Golf is a sport that would make nearly anyone who plays a  more honest person. 

Both inside the game, and in everyday life.

At least that is what senior Stacey Her thinks. “Golf is more honest because no one is going to get you if you lie about your number of strokes.” 

In golf, the person keeping score is the player hersself. Her has been playing golf for three years and has had her share of temptations.

  “It is natural to want to lie, but you have to tell yourself not to lie … Being honest is better than trying to win.”

Pa Lo, senior, agrees, but unlike Her, said it does not seem as easy to lie. 

“When you attempt to cheat you feel really guilty about it.” She says it is also not as easy to lie because your team keeps score with you. 

Team members will get disqualified if they are caught cheating, but some say it isn’t that hard, not that anyone on the golf team would ever want to cheat. 

Silvia Chavez, senior, said, “It is really easy to cheat, but you don’t really want to cheat.” 

She also said that no one would ever really want a dishonest person on their team. 

For Chavez,  it would be easy for her to want to lie when she got to doing her putts. But even though she wants to, she doesn’t. 

“The hardest thing for me is the small putts.” But Lo doesn’t only feel like being honest while on the course. 

She also feels it in her everyday life because of golf.

She says that she doesn’t want to cheat on the team, let alone herself. 

Golf has taught her integrity and to be true to herself. She doesn’t want to use the rest of her life lying to others. 

“Life is too short, you don’t want to spend it lying.” 

Not only does the team feel good for being honest, but the score keepers really appreciate it.

“They thank you for being so honest, if you get a bad score,” Her said. She also said that it makes them respect your teammates more.

Unlike most sports, golf is based on the honor code, meaning that without referees it is easier to get away with things. 

But Stagg’s team doesn’t want that.  

“We are an honest team,” Chavez said.