Bethel College Tournament: Round 2

We arrived at Sand Creek Station this morning thinking only one thing: Yikes! This course, from the tips (where we did not play, THANK GOD!) is extremely long and very demanding off the tee. We played the course from a meager 6700 yards and I believe the longest club any of us hit into a par 3 was the punch-cut 4 iron that Tommy hit into hole 7...it was playing right around 200 yards, so that was quite the nice change. That was the one thing that relieved us the most, I believe, was the fact that we were able to hit a couple of 9 irons, 8 irons, or 7 irons into the par 3's instead of blasting rescue or hitting a bunt driver like Gater did yesterday!

With that said...we had some OK scores and some not-so OK scores. It was a pretty difficult day but the course was playing extremely soft so it wasn't as hard as anyone thought. Tommy threw up a 73 (+1) to finish at even par for the tournament and that put him in a tie for 5th place. To add to that, Tommy was the ONLY person in a 120+ person field to birdie the 10th hole at Sand Creek Station, coincidentally dubbed "The Beast!" ...and he conquered that with three absolutely perfect shots into the 618 yard par 5. Tommy hit a knee high drive (as usual) and then ripped a 3 iron to give himself about 155 yards to which he hit a comfortable 8 iron to about 10 feet. After being told by Coach Anderson that if he birdied he got a free t-shirt, he calmly knocked in his putt and accepted the offer. Big Canada was second low for the Tigers throwing up a 77 (+5). This comes after starting his first 7 holes at 7 over par so he was able to grind it out the last 11 holes and post a score that seems a little more respectable. Pritchy fired a 79 (+9), Gater had a difficult finishing day and fired an 83 (+11) and Evey threw up an 89 (+17)...but, keep in mind, he did take a pretty big number on "The Beast" to make his score go up that high. I will not post the number until Evey can get his calculator...I mean, until he tells me it's OK by him! :-) [Sorry Evey!]

Our team score was a depressing 312 which put us into 7th place overall out of 18 teams to give us a two day total of 608, 1 stroke behind Friends University of Wichita, Kansas. We were the lowest team in the GPAC as Hastings and Concordia were present and we are still gearing up and getting ready for our conference tournament that's in 3 weeks!

Look back for more updates from our upcoming trips (providing they do not get snowed out!) and other adventures of the DWU Men's Golf team!

Any questions please feel free to e-mail myself at brabbott@dwu.edu or Coach Anderson at adanders@dwu.edu and also post any comments on the blog if you wish to let us know anything!