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Weekly Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Summer golfers on course full time this year
By JON FULBRIGHT
Aspiring Pecos golfers got right to work Tuesday
morning at
the Reeves County Golf Course, during the first day of the
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah
ISD summer golf program.
“We had more sign up this morning,” said golf
coach Tina
Doan, who once again is in charge of the program this year. “Right now
we’ve
got about 50 kids signed up.”
“I’m real pleased with the turnout so far. There
are still
some signing up, and some will be going on vacation before it’s over
and some
will be coming back,” she added.
The classes run Monday through Thursday during
June, and
unlike past years, when part of the summer program was held at the
Crockett
Middle School football field, Doan said all of the classes will be at
the golf
course this time around.
“The people at the golf course have been real
generous about
us using the driving range, and they haven’t been very busy in the
mornings, so
instead of having it one week here and one week there, we’ll have it
out here
all the time.”
“I’ve also got two helpers helping me, so we can
have them
chipping and putting at the same time,” Doan added. Lauren Martinez,
who
graduated from Pecos High School last year, and Sarah McKinney, who
graduated
this past Friday, are Doan’s assistants for the summer.
Both were members of the 2003 Pecos Eagles’ golf
team that
placed second in the Class 3A state golf tournament.
Between that finish and this past season, when the
Eagles’
golf team finished third at the Region I-3A Tournament,
Doan was diagnosed with cancer, and has been
undergoing treatment, including surgery two weeks ago in Dallas. She
said
having Martinez and McKinney helping her this summer will also allow
the
program to continue as normal while she continues her treatments.
“That’s why I have my helpers, because I’m not
released
yet,” she said. “I have to go back to Dallas every two weeks during the
summer,
and I didn’t want the program to quit, so that’s why I’ve got my two
helpers
out here.”
Doan said the largest group of students in the
program right
now is the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders,
who
practice mid-mornings. “The first and second grade group also had quite
a few,”
she said.
On Tuesday, the younger golfers were just working
at hitting
the ball with their irons towards the driving range yard markers.
“We’re just
going to do this for this week, then we’ll chip and putt for a week,
and then
we’ll let them go out and play the course to get ready for our little
tournament,” Doan said, referring to the tournament held for the
golfers on the
final two days of the summer program’s season.
Pecos Enterprise
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324 S. Cedar St., Pecos, TX 79772
Phone 432-445-5475, FAX 432-445-4321
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