Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Jayhawks finished third as a team yesterday with three players placing in the top 10 individually at The Fairway Club Invitational held at Arbor Links Golf Course in Nebraska City, Neb. The team finished third overall.
“This was the most rounded-off team effort we’ve had since I’ve been here at Kansas,” Coach Kit Grove said. “Three players in the top 10, I definitely would’ve taken that before the week started for sure.”
The tournament fielded 12 teams and featured three rounds of golf with all the teams playing 36 holes Monday and then playing the final round of 18 holes Tuesday.
Drake won the tournament with a three-round total score of 852 strokes. Nebraska, the only other Big 12 school in the tournament, finished second with a total score of 855. Kansas was right in there with a total score of 859.
Kansas was lead by Nate Barbee, Dakota Dunes, S.D., junior, who fired a team-tying low score of 69 in the second round and finished in fifth place overall individually with a three-round score of 213.
“The course was playing hard today because there was a lot of wind; I just tried to hang in there after being three over through the first six holes,” Barbee said.
He did more than just “hang in there” with a 3-under score of 33 on the back nine.
“I was really proud of Nate’s play today because he struggled in the beginning, starting off at three or four over, then battled back to get to par,” Grove said.
The low score of 69 for the Jayhawks was matched in the final round by Alex Gutesha, Greenwood Village, Colo., freshman. For the tournament, Gutesha tied for 10th overall in his first collegiate action. Grove called him a “gutty” player and said the performance was all he could ask of a player in his first collegiate tournament.
“For a freshman, Alex can basically score at will,” teammate Bryan Hackenberg said.
Hackenberg, Denver senior, also placed in the top 10, tying for eighth place.
“I would’ve liked to play better in the final round today, but I’ll just use it as motivation for the rest of the year,” Hackenberg said.
Chris Gilbert, Simi Valley, Calif., freshman, tied for 14th, and Patrick Roth, Prairie Village senior, tied for 20th.
“Chris is really consistent,” Grove said. “He drives the ball straight and plots his way around the golf course. I don’t think he’ll ever shoot a bad score for me.”
All the players’ total scores ranged from 213 to 219.
Gutesha said the season was looking bright.
“I’m ecstatic to be on this team,” Gutesha said. “We should be right there in every tournament.”
— —Edited by Sarah Kelly
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