April 20-21, 2009 (Salt Lake City, UT)

 

One week after we barely edged out Rocky Mountain by one, we headed to Salt Lake City for Westminster’s Frontier Conference Tournament.  With a big conference lead our goal was simple, win the tournament.  The first round was extremely playable.  Although the greens were firm the course played pretty fair and the team came in with a two over 290, spurred by Chris Kneen’s 69.  The afternoon round brought different challenges for many of the team member.  The afternoon winds kicked up, and scoring was made even more difficult.  Ben House managed a solid round of one under 71 to lead the team to a score of 295.  After two rounds we found ourselves neck and neck with our rivals Rocky Mountain, who had mounted a five stroke lead on us.  Going into the final round all the guys were fired up and ready to take Rocky down.  However, our final round of 291 did not cut it.  We ended up losing to Rocky Mountain by just one stroke.  The loss was a dissapointing blow, yet with a conference lead of over 50 shots the team is still sitting on a pretty lead going into next weeks Montana tournament. 

 

Patrick Casabonne