The numbers are up, but the time is short.<\/p>\n
Flathead golf returns to the course for less than a week of practice before heading out for its opening tournaments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second-year head coach Phil Jackson started evaluating his squad of 45 boys and girls Thursday ahead of Wednesday’s opening triangular at Whitefish Lake Golf Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Our kids are working really hard,” Jackson said. “Monday was our first real practice after our evaluations.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Wednesday’s Whitefish triangular, Flathead then duals with Glacier at the annual Crosstown Cup Thursday at Village Greens. Tee times are scheduled to start at 1 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bravettes feature a trio of returners from 2025’s state qualifying team in Hayden Ward, Becky Schmidt and Hadley McDonald.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Along with that trio, Jackson is thrilled with the increased turnout, citing the junior golf program for getting more girls interested in the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We have had a lot of growth through the junior program in the summer and getting girls out to open swings,” Jackson said. “Trying it is the big thing and once they get a feel for it, they get excited.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pair that with a new assistant coach in Glacier and Carroll College graduate Stella Claridge, and the Bravettes are ready to make another run towards state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jackson also cites Ella Bubar as an exciting sophomore for the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for the boys, Jacobe Sullenger is the lone varsity returner from a Braves squad that placed two in the state tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Jacobe will be offering a lot of senior leadership to help some of the younger kids,” Jackson said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Jackson says that his staff is excited to help a lot of players get their first varsity experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jackson adds that Teegan Eisenzimer is expected to jump into the No. 1 role as a freshman. He qualified for the State Junior Amateur in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Six Flathead golfers will get their first varsity experience Wednesday when the Braves and Bravettes hit the course.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We are working hard in having our kids strive for a level of excellence on and off the course \u2014 in everything,” Jackson said. “We believe that if that strive for excellence then the results will follow.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The numbers are up, but the time is short. Flathead golf returns to the course for less than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-863503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863503","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=863503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}