She remains undefeated and is averaging a score of 40 over the past 11 matches, and she has yet to play a female competitor. But going head-to-head with another female golfer is not on her to-do list She is knocking off the guys round after round — and enjoying every minute of her success this season.

Life on the links has been sweet for Morris. She doesn’t mind the attention from the guys who know taking their best shot might not be enough to defeat her.

“(It’s) just a good feeling knowing  that you are a girl and you are beating all these guys,” said Morris. ” It’s kind of funny. I hear a lot of guys get intimidated by me, and that’s kind of the reason why coach put me at (No.) 2  (Monday at the KVAC South championship). He likes seeing guys get intimidated by me.”

But many of the boys could care less that Morris is a female. They want to beat her at her own game — and that hasn’t happened, yet.

Oxford Hills golf coach Mike Grace refuses to give any creadance to the “not-losing-to-the-girl thing.”

“I think the kids really respect her game,” said Grace. “They respect her as a player. I don’t think they are looking at her as a girl.”

“She can beat pretty much anybody that I have seen,” said Brandon Dubuc, Edward Little’s No. 2 golfer. “She came in the day we played Oxford and shot par, which is she tied their No. 1. She beat everybody. She just annihilated the competition.”

The “girl thing” doesn’t work for Dubuc, either. The EL golfer and Morris have become acquaintances over the season.

“Competition is competition; she’s just that good,” said Dubuc. “She put a lot of work into it. She deserves to be noticed.

“We joke around, which is normal. We joke around like, ‘you got beat by a girl,’ but in reality, she could beat any one of us joking around.”

“A lot of the guys like playing her because she is good,” EL golf coach Chris Williamson said.

Matt Michaud, who alternates as the Vikings’ No. 4 or 5 man, has nothing but respect for her as golfer and as a teammate.

“She competes with everyone out there so it’s really no difference because she plays at the same level or above as most guys do,” the Oxford Hills junior said.

On top of her game

Morris’s success and talent comes down to one thing — commitment. Her dedication is the reason why she is strong off the tee and equally dangerous with  her short game.

“This summer I think she played in at least 10 junior tournaments,” said Grace. “So I think that she really improved her game, playing with different girls, playing different golf courses, which I think she is a lot more comfortable now playing away.”

Morris has shown remarkable improvement in her short game, and there is no doubt those summer tournaments have made her a better golfer.

“I think putting has really got me going,” said Morris. “Putting is really a big part of the game.”

“She’s a good chipper on the ball, a good putter, and she stays pretty even keel.” added Grace. “You don’t see a lot of emotion out her.

“She’s very good off the tee. She’s pretty long. If you see her, she’s not very big, but she hits a long ball.”

Dubuc has been equally impressed with Morris’s power off the tee. He should know. He was in the line of fire when Morris teed off during one match that nearly sent him running for cover.

“We were sitting on the green,” Dubuc recalled. “The first tee box for the women is 240, 250 yards out there, and she almost hit us on the green.

“It’s crazy. I watched her tee off and said, ‘that’s coming right at us.”

Michaud pointed out that Morris’s consistency also makes her a solid golfer.

“She really doesn’t have any bad holes,” Michaud said. “She is really consistent, and that is all you need to be really good in golf..”

Grace said Morris’s iron play needs some improvement, but everything else seems to be working for her this season.

In the beginning

Morris has been playing golf since she was 4 years old. Her grandparents put clubs in their granddaughter’s hands, and she has put them to good use for the last 12 years on the links.

Her father saw golf as a way to do something together as a father and daughter. That bond on the golf course continues to this day.

“But my grandparents were actually the ones that introduced me to golf,” explained Morris. “They got me the golf clubs; they got me into it. I played golf with them all the time.”

But her freshman year, she decided to join the field hockey team instead of playing for the Vikings’ golf team.

That’s didn’t last long, and it didn’t take long for Morris to figure out why she belonged on the course playing competitive golf.

When her sophomore year rolled around, Morris joined Grace and his heavy-hitting Vikings on the links.

“My dad wanted me to do golf so golf is the better choice because I was a really good golfer, and I wasn’t the best field hockey player on the team, so I knew golf could get some place,” said Morris.

But Morris is only a junior and she has another year to hone her golf skills at Oxford Hills.

A look at the future

Morris has her eye on attending a college in the southern part of the country. It’s no secret that she wants to play golf year-round for a reputable school.

“I have been trying hard to improve my game this year, and my dad has been pushing me to play every day and trying to working on my game,” said Morris.

But she still has one more year at Oxford Hills to make that decision.

“She’s got another year to develop,” said Grace. “It will be interesting to see. She’s been great. She’s funny and gets along with everybody. Everyone likes her.”

And everyone wants to beat her – especially the boys.