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Thursday, April 1, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Golf team looks to opener
By CHRIS COTTRELL
Don't expect the University of Kansas golf team to win the Big Eight title this spring. It looks as if Okahoma State and Oklahoma will be batting for that honor.
But KU golf coaches Max Kennedy and Jerry Waugh are both hoping for improvement over last year's seventh-place finish.
"We've got some competitive players," Waugh said. "A year ago I didn't feel that the team was quite as competitive as it could have been."
KENNEDY, THE PRO at Alvamar Hills Golf Course, impressed with the team's work.
"We have a great attitude," Kennedy said. "I would say that mental attitude is one of the most important things I do."
The Jayhawks get their first taste of competition today when they compete in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Tournament at Oklahoma Oka. The tournament ends tomorrow.
The KU squad consists of seniors Bo Dennis, Kriss Kennedy, Jim Pearson and Tom Peterson; junior Gary Chilton and Craig Palmer; sophomores Rick Kenney and Corky Ek; and freshmen Jim Doyle, Bill Groves and Doyle Gerard.
Kennedy described Dennis' game as just the onsite of Chilton's.
"OUR BEST PLAYER, we feel, is Gary Chilton," the elder Kennedy said. "He is very strong big and, big, and hits a long tball cee. Knee knuckles would probably be in his short game."
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this makes for consistency in your goll round."
"He's not very long off the tee, but he makes every shot count." Kennedy said. "Because of his tremendous short game, Boo's still a very good player, but everything else is going bad, and
KENNEDY SAID DOYLE'S game fit the same mold as that of Dennis.
But Kennedy also singled out his younger son.
"Possibly our best-looking golfer," the coach said. "is Rick Kennedy."
He said Rick had more of a good-looking, sound game—possessing a long, smooth swing—than anyone on the team, but hadn't yet been able to score well.
By KEN STONE
Associate Sports Editor
Gymnast Laurie Propst in N.C. to vault two times
Laurie Prospelt left by jet yesterday from Kansas City International Airport for Charleston, S.C. When she and gymnasts arrived there, they'll take a bus to Roosevelt, N.C.
Sometimes tomorrow, Propst, a University of Kansas sophomore, will warm up, spind off a runway and do a "half-on." She'll then do the trick on more time. She'll then do the trick on more time.
AND THEN SHE'LL be done competing at the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national championships. Two vaults and she's finished.
"Long way to go, isn't it?" noted Propst profoundly.
The trip shouldn't be that out of the ordinary for Prospat, however. Only two weekends ago she traveled to Fort St. Louis and in divinity championships, swimming andiving championships.
There, she stayed long enough to take eight dives off the low board and three off the high. She finished 21st in the low board and placed her place behind teammate Karen Mundy.
BUT WHAT IS PROPST doing at Boone? According to her, probably the same thing she did in Fort Lauderdale—except off dry land.
"For me, it's real easy," said Propto of her vault, which is classified 10.0—one of the most difficult to perform. "In diving, you do a half-twist, right? It's the exact same thing going on to the horse. All you have to do is twist off."
Proptest tried to describe her "half-on, half-off" vault, which qualified for the her
national meet when she scored a 94 in the
east and Dakota the week before
earliest break.
"YOU RUN DOWN, twist on the horse,
and as you push off the horse, you come off
the horse."
Sure. Whatever you sav.
"It's kind of strange," she admitted, "but it was, you know it, you know exactly what was told.
Her teammates have seen it. But even they have difficulty duplicating the map.
Prosp explained, "People on the team have had problems with it because they can't get the feel of being straight up and honest," he said. That's what's the way you go into the water."
IN ANY CASE, Proptim isn't worried about successfully executing her vault. She said she has already begun learning how to cope with the pressure of high-level competition, even though this is her first national gymnastics meet.
She said she learned how to concentrate during the regional meet after making a mistake in the floor exercise, the event that came before the vault.
He said Kris hit the ball fairly long and as equally proficient in all of the phases of the game.
"I DIDN'T THINK about it." Proposal said of the vault, her last event. "I didn't think about it, so I wasn't nervous. I just did it. It was hard to fall, or that girl well fell on her head."
"I was real mad because I had tripped in the floor," she said. "I thought I could have done better." "That's all w's thinking about the horse to the horse is so mad about the floor."
"I just want to be relaxed about it and I don't care what I'm going to do rather than what you're going to do."
"CORKY EK." KENNEDY continued, "is a hot and cold shooter. Doyle Gerard is a good competitor; his iron game is the best part of his game."
After all, she only has to do it twice.
Jim Pearson, a preemed student, was described by Kennedy as an "intelligent
"He doesn't have the power of some of the other boys," Kennedy said, "by the way he attacks the golf course, you can tell he's a very intelligent golfer."
KENNEDY DESCRIBED Palmer as a scrambler, saying "He never looks real human."
He said that Peterson's game was good, but that as yet it hadn't come around to wipe out.
"Bill Groves is probably the best all-around prospect that we have of the young golfers." Kennedy said. "He has good self-control and a strong expectant a lot of good things out of Bill."
WITHOUT THE BENEFIT of scholarships to award, Kennedy said it was very difficult to get top-netch golfers to come to the course because information could change in the next few years.
"We'll be modified somewhat in the next couple years," Kennedy said, "because the NCAA has made a ruling that no school can have more than five people on scholarship" n golf.
"SCHOOLS LIKE OKLAHOMA State that had 15 or 20 now to cut it down to five, and when they do this, the boys that are taking college scholarship are going to other places.
"This is going to spread the talent around, and we expect, in a couple years, to be able to get a lot more qualified golfers than we have now." Kennedy said.
WITH THE YOUTH the Jayhawks have this year team in mind, Kennedy for example.
"We feel like we're definitely on the way up in golf here at KU," he said.
And where might the Hawks finish in the conference this season?
"It could be as high as fourth this year," Kennedy said.
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WOMEN'S GOLF - Despite winds gusting to 45 miles an hour and wet playing conditions, host team Oklahoma rallied from a one-stroke deficit and defeated KU in an Oklahoma invitational golf tournament Tuesday at Norman, Okla.
KU, which had led on Monday's round,
placed second with 764 strokes. Oklahoma
State was third with 769. The winners
finished with 758.
Nancy Hines led KU with a third place finish of 178 strokes for 36 holes. Beth Stevens led the women's portion and are coached by Nancy Booster, were Kathy Webb, Diane Nene and Michelle Williams.
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