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west nine holes of the renovat-
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jurse opens December 15.
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course, said the nine opening for
play would be the same nine holes
that were open until the course
closed last spring. He added, how
ever, there may not be much re
semblance to last year’s course.
Golfers returning to the course
will find large undulating greens
guarded by 32 new sparkling-
white sand traps on the west nine,
reported Wallace Menn, golf
course superintendent. Menn noted
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the greens, fairways and tee boxes
have been overseeded for winter
and are in excellent condition. He
added that rough spots due to
contract work still exist, but will
be “healed over” on a continuing
basis.
Menn emphasized that although
the west nine was being opened
for play, the renovation program
for the course was far from com
pleted.
“Normally it takes from two
to three years from start to com
plete recovery when a golf course
is renovated,” he noted. “That
doesn’t mean the course is not
playable, it simply means that
continued conditioning is neces
sary to get complete cover and
work out drainage and other prob
lems.”
Menn added that sand traps will
be dug and filled on the east por
tion of the course as weather per
mits and it should be ready for
play by spring.
He noted landscaping projects
will continue on the course as a
part of the new landscape archi
tecture option in golf course de
sign-construction and the new turf
management program, but empha
sized these would not interfere
with play.
He noted that while only nine
holes will be open, players will be
able to play the same nine from
a different set of tees offering
quite a different set of circum
stances for 18 holes.
Harrison said that the golf
course snac bar will be reoponed
along with the course on Saturday
for golfers and other patrons.
Green fees will be those estab
lished previously by the Golf
Course Advisory Committee of $2
on weekdays and $3 on weekends
for faculty, staff and former stu
dents, and $3 on weekdays and $5
on weekends for guests.
Semester membership fees also
are available. The rate for faculty,
staff and former students will be
$30 per semester. A wife, husband
or child can be included in the se
mester fee at the additional rate
of $6 per person.
A special guest rate of $40 per
person is available on a semester
basis, with provisions for spouses
and children to be included at an
additional rate of $8 per person.
Rates for TAMU students re
main $1.50 any day of the week.
Semester rates are $16 per stu
dent and $4 for spouse or child.
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THE BATTALION Page 11
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1973
By Ted Boriskie, Assistant Sports Editor
When the A&M swim team defeated Texas Tech Friday they
merely continued in their winning ways. Many of the swimmers had
been conditioned not to lose in an organization known as the water
polo club.
When a net is placed in the water, the Aggie tankers become
deadly as the water polo team’s record this year was 19-4 with a 63-10
mark for the past three seasons.
In fact, the Aggies are so unchallenged when it comes to water
polo supremacy in the area that they took first and third in both the
varsity and the freshman divisions in the Southwest Water Polo
Championships held here last month.
On a trip to California, where water sports is a way of life, the
Aggies posted a 7-1 record, defeating the likes of San Francisco State
University and the University of Santa Clara. To post such a record in
the Golden West would be a feat of which any team could be proud but
it is especially rewarding for the Aggies.
Most of the teams A&M played against are sanctioned by their
schools, while the Aggies must suffer through the pauper’s existence of
being a club sport. This means all expenses for the trip to California,
plus trips to New Mexico and Arkansas, had to come from the players
themselves. To raise this money, the team members had to go through a
conditioning that is completely foreign to the other seven major sports
on campus—financial training.
In order to be able to afford to go to the coast, the team had to
report to Kyle Field early Sunday morning following each home
football game. Once there, this financial training (some prefer to call it
cleaning up the stadium) would begin. In other words, A&M’s winningest
program has to clean up after its losingest. It was not your average
clean-up crew picking up the empty Coke cups on Sunday mornings
this fall; it was Athletes in Action.
Once in California, motels were out of the question. The players
slept wherever they could find a room, usually in the homes of
relatives.
For the trip to New Mexico, the 50 team members that made the
journey did so via privately-owned vehicles. This resulted in a blown
engine and $700 repair job for Fosdick as his van tried to make
Lubbock its final resting place.
This may not be as bad as it sounds. All the suffering and
discomfort probably aids in team unity. The players don’t seem to
mind much as they keep on competing, which means they must either
love the sport or they’re crazy.
Still, one could not possibly expect a swimmer to be in to shape
to compete in a tournament after a two-day drive cramped in the back
seat of a car with the additional burden of mid-term exams added on
just for grins.
Not everyone views the A&M water polo team with the same
unconcern shown here.
“We were covered real well on our trip to California,” said
Fosdick. “We were the only out of state team competing in the
(Northern California) tournament and we always received favorable
treatment from the press.
Articles on the team have also appeared in recent issues of
“Swimming World” and “Water Polo Scoreboard.”
A&M has some of the best players in the-country, biifeldiey can’t
get the playing experience and renown they deserve by playing on a
club.
A&M’s Lester Hamann, who has a brother who is an all-world
goalie, was impressive against top competition all season long.
“Lester could be one of the best water polo players in the
world,” said Fosdick, “if he was just a little meaner.”
Younger players, such as sophomore Jim Yates and freshman Don
Reeser, lead us to believe that our water polo has a future that should
match its past.
So A&M’s water polo team gets my vote as the best athletic
program on campus. This honor, however meager it may be, is like most
of the other many honors awarded to the tankers; there is no cash along
with it.
Maybe in a couple of years we can call our water polo team
something other than our poverty program.
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