Schreiner Spring Shootout CHAMPS!

The guys took first place this week! Despite difficult playing conditions, our team outlasted the competition and played some solid golf. I'll have more details in another post!

Comanche Trace Practice Round

We had the opportunity to get in an extra practice round for next week's tournament at Comanche Trace. The course is in great shape and it should be an awesome event if we can skirt the predicted rains. Any extra time preparing on the bent grass greens will help our guys feel more comfortable come competition days. Kalen, ELG, Warren, Yoeff and TY will be playing as our team.

Reddi putting for birdie on the par 5 4th.

Yoeff just misses a long birdie on the par 5 7th.

Sunsets in the hill country are pretty special.

Day 1 of Spring

We started our spring season yesterday with some early morning sprints and 18 holes of golf in the afternoon at Old Brack. After a long off-season, it was great to get back to working with the team.

ELG shot a -4 67 and was low for the day.

TY tees off on #1

First-year Felipe Benalcazar hitting a driver of the first

B Turner hits a 3 iron off of #1

Reddi working on his short game before the round.

Felipe wins Match Play

The team started a match play tournament at the end of the fall season for some intra-squad competition. After a few days of stroke play for seeding, the tournament began but the championship match wasn't completed until last week. First-year Felipe Benalcazar beat ELG 2 and 1, beat Kalen 1 up and beat TY 2 and 1 in the championship match.

Championship Synopsis:

After Felipe got out to a quick start winning the first four holes, TY won 5 and 7 to tighten the match. Felipe birdied 8 to go three up and matched TY's birdie on 9 to keep the lead. TY won the 10th, but Felipe got up and down on the bunker of 11 for the halve and match. (12 hole match due to evening classes)

The Off Season

Johnson Wagner notched his third win on Tour this weekend at the Sony Open. In a post round interview, he discussed how he expected to win early this season because of his off season work.

"I worked hard. I'm not saying I worked harder than anybody because guys work incredibly hard out here. But I worked harder this off-season, me personally than I've ever even dreamed of. I was working out three days a week at home, made three trips to Florida to go see my coach and we just had incredible weather in Charlotte. I love golf, I love playing, I love competing and trying to win tournaments. So I worked really hard this off-season."

http://www.pgatour.com/2012/tournaments/r006/01/15/wagner-transcript/index.html

Tournaments are won in the preparation. What are you doing with your off season?

Dean's List

Congratulations to Geoffrey Setiawan and Kalen Vos for earning Dean's List honors for the fall. In order to be on the Dean's list, the student must take at least 15 hours and earn at least a GPA of 3.65. Quite an accomplishment, especially since these guys played in all 9 tournament rounds for the semester.

Yoeff is a junior majoring in Marketing and Management.

Kalen is a first-year studying engineering.

Final Fall Rankings

With the fall season in the books for all of Division III, the final fall rankings from the coach's poll came out last week. We came in at 23rd. Click here for poll.

According to Golfstat, we are 22. Here are all the Division III teams.

We have a very competitive schedule in the Spring. We will open up in Kerrville, Tx, then play in one of the premier DIII tournaments of the year in Jekyll Island, Ga, then the West Region in Georgetown, Tx and finish off with our conference championship in Mississippi. If we play up to our potential, the national rankings will take care of themselves.