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Colonial Forge High School - 550 Courthouse Road, Stafford, VA

Colonial Forge High School - 550 Courthouse Road, Stafford, VA

A Colonial Forge Student Media Publication

Colonial Forge High School - 550 Courthouse Road, Stafford, VA

A Colonial Forge Student Media Publication

Colonial Forge High School - 550 Courthouse Road, Stafford, VA

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Golf Team

“I didn’t even know we had a golf team.” is a common answer you get from Colonial Forge students about our golf team.

Whether you have a blue and green painted face, or are calmly watching a golfer hit their ball, both have one common relationship: Forge pride.

Both varsity golfers on the CFHS golf team, juniors Cole Migliorini and Sawyer Chaffin say that they would like to see the team get more attention.

“I would like to be in the limelight like football players,” says Chaffin.

So why don’t more students go to support their friends or siblings? Some students say that it’s extremely boring or that golf is not a real sport.

Migliorini said he wasn’t sure how students could show their support for the golf team. “Honestly, I have no clue. When you go to a golf tournament you are supposed to be quiet, not loud and obnoxious like you would be at a football game.”

Since you are not allowed to walk around the golf course with your shirt off and paint on every inch of your body, students easily could find a golf tournament boring. The weather also plays a major role; if the weather was hot and humid, students wouldn’t want to stand outside for hours at a time to watch their best friend or sibling golf.

Mr. Mike Grady, Colonial Forge’s head golf coach said, “It would be a welcoming surprise if students showed up to the tournaments, but they are in the summer and on Mondays so it’s difficult.”

Grady also said that since a lot more kids play on the football team, it’s much easier for students to know the football players. There are only 14 students on the golf team.

Not only are there few students on the team, it is not a revenue-generating sport like football, where they make a great deal of money.

This season, the golf team finished fourth out of nine teams in our district, with Riverbend finishing first. The team’s last district title was in 2002.

The team practices Monday through Thursday at Augustine Golf Club from three to five or five thirty when they don’t have tournaments. When they don’t have a tournament coming up, they go to the driving range to practice, then they putt, and some of the players will play 9 holes, which is half of an actual game.

Before all tournaments, Grady tells his team to eat a balanced meal. During a tournament, the team has to walk about three and a half miles for about five hours, while carrying their golf clubs.

The team had their district tournament Monday, September 24th, with Cole Migliorini  making it to regionals.

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