Golfer Said Team Growing Through Struggles

With the final fall event underway Monday and Tuesday, Tennessee Tech junior golfer Haden Maxwell said this fall has been far from ideal for the team on the course.

This year’s Golden Eagle golf roster features five new faces to the program with only four golfers returning from last year. Maxwell said this fall has been an opportunity for Tech to find its bearings moving forward.

“We’ve struggled this fall,” Maxwell said. “It’s kind of getting us the sense of what we need to do. And it’s like prelude to our next semester, to where it really matters the most and win another conference championship.”

Last May the Golden Eagles captured a conference championship for the first time since 1990, Maxwell said he cannot emphasis enough how much more meaningful a team win is over an individual achievement. He said forming friendships among the new teammates has been a major focus this fall.

“That is most important when it comes to a team aspect, is just enjoying everybody’s company,” Maxwell said. “Which makes you want to be out here and try and help everybody achieve the same goal, because everybody wants to win a conference championship.”

While the team as a whole has been struggling, Maxwell has been playing solid golf and logging more than solid scorecards. This past week at the Pinetree Intercollegiate tournament in Kennesaw, Georgia, Maxwell tied for eighth among the field of over 60 golfers.

Tech finished in last place in a field of ten teams. With next week’s trip to Cincinnati being their last fall tournament, Maxwell said it’s their goal to put the pieces together and win as a team.

“I think we just need to be mentally tough as a team,” Maxwell said. “Because, it is probably going to be really cold and the course i already very difficult. So, I think for us as a team to call it a success, is to have done our best no matter the circumstances that have occurred.”