Golfers practice despite course issues

By By Tim Hall

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

When the Kansas men’s golf team tees it up at the TaylorMade/Big Island Invitational Feb. 9 at Waikoloa Kings Golf Course in Hawaii, it will have been more than two months since the team’s last tournament.

Senior Kevin Ward, sophomore Gary Woodland, sophomore Tyler Docking, senior Andrew Price and junior Pete Krsnich are the five golfers that qualified to play in Hawaii. The qualifying took place in November and was the last time the team practiced as a group.

During the break between the fall and spring seasons, the Kansas golfers have been on their own for practice.

The wintery weather conditions that the area experienced in January made it difficult to get outside and play.

“Our players have been doing the most they can, weather permitting,” Kansas coach Ross Randall said.

Sophomore Tyler Docking said he did most of his playing at Meadowbrook Golf and Country Club in Overland Park. Docking also was able to escape the cold weather in Kansas and travel to Florida to play.

Senior Kevin Ward did much of his playing at his home course of Leawood South Country Club.

Because of the renovations that are underway at Alvamar Golf Club, the Jayhawks’ home course, the team has been making due without a driving range.

“Our players have been playing a lot on the course with the driving range being closed,” Randall said. “They have been finding many ways to keep busy.”

One of those ways the team has been keeping busy is hitting the weights. The team has been spending four to five days a week in the weight room.

Although the driving range at Alvamar has been closed since October, the Jayhawk Practice Facility has remained open. The practice facility is a short-game area at Alvamar that allows the players to practice their chipping, pitching and bunker play.

The private course at Alvamar has also remained open during the renovations to the public side, so the players have still had a course to play in Lawrence.

The Jayhawks will come out of the mid-season break and jump right into a difficult field at the TaylorMade/Big Island Invitational. Coach Randall said that this would be one of the most difficult tournaments of the season for the Jayhawks.

“You gotta start somewhere,” Randall said.

The team will leave for Waikoloa, Hawaii, on Feb. 5.

— Edited by Kendall Dix

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