With each victory Baylor’s women add to their season total, their story develops a few more layers.
As of last week at the Icon Invitational, the Bears have now won five times – in other words, they’ve won every time they have teed it up this season. Baylor’s latest five-shot victory at the Houston-hosted Icon Invitational had a little bit of an extra twist. The team had been snowed in for the week leading up to the event when a freak winter storm dropped 7 inches of snow in Waco, Texas.
Baylor managed to overcome a disastrous start in which the team went 6 over in the opening five holes. After 54 holes, Baylor was 24 under. A wave of freshman birdies to end the final round secured the top spot for Baylor.
“One thing I know from this team, we’ve continued to battle adversity better than I’ve ever seen a team do,” head coach Jay Goble said. “The really cool thing for me to see this week is we’ve been snowed in for seven days and had temperatures below 0 last week and we didn’t play golf for seven days before Saturday.
“They’re so good that they legit figured out how to get their games back quickly.”
Next up? The Bears venture out of the Midwest for the first time this season to tee it up at the South Carolina Collegiate.
Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings: Women’s team | Women’s individual
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