It gives me great pleasure to introduce Player of The Month, Golfer Bryon Wood. Bryon has definitely earned this prestigious award after an unbeaten month of sport, a run lasting for over a year. Along with his solo success, the University’s Golf Team sits at top of the league with a deciding fixture to confirm their place as Champions and a Semi-final to come. His success, along with the teams, is further highlighted by the fact that the teams they are playing in both competitions are primarily from sports orientated University’s meaning more funding, support and a higher level of competitiveness. In any case, Bryon and his team mates are usually supposedly the ‘underdogs’ but credit to them they don’t win by luck but seem to be holding their own on merit.
This made me wonder what his secret could be. We see films designed to make us believe that the ‘underdogs’ can sometimes win but we usually just take it on a fictional basis. I had to wonder was he such a golf extremist that he played all the time and stayed away from the student lifestyle of beer and take-away to concentrate on his golf. On putting the question to him he responded, with a beer in his hand, ‘Nope, I’m a fair weather player’. The more I spoke with him, the more I looked at him as a real role model for anyone wanting to do sports. He didn’t try to make out he didn’t drink with the lads or laze about on a Sunday morning but that by just enjoying your sport you can have a great time, make some great friends and still have a sneaky pint or two.
I hope you’ll all agree he seems to be playing his sport with the right mind frame and may he have success in his up-coming big matches, especially a national tournament he may be entering at the Forest of Arden in coming months. Let’s hope Hull’s Sergio Garcia (his favourite player) can bring back come medal’s for us.
Phil Humphrey
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