Maycee Kay Aycock and Sarah Marshall of Meredith College did not do well in the USA South Conference Championship golf tournament. The Meredith Avenging Angels were not going to be champions. Aycock and Marshall were the worst college golfers in America. Both women cried in the bathroom, when the mother of another player from another school told them they were heroes and shouldn’t listen to the mean girls.
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The full story is amazing. The Meredith College women’s golf team started the year with six players, but by February was down to only two. They must have four players to compete in tournaments, and they must play a certain number of tournaments to be eligible for the championship. Furthermore, their conference had to have a certain number of teams to participate, and losing Meredith would cost the entire conference a shot at the USA South Conference Championship. Maycee Kay and Sarah answered a campus-wide call for players from coach Jimmy Hamilton and made the team, even though neither had ever finished a complete 18-hole round of golf. They didn’t know the rules. Aycock had no clubs, and Marshall only had a child sized set.
Marshall scored 276 in one round of her first college tournament, which has to be some kind of record. I case you didn’t know, the lowest score wins in golf.
“Did you ever see scores as high as ours?” they asked him.
“I didn’t know scores got this high,” he said.
But no matter how badly they played, and no matter how much they suffered, both physically and psychologically, they stayed with the game for the rest of the year. What Aycock and Marshall had done was save their team, and also saved their conference. You’ll be glad you read about them. -via Metafilter
(Image credit: Meredith College)
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