The Knights were set to play against one of the strongest fields that will be assembled, anywhere in the nation during the spring season. The field included back to back defending National Champions, Oklahoma Christian, 3rd Ranked Oklahoma City, 5th ranked and conference foes, Texas Wesleyan as well as the another 9 teams ranked inside the Top 30 teams.
Coach Belfield "I knew this was a strong field but ultimately we play nobody but the golf course. I am expecting them to play solid but most of all stick to their mental routines and progress on that side of the ball!"
The guys struggled on the first day to execute shots. "I thought we did a good job executing our routines and sticking to a game plan, we just didn't hit too many good shots and couldn't really get anything going."
Freshman Joss Gosling led the team with a 75-78, Travis Kemp responded well after a tough first round firing 84-73, Jeremy Novakowski was 78-84, Derek Trofimczuk was 79-80 and Chris Craft shot 81-83.
"After a tough first day, I was expecting to see some fire out of the guys and start hitting golf shots we know we are capable of".
The Knights only managed to consolidate their position the second day and finished in 10th place shooting 313-314-307.
"It was much of the same story on the final day, I will put it down to early season rust but the guys were very disappointed in their performance. It wasn't what we expected and it was very 'Un-Northwood like'. We were sloppy and couldn't find a way to get the ball in the hole"
Joss Gosling led the Knights with a much improved final round of 72 and finished T-17. Travis Kemp finished T-43 (79), Derek Trofimczuk T-46 (78), Chris Craft T-55 (78) and Jeremy Novakowski T-57 (83).
Full results can be found here - http://www.golfstat.com/2011-2012/men/mtoursp12/M0602.htm
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