Recap with Cody Tosland

On Tuesday I wrote about Adna’s Cody Tosland, the only local golfer playing in the state 2B/1B golf tournament. 

After reading the blog, editor Michael Wagar asked me to follow up with Tosland, if I could find him, and ask about his experience. 

Wagar, it should be pointed out, finished dead last in the 1978 state 1A golf championship. 

Tosland called me Wednesday afternoon and sounded, as usual, very laid back.

“I got a practice round that was pretty good,” he said. He shot a 92 in the warm-up, but picked up an even 100 in the real round. One of Tosland’s friends, and a fellow golfer, had predicted he would finish in the middle of the pack; Cody took 57th place out of 80 2B and 1B golfers. 

He could have finished under the magic three-digit number, he said, but for the 18th hole. 

“There’s these people that were talking on the green, and they pretty much messed me up,” he said. “On the last hole I got, like, three over.”

He lucked out on the playing draw; his two partners were both laid back, like himself. 

“They didn’t really care for much,” young Tosland said. 

He didn’t, sadly, bring home any stolen golf clubs or chunks of the green for memories, just a State Golf letterman’s patch, commemorative picture and souvenir sweatshirt.

Any regrets, Cody?

“I horribly regret that now I have homework,” he joked, “but it was worth it.”

Any wild adventures on the links? Hijinks at the hotel? Extravagant dinners in classy Bellingham?

“I don’t have any crazy stories,” he said. “It’s just a crazy game of golf.”