2026-2027 Season
Issue 3
Cardinal Golf Fans❗️
At Rice University in 1962, US President Kennedy said , referencing the nation’s space program, “we choose to do these things….not because they are easy but because they are hard”.
Golf is hard! Life is hard! We’ve been having a lot of these conversations at practice recently. We play an incredibly challenging sport, it’s not easy, it is really, really hard, and that is in largepart why we choose this journey. This passion to persevere day in and day out allows us to grow + develop real, long lasting skills that will serve us well in to the future.
Some of these skills form our identity as a program: DISCIPLINE, INTELLIGENCE + COURAGE. This identity can be easily quantifiable through the extensive access we have to both hard and soft data. And, upon reflecting on our first few weeks and first two tournaments we have been able to take ownership, look in the mirror and acknowledge that we are not executing our desired IDENTITY. We have not been doing the simple things well enough. With every failure comes opportunity, so with our honest and humble assessments of late we are taking collective action to clean up these failings and “do the simple things better”. We must always focus on the SOLUTIONS and not the PROBLEMS.
All that being said, we have so many data points that we are able to measure that show MASSIVE amounts of growth. Ultimately, if we keep improving daily; the 1%s + the marginal gains, we will continue to get closer and closer to achieving our goals. So, there is wonderful, tangible evidence of growth but also we must accept we have much more work to do, and fortunately we are committed to doing whatever it takes.
Next Up:
We tee it up again this coming weekend in Jonesboro, Arkansas hosted by Arkansas State.
Thank you as always for your continued support.
Go Cards❗️
Thomas Kearney
Head Men’s Golf Coach
UIW
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