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The Red and Black
Thursday, April 22,1982
Cook’s strong play leads
golfers through season
Expects good showing
from team at weekend
Chris Schenkel Invite.
Mike Cook: My dad is the biggest influence on my game
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By KATHY RAFFERTY
Red and Black ('ontrlbullng Writer
Strong and consistent play
are marks of a good golfer,
and senior Mike Cook has ex
hibited these characteritsics
while playing at golf courses
around the nation.
During the spring season,
Cook has led the team with a
71.6 average. He has shot
two low rounds of 67, one
during the first day of the
Gator Invitational, in which
he placed fifth, and the other
during the first day of the
Southern Junior-Senior In
vitational, which he won.
Cook’s fifth place showing
in the Gator Invitational
helped Georgia to its first-
place finish, and thus it’s
fifth-place national ranking
by Golf Digest early this spr
ing.
But Cook hasn’t always
been one of the top golfers on
the team. For his first two
years on the team, he played
along with Griff Moody, who
was a 1978-1979 All-America
and led Georgia to a second
place finish in the NCAA
tournament, Georgia's
highest finish ever. Just in
the past two years has
Cook’s game come together
and he's become an
established team player.
Since Cook has been play
ing since he was five years
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old, there are times when he
gets tired of golf and
everything that goes along
with it.
“Sometimes I just want to
sleep all day and not have to
worry about practice," he
says “But then when you
play a good tournament it
makes it all worth it."
Cook began his career in
Cartersville when his father
took him out on the course at
the young age of five. These
trips eventually led Cook’s
dad to cut off a set of clubs
for him.
“My dad is the biggest in
fluence on my game,” says
Cook. “He has definitely
made the difference in how I
play, and he has given me
confidence in my game.”
A large portion of Cook's
days are spent sharpening
his game for the tour
naments. He keeps a steady
workout schedule with the
rest of the team, usually get
ting in a couple practice
rounds and tuning up his put
ting game.
"I usually practice right
up to the day before the tour
nament,” Cook says. “If I’m
not playing well, I'll concen
trate on certain parts of my
game that need work. But
otherwise, I’ll take it easy
the day before a tournament
and just work out lightly.”
As far as the Georgia
men’s golf team goes as a
whole, it looks as if it will im
prove entering the final four
tournaments of the year,
hopefully peaking at the
NCAA tournament. The
team began the spring
season by winning the Gator
Invitational, and in the next
three tournaments it finish
ed fifth, eleventh, and
eighth.
Hard work has developed Cook’s swing
The Bulldogs were second
in the Southern Junior-
Senior Invitational and the
Southeastern Invitational.
With the Chris Schenkel
Invitational, the Southern In
tercollegiate Invitational,
the Southeastern Conference
Championships and the
NCAA Championships all
coming up within the next
month, the Dogs need to
keep a strong playing pace.
"The last few tournaments
are important in deciding
who gets one of the 28 bids
for the NCAA tournament,"
says Cook. “I think we’U win
the Chris Schenkel Invita
tional. The whole team is
getting psyched for this tour
nament and everyone's
games are coming together.
A lot of top teams will be at
Statesboro and we'U have to
watch out for Florida State,
North Carolina State and
Oklahoma State.”
And Coach Dick Copas is
also optimistic about
Georgia's chances in the
tournament. Copas said,
“We have a good chance of
wining the tournament.
We’re playing better now
than we were three weeks
ago."
But what is it going to take
to win the Chris Schenkel
tournament and the other
ones that follow?
“Everyone needs to play
his own game and follow
what coach says: Don’t let
mental things bother you.
Self-confidence is important
because it reflects how you
play your game,” Cook says.
And Cook has that con
fidence in himself and his
golf game.
Dooley, Cantrell reinstated to team
Stan Dooley and Gary
Cantrell, recently
suspended from the
Georgia football team for
an indefinite period, have
been reinstated to the team
and will participate in
spring drills.
The two players were put
on probation for spring
quarter by Bulldog Coach
Vince Dooley after police
found marijuana in a car
driven by Dooley.
Each player lost a part of
his scholarship, which
included room and board at
McWhorter Hall. Coach
Dooley said an evaluation
of the situation would be
made at the end of this
quarter.
Paul Hornung
out of hospital
NEW YORK (UPI) -
Former Green Bay Packer
“Golden Boy” Paul Hor
nung was discharged from
Bellevue Hospital Wed
nesday where he was
treated for one day for
dizziness and nausea.
James Walsh, hospital
spokesman, said the 46-
year-old former football
star was admitted to the
hospital Tuesday.
“Fortunately, it was
nothing serious. Maybe he
got some bad food or
something," Walsh said.
He said Hornung was told
to see his family doctor if
the symptoms reappear.
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