Coach Charlie Wiggins helped develop the Gordon Lee game plan for the state golf tournament by playing the same course his team will tackle today.
There will be no mulligans for the Trojans or other northwest Georgia teams scattered around the Augusta area for 18-hole GHSA finals.
"The boys seem to be doing well over here and beating it all over the place," said Wiggins, who claimed to be 5 over par part way through his round Sunday afternoon.
The Trojans, playing in Class AA after winning back-to-back Class A state championships, have a season-best round of 319. An opponent has posted a 297.
"We'll have to play well and have them come back to us," Wiggins said. "This year it's a step up."
The Lady Trojans will be playing about 30 minutes away after advancing from the Class AA sectional.
"They're feeling pretty good," Wiggins said. "Their spirits seem to be good, so that's half the war. They're already one of the top 16 teams in the state, but they'd like to get in the top 10."
The Lady Trojans will be joined in respective classifications by girls' teams from LaFayette, Calhoun, Sonoraville, North Murray, Trion and Dalton. Dalton's Lady Catamounts have the second best score of teams participating in the Class AAAAA title round.
"If we have a good day, we've got a legitimate shot to win this thing," Dalton coach Mike Duffy said. "Our low round of the year has been 230 with three players. If we're in that neighborhood, we'll be in the hunt."
LaFayette also has both teams playing near Augusta National. The Lady Ramblers have their sights on the program's best state outcome.
"If we get a top-10 finish, it would be our best in school history," girls' coach Matt Swanson said. "We'd like to have three scores under 100. I'm a pretty good coach, but I think it's too much to get your girls to make up 70 strokes against North Oconee and Buford."
The LaFayette teams are staying in the same hotel and were outside playing soccer with a beach ball Saturday evening.
"That's what makes us different," Ramblers coach Tom Longford said. "There were kids body-checking each other and I enjoyed it, because they blew off that anxiety."
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