The Medicine Hat College women’s golf team took the invite to a major tournament against the best post-secondary teams in the country knowing they wouldn’t likely be in contention to win.
So far that’s how things have gone for the Rattlers at the Canadian University/College Championship in Ontario.
Medicine Hat’s team of Nicole Schultz, Sierra Zukowski and Ciara Bonogofski aren’t just in last place among 12 teams, they’re 105 shots behind 11th-place with a 36-hole team score of 189-over par.
While other teams have a fourth player – only the top three scores per hole count at this competition – the Rattlers’ top golfer from the past season wasn’t eligible. Becky Martin wasn’t allowed to compete because she’d exhausted her post-secondary eligibility, and this event falls after the scholastic season.
So when Bonogofski shot rounds of 143 and 125 Tuesday and Wednesday, they counted the same as Schultz’s 86 and 92, or Zukowski’s 92 and 89.
Text messages to coach Trevor Moore following Wednesday’s round were not answered as of press time. The third and fourth rounds take place Thursday and Friday, respectively, at the par-72 Firerock Golf Club just west of London, Ont.
Laval’s Catherine Gariepy leads the individual women’s event at 5-over par, and Laval’s women’s team is also sitting first with a team score of 19-over – 170 strokes better than Medicine Hat. Western’s Charles Fitzsimmons is 7-under on the individual men’s side and Western has the men’s team lead at 11-under.
