{"id":181635,"date":"2025-10-01T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181635\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:53:07","slug":"womens-golf-faces-challenge-at-finkbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181635\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Golf faces challenge at Finkbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa &#8211; Southern Illinois Women&#8217;s Golf finished play at the Diane Thomason Invite Tuesday, Sept. 30, in Iowa City.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament presented many challenges for new Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/siusalukis.com\/staff-directory\/samantha-sambursky\/803\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"803\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Sambursky<\/a>&#8216;s players. Round one set them behind the field, an experience she believes the team needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We struggled getting settled our first round,&#8221; Sambursky said. &#8220;The team is gaining experience with each tournament, with some players that are now regularly traveling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sambursky identified play close to the green as an area that needs improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will spend the next week before Arkansas working 100 yards and in,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We lost a lot of shots with our wedges and on the green.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the\u00a0Saluki golfers fared:&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Salukis vastly improved in rounds two and three, something Sambursky\u00a0recognized as a sign of promise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We improved each round and hit the ball better today than I have seen this season,&#8221; she noted. &#8220;We have work to do, but we know what we need to do to improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> See the full tournament breakdown <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/239281\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n The Salukis will look to bounce back at the Lady Red Wolves Classic beginning Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE SALUKIS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n For the latest updates on the Salukis, follow the team on X (@SIU_WGolf), Facebook (@Saluki\u00a0Women&#8217;s Golf), and Instagram (@siu_wgolf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa &#8211; Southern Illinois Women&#8217;s Golf finished play at the Diane Thomason Invite Tuesday, Sept. 30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-181635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}