J.D. Tomlinson’s third season of collegiate golf and coach Buddy Alexander’s 27-year period leading Florida are both over.
Friday held more of the same for J.D. Tomlinson in postseason play.
Although Florida did not qualify as a team for the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship for the first time in 13 years, J.D. Tomlinson has continued on in the postseason as an individual.
Florida turned things around in its conference title run on Saturday.
After a shortened first round of play Friday night, coach Emily Glaser concluded a release by saying, “You never know what can happen.”
After a shaky season, the Gators begin postseason play today during the 2014 Southeastern Conference Women’s Golf Championship.
After a 13th-place finish at the Chris Schenkel Invitational on March 14-16, coach Buddy Alexander expressed his disappointment in Florida’s lack of improvement.
A little bit of rain couldn’t stop Florida from getting off to a promising start in its final regular-season tournament.
Depending on which route you take, the trip from Mark Bostick Golf Course to Old Waverly Golf Club in east Mississippi is about 560 miles. This is the longest journey the Gators have taken this spring, but this particular course has been good to them.
Junior Camilla Hedberg’s second consecutive top-five placing while braving both sleet and wind led the Gators to a ninth-place finish Sunday.
Despite finishing 14th, the Gators have some positives to take out of their penultimate regular-season tournament, and their names are J.D. Tomlinson and Richard Donegan.
It seems that as the Gators have moved through the season, they haven’t gotten better — they’ve gotten worse.
The Gators battled wind and a first-round, 25-over-par deficit to finish eighth out of 14 teams in their only home tournament of the season.
It’s not about how you start but how you finish, and in Buddy Alexander’s eyes, Florida did not finish well.
Florida has some ground to make up in the next two days in order to have a shot at a good tournament finish.
It was a dismal day for the Gators at the Mark Bostick Golf Course on Friday.
In a way, Buddy Alexander is returning home again.
The Gators’ only home tournament of the season begins Friday morning with No. 16 UF hosting 14 teams at the 42nd annual SunTrust Gator Women’s Golf Invitational.
Following its best performance of the season two weeks ago at the 2014 Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Championship, No. 17 Florida looks to continue its success at its only home tournament of the season.
J.D. Tomlinson and Florida men’s golf finally have something to smile about.
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