Men’s and women’s golf teams competed at the Christian Brothers University Spring Invitational in Memphis, Tenn., and the Texoma Chevy Dealers Lion in Commerce, Texas, respectively, on March 12-13. The men’s team finished sixth place out of 11 teams and the women’s team finished 10th place out of 20.
While both teams said they recognize the need for improvement, both are hopeful that rankings will increase during conference play. Women’s coach Nicky Boyd said that some players, such as freshman Emily Plyer, are able to play in difficult situations, and might be able to help the team in the future.
“Emily Plyler played great under the tough conditions,” Boyd said. “The course was set up extremely tough so it was really hard to shoot any low scores.”
At a tournament in Commerce, Texas, Junior Becca Godman said the course was hard and chipped easily due to the weather.
“It had rained for four days, so it was really muddy,” Godman said. “You were hitting from mud onto concrete and it was really difficult.”
The women’s team traveled with only four players instead of the requisite five, so they were not able to take four out of the five best scores — each of their scores counted.
The men also encountered problems with their tournament last week in Memphis, Tenn, but men’s coach Dustin Howell said that he is proud of the way the team played given the difficulty of the course.
“While we had a bad start in poor weather conditions in round one, the guys rallied back for a good showing in round two and allowed us to move up the board for a good finish,” men’s coach Dustin Howell said.
Junior Ryan Hadash said the team is striving to prepare for conference play.
“The team overall has been doing OK, but we have the potential to do better,” Hadash said. “We are all working together to improve our games and to get in the best possible position for conference, where it counts.”
Godman said the team is “rusty” because of winter break and needs to improve.
“We know it is not too late to turn this OK season into a great season,” Hadash said.
