ON COURSE: Members of the Princeton High girls’ golf team are all smiles as they display the plaque they earned last week for placing first in the Mercer County Tournament at Mercer Oaks West. Pictured, from left, are Kyuyoung Chung, Jackie Zang, Tia Sindhu, Shreya Gaekwad, and Yasna Shahriarian. Last Monday, PHS followed up the county title with a third-place finish in the Central Jersey sectional at Rutgers University Golf Course in Piscataway. The Tigers finished one stroke ahead of Bridgewater-Raritan for the final qualifying spot for the state championships that will be held May 14 at Raritan Valley Country Club in Bridgewater.
By Justin Feil
Tia Sindhu elected to cover up the scores when she opened the live scoring app used in high school golf competitions this year. She prefers to write it down on paper, but never does the math until the end.
“When I write it down, I’m not adding my score or anything in my head,” said Sindhu, a member of the Princeton High girls’ golf team. “I just write it down, keep playing with my game, kind of to keep me in the same zone because once I start adding up my score I feel like things go wrong at that point because then I start analyzing and thinking, which is not what you want to do. You just want to stay in the moment and keep playing the best golf that you can.”
The lone senior on the PHS team had no idea how the team had done when she finished her round in the Mercer County Tournament last Thursday at Mercer Oaks West, and it added to her thrill to discover that the Tiger girls’ golf team had repeated as MCT champion, edging runner-up Lawrenceville School by a single stroke.
“It felt amazing and I think it felt even more special this year because it’s my last season playing for Princeton and I really wanted to make the most of it,” said Sindhu. “I feel like all of our girls played so well. I think we were all in the right mindset in the beginning and we were just ready to ready to win this, ready to keep the Mercer County title the second year.”
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