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Thursday, February 23, 1995
SPORTS
UNI V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Lisa Perry / KANSAN
Kansas sophomore golfer Kite Grove practices hitting out of a sand trap at Alvamar Country Club.
Relaxed men's golf team set to head south
Florida warmth awaits No.22-ranked Kansas
By Jenni Carlson
Kansan sportswriter
Ask members of some athletic teams, and they'll say a national ranking is more trouble than it's worth.
Those teams feel apprehension and intense pressure to perform well every time they compete. Nothing could be further from the truth for the No. 22 Kansas men's golf team.
"our coach isn't putting any pressure on us," Kansas junior Jason Seeman said. "We're excited, because we haven't been in competition since mid-October. But we can't be too critical, because we haven't had too much time to practice."
This weekend, the Jayhawks will travel to the University of South Florida Invitational in Tampa, Fla., for their first tournament of the spring.
Men's golf coach Ross Randall said that the team had traveled to the South Florida Invitational in past years without any practice time on the course.
With the warmer weather this week, however, the Jayhawks had been able to practice at Alvamar Country Club.
"It's pretty much the same for everybody, though," Kansas senior Tom Sims said of the improved weather. "But this last week of weather really helped us out."
This weekend, the Jayhawks will be facing teams that normally don't have to worry about the weather. Squads from the southern part of the nation dominate the invitational's field.
Randall said South Florida, Central Florida,
Alabama-Birmingham and several smaller southern schools would be includ
You want to do well, and you've got a million things running through
yourhead."
Roes Randall Kansas golf coach on the difference between practice and tournaments
ed in the competition.
"This isn't the stiffest competition that we'll face, but then it doesn't need to be," Kansas junior Chad Roesler said. "We're just going to go down there and see what happens."
Roesler and sophomore teammate Vance Holtzman will travel to an NCAA Division I tournament for the first time in their careers. Both competed in tournaments during their
hits during their time at Garden City Community College and played in the Kansas Invitational during the fall.
"It's not totally different, but it's a step up," Roesler said of Division I competition. "It's a little more intense, and the players are a little better."
Nonetheless, the players' first experience on the road may leave them nervous, Randall said. Nothing players could do in practice compared with tournament experience, he said.
"There is no substitution," Randall said. "You want to do well, and you've got a million things running through your head. It's a good opportunity for these guys."
The University of South Florida Golf Course is the site of this weekend's competition. Sims is the only player making the trip who has played the course.
He said the length of the course should not challenge the Jayhawks, but difficult putting greens and the area around the greens would.
"This time of year our feel isn't really good with our wedges and putters," Sims said. "Our main concern is to play as well as we can."
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