If you ask students around campus about the

golf team the answer you might come across is

“We have a golf team?” or “I don’t really know

anybody on the team.”

With so many sports teams at

Lane to watch or participate in,

sometimes sports teams that are

less popular get lost in the mix.

Lane’s golf team fits this profile.

Ciaran McCarthy, Div. 553,

is the captain of the team. He

recognizes that the sport has a

low profile at Lane.

“Unfortunately, I feel that

people don’t really have much

appreciation for the team because frankly they are unaware

of its existence,” McCarthy

said.

Thomas Hurley, Div. 755, also feels that the golf

team has a lack of appreciation.

“Last year we placed third in city finals and I

didn’t even hear an announcement for us,” Hurley

said.

McCarthy reasons that watching a game of golf

is not like watching other sports.

“It’s not the most exciting sport to watch, which

would explain the underappreciation of it,” McCarthy said.

Alexander Milne, Div. 762, also says most of

Lane is not aware of the team’s existence. According to him it is due to the small audience golf attracts.

“The game has a very exclusive country club, old money,

stereotype,” Milne said.

Although thats what he

thinks the outside eye sees,

Milne plays with mostly “blue

collar” people. He learned the

game of golf from his father,

who is an electrician.

The game has brought a lot

to Milne. He can usually be

found practicing his stroke

and learning whatever he can

do to be better. He took part in The First Tee

program which is a golf and leadership program

centered around showing kids how the game of

golf applies to real life. As a result of the program

Milne got the chance to go to California to par-
take in the leadership summit.

In order for the sport to grow and also get more

recognition Milne would like to see golf broaden

its horizons and garner more accessibility to the

average person. He also would like to see more

women involved in the sport.

McCarthy has been around the game of golf for

awhile. He has spent his summers as a caddy since

he was in eighth grade. He got into playing golf

at Lane after wanting to add another sport to his

repertoire. McCarthy considers his main sport to

be wrestling.

Though Hurley is younger, he has been playing

golf longer than McCarthy. Hurley began playing

at the young age of four under the instruction of

his father. He enjoys competing and finds golf to

be more fun than it looks.

Hurley does not think that the casual student

spectator takes the sport seriously.

“You might think that it’s one of those teams

where nobody cares to try and we’re ‘just playing

golf’ but it’s very competitive,” Hurley said.

It was that competitiveness that drove them to

city finals this past year.

“The competitiveness isn’t really noticeable, but

you can definitely feel it in the atmosphere if you

are there,” McCarthy said.

In reality, the golf team is not too different from

Lane’s other teams. They practice and go out

there and play their game just like all the other

teams do.