Kline makes all-star team

By SCOTT
BORKGREN
Reporter

It was a good thing Taylor Kline enjoyed spending three days playing golf in Casper July 21-23, it may have to last her awhile.

Kline was invited to the 2010 Wyoming Coaches Association North/South All Star Games in Casper. The events included golf, volleyballand boys and girls basketball.

“It was a lot of fun,” Kline said. “We got to play with a lot of kids from all over the state.”

Kline is leaving for Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, Aug. 19 to compete on its girls golf team. Her first college tournament is August 27.

“I am really excited,” she said. “I am kind of nervous too because I haven’t seen any of the other girls on my team play and I will arrive Aug. 20 and our first tournament is Aug. 27.”

The only time Kline visited the team’s course was in January, when the green grass was buried under white snow.

With one month to go before starting her college career, Kline drove to Casper College to play three rounds with 19 other golf all-stars across all four divisions. Only six of the 19 golfers were girls.

On a rain-shortened Wednesday at Three Crowns Golf Club, the duffers were only able to finish nine holes. Kline described her round as “kind of rough,” but played much better the next day. All golfers played singles rounds on Wednesday. Kline finished with a 52, well below her average.

After eating dinner out and having some fun on the town, everyone got some rest in the Casper College dorms before driving 10 minutes across town to the Paradise Valley Golf Club.

“It was fun,” Kline said about the dorms. “It was kind of empty because nobody was living there, but I had a good time.”

In between rounds, Kline and a few of her fellow allstar golfers found time to enjoy the Casper night life. Trips to the bowling alley and Cold Stone Creamery were definitely included in the all-star festivities. Ultimately, staying in the dorms instead of driving 15 minutes home to Glenrock each evening didn’t pose a problem, which is probably a good thing because the drive home is going to get much longer very soon.

Kline teamed up with two other girls in a bestball round Thursday. She finished with a score of 84.

“They made it really fun for us, rather than a real tournament, which would be stressful and more difficult to play. They really just made it so that we could go enjoy ourselves. It was really fun. It wasn’t stressful. It was a really good time,” Kline said.

Things were mixed up one more time when everyone teed up at the Municipal Golf Course Friday morning. This time, it was a two-man scramble. Kline teamed up with a boy from Cody to shoot a 78.

Contrary to an average scramble on a Sunday afternoon, there were no long drive prizes, no closest to the pin prizes, no longest putt prizes. It was just 20 kids from across the state enjoying three rounds of summer golf.

“(The courses) were really good. They were all really nice and enjoyable to play,” Kline said.

It was a good thing, because come August, the courses Kline plays will be lined with corn instead of mountains.

This is part of the July 29, 2010 online edition of The Glenrock Independent.

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