Fore!...feet of snow presents a challenge for local golfers
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Chinook senior Carrie Hofer follows through on the driving simulator. The series of dots in the center of the screen show where he ball would have landed on the fairway and how far it went. Hofer is a senior at CHS and placed sixth in last year's state meet.
Jeff Finley had a golf simulator for several years in a building adjacent to the old "Blaine County Journal" office on Indiana. He and I discussed doing a story about the simulator, but it had some malfunction, then the paper moved and the simulator went off my radar.
A couple of weeks ago Finley said, "Hey, as soon as a new part arrives the Chinook golf team will be using the simulator to practice." That got me thinking about the challenges of a long winter and how it affects spring sports for local high schoolers.
Years ago a student at the University of North Dakota told me, "We play 40-40...
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