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Starburst: Survival of the fittest
Standing in the pavilion at Cottonwood this afternoon, I became keenly aware that I’m in serious need of a haircut.
I had parked my car in the Waco ISD Stadium parking lot, as I do pretty much every time I hit Cottonwood during the Starburst — the golf course lot is a traffic jam waiting to happen during the big junior golf event. So I was too far away to walk back and get a hat.
Honestly, I didn’t care that my hair was blowing everywhere. It helped me come to the realization that the Starburst Championship flights — really every flight — was wide open on Wednesday.
Portland Rosen from Sugar Land posted a 2-under 70 at Cottonwood in the Girls’ Championship flight to run away with it. She had the best score in the wind by five strokes.
Ford Fischer of Plano started the Boys’ Championship flight with a three-stroke lead. If he can shoot even par, I’m pretty sure he’ll win. But if he shoots 5-over or worse, which it could be extremely easy to do on a day like today, it’s anybody’s tournament. Going into today, there were 15 golfers with scores between second-place 155 and 159.
ALSO, Lesly Rascoe from the Chamber of Commerce just called me to tell me that there’s been another Starburst hole-in-one. Jessica Rogina from Houston, playing in the Girls’ 9-10 flight, aced the third hole at Connally Golf Course. That hole was playing at 90 yards for the 9-10-year-olds on Wednesday. That’s three aces for the week thus far.
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