Pride open 2022-23 with home tournaments at Eagle Ridge

GALENA, ILL. - Starting up their 2022-23 season with home tournaments, the Clarke University men's and women's golf team were able to get a total of 20 golfers between both teams a full 18-hole round despite the men flirting with darkness towards the end.

The Pride men played at The General and were able to finish tied for third place with a final team score of 315 (27) as the five-man team of Carter Ruegsegger's 76 (+4), Logan Winn's 78 (+6), Jared Martinson's 80 (+8), Alex McLeland's 81 (+9), and Francis Resurreccion's 93 (+21) saw that top-four combined score finish 11 strokes back of the team winners in Iowa Central Community College who ended at 304 (+16). 

Ruegseggar's 76 tied for fifth place in the individual competition as Winn placed in a tie for 10th in his first golf tournament as a member of the Pride coming from Heartland Community College. 

Clarke's second team was led by an 80 (+8) form Jesse Frye as that second unit finished in 11th place out of the total of 17 teams as Landon Joneson carded an 87, Alijah Dopson finished at 90, Anthony Eddy shot a 92 in his first collegiate golf event, and Greg Witte finished at 95. 

Individual competitors not shooting towards a team score included Mitchel Coffey's 99 and Vincent Forseth's 100 to round out the day for the Pride men's golfers.

CU's women's team teed off at the North Course to finish in fifth place with a final team score of 487 as Augustana College won the team tournament and had the top-three individual scores.

Gabby Weyland tied for 20th as Clarke's top finisher as Gracie Lange, Halle Boldt, Camdyn Penick, Ellie Bennett, Katherine Whitson, and Maddie Patten rounded out the Pride players on Thursday.

Clarke men's golf will play next in Plainfield, Ill. when they compete in the St. Francis Invite on Sept. 13 at Wedgewood Golf Course and the women will compete in a two-day tournament on Sept. 10-11 at the Klocke Classic at Hunters Ridge Golf Course in Marion, Iowa.