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p20 weekender saturday may 1 6 1997 st mumc fitness aerobics centre 190 bullock drive 9054717071 the tribune sports leisure got a score call our hotline at 6402100 grossman is in the swing of things at timber creek after 27 years spent giving more than 47000 golf lessons across canada and in 13 other countries gordon crossman is as insistent as ever that the swings the thing the 54yearold im a young 54 he insists veteran cpga instructor has touched down for the season in stouffville and is working out of the timber creek golf centre on ninth line just north of stouf fville road he brings with him a host of experiences including a stint on the south american tour a vari ety of golf course consulting and management assignments and a starring role in his own cable tv golf show not to mention a golf col umn he once penned on a regular basis entitled a voice from the rough understandably gordon is a firm believer in the benefits of lessons for beginner golfers right through veter an duffers with 75 to 80 per cent of his students consisting of the ever increasing number of women who are taking to the links he suggested his job is made a little easier by the readiness of this gender to learn apparently men who whose golf game has gone off the tracks are often as reluctant to seek help on the course as they are on the highway a lot of men think they know more than they actually do about golf whereas the women are will ing to learn he said however gordon gets a little miffed when some of the women golf pros out there try to corner the ladieslessons market theyll say that women should learn from women but you ask them who they learned from and it was usually a man said gordon find an instructor you like one youre progressing with as far as gordon is concerned golf lessons should be kept simple and they should be fun he suggest ed an instructor is just asking for trouble if he attempts a complete overhaul of a students existing swing unless it is so far gone as to warrant such an extreme measure the first thing golfers who have been playing the game for a while will ask me is are you going to change my swing i tell them no im just going to work around the good points you already have to improve it theres usually always good points in a persons swing however if given the luxury of a new golfer to teach gordon said he sports notes bruce stapley can start from scratch with a new golfer i get them swinging the way i think they should for their physical make up for instance if someone weighs 300 pounds theyre going to have a much different swing than a light person while delighted with the effect tiger woods has had on the game in terms of attracting new young play ers to the multitude of public cours es out there gordon also fears the down side golfers who suddenly try to go for woods home run shots of 320 yards are going to find them selves chasing after lost golf balls he warned people are so taken by distance when they see a golfer like tiger woods but its really a finesse game the key is to keep it between the trees the short game is vital chipping and putting he insists the long drives will only come once a golfer puts it all togeth er distance comes when you get the entire body working for you gordon maintains the expression different strokes for different folks applies particularly to golfers some people just like to get out there and play by themselves to be out side or you may want to improve your game which means spending a lotof time at the driving range as for the obsessive golfer the guy whos out there in the pouring rain trying to shave another stroke off his score gordon chooses to believe theres even a plus to that hopefully theyre enjoying it at least a little donations accepted people wishing to help out the whitchurchstouffville baseball associations program to provide balls bats and gloves to poor chil dren in cuba can drop their used equipment off at boyds source for sports in stouffvilles westerly approach a cash donation of 5 will result in a new baseball going towards the program while 25 will send a brand new bat please see page 21 getting her kicks stouffville district secondary schools amanda boyd right tries to kick this ball out of harms way despite the presence of her brother andre opponent christina mcbeth during wednesdays yraa soccer contest at brother andre catholic high school the host cardi nals won the game 80 photo by sjqerd mtteveen spartans winning ways continue on ball diamond bruce stapley correspondent the stouffville district sec ondary school spartans boys fastball team kept a threeyear streak alive when they g travelled to new market for their syraaj rt inutvianuniw season opener may 1 the spartans were as hot as the weather was cold blanking the host sacred heart chs squad 50 behind the 13 strike out pitching performance of sec ondyear spartan mark french the sdss crew saw its offence spread throughout the lineup with each hitter con tributing to the victory the spartans enter the season with a winning streak that began three years ago the stouffville team has won the york region high school title three years running and has not lost in season playoff tour nament or exhibition play along the way thats our motivation said head coach bill mcknight were looking strong again this year the spartans will have a for midable pitching staff as they set out to make it four regional crowns in a row zln addition to french the staff includes return ing fireballing left hander paul koert as well as the capable kevin hackert dan tardella mark meyer and ian mcdougall have also returned with a strong rookie contingent headed up by shawn boadway brett boyd dave clark and john lowrie the spartans play their home opener may 15 against brad fords holy trinity chs the game which is to be played on the main diamond gets under way at 330 pm the team hosts traditional rival huron hts ss of new market may 21 in what should be the spartans first test of the season the sdss outfit will be out to defend its crown when it takes part in the annual bradford tournament may 23 atom selects downed in final 1 it took an overtime shootout to finally sub due the stouffville atom selects at a season ending tournament hosted by the stouffyille team at the rec centre recently the selects started off the toumey with a 21 win over oshawa as danny campitelli and carlo la duca scored for stouffville in a well played match norm fretz gary balsdon stephen cliff kyle schell taylor lougheed and brandon wild stood out on defence for stouffyille campitelli riley mcdowell joseph zuccol- in and mark sutcliffe scored to give the selects a 41 win over markham in game two with the win sending stouffville on to the final against keswick in the title tilt stouffville goalies danny ronco and nick metauro held the opposition two just two goals after regulation time and a 10minute shootout while gabriel barnett and fretz scored for stouffville but keswick eventually prevailed in a game ending shootout stouffville assists for the three games went to campitelli 3 ben smith la duca barnett and lougheed