said.
