Boys golfer of the year
Name: Osvaldo Machado
School: Douglas
Year in school: Senior
Sport: Boys golf
From the archives: Osvaldo Machado swears there is nothing different that he does in his approach to regional and state competitions, but somehow that's where he finds the most room to excel.
Over the past two seasons Machado, a senior golfer from Douglas High School, has managed to post his best scores in the postseason.
Machado won the 1998 4A Kino and 1999 4A Sonoran individual titles, took third at the 1998 Class 4A state tournament at Randolph North following a six-hole playoff and ended his high school career with a seventh-place showing at the 1999 4A state tournament in Mesa three weeks ago.
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"I just like competition," said Machado, the 1999 Arizona Daily Star Southern Arizona Boys Golfer of the Year. "I just concentrate more. You have to play good (at those events), so I just expect it from myself."
Machado is joined on the All-Southern Arizona first team by Sahuaro senior Luke Bathel, Catalina Foothills junior Ben Kreger, Canyon del Oro senior Brandon Muir, Sabino junior Nate Tyler and CDO junior Jimmy Yandell.
Douglas boys golf coach James Selchow says that Machado has always been a slow starter to the season, as he was this season. However, as the year progresses, so does Machado.
"He just doesn't get nervous," Selchow said. "He usually has a plan and sticks to it. He's very goal-oriented."
Selchow said Machado has been in contact with several junior colleges about the possibility of playing collegiate golf.
He said Machado will continue to travel to Tucson most weekends to compete in junior tournaments in an effort to broaden his abilities from just the one course in Douglas. — Brian J. Pedersen, 1999
