Timothy Hamm

Past Entries

Entry 1

October 1, 2003

This week we hopped in the bus for Greensboro, N.C., to play the most difficult course of the year, The Cardinal. Guilford College is the host of this tournament.

The bus ride up was filled with animal noises ranging from crows to a teradactyls. Five hours on the bus leads very mature college students to resort to immature acts.

We survived the bus trip and made it to the practice round where we watched our No. 2 man, Mike Lebow, shoot around 100. The week looked pretty grim.

But, somehow after the first round Mike was two shots off the lead with a 73. After finishing third after the first day, Jason's dad brought us the greatest gift of all, a converter for a Playstation 2 so we could play Tiger Woods. The greatest video game of all time and a nice dinner at The Olive Garden made for a great night.

Round two didn't start out too well when Mike hit a house on the second hole and I was six over through six holes. Mike scraped his way around hitting only seven greens to shoot 75 and I birdied my next three holes to shoot a respectable 75 after a not-so-wonderful start.

Jason was two under through four holes, but doubled his fifth and ended up with a 76. Dan Ofman and Chris Clarke played solid golf to round out our top five and help us finish fourth overall in the tournament. Fourth is our best finish at this tournament in many years and puts us in good position for a bid to the NCAA nationals next spring.

Finally we got back to the bus, where the fun began again. Animal noises filled the bus and the journey began. Arby's is where we made Keith proud. Jason spun his cell phone so we could leave a voice message of animal noises and Jason's tuberculosis voice. The first road trip of the year was fun, but I think Coach is wondering what he has gotten himself into.

Timothy Hamm is a junior from Niskayuna, N.Y.. He would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.