Thursday, April 23, 2009
You would think that heading from the flat, windy golf course of Lawrence to the flat and windy course in Lubbock, Texas, would provide some solace for the women’s golf team heading into the Big 12 Tournament at Texas Tech. But competition will ensure that the conference tournament this weekend will be as tough as ever.
The team played on the Texas Tech golf course earlier in the season, but the high winds and rough greens would still be a challenge for the team, said coach Erin O’Neil.
“It will give us a little bit of an advantage since we know what the course is like but this tournament has a completely different feel to it,” O’Neil said.
BIG 12 TOURNAMENT
Date: April 24-26
Location: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Course: Par 73, 6,525-yards
Format: 54 holes, 18 each day
Most Wins: Oklahoma State, 6 times
National Rankings:
Oklahoma State 5
Texas 39
Texas AM 41
Colorado 45
Baylor 55
Oklahoma 59
Texas Tech 65
Missouri 67
Nebraska 71
Iowa State 72
Kansas 76
K-State 121
— www.golfstat.com
The conference tournament is the last regular season event for the team. Junior Emily Powers said the team was looking forward to the tournament. She said that the team had been working on the parts of their game that they had struggled with the last few tournaments.
“The Big 12 is a pretty good conference and has a lot of really good teams,” Powers said. “We want to see how we stack up against the other teams.”
The team has been working its way up the rankings over the course of the season and is currently ranked 76th in the country and 11th in the conference. Sophomore Sydney Wilson said she thought the tough competition at the last tournament was a good warm-up for the teams at this tournament.
“We’ve made our practices more directed, and it felt good to play a tough course before the Big 12,” Wilson said.
The favorites
Oklahoma State won the Big 12 Tournament in 2008 and is currently ranked first in the conference.
Texas is ranked second in the conference and senior Kelley Louth leads the Longhorns after playing a career-best tournament in Indiana. Texas A&M follows in third and has had two weeks since its last competition where sophomore Sarah Zwartynski led the Aggies with a season-best performance.
Academic Aces
Regardless of whether they win in the Big 12 tournament, Kansas had six players make the Big 12 All-Academic team for this season.
Junior Meghan Gockel had a 4.0 GPA, which put her on the first-team selection for the Big 12 for the second year in a row.
Along with Gockel, Powers and sophomores Meghna Bal, Grace Thiry, Jennifer Clark and Wilson all made the academic team.
— — Edited by Sonya English
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