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am very pleased to share with you the success that our Central Alabama Community College Trojan Golf Team has realized this 2021 fall season. The boys started the year in letting a 36-hole lead slide through our fingers to finish in second place at the Wallace State Dan York Memorial Tournament. At the time it happened, I was disappointed. When we returned, we talked about what happened and worked extremely hard. Since that first tournament loss, CACC Golf has won each of the following four tournaments and launched our national rankings to second in the NJCAA, third in Golfstat and fourth in the Bushnell/Golfweek polls. After all the years here, I still get excited in the successes of the team and for my players. This fall, along with the four-tournament team wins, we also had two individual wins. Hayden Carner won in Decatur at Burningtree Country Club, and Tanner Guthrie won in Jasper at Musgrove Country Club. This was crazy: In a NCAA D-2 event in September, CACC crushed the one-day low team total in all of college golf records in shooting 29 under par in a single round, in counting the four best scores of five players. The wins are great, and we strive to achieve wins in every tournament, but there are other things that are always in the works, things that can be more satisfying than the tournament wins. When any of my players makes a clear
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and determined commitment to the next step of his life, I find a different but greater satisfaction in these decisions. Presently, there are a couple opportunities on the table, and a couple of choices have already been made. One of these commitments came a little earlier than I expected, but we will manage. Jarod Edwards of McDonough, Georgia, has accepted a golf scholarship to play for Dalton State University this spring. This is the first time I have ever had a player, who had contributed to the team’s successes in the fall, to leave and not participate with us in the spring semester. I know the coach, the college and the program. There’s not a university that would be a Dave Jennings better fit for Jarod than Dalton State. Even though he played a big part in our team’s fall success, I believe we will be fine. I have a few players who are ready to step up to fill his spot. We wish Jarod all the best. The other commitment is Hayden Carner. Hayden will
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