By Glen Rosales and James Yodice / Journal freelancer and staff writer
Golf renegades would not exactly be the way most people would describe the Albuquerque Academy girls program.
But don’t tell that to some private course operators around town.
“We got kicked out of courses multiple times,” said No. 1 player Anya Parasher.
Wait, what?
“It was kind of a little bit our fault,” she said with a grin. “The country clubs that we practice at have very strict rules and we weren’t allotted time during the offseason to play, but we just kept going out there. We didn’t know. So they told us we couldn’t do that. So we got permission from the school to go practice at public courses and pay for that. We definitely had a rough time with that.”
The willingness to persevere through such obstacles led the Chargers to a runaway Class 4A team championship Tuesday with a two-day total of 654, 27 strokes ahead of runner up Kirtland Central at the Santa Ana Golf Club.
It also helped a sweep of the team titles, as the Academy boys held on for an eight-stroke victory over St. Pius 615-623.