While the weather is finally cooling off, Lauren Briggs\u2019 golf game continues to be hotter than a firecracker on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n
Briggs was at it again this week, earning Co-Golfer of the Week by the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cReceiving the honor feels great,\u201d Briggs said. \u201cI am glad to be playing so well and seeing all the recognition for my work. I hope to keep up my low scoring, but I must remember to take it one shot at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Briggs, a junior, helped the Northwest Missouri State University women’s golf team shoot its second-lowest 36-hole score in program history as the Bearcats competed in the Newman Fall Women’s Invite in Andover, Kansas.<\/p>\n
Briggs, a graduate of Burlington High School, has played six rounds this fall and leads the team with a 72.17 stroke average.<\/p>\n
She fired a 1-under round of 70 to tie for third at the Newman Fall Women’s Invite at Terradyne Country Club, a par-71 measuring 5,798 yards.<\/p>\n
She had\u00a0a 36-hole total of 141, which is the second-best individual 36-hole scoring mark in program history. Briggs’ final round of 70 is tied for the seventh-best single-round total in the Bearcat record book.<\/p>\n
Briggs knocked in four birdies in Tuesday’s final round at No. 3, No. 6, No. 14 and No. 16. Briggs’ eight birdies tied for the second-most birdies in the 85-player field.<\/p>\n
Briggs has produced nine career top-10 finishes and six top-five finishes as a Bearcat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing into the tournament during our practice round, I didn\u2019t feel the most confident with how I was playing. The course was a links style and most of the shots rolled out, especially on the greens,\u201d Briggs said. \u201cDay 1 didn\u2019t start off that strong and I was having some pain in my right wrist. My coach taped up my wrist for support and I immediately sunk a putt for birdie. The rest of the day was steady.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe second day I felt good going into it and tried to stay focused and calm. I especially had to calm myself for the last hole, on my last 4-foot putt. I felt nervous, but knew I just had to trust my line and putt with a steady stroke. Thankfully I made the putt and was able to finish my round one under par without letting my nerves get the best of me. I am pleased with how well I managed my nerves this last tournament and I think that is what allowed me to finish so well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bearcats play in the Grace Shin Invitational Oct. 5-6 at the Golf Club at Edmond in Edmond, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
Northwest Missouri State wraps up the fall slate with the Central Region Fall Preview Oct. 11-13 at Meadowlark Hills in Kearney, Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the weather is finally cooling off, Lauren Briggs\u2019 golf game continues to be hotter than a firecracker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[314073,49,48,314074,622,38700,79794,79796,314075,82],"class_list":["post-909423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-brigg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-bearcats-football","tag-golf","tag-golf-swing","tag-grass-field-surfaces","tag-lawn-games","tag-northwest-missouri-state-bearcats","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909423","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=909423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}