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I knew I had to hit right
down the middle. Well, in-
stead I put it into the haz-
ard. I got mad and took a
double bogey,” said Klampe.
He talked about how im-
portant the “mental game”
is in golf and how you can’t
let a bad break, like he had
on hole 10, ruin the rest of
your day at the course.
“I just try to focus on the
good side, because when
you get mad, you’re not
going to play good golf,”
Klampe said. “If you hit
a few bad shots and keep
getting mad, you’re going
to keep making bad shots.
You’re going to go for over-
ly difficult shots because
you’re frustrated and feel
like you have to make up
for what you did last swing.
It’ll just keep getting worse.
You’ll just keep taking un-
necessarily difficult shots.
You’ve got to calm yourself
down and get back to just
playing golf. When you’re
mad, you take unnecessary
chances.”
Klampe calmed himself
down and returned to his
usual consistent play and
parred the remaining holes,
except for a bogey on 16, to
beat the second-place golf-
er by four strokes with an
18-hole score of 4-over par
75.
Klampe was especially
pleased to beat who he con-
siders the best player in his
age division, fellow junior
golfer Mason Zimmerman.
Not only did he beat him,
he beat him handily by 10
strokes.
The next day, at the
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Klampe’s mental toughness
was tested again, this time
early. After double bogey-
ing holes 2 and 3, he knew
he couldn’t let the adversi-
ty get to him, especially at
a course like Ocean Dunes
which can be very unfor-
giving.
“Florence Golf Links
is open. Ocean Dunes is
tight. You have to make
good shots, or you’ll get
in trouble quick,” Klampe
said.
Good shots he did make,
parring hole 3 and scoring a
very nice birdie on 4 before
settling in for what Ryan
described as a “boring”
(read: easy) finish to score
a 5-over 75 over 18 holes to
win by three strokes.
The
highlight,
for
Klampe, was hole 15. Nor-
mally a par 5, for this tour-
nament it was a very long
467-yard par 4.
“I looked at my scorecard
and noticed they had 15 as
a par 4. ‘A 467-yard par 4?
What are they thinking?’ I
thought to myself,” he said.
“Now I have to hit driver,
because if I use a 4-iron I
might get a bogey. Well, I
hit the driver right down
the middle and I was so re-
lieved. I was like ‘Oh, thank
you!’ I was really happy I
got a par on that hole.”
By winning these two
tournaments,
Klampe
earned an invite to com-
pete in a tournament at
Creekside Golf Course in
Salem later in the month.
Instead, he said he’ll most
likely skip it to support his
hometown course and play
in the Ocean Dunes Club
Championship,
which
takes place that same week-
end in Florence and which
he’s competed in several
years in a row.
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Klampe first stepped
onto a golf course at 3 years
old, and his years of experi-
ence is paying off as he ris-
es in the rankings of youth
golfers in Oregon. Klampe,
along with his parents, Ron
and Takako, credit the con-
stant support and tutelage
of some of Florence’s best
golfers, many of whom
came out of the currently
nonexistent Siuslaw High
School golf program.
Lack of student interest
caused the elimination of
golf as a sport offered at
SHS, but if the turnout for
Florence Golf Links Junior
Camp a few weeks ago is
any indication, Florence
kids are playing golf in
growing numbers and it
should be only a matter of
time before the sport re-
turns.
Siuslaw Athletic Direc-
tor Chris Johnson said that
only five kids went out for
the team in its last year of
existence, and student in-
terest would be the driving
factor for a return of the
sport.
Klampe, who is a fresh-
man this year, is hoping a
school team will come to
fruition. Teammates on the
green would provide some
local challenge to help with
his mental game as he pre-
pares for his next competi-
tions.
If Klampe continues to
excel individually in tour-
naments across the region,
it will help build support
locally for a Siuslaw High
golf team.
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