Thursday, August 19, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B • Page 7
New women's golf coach confident she can improve team's performance
By Brad Hallier sports@kansan.com Kansan associate sports editor
Nicole Hollingsworth has waited more than two months for this.
Today, the Kansas women's golf team will begin practice with Hollingsworth as its new coach. She took over the program on June 15 after former coach Jerry Waugh retired following a long career in Kansas athletics. He was a varsity basketball player, assistant basketball coach, assistant athletics director and golf coach.
"Nicole comes to us highly recommended as an individual who is a tireless worker and tremendously organized in her duties as a head coach," said Bob Frederick, athletics director. "She places an emphasis on achievement in both the classroom and competition. We think she will be a great addition to our staff and help our women's golf program move forward."
Hollingsworth came to Kansas after spending three seasons at the helm at the University of Ohio, a member of the Mid-American Conference.
Even though Hollingsworth will be coaching a team that finished 11th at the Big 12 Conference tournament in April, she is confident that she can turn the program in the right direction.
"I am a disciplinarian who strives to do well, and I feel I can take this team to the next level," she said. "This is not an easy conference, but with the personnel that we do have, I feel we have a shot
The Jayhawks only lost one player, Mandy Munsch, who graduated in May. The top returnees include seniors Susan Tessary and Carrie Padden and junior Ashley Bishop.
to do well."
"This is a big-time step for me," she said. "I'm really excited to be here and am looking forward to getting at it."
Hollingsworth certainly has the credentials to turn the women's golf program around. She is a
certified LGA Teaching Golf Professional. At Ohio, she was the first women's golf coach when women's golf became a varsity sport in 1996. With Hollingsworth at the helm, the Bobcats' yearly combined stroke average dropped by more than 15 strokes since the program's debut.
Her golfers also succeeded in the classroom. During the winter quarter last season, Ohio's team grade point average was 3.44.
Hollingsworth also played golf for four years at Indiana University from 1992 through 1995. The 1995 Hoosiers won the Big 10 Conference championship and finished fifth nationally.
She is a member of the National Golf Coaches Association, National Women's Coaches Association and the U.S. Golf Association.
—Edited by Chris Hutchison
Amateur favorites slip at Beach
Top players miss cut at U.S. championship
The Associated Press
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.—The Monterey Peninsula has a knack for humbling even the greatest golfers. It claimed a couple of new victims at the U.S. Amateur Championship.
Matt Kuchar, the 1997 Amateur champion, and 1998 runner-up Tom McKnight were ousted Tuesday after the second round of stroke play. Sixty-four other golfers made the cut, advancing to yesterday's start of match play.
McKnight were among the favorites heading into the event.
The upsets certainly were not as dramatic as Bobby Jones losing in the first round of match play when the Amateur was held at Pebble Beach in 1929, but Kuchar and
Kuchar shot a 10-over 81 Tuesday on the Pebble Beach course, giving him a two-day total of 154 and missing the cut by two strokes. After finishing his round, he stood on the 18th green with his back to the Pacific Ocean and sighed.
"I was more unlucky than bad today," he said. "All the breaks that could go wrong went wrong. The lack of knowledge of the course really hurt. Each time I made a little bit of a mistake, it multiplied itself and became a big mistake. I kept being in places you couldn't be."
Kuchar, one of the rising stars in golf, was among the leaders after shooting a 73 Monday on the Spyglass Hill course in the first round of stroke play. After that round, he said he enjoyed amateur golf so
much he might never turn pro.
"It's disappointing," he said. "This is a tournament I really wanted to reprove myself."
McKnight shot a 10-over 82 on Spyglass Tuesday and missed the cut.
"It was pretty embarrassing, the shots I hit," said McKnight, a petroleum distributor from Galax, Va. "I just played terrible."
Todd Miller had a much better day, though he lost his caddie while advancing to the match play that ends, after six rounds, on Sunday.
Miller, 19, was accompanied around the course by a man who's quite familiar with the Monterey Peninsula—his father, Johnny Miller, who twice won the AT&T Pro-Am tournament held each year at Pebble Beach.
His two-round total of 147 easily qualified him for match play. The cut was at 9-over 152.
Tiger cheers Garcia's attention
The Associated Press
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. - A mere 22 years of age and in only his third full season on the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods already is having to fend off challenges from the younger set.
"It was bound to happen," Woods said yesterday with a laugh and without a trace of wistfulness. "You can't be the young guy on the block forever. I welcome that."
Woods staged a riveting duel with 19-year-old Sergio Garcia in the final round of the PGA Championship on Sunday, edging the swashbuckling Spanish by a stroke. The two young guns will hook up again this week in the Sprint International, which begins Thursday at Castle Pines Golf Club.
The event features eight of the world's top 10 players, including No. 1 Woods, No. 2 David Duval and No. 3 Davis Love III.
Also contending are fifth-ranked Lee Westwood; No. 6 Vijay Singh, the defending champion; No. 8
Ernie Els; No. 9 Mark O'Meara and No. 10 Nick Price
ho got his driver's
Garcia, who license just last month, ranks only 31st in the world because of having played a limited number of tournaments. But his performance last week — he was the youngest runner-up in PGA Championship history — clinched a
Woods: Faces competition from younger challenger
Drawing a reaction usually reserved for rock stars, Garcia was mobbed by autograph seekers — most of them kids — after Tuesday's practice round here and again before Wednesday's pro-am.
berth on the 1999 European Ryder Cup team and galvanized the sport like no one since, well, Woods.
"I don't know if it was the largest crowd I have played in front of," Garcia said, "but it was one of the best. A crowd has never pushed me and helped me as much as they did."
Woods, asked if Garcia's sudden popularity will relieve some of the pressure that has been on him since 1996, said, "No doubt about it. Now, he is getting the galleries and the attention, the media coverage. When I first came out, it was very tough to focus on golf and budget your time with all the demands on it. David (Duval) went through the same thing. Now Sergio is starting to find that out."
It was an extension of the gallery support he received on Sunday at Medinah, when the crowd became more pro-Garcia than pro-Woods.
Garcia's shot from the base of a tree on the 16th hole on Sunday — and his dash up the fairway and leap to see the ball reach the green — will be a highlight of the 1999 season.
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