Weather delays a poor performance

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Cold weather and tough competition may have kept the women’s golf team out of the medal ceremony for the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic this weekend in Athens, Ga., but the team is using it as a learning experience. Coach Erin O’Neil said the team was taking the rest of this week to focus on the mistakes they made and come out with confidence at the next tournament.

“It just wasn’t all quite there for us on Sunday,” O’Neil said. “We didn’t play as well as we would’ve liked but we’ll work on it in practice.”

O’Neil said the girls only got one day to play because of the weather instead of the usual three days they spread a tournament over. For Kansas, this was a new tournament and the unfamiliar course made it difficult to compete. O’Neil said that the wind and cold weather also made it hard when they finally got to play on Sunday.

"It was really an eye-opening experience. We got to see how we could play under rough conditions and we know now what we need to work on."

Emily Powers

Junior golfer

“They played the best they could,” O’Neil said.

She said she saw competing against some of the nation’s best teams as a way to improve. Junior Emily Powers, who had the best finish for the Jayhawks, said she was glad they played against these teams despite the loss.

Powers said that because of the weather, most of the players at the tournament didn’t play at their best and weren’t ready to play once the delays had ended.

“It was really an eye-opening experience,” Powers said. “We got to see how we could play under rough conditions and we know now what we need to work on.”

“I’m not looking at this as a terrible experience for us,” she added.

Powers said that she wanted to use the tournament as a learning experience.

She said that her driving was good at the tournament and that she would focus on her putting for the next matchup, the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic this weekend in Norman, Okla.

“There were a few key putts that I missed,” Powers said. “We have a few days to work on our confidence and work on what we struggled with.”

— — Edited by Casey Miles

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