Women’s golf rises to third

Thursday, September 17, 2009

One tournament down and the KU women’s golf team is already fulfilling its goal of placing better than last year. It finished third out of 14 at the Chip-N Club Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. A year ago, it finished sixth at the same tournament.

Coach Erin O’Neil said she was happy with the team’s effort.

“Across the board it was a great start to the year,” O’Neil said.

Kansas totaled 895 strokes for the three-round tournament: finishing behind Nebraska, which ended in second place with a score of 889, and Missouri, which achieved first place with a score of 878 strokes.

Emily Powers, Quincy, Ill. senior, lead the Jayhawks. Powers scored a total of 213, finishing just three strokes behind the leader Amy Anderson from North Dakota State.

“I was happy to come in second place in this tournament and am happy with the way the whole team played,” Powers said.

O’Neil praised Powers.

“What a great start to Emily’s senior year,” O’Neil said. “She was very impressive.”

Powers is not the only player to return to the team. For the first time in the past few years, there are no newcomers in the rotation.

“We’ve been so young for so long,” O’Neil said. “It’s nice to finally have some experience on this year’s team and it really paid off in this tournament.”

Powers agrees.

“Since I was a freshman, we’ve been very young,” Powers said, “but now we have everyone returning and that takes the jitters away. Everyone knows how to practice right and how to play in tournaments.”

The team achieved other goals this tournament as well. O’Neil challenged the women to shoot a sub-300 score in one of the rounds.

“We actually did it twice which was very positive to start the year off,” O’Neil said.

— — Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph

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