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Golfers begin Pac-10s
Linksters hope to overcome inconsistent season
By Mark Johnson
Ot thm Emarald
All season long, followers of the Oregon golf
team have never known if their Ducks will be in the
rough or on the green. The only thing predictable
about the young Ducks is their unpredictability.
More to the point, the Ducks' problem is incon
sistency. And inconsistency is what may ruin their
bid for an NCAA tournament berth later this month at
Pinehurst, N.C..
Oregon ventures to Corvallis today for the
opening round of the Pacific 10 Conference Cham
pionships, and the Ducks are in a position that they
didn't figure to be in at the beginning of the year —
hoping for a big upset and a chance to sneak in the
back door of the NCAA’s.
The year for the young squad has been marked
by peaks and valleys, and inconsistent play has hurt
the Ducks in more ways than one.
Oregon was riding high in the fall, taking second
at the Oregon State Invitational and a very
respectable fifth at the Stanford Fall Invitational
The momentum carried over into the spring as
the Ducks led the Stanford Spring Invitational and
the Northern Collegiate in Stockton, two major
collegiate tournaments, after the first two rounds
But the first symptoms of inconsistency became
apparent as the Ducks lacked a killer instinct. Both
times the young Ducks failed to hold on to the lead in
the final rounds of each tournament, letting the titles
slip away The result was sixth place at Stanford and
a second place in Stockton
Although sixth and second place at the two
tourneys pushed the Ducks closer to an at-large bid
to Pinehurst, the frustration of losing the titles
stemmed from wild play in the clutch.
Oregon coach Jim Ferguson complained that
the athletes weren't having problems with the
courses as a whole, but were getting burned on one
or two holes each time
''I can't predict anything this team does,"
Ferguson said. "All season long we’ve either shot
very well or very poorly. We can’t seem to get guys to
shoot 75.”
The wild play worsened as Oregon had a disa
strous month of April. In three major tournaments —
the Fresno State-Pepsi Classic, the Western Inte
rcollegiate and the Sun Devil-Thunderbird Collegiate
— the Ducks failed to finish in the top ten of any of the
tournament.
At the Sun Devil-Thunderbird in Phoenix, Ariz.,
over this weekend, Ferguson’s complaints came
back to haunt him. Oregon was well back of the pack
after the first round, and was gaining ground fast
during the second as they fired even par as a team
on the front nine.
But the Ducks found some difficult holes and
shot 25-over on the back nine to finish the day in a tie
for 15th.
Ferguson had predicted that the Ducks would
have to finish in the top four or five at the Phoenix
tournament, and the top three in the Pac-10 to be
named to the NCAA field. But the poor showing in
Phoenix forces the Ducks to play the spoiler at the
Pac-10’s by trying to upset favorites USC and UCLA,
and giving reason for foe NCAA selection committee
to take a second look.
"If we don't make it to foe NCAA,” Ferguson
said, “It will be sad, because we are a better team
this year ’’
Oregon finished in 27th at foe NCAA tourney in
1981, its first appearance since 1978.
PAC-10 PREVIEW — Arizona State is the
defending champion, while Oregon took third in
1981 Ferguson predicts a tight conference
tournament due to short greens on foe Corvallis
Country Club course, and vying for foe title should
be USC and UCLA, both ranked high in foe nation.
Behind foe Southern California schools should come
Arizona State, Oregon, Arizona and Stanford.
Competing for foe individual title will be favorites
Mickey Yokoi and Corey Pavin of UCLA, and Jeff
Hart of USC
Women drop
match to Idaho
netters, 7-2
The Oregon women s tennis
team lost a 7-2 decision to a tough
Idaho team Saturday, dropping
their record to 5-7 on the season
Oregon was haunted by three
three-set losses in singles play
Only Lindsay Bartlett at No. 1
singles was a winner, taking her
match by a 6-3, 7-6 score Bartlett
also teamed up with Susie Hunt
tor a 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 win in No 1
doubles, accounting for the
Ducks' only two wins of the
match
Down 5-2 after the first doubles
competition and already out of the
match, Oregon blew a chance to
make it close when Joanne
Chamberlain and Cathy Rudolph
took a 7-6, 6-4, 2-6 loss in No. 2
doubles and Amy Gram-Susie
Platt lost 6-4, 6-4 in No. 3
doubles
The Ducks will now prepare for
the Region 9 tournament, to be
held in Eugene May 6-9.
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