Golf team finally back in action
The USU men’s golf team has two more events before their season is over. The Aggies will compete in the BYU Cougar Classic sponsored by Ping this weekend in Provo, and the WAC Championships April 27-29 in Las Vegas.
The five golfers that have played in all the other spring tournaments will be traveling the to these. They are: Devin Daniels, Toph Peterson, Tyler Labrum, Tyson McFarland and Thad Truman.
Head coach Dean Johansen said the Aggies are hoping to make a lot of birdies at the BYU Classic.
“It’s a golf course and a golf betting tournament that you have to go low at, sometimes really low, so the kids have got to get into that mindset of making a lot of birdies,” Johansen said. “The golf course just isn’t really long, it’s a birdie makers golf course.”
The Aggies are the host team. The team will have a practice round Sunday of that week and then will play 18-holes Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
It will be the longest trip of the season for Utah State.
“We are on the road for seven days straight which is different, we usually don’t do that,” Johansen said. “So the kids are on the road for a long time during finals week but I think most of them are ready and prepared and I am expecting good things at the conference championship.”
Johansen said he is hoping to bring home a WAC championship, and he feels like his team has a good chance at doing that.
“I think if you start the year and don’t have that goal as your main goal for the entire year then you are wasting your time,” Johansen said. “I certainly have five kids that if they play well can definitely compete for a WAC conference title, no question in my mind.”
–p.d.k@aggiemail.usu.edu