Michigan Golf Journal June 2020

Michigan Golf Journal High School Golf “One time in middle school a kid called me the ‘one-leg wonder’ and I thought, okay, I’ll use that as a compliment and use it as my name now,” Cramer said. Like every high school golfer in Michigan, Cramer’s season was wiped out this spring. She was hoping to improve her game from sophomore year and be seen by a few college coaches, so she played volleyball in the fall, but gave up basketball for the first time, to practice golf over the winter. “I have been playing every day, so it has kind of felt like we’re in-season, I just don’t have the competition that I wish I could have had,” she said in late May. “We would have had a great team this year. I think we would have made it to states. “I’m looking forward to the summer tours, so that’s what I’m focused on instead of being miserable that the high school season was canceled.” Cramer is not a golf world-beater, but she holds her own – especially considering she always plays from the men’s tees. She of course must on the boy’s team, but she also believes it’s more reflective of the women’s college game and wants coaches to see she is playing ahead of the curve. She has the grades to get into any school and Notre Dame is a dream goal; but to play golf she is looking more at the D2 level for fall 2021. She scores about 10 over par on competitive 18-hole courses and drives the ball a little over 200 yards. She did shoot a 3-under for nine holes on a fairly-easy course recently. “I’ve never been the best at driving so I work on the short game to make up for it,” Cramer said. “I’ve been working more on how to score instead of how to hit it long.” By her own admission last fall, Cramer is not an All-State volleyball candidate – she had 26 kills in 141 attempts, and a 78.9 percent serve percentage while playing in 71 out of 91 sets in the regular season. Yet her coach Continues on page 8 >>