Ryan Anderson This is Me

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1. 1. Greeley Tribune - Sports

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   Published on: 7/13/2004   Last Visited: 7/13/2004

   Ryan Anderson and his caddie Greg Heiny scope out the break for Anderson's putt on the 12th hole.
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   Meet the new Ryan Anderson, all 195 pounds of him.
   
   Anderson, a standout golfer for the Spartans who graduated from West in 2002, is an inch taller (6-foot-3) and 40 pounds heavier than when he placed sixth at the Class 5A boys golf state tournament his senior year.
   
   "I'm kind of trying to get used to my new body. Today I felt like I played about as bad as I could," said Anderson, who shot a 5-over-par 75 at the two-day Dick Billehus Invitational on Saturday at the Greeley County Club. "I'm hitting it a lot harder, but the problem with that is I'm not quite hitting it straight so it just goes farther off line."
   
   Anderson, 21, will be a redshirt sophomore for the golf team at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall where he'll be fighting to be one of the top five golfers, which will enable him to travel with the Buffaloes.
   
   You'd have a hard time picking Anderson's photo out of the 2002 Greeley West yearbook, though. "I put on a whole bunch of weight, and I got taller," said Anderson, who drained three birdies on holes No. 9, 16 and 17. "I just got my new license and the one when I turned 18 said 6-2, 155. I just have a different makeup now. I have a lot more meat in my upper body, and I'm trying to get used to swinging around it."
   
   Anderson, the Tribune's Athlete of the Year in boys golf his senior year, said he's on a weight program at CU.
   
   "I think I've finally stopped growing up and started growing out. I think even before last Christmas I was 175-180," said Anderson, who won the Billehus championship flight in 2001. "Then I went to grandma's house and came back a lot bigger and a lot stronger."
   
   Bogeys on holes No. 2, 4, 8, 11, 13 and a triple-bogey on the par-4, 342-yard No. 14 were holes Anderson wished he could take back.
   
   Anderson said his new-found strength and weight provides him with a lot more power when he wants to use it.
   
   "I can hit a club farther if I need to like over a tree, or hit a par-5 in two maybe that I couldn't have when I was smaller," Anderson said. "When I was smaller it was also easier to hit it straight."
   
   In the game of golf, not even someone such as Anderson, who has been playing since the age of 5, knows when his game will be where he wants it to be.
   
   "I'd like it to be tomorrow, but golf is a weird game like that," Anderson said.
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   BUFFS TEAMMATE: Jim Grady, a 2003 Broomfield graduate and teammate of Ryan Anderson's at CU, shot a 68 and tied with senior championship flight golfer Bob Heiny for the second lowest score behind Dewitt.
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   Grady, 19, said Anderson has become his swing coach at CU.