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It wasn’t the score that Dodge City High School junior Friyana Shah had envisioned.
Yet Shah, the Red Demons top golfer, still managed to finish as a medalist, finishing in a tie for 17th place with Shawnee Mission East’s Anne Willman and Blue Valley North’s Stephanie Curran on Monday.
Shah, who finished at 86, was playing on her home course — the Dodge City Country Club course — in the Class 6A state golf championship.
“She had a good start on the front nine,” Dodge City coach Jim Mapel said, “and then she kind of got on the bogey train on the back nine and she couldn’t get off of it.
“She was pretty disappointed, but it was a good showing. She wanted a lower score, and she has another year to do that.”
Shah was competing in her third straight state tournament. After she did not medal as a freshman, she was a 16th-place finisher last season.
There weren’t very many low scores on Monday.
“The golf course was in great shape. It was fair, but it was difficult,” Mapel said.
“The players had trouble putting and chipping on the greens.”
You never know what will happen in the sport of golf.
“I think I shot OK and I know I could have done better,” Shah said. “I dunno.
“I was struggling on the back nine and I couldn’t pull myself out, but it was a little discouraging. Each day, golf is a little different and you never know.
It wasn’t the score that Dodge City High School junior Friyana Shah had envisioned.
Yet Shah, the Red Demons top golfer, still managed to finish as a medalist, finishing in a tie for 17th place with Shawnee Mission East’s Anne Willman and Blue Valley North’s Stephanie Curran on Monday.
Shah, who finished at 86, was playing on her home course — the Dodge City Country Club course — in the Class 6A state golf championship.
“She had a good start on the front nine,” Dodge City coach Jim Mapel said, “and then she kind of got on the bogey train on the back nine and she couldn’t get off of it.
“She was pretty disappointed, but it was a good showing. She wanted a lower score, and she has another year to do that.”
Shah was competing in her third straight state tournament. After she did not medal as a freshman, she was a 16th-place finisher last season.
There weren’t very many low scores on Monday.
“The golf course was in great shape. It was fair, but it was difficult,” Mapel said.
“The players had trouble putting and chipping on the greens.”
You never know what will happen in the sport of golf.
“I think I shot OK and I know I could have done better,” Shah said. “I dunno.
“I was struggling on the back nine and I couldn’t pull myself out, but it was a little discouraging. Each day, golf is a little different and you never know.
