Spring Break
GOLF: A step backwards
by Scott Stewart
Sports | 10/16/07
Posted online at 9:09 PM EST on 10/15/07
/ Last updated at 1:57 AM EST on 10/15/07
With two holes left in his round at the Nichols College Bison Invitational Wednesday, Lee Bloom '10 was closing in on the best round of his college career. But two double-bogeys later, Bloom, like many others on the golf team, saw his potentially spectacular round turn into merely an average one.
Three days after the Judges scored a historic sixth-place finish out of 15 teams at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference New England Tournament, mental lapses on key holes relegated them to a fifth-place finish out of 11 teams with an aggregate score of 324 Wednesday in Dudley, Mass.
"We're certainly capable of finishing in the top half every time we go out there regardless of the size of the field; it's just a matter of shooing those scores," Jeff Stein '08 said.
The Judges' score of 324 was 16 strokes worse than their first-round total at the ECAC New England Tournament and seven strokes worse than their second-round total at this tournament.
Division II power Bryant College took first place with an aggregate score of 305, eight strokes ahead of second-place Springfield College. Host Nichols College came in third with an aggregate score of 314, followed by Tufts University's 318.
Bloom and Stein led the way for Brandeis, each finishing with a seven-over-par 79. Despite dealing with pouring rain, Bloom would have tied Ralph Harary's '09 team-high score of 75 had he simply made par on the final two holes, but the course and the conditions caused him to double-bogey the 17th and 18th holes.
"[This is] not my favorite course," Bloom said. "After 12 or 15 holes you just want to get off the course, and the weather didn't make it any more enjoyable."
In just his second tournament of the season, Stein also shot well except for a triple bogey on the seventh hole. With a par, Stein could have had the best round of his college career, but he was still happy with his performance.
"I hit a lot of fairways, and I also hit a lot of greens, so my irons were great today and my putting was relatively sharp," he said.
Three days after the Judges scored a historic sixth-place finish out of 15 teams at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference New England Tournament, mental lapses on key holes relegated them to a fifth-place finish out of 11 teams with an aggregate score of 324 Wednesday in Dudley, Mass.
"We're certainly capable of finishing in the top half every time we go out there regardless of the size of the field; it's just a matter of shooing those scores," Jeff Stein '08 said.
The Judges' score of 324 was 16 strokes worse than their first-round total at the ECAC New England Tournament and seven strokes worse than their second-round total at this tournament.
Division II power Bryant College took first place with an aggregate score of 305, eight strokes ahead of second-place Springfield College. Host Nichols College came in third with an aggregate score of 314, followed by Tufts University's 318.
Bloom and Stein led the way for Brandeis, each finishing with a seven-over-par 79. Despite dealing with pouring rain, Bloom would have tied Ralph Harary's '09 team-high score of 75 had he simply made par on the final two holes, but the course and the conditions caused him to double-bogey the 17th and 18th holes.
"[This is] not my favorite course," Bloom said. "After 12 or 15 holes you just want to get off the course, and the weather didn't make it any more enjoyable."
In just his second tournament of the season, Stein also shot well except for a triple bogey on the seventh hole. With a par, Stein could have had the best round of his college career, but he was still happy with his performance.
"I hit a lot of fairways, and I also hit a lot of greens, so my irons were great today and my putting was relatively sharp," he said.
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