Broken Bow Girls Golf Team Stays Busy This Summer in Preparation for Upcoming Season

As practice officially begins today for high school fall sports in Nebraska, members of the Broken Bow girls golf team have been busy this summer playing competitive golf to help prepare themselves for the upcoming season. Broken Bow has won the last three NSAA Class C girls state golf team championships and are focused in on claiming their fourth this season as four of the five members from last year’s championship team return.

Broken Bow senior Camryn Johnson, who finished 2^nd in the individual standings at the Class C state tournament last year, had the tremendous honor of qualifying for and competing in the Optimist International Tournament which was played at Trump National Doral Golf Club which is located in the heart of Miami near Coral Gables and Key Biscayne and is home to four of the top championship golf courses in Florida.

The tournament was affected by adverse weather conditions but in spite of that, Johnson told KCNI/KBBN sports that it was an amazing experience.

“The courses down there were just unreal like definitely we don’t have any like that in Nebraska but I think that the course that I played on the one day there was water on seventeen of the eighteen holes so definitely a little tricky but …they’re just unreal”

Johnson finished in the top 60 of a field that included around 150 participants. Johnson talked about how she has grown as a golfer especially in tournament play.

“I’d definitely say I’ve learned a lot of leadership skills trying to help my teammates help them push me and I push them. Competitive golf is so up and down I think one of my best strengths right now is just my mental side of the game where I can just if you have a bad day you just bounce back and try to have a good one”

Broken Bow girls head golf coach Kelly Cooksley told KCNI/KBBN sports that playing competitive golf during the summer has helped set their program apart the past few years. Along with Johnson, Cooksley also praised the accomplishments of others during the summer.

“Molly Custer played in match play and did a good job kind of consistently getting better over the summer as far as Nebraska junior golf stuff goes. Taylor Schaaf she played a lot more this summer this was probably her first full summer of dedicating herself to just playing golf, I thought she did a really good job and placed 2nd or 3rd at a meet in Grand Island I believe. Skyler Benjamin, rounding out our returning varsity players from a year ago, she had some ups and downs this summer but I thought she really did a good job. She actually qualified for the Nebraska Junior golf championships which is an invite only and she shot one of her best rounds of the summer…”

Broken Bow is scheduled to open its season on August 24^th at Meadowlark Hills Golf Course in Kearney

Listen to our full interview with Camryn Johnson about her experience at Doral