Mike Lebow

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March 26, 2005

Our team spent the latter half of spring break competing in the Jekyll Island Invitational in southern Georgia. Although the stories and events from the first half of spring break may be more entertaining, my better judgment tells me to summarize (and censor) the week's occurrences. Let's be honest… my mom reads these diary entries.

To begin spring break, five of us took advantage of our free week by packing up a couple cars and traveling down to Florida. Minus the necessary spring break detours to Orlando, Cocoa Beach and South Beach, we spent most of our time playing golf at an alumnus' course in Port St. Lucie.

A former member of the golf team who graduated a couple years ago was gracious enough to let us crash at his place for a couple nights and provided us with full access to a great Jack Nicklaus signature course. The highlight of the week came on a 220-yard, par-three hole where I smoothed a three-iron right into the cup for my first hole-in-one. After a whole lot of screaming and a lap around the tee box, I then dove into the pond next to the tee in celebration.

After an incredible couple of days in Florida, we got back to business when we arrived at the Oleander Course on Jekyll Island Thursday morning for our practice round. Although we all had our ups and downs during the week, it proved to be a very successful tournament for us.

Freshman Drew Harker stepped up big for us in the final round with an even-par 72 to contribute to a team score of 297 and a very respectable fourth-place finish against some of the top competition in Division III. Tristan Sanders also had a breakthrough tournament, firing our low round of the week, 70, in the second round and finishing 16th overall.

Unfortunately, Keith and I both proved that miniature golf courses are not the only places where 12-inch putts aren't "gimmes." My conclusion is that our seniors are just saving up their good rounds to put a little pressure on the rest of us. But don't worry, they'll be back with a vengeance next week at Camp Lejeune.

As for now, it's back to reality and catching up on schoolwork. We have the weekend and early next week to get some good practice in before leaving for Camp Lejeune on Wednesday.

This week will also provide us with the opportunity to watch our second team compete in a dual match against Brandeis, who is traveling down from Massachusetts for the weekend. We are all looking forward to the upcoming competitions and just waiting for everything to come together… cause when it does, WATCH OUT DIII!

Mike Lebow is a junior from Royersford, Pa. He would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.