In golf, players often talk about being close. Close to finding their game, close to putting it all together or close to finally breaking through. For the Appalachian State women’s golf team, the general belief is that they’re all close to putting it together for a breakthrough win in a spring season full of close calls.
“We’ve improved every tournament, and there’s still room for improvement,” Savanna Wood, sophomore from Boone, said. “I think we are very close to peaking at the right time.”
Prior to their last tournament, the 2016 John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate, which saw the team finish a disappointing 11th out of 15 teams, the Mountaineers had recorded three straight top-5 finishes at the Seminole Spring Break Tournament, the Bulldog Invitational and the Low Country Intercollegiate to start their spring season.