Season in full swing
A young golfer from Davenport, who plays as an individual since the school doesn’t have a golf team, has medaled in each tournament he’s played in this year.
Fisher Reed, 18 and a junior at Davenport High School, said he competes in Class 2A. Fisher is scheduled to participate in a tournament today at Perkins.
He would have played in one at Guthrie on Tuesday of this week, but he missed it due to taking the ACT that day, he said.
Fisher is the son of Nicole and John Greenfield who is his stepdad and his golf coach.
The high school junior said he shot a 76 at Sapulpa this year and lost on a scorecard playoff after tying for first. “I shot an 80 at Wewoka and was second there. I had an 85 at Stroud and got fourth after tying for third and losing on the scorecard,” he noted. “And I shot an 81 at Henryetta and was seventh.”
Fisher said, “I got started playing golf in the sixth grade. John has taught me since that time.”
Asked about his chances of making it to the state tournament this year he stated, “I think I can. I placed second in Regionals as an individual and was 14th in the state last year.”
He also believes, “It’s pretty good, nice to be coached by my stepdad and different than being coached by someone else.”
Fisher added, “I do plan to go to college and play golf, but major in Criminal Justice. I’d like to do the OSBI or FBI,” he said.
Some other Lincoln County schools are offering golf to their students as well.
At Stroud, Mason Baade coaches a boys team and has three girls playing as individuals.
“Our boys definitely have done pretty good,” Baade thinks. “We’ve played in three tournaments so far. We had an early match at Purcell, had Luther at the Firelake Golf Course in Shawnee March 22 and we hosted one at the Stroud course.
“We won ours at Stroud, but we didn’t place at Purcell or Luther, though we did have some individuals place. As a team we shot 383 at Stroud, shot 399 at Purcell and 386 against Luther,” Baade noted.
He said Brian Wolfe shot a 78 at Purcell and placed fourth. Wolfe carded an 81 and was fifth against Luther and at the Stroud tournament had a score of 83.
Baade pointed out, “We’ve been under 400 in each tournament we’ve played and that’s been our goal. As we move closer to the Regionals and the state, we’d like to be 360-370 as a team,” he added. Baade stressed, “Our girls are pretty young. We only played in one tournament so far and that was at Seminole.”
He said he has only has three individuals who played, with Addisyn Neeley scoring a 138, Sage Hightower had a 133 and Taylor Gunter carded a 121.
“This is Taylor’s third year to be in golf but only the second year to play due to COVID. She has potential to make state,” Baade believes, noting, “She made it last year. She’s a junior.”
He related that Sage and Addisyn are both freshmen and this is their first year to be in high school sports.
Baade said the girls played at Stroud last Monday and his boys are scheduled to be in Perkins today.
At Chandler, girls coach Kent Franz has three who play as individuals.
“We played two tournaments last week,” he said. All three played on March 28 at Seminole and two played the International Course at Cedar Valley near Guthrie on Thursday.
“My No. 1 golfer Delaney Haney matched her personal best with a 95 and placed ninth,” Franz said, following the outing at Guthrie. He said she shot the same score at Seminole that week as well.
At Cedar Valley, he noted they only medaled five players. “It was so cold and for her to shoot 95 in those conditions I was really proud of her as I was of our No. 2 golfer Caroline McCalip. She shot 112.
“She’s improved by five shots in each of the three tournaments we’ve played in. Our No. 3 golfer Kenzie Cowden, who shot 115 on Monday at Seminole, had the flu and didn’t make the trip to Cedar Valley,” Franz stated.
All three of the golfers are seniors.
“The wind chill has been below 40 degrees in two of the three tournaments we’ve played,” Franz commented.
“I don’t have a team but we enter all these tournaments as individuals. Trying to get them to improve each time out and each tournament they play in. I tell them you can’t change the last shot, all you can worry about is the next shot,” Franz stated.
The coach said the three will play Friday at Perkins.