“It’s a little different for the girls, because they have to play from the white tees just like the rest of the guys,” Weidner said. “I’m sure they like the competition. They don’t back down from it, I know that. They like that part of the game.”
Forrester and Lawwill are in their first years with the team, Fassler is enjoying her third year on the boys squad. Matt Smith, one of the team’s top scorers so far this season, said it’s been an easy transition for the two rookies.
“I was friends with (Forrester and Lawwill) before the season started, so I’ve been happy to help them out whenever they’d need it,” Smith said. “I’ve seen them developing their skills a lot since they first started playing on the team. They’ve dropped probably 10 strokes from their scores already this season.”
Smith said opponents don’t seem to mind playing against the girls, but Weidner recalled a Dixie player who lamented he wasn’t about to lose to a girl, prior to a recent match.
Well, the Greyhound player didn’t lose. He finished in a tie, with Fassler.
“It’s different sometimes being the only girl (in a group of boys golfers), but I like it,” Fassler said. “It’s a great challenge for us, but it’s also a lot of fun.”
Forrester and Lawwill see golf as a way to bond with their family members who golf.
“It’s something for me and my grandpa to do together during the summer and fall,” Forrester said. A Mohawk basketball player as well, Forrester is a two-month-long veteran of golf.
“Same with me and my dad. It’s something that we can both do together,” Lawwill, a distant cousin to Middletown golfer Allie Lawwill, said. The toughest part for her is balancing her pre-college classes at Miami University with cheerleading practices and golf.
Weidner let the girls hit from Brown’s Run Country Club’s shorter distanced red tees on Wednesday. That’s the approximate distance they’ll hit from when they compete in the girls golf sectionals at the end of the season.
The three girls will compete individually in the Division II sectional, scheduled for Sept. 27 at Fairfield Golf Club.
Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2851 or jbombatch@coxohio.com.
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