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Rough weekend for women
Despite playing a water-logged Wapicada Golf Course in St. Cloud and fighting high winds at some points during the day, the Husky women were neck-and -neck with visiting opponents Minnesota State, Mankato and Southwest State University after playing nine holes.
According to junior Kristen Osheim, the poor conditions of the course got to the team.
“We were playing with different yardages today. I really didn’t know what to expect,” she said. “It was all kind of hard to adjust to.”
Head coach Judi Larkin had good things to say about her team’s performance after nine holes.
“As a team we played consistent with the other teams today, we did well” she said.
Sophomore Frances Rise led the Huskies with a four-over-par 39. Junior Amber Sitzman was three strokes back of Rise with a 42. Juniors Angela Kippley and Osheim also shot well for SCSU with scores of 43.
Sunday morning came and the Huskies had a new course to play on, and beautiful weather for miles. They just had one problem standing in their way, 27 holes of golf in an entire day.
The morning was the Huskies downfall as Saturday’s leader Rise quickly got off to a bad start.
“I lost eight golf balls in the morning session, resulting in 9 penalty strokes,” Rise said.
Rise ended her first nine holes with a respectable score of 44. Rise regrouped in the afternoon session and ended the triangular with a final score of 163, which earned her a second place medal for the tournament.
“The afternoon went a lot better,” Rise said. “[Coach Larkin] told me I needed to play a lot better, so I went out there and did.”
Unfortunately, the day didn’t go well for the rest of the SCSU women. According to Larkin, the 27 holes her team had to play got to her squad as the day progressed.
“The greens were tough today, and the pin placements were placed differently and it was very easy to three-putt,” Larkin said.
Junior Angela Kippley agreed with Larkin’s comments.
“The greens were hard today. We couldn’t keep anything on them,” Kippley said.
Another big surprise for Larkin came in the form of her player’s scores. Kippley ended the tournament with overall scores of 84 and 86, finishing with a total of 170. Junior Amber Sitzman shot rounds of 91 and 82 to finish with a score of 173. Osheim finished closely behind with an overall 172, shooting rounds of 80 and 92. Sophomore Sarah LeClair shot rounds of 81 and 86 to shoot an overall score of 167
“Players were shooting 10 stroke differences between each other,” Larkin said. “Between the three teams, any team could beat the other on any given day. We were pretty inconsistent today.”
Larkin went on say that she thought that the change in nine holes on Saturday, to the 27 holes on Sunday was hard for her players.
“There was some fatigue in our players,” she said. “I don’t think there was a lot of consistency, being it was only the second time out this season.”
The women’s next meet takes place in Marshall on Sept. 21 and 22.
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