By SUZANNE M. SCHMIDT

It was a windy day in Kissimmee when the Hunter’s Green Country Club golf team shot the lowest score in tournament history.
Even though the lively bunch of guys came back the second day playing with a vengeance, the team managed only to land second place in the Florida State Golf Association Men’s Interclub Team State Championship.
“The important thing is to stay in the shot,” said Brian Kenny, member of the team. “You just have to play it shot by shot and be able to let go of a bad score on the hole before and just move on.”
After six weeks of matches and two rounds of playoffs with 85 teams from throughout the state, only six advanced to the finals in Kissimmee.
The Hunter’s Green team consists of Kenny, Tim Hume, Amar Singh, Frank Vari, Mike Hamrac, Matt Takamatsu, Nick Meyer and Jack Demboski.
The teams played March 31 and April 1 at Falcon’s Fire Golf Club in Kissimmee for the final competition.
Everything was looking good for the team when they beat Innisbrook to win the region tournament, and advance to state tourney.
“We beat Innisbrook on their own course,” Kenny said. “Everybody was shocked we beat them.”
Then, according to Kenny, the first day on the course the team shot under par, but it wasn’t good enough as it found itself 14 strokes off the pace.
“We didn’t play our best on Saturday,” Hume said. “At the end of the day, we were last in the tournament.”
Singh attributes the teams losing streak to the wind.
“It was tough to play the first day because it was so windy,” Singh said. “We shot the lowest score in tournament history that day. We came in the second day and we knew we had to fight hard. We did great because we knew we had a lot of ground to cover, but it ended up not being enough.”
Hunter’s Green rallied in the second day, but finished six strokes back.
Hume said though team effort, they were able to place second.
“We had a good enough team to overcome a 14-stroke deficit,” Hume said. “It was the team effort that allowed us to make it to second place. No one else had the team support we did.”
The team was accompanied by Ken Creighton, Hunter’s Green Country Club general manager, a golf teaching professional from the country club Sean Nadolski, and Matthew Ruby golf professional.
Kenny said the team started out the competition just thinking it would be a good time.
“When we started out we were just having fun,” Kenny said. “We just thought why not try it out. We went out there just to enjoy ourselves and unfortunately we came up a little short.”
Even though the team did not finish first this time, they are determined the next time they will win first place.
“We are going to win it next year, that is a guarantee,” Demboski said. “We have more camaraderie than any of the other teams.”
Other members of the team share Demboski’s enthusiasm because they say they have what it takes.
For information about the tournament, visit http://www.fsga.org.