Bulldog women’s golf battles to fourth at home invite

By Ransom Watts

Concordia women’s golf placed fourth overall at this year’s Concordia Bulldog Invitational on April 8 at the Bulldog home course in Lincoln, Nebraska.

For the women, consistency was the name of the game. Their total scores through eighteen holes never exceeded 340 in each round.

Senior Emery Custer led the way for the Bulldogs with a total score of 240, which gave her a fourth-place finish in the tournament. Through the first round, Custer scored 85 but was able to drop off a few strokes the next two rounds, where she shot 79 and then 76.

Freshman Olivia James also climbed her way to the top ten, with a stroke total of 246. Similar to Custer, James improved in the second and third rounds with scores of 78 and then 82 compared to an 86 in the first round.

In terms of team score for the Bulldogs, things followed a similar pattern. The women started off slightly higher in the second round and dropped their score by several strokes in the second, where they scored best with a total of 335.

The Bulldogs had to battle for their fourth-place position with St. Mary, which surpassed Concordia by two strokes after the second round. In the third round, however, the Bulldogs shot better than St. Mary, giving them a three-stroke lead.

The top three finishers included two Great Plains Athletic Conference programs, which managed to put plenty of space between them and the Bulldogs.

Next up, the women are headed to the Wayne State Wildcat Classic at the Wayne Country Club in Wayne, Nebraska.