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As golf legend Arnold Palmer said, “What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.” The drives were certainly flying far for the New Glarus golf team last week.

The Knights competed in three meets in four days at Columbus, at Spring Green, and returned home to Edelweiss Chalet Country Club. The Knights are currently third in the conference, behind Cambridge and Lodi.

At a mini-conference meet in Columbus, Carter Siegenthaler, Ben Lukszys, and Zak Arnett led the Knights with scores of 47, 48, and 49, respectively; and Jackson Erstad carded 52, giving the Knights a third place finish out of the nine conference teams.

Traveling to the scenic House on the Rock course in Spring Green, the Knights took fourth place in the mini-conference match-up. Ben Lukszys booked a 42 on the par 36 course; Carter Siegenthaler and Nolan Bodenstein both shot 46; Zak Arnett, 48; and Jack Douma, 50.

The Swiss Cup is a special Green County tradition involving a friendly 18-hole dual meet between the Knights and the Monroe Cheesemakers varsity teams. Match play scoring is used in this meet instead of stroke play; match play uses the number of holes won rather than the lowest number of strokes. Of the 90 holes played (18 holes x 5 players/team), New Glarus edged out Monroe by just 2 holes, and won the Swiss Cup for the fourth straight year.

The Knights traveled to Lodi for a mini-conference meet May 10, returned home May 11 for an invitational meet, and travel to Monroe Golf Club for another invitational May 13.