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.
For the first time in a long time, Florida positively responded to adversity.
The Gators left New Orleans with their best finish of the 2013-14 season.
Thirty-six straight holes did not faze the No. 16 Gators on Monday.
Buddy Alexander took a chance with his five-man lineup. It hasn’t worked.
Junior J.D. Tomlinson has garnered a number of accomplishments in his golf career, but a SunTrust Gator Invitational title is not among them.
The Gators failed to rally in the third round of the 2014 Northrop Grumman Regional Tournament on Tuesday and finished in a frustrating 14th place.
Heading into the second tournament of the spring season, Florida men’s golf coach Buddy Alexander is tempering his expectations for his young team.
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