Glory Days With ... Scott Cahill

It hasn’t been long since graduated from Jacobs High School. It was only this year, but over the past few months, many things have changed. Cahill’s family has moved to Las Vegas and Cahill himself has begun his career at Miami (Ohio) University on the men’s golf team.

Cahill was a very successful golfer for the Golden Eagles, going to the state tournament his junior and senior seasons with a 17^th place finish his junior year and a 19^th place finish in his senior year. Cahill said the best part of his trips to the state meet was a measure of success finally.

“The last two years was the satisfaction of playing well under pressure,” Cahill said. “Everyone was expecting me to make it to state and not making it the first two years was tough. It was very satisfying to get down there the last two years.”

Cahill got in his first taste of college golf this past weekend while golfing at the Northern Intercollegiate in Sugar Grove, where he finished in 61^st place. Cahill added that there is a major difference between the college game and the high school game.

“Everyone you are playing with now was the No. 1 golfer for their high school team, a lot of players who are top in the country. It’s such a different atmosphere to what the high school game was,” Cahill said. “I grew up looking at the magazine covers and to see the guys who were on the covers of those magazines and to be hitting balls next to them on the range, so it’s different being out there.”

The tournament also gave Cahill the opportunity to come home to Illinois — while his family has moved, Carpentersville will always be his home.

“It was cool to realize I was so close,” Cahill said. “Obviously, I lived there in Carpentersville for 16 years and this bio still says I’m from Chicago so I will always be from there and I’ll always enjoy going back there.”

Cahill added that he still has a lot to learn as he progresses through his college career and his freshman season.

“I learned a lot out there playing with the other guys,” Cahill said. “There were not a lot of freshmen out there, so I talked to a couple of the guys I played with and I’m still learning every day I’m here.”

and his Redhawks teammates will play their next tournament on Sept. 26-27 at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic in South Bend, Ind. Cahill will get another chance to come back to Illinois for the Mid-American Conference Championships in May in Sugar Grove.