OSCODA \u2013 The bad news is that as a team, Oscoda\u2019s golf season is over. The good news is that freshman Jack Poland will advance to the state finals, thanks to his top three performance at the Division 3 regional meet on Tuesday, May 26, held at Red Hawk Golf Club in Tawas.<\/p>\n
The Owls shot an 18-hole team score of 373. Elk Rapids is regional champion with a 340, Traverse City St. Francis was second with a 343 and Boyne City placed third, after getting a team score of 352.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t have our best day, we put in a lot of effort and extra rounds at Red Hawk leading up but we just had a tough day on a very difficult golf course,\u201d head coach Dean Caldwell said. \u201cSeth Gutierrez did shoot a solid 93 for us and then we had Jack\u2019s 83 but we were missing two more quality scores to really compete for those top three positions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poland finished third and Gutierrez was 31st. Shane Ellis finished 46th on a round of 97, Alex Clarke was 59th with a 100 and Cole Gerow placed 78th thanks to his round of 110.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack did qualify as an individual after prevailing in a playoff,\u201d Caldwell said. \u201cHe is the second straight Owl to qualify for states as an individual after Jack LeClair did it last year. This is a tremendous accomplishment for a freshman. We have been out working daily to get him ready for next week (at the state finals).\u201d<\/p>\n
The Division 3 golf finals are Friday and Saturday at Bedford Valley in Battle Creek, where Poland will look to cap off a solid debut varsity season.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, it was a tremendously successful season for the Owls,\u201d Caldwell said. \u201cA first ever Huron Cup Championship, a first league championship since 1978, and sent another individual golfer to states. We continue to get better every year and although we are losing a few important seniors that helped to build this program into what it is, we expect to reload and be even better next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSCODA \u2013 The bad news is that as a team, Oscoda\u2019s golf season is over. The good news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7330,9],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-golf","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}