Faced with over an hour of rain delays at the Watson Course at Reunion Resort, the Florida men’s golf team didn’t allow the weather affect its postseason aspirations.
The young and the old showed up today for the Florida women’s golf team, as the Gators finished in a tie for third out of the 18-team field to advance to the NCAA Championship.
In round one of the NCAA Austin Regional, senior Taylor Tomlinson shot the second-worst score on her team. On Tuesday, in round two, she shot Florida’s highest score.
After a top five finish at the SEC Championship, sophomore Marta Perez was slipped into the number one spot for the Florida Gators women’s golf team. Having a lot of momentum going into the NCAA Regional, expectations were high for her.
Coach J.C. Deacon and the rest of the No. 11 Florida men’s golf team will have to wait at least another year before they can win their first SEC championship.
On the third playoff hole of the SEC Championship, UF sophomore Andy Zhang had a chance at individual victory over Ole Miss’ Cecil Wegener with a putt just a couple feet away from the hole. He calmly sank the putt, pumped his fist, shook Wegener’s hand and embraced his coach, J.C. Deacon. “You got it, you won,” Deacon said in between Zhang’s “Oh my God.”
The No. 11 Florida men’s golf team needed to have a big day on Thursday to have any hope of advancing to match play following a tough first day of the SEC Championship at the Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia.
J.C. Deacon, coach of the No. 11 Florida men’s golf team, is in his fourth year as Florida’s coach and has not won an SEC championship.
Through nine holes, it looked like UF might stage an upset in match play of the SEC Tournament, going up 3-2 against Arkansas on Saturday. Down the stretch, however, the Gators couldn’t pull it off.
It was more of the same for the Florida women’s golf team during Round 3 of the SEC Tournament on Friday: not terrible, but certainly left a lot to be desired.
If some was bad, more was worse for the Florida women’s golf team on Thursday at Greystone Golf and Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama.
Compared to the rest of the SEC, the Florida women’s golf team played fairly well on Day 1 of the SEC tournament on Wednesday. For its own standards, however, UF left some to be desired as it finished with a score of 10 over, 12 strokes behind first-place Alabama.
From start to finish, the Mason Rudolph Championship did not go the way the No. 11 Florida men’s golf team wanted it to.
This most likely wasn’t the weekend Florida’s women’s golf team was looking for in its final tuneup before the SEC tournament.
Sierra Brooks’ play was about the only thing that went well for the Florida women’s golf team in Georgia on Friday, as UF finished in 10th place out of 12 teams after two rounds at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic.
The No. 11 Florida men’s golf team has some work to do this weekend if it wants to defend its title at the Mason Rudolph Championship.
Over the past few months, junior Gordon Neale has emerged as the No. 1 golfer for the No. 11 Florida team.
UF won two tournaments in a row and was riding high going into the Evans Derby Experience in Auburn, Alabama. But the wheels came off in, according to Urban Dictionary, the state without car inspections - as the Gators finished tied for sixth out of the 12 teams that participated.
It’s been a tumultuous spring season for coach J.C. Deacon’s Florida men’s golf team.
Lauren Waidner prepared to tee off at the 11th hole of the Mark Bostick Golf Course on March 10.
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