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Real golfers just
don't give a putt
The other day some people
were trying to tell me that golfer's
are athletes. This is absurd of
course, they’re wrong.
Now 1 have nothing against
golfers, but come on, how can
you call a bunch of middle-aged,
overweight, doctors and lawyers
athletes? It just isn’t right.
How hard is it to hit a silly little
ball into a hole? Trn sure it’s rail
difficult. Now I’ll admit I've
never played psuedo golf, but 1
have played close to the real thing
— miniature golf. That’s a real
sport.
This is where you’ll find the
real athletes.
Miniature golf is tough, and I
mean tough. .Only real athletes
can excel in this sport. To be
good at the sport, agility, quick
ness, a feel for the course and a
bright orange little ball are re
quired.
Golfers are quick to defend
their psuedo sport, usually claim
ing something to like, “It’s hard
work. You have to concentrate
and it takes a lot out of you walk
ing around 18 holes.”
Well so does finding your car
in the fish parking lot. You can
walk for hours sometimes and
you have to concentrate just as
hard on where you left your car.
Another feeble attempt at le
gitimizing golf is, “It takes a lot of
skill and not everyone can do it.”
I suppose it does take skill to
drive around in those little carts.
Realistically, I’ve got to believe
that if fat old doctors can play
golf, anyone can do it.
Now take a minute all of you
psuedo athletes and their defend
ers and look at the awesome sport
of miniature golf. It’s a gruelling
and tough sport.
Take the ominous windmill for
example. Every miniature course
worth its weight in putters has a
windmill. This is where the re
fined athletic qualities of the min
iature golfer are put to the test.
JEFF GRAUNKE
Sports Writer
The object is to get your little
orange ball through the base of
the windmill and between the ro
tating blades.
Perfect timing is essential. Now
the toughest part is walking past
the windmill without getting
clubbed in the head. Some minia
ture golf courses require more
agility than others.
Golf courses may have sand
traps and water hazards, but have
you ever seen a golf course with a
dragon? Miniature golf courses
have dragons, bridges, ramps and
moving obstacles.
Quickness isn’t important until
the last hole. It separates the men
from the boys. Here the ball goes
in the cup and doesn’t come out.
The object is to get the little
orange ball into the hole, but then
run to the hole and pull out the
ball before it reaches the point of
no return.
T his is the toughest manuever
known to man. It takes a true
champion golfer to perform this
feat.
If you’re asking, “Can a golfer
do that?” Of course not, if that’s
what you’re asking. Have you
ever seen a golf cart on a minia
ture golf course?
Even if they did allow golf
carts, a golfer couldn’t get out of
his cart fast enough to perform
the toughest manuever known to
mankind.
Now this leads to only one pos
sible conclusion. Miniature golf
ers are the “real” athletes in the
cruel world of birdies and bogies.
Smith earns shot at starting role
No. 16 Ags educate Owls
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Sports Writer
All season long, Texas A&M’s
Terry Condon has been searching
for a sixth position player. Wednes
day night in a 15-5, 15-4 and 15-7
win over Rice, she may have found
her in the form of senior Angi
Smith.
Smith said she didn’t play that
well, but that can be argued.
At one point in the second game,
Rice attempted a spike, Smith
blocked the ball sending it back over
the net. Rice hung tough, forcing
Smith to spike the ball twice before
giving No. 16 A&M a 7-1 lead. In the
third game, Smith scored nine
straight points, stilling the upset-
minded Owls.
Smith said she challenged herself
to serve the ball well against Rice.
“I’ve had a problem with my serve
lately,” Smith said. “I challenged my
self to get the ball in every time.”
Although Condon thought Smith
played well, she’s not ready to name
Smith as the starter for the remain
der of the season.
“Angi played well,” Condon said.
“We’ll just take it game to game. An-
gi’s a better starter and Stacey
(Gildner) and Carolyn (Drury) come
off the bench better.”
Smith said she would rather start,
but she doesn’t mind coming off the
bench.
“If she (Condon) starts me I just
want to make sure I don’t do any
thing to hurt the team,” Smith said.
“Il l come off the bench I will be re
ady to play. I know she has been
shaky in her decision about the sixth
player. I want to play well in practice
and even better in games.”
A&M’s middle blocker Chemine
Doty had 10 kills in the match. In the
second game, Doty four straight
spikes to give the Ags a 5-1 lead en
route to inproving their record to
31-3 overall, 7-1 in Southwest Con
ference play.
Doty said the Aggies needed an
easy victory over the Owls (25-16, 1-
7) to prepare for their next three
crucial matches.
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“I think it was good for us,” Doty
said. “It felt like practice. If we made
a mistake we said, ‘No problem, let’s
g°’-”
The Rice match was A&M’s first
since beating Baylor a week ago. The
players said they were tired of prac
tice — they wanted to play.
“These past few practices have
been monotonous,” Doty said. “Ac
tually, we really love doing horses.”
“I was really glad to play,” sopho
more setter Chris Zogota said. “The
last two practices have been really
hard. We needed to get back in the
swing of things.”
Lesha Beakley, who was given a
rose for her 22nd birthday by the
Dunn Hall “Bleacher Bums” before
the game, said the week off did the
Ags some good.
“It helps to have a few days off
and then come back ready to play,”
Beakley said. “This game just felt
like another practice. We were real
relaxed. Instead of worrying about
how much concentration we had, we
just worried about playing and it
happened.”
Rice Head Coach Debbie Sokol
said the Owls had a definite height
disadvantage against the Ags, but a
bigger lineup probably wouldn’t
have helped.
“Our average is about 5-feet-7,”
Sokol said. “Without the two injuries
we had, we could have had a bigger
lineup. Even if we had a bigger
lineup, I don’t think we could have
done much tonight. A&M is the best
blocking team we’ve played and
Sherri Brinkman is one of the best
blockers in the nation.”
Sokol said the A&M crowd, who
chanted, “Let us play!” and “Is Rice
good in anything?,” riled the Owls
confidence.
“This is the first crowd we’ve
played in front of all year,” Sokol
said. “They kept us from getting in
the groove of things. It especially
rattled my freshmen.”
Condon said she was pleased with
the way the Aggies played and
hoped the win would carry over to
Friday when the Ags host the nation
ally ranked Pepperdine Waves at G.
Photo hy DEAN SAITO
A&M’s Angi Smith (hands up) jumps high to block a ball that
Rice’s Alecia Abraham just bumped in the second game of
Wednesday night’s match in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Rollie White Coliseum at 7:30 p.nj.
“I was pleased with the way we
playedf” Condon said. “We worked
on some things we need for Friday.
This game and the game against San
Diego State we were intense
throughout the match. Pepperdine
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: Texas was de
feated by Houston last night, putting
the Aggies and the Longhorns into a
first place tie in the SWC race at 7-1.)
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