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2008

New entry: Sept'08

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all gsl







villa de paz coldwater talking stick extrella mountain

New entry: March'08

painted hills 6th tee box
late February, 2008

painted hills 6th tee box
September, 2007

The photos above say it all! We find ourselves struggling to find green grass. No golf courses are open within 100 miles of Spokane. Only place to play is Lewiston area and the tri-city area. Thank goodness for Molly at Trailhead in Liberty Lake. She actually would hand pick the golf balls from the snow on the driving range. She is an example of a modern day ‘entrepreneur’. Creating business where there is no business from the use of a lot of hard work! As for myself, I had to be creative in ways to stay ‘prepared’ for the upcoming 2008 season. Obviously due to the weather I was able to spend time at the gym exercising and stretching. Swinging golf clubs was easy…..just shovel a patch, drop a mat and swing. Unfortunately it would be better if you could actually hit a ball and watch the flight but that was not as easy this year. Finally, my biggest fear is putting. The only practice was on carpet, cement or at the local golf stores.
2007

New entry: Nov.'07

matt seattle


To recap the season I start with the University High School Golf Team. I moved up to varsity level this year; competing in 4 of the 5 GSL (Greater Spokane League) competitions. I also qualified for districts. This year I did better that my freshman season in that I qualified for day two of districts. Unfortunately I came up short and did not make it to High School state championships. The summer golf season turned out much better. I won the local PGA/Junior tournament at Painted Hills Golf Course by shooting a 69. My PGA partner Kit DeAndre of Liberty Lake Golf Course was my partner and we came in 2nd overall. Then I played in the WJGA (Washington State Junior Golf Association) eastern qualifiers. I qualified for districts here also and then at the districts event at the University of Idaho Golf Course in Moscow Idaho I shot 76 & 74 which placed me in a tie for 7th place with two other golfers. In a sudden death playoff I won which gave me last spot from the eastern district for the state championships. Unfortunately I did not perform very well at state but I do feel I learned many things which will help for the future. Immediately following The state championships my dad (David), my sister (Jennifer) and I took a trip to New York city. Click on the link below and see the photo portfolio we made of the vacation!


2007 New York City Vacation
statue of liberty

The competitive golf season is over by labor day in eastern Washington, so now I could focus my efforts on several specific areas in my game. First of which was equipment. At the beginning of this season I purchased a set of titleist 935cm irons with s300 dynamic gold stiff shafts. Not only did they help me but I felt that I began to develop confidence with them. So much so that in many circumstances I would use a long iron rather than a fairway wood or driver. So I had Dynamic gold stuff shafts put in my fairway woods and driver. As I had hoped I immediately realized more consistency! Next was my physical status. I noticed that the bigger the event the more days you play in a row. And I heard how college golfers are required to play 36 holes per one day. Because of this I will actually set time aside during this off season to play 36 holes in per day. And I will also establish an exercise routine to develop certain muscles and fine tune others. Oh, I almost forgot...I will continue to spend more time on the short game....50yards on in.

See you in the spring of '08!

matt sand
Matt, at Links GC in Post Falls, in front of 'new' imported sand for 2007 season

Several things are new from this time last year when I launched this website. First of All I am 16 and I have a drivers license! Secondly, I took a series of golf lessons from Tim McElhinny, the golf pro and proprietor of The Painted Hills Golf Course, hopefully I will shoot lower golf scores and help the U-Hi golf team qualify for state. As far as the website is concerned, it has grown exponentially. I have so many people to thank for this: Mrs. Byers, Mr. Turman, Mr. Ganey, and a special thanks to Mrs. Parsons. Mrs. Parsons helps me get in contact with some of the coaches for interviews and she scans in several pieces of information a week to make the site look so good.

One of the cool things about doing this website is all the people I have met. From teachers/coaches like Mr. Houston who teaches science and coaches the soccer teams, to great athletes like Angie Bjorklund.

2006
My name is Matt Montecucco. I would like to welcome you to my website, which has a three fold purpose.





1. To fulfill my senior culminating project. During my freshman orientation, the Assistant Principal, Curriculum & Instruction – Sherry Clark talked to us about how every student was required to create a ‘senior culminating project’. This was to be a project that contained two essential components – a learning stretch, and a future career connection. Ms. Clark challenged us as incoming freshman to forge ahead in new and developing fields of study; like computers and electronic media (internet). She told us stories about prior students who took outside classes and pushed themselves to accel in new areas. In turn these studies took them to college. In the real world it qualified them for exciting jobs. From a simple senior culminating project careers blossomed!

2.This website is designed to fill a need for young golfers in the Spokane area. As a young person I always wanted to play golf in high school. Unfortunately the U-High/CVSD websites did not fulfill my needs and wants. As a result the summer of my freshman year I completed a basic on-line web design class (HTML). After which I began to design a personal website which would contain lots of the information I was looking for, as a golfer, when I surfed the web. Many of those things are just ‘links’ or quick ways to find information; from equipment, news updates, association references, to archived results of local junior tournaments. But in addition to this I can now provide the U-High Titan golf team with a central place and convenient way to access information! I gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of each of the vendors, associations media and courses for allowing me to place "links" on my website for easy student access.

3. Since I thought that there was an immediate need, I will launch in my sophomore year. As a result current results and archives will be built by the time I am a senior. Have fun surfing and learning golf the ‘Montedamasher’ way!

Designed by: Matt Montecucco, Class of 2009