Team takes ninth at Ohio State

Monday, April 20, 2009

After playing one of the toughest courses of the season the Jayhawks managed a top 10 finish at the Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational in Columbus, Ohio. Coach Erin O’Neil said the team’s ninth place finish was a good performance considering the difficulty of the course.

“This course is really unforgiving,” O’Neil said. “You have to execute and any missed shots can add up really quickly.”

O’Neil said the course had several sand bunkers and uneven greens that made it a challenging course to play on. This was also the first time the Jayhawks had played at this tournament and on this course.

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Strokes Place

Team 950 T9 Emily Powers 235 T33 Sydney Wilson 236 T37 Meghna Bal 242 T56 Meghan Gockel 244 T60 Grace Thiry 245 T62 J. Clark( individ.) 245 T62

The players had similar sentiments about the course. Junior Emily Powers, who lead the Jayhawks, said the course was tough and that it showed off the weak spots of the team’s performances at times.

“The course exaggerated the mistakes we made,” Powers said. “I think we played it well but we just had a few missed puts here and there that caught up with us.”

Powers said she thought the team never really hit its stride in the final round of the tournament. Powers had 77 and 74 strokes on the first two rounds but jumped up to 84 strokes on the final round of the tournament.

Following behind Powers was sophomore Sydney Wilson who tied 37th place. Wilson said the greens were definitely the most difficult part of the course. Wilson said the tournament and the course taught her a lot and that she would try to make the most of her experience.

“We had a good first round but the green was difficult for us,” Wilson said. “You might have one bad shot and then it would take more shots to get back.”

Overall, O’Neil said the tournament wasn’t the best but the team had good moments throughout. O’Neil said Powers had a good second round on the 36 holes the first day. Wilson had a really strong first round, O’Neil said.

“We were here and there with our game,” said. O’Neil. “We’re just going to work on our mental game before next weekend.”

Next weekend the team will head to Lubbock, Texas for the Big 12 Tournament at Texas Tech University. Wilson said she was glad the team had a chance to play before the conference tournament and said that she thought the team was feeling really well about it.

“It was good to be in a playing-mode before our next big tournament,” Wilson said.

— — Edited by Realle Roth

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