Men's golf looks to bounce back

By Jonathan Anderson

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

After falling short at the NCAA Regionals the past two years, the Kansas men’s golf team will look to change its fortune this season.

Kansas coach Ross Randall will try to find leaders to replace departed seniors Kevin Ward and Andrew Price. Juniors Tyler Docking and Gary Woodland are the front-runners after their impressive offseason play.

Woodland, Topeka junior, won the 95th Kansas Amateur Match Play championship July 17 in Manhattan. He and Docking also brought home a victory July 18 in the Kansas Four-Ball championship at the Alvamar Golf Club in Lawrence.

“I played just about every week in the early parts of the summer,” Woodland said. “The Kansas Amateur was a big boost for me and it seems like every day I am getting better.”

Woodland said he would leave today for Ardmore, Pa., to participate in the U.S. Amateur. The tournament, which begins Aug. 22, will force him to miss the first week and a half of school.

With Woodland tweaking his game for the upcoming season, Docking, Olathe junior, was just as persistent this summer, playing in tournaments and paying particular attention to his short game.

“In this day and age, most golfers can hit it far; it’s just whether you can hit the putt,” he said.

Randall enters his 27th season at the reigns of the team and has an optimistic outlook. The Jayhawks have never returned as many seniors as the four that Kansas has this year, he said.

The seniors include Luke Trammell, Jason Sigler, Ryan Rainer and Pete Krsnich. Randall said he expected them to be leaders along with Woodland and Docking.

Randall said he would decide who would fill the eight spots after he had an opportunity to see who played well in the fall.

The team will begin its season in the NCAA Central Regional Preview in Chardon, Ohio, Sept. 12 and 13. The Jayhawks will strive to play better at the end of the year as well.

“We played as poorly as we could have played last year and only missed advancing by two strokes,” Randall said. “We had a lot of talent on that team and for us not to advance is a shame. However, that is in the past.”

— Edited by Tricia Masenthin

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