The spring season for the Gustavus Men’s Golf team has been a good one. The team’s season is split between the fall and the spring, with a break during the winter. With a roster that is competitive from top to bottom, the Gusties have had a great time hitting the links in the recent months. Although having to battle snow and other imperfect weather conditions early in the season, the weather has cooperated for the team in the recent weeks.

Highlights so far from this spring include multiple high placing finishes at events, competing against both conference and non-conference opponents. To begin the spring season, the Gusties opened with an impressive fifth place finish at the Camp LeJeune Invitational, which was held in North Carolina.

“We are playing the way we need to play right now, making a bunch of pars and avoiding big numbers. We expect to play well each time out.” – Coach Scott Moe

“We started our year at the Camp LeJeune Invitational in NC. We had a great experience getting to play alongside, and visit with, some retired military personnel. The event had a very strong field. We played pretty well for our first event, finishing 5th out of 30,” Head Coach Scott Moe ’95 said.

In the team’s next two meets, the Augsburg Invitational and the Bobby Krig Invitational, the Gusties took home two first place finishes. The Bobby Krig Invitational was the lone event of the season that is hosted by Gustavus. The event took place in Jordan, Minnesota and also Le Sueur, Minnesota.

“I’m pleased with how hard our players worked in the off season and continue to set the bar high and push eachother. We have had great support from all of the players on our roster.” – Coach Scott Moe

“We just completed our own event, the Bobby Krig Invite, and played solid golf, winning a big event by 6 strokes. We needed this win to propel us into our final event, the Saint John’s invitational,” Head Coach Moe said. The Saint John’s Invitational will take place this weekend in St. Cloud, Minnesota and Monticello, Minnesota.

Moe, who is in his 19th year as head coach of the Men’s, and 12th year as head coach of the Women’s Golf team here at Gustavus, is very happy with the preparation that his golfers put in for this season.

“I’m pleased with how hard our players worked in the off season and continue to set the bar high and push each other. We have had great support from all of the players on our roster, pushing everyone and supporting each other during the week and on the weekend,” Head Coach Moe said. Moe is also impressed with how his team has performed so far this spring.

“We are playing the way we need to play right now, making a bunch of pars and avoiding big numbers. We have shown depth right now and anytime you have five players that can be our low score of the day, that is a key to have a good team and we have that right now. We expect to play well each time out and if that results in a victory, then great, if not, then someone else will have to play great to beat us. The great thing is, everyone on the team has contributed,” Moe said. This hard work in the offseason, as well as the stellar golf being played, will hopefully turn into a bid to the NCAA Tournament later this spring.

“We are taking our season one event at a time. We are hoping to play well enough to earn an at large spot in the NCAA Tourney in New York,” Moe said.