Wynja leads Lady Raider golfers at Midland Invite

The women of Northwestern’s golf team came up with a fifth-place finish at the Midland Invite in Fremont, Neb., on Tuesday afternoon. The event was a final tune-up for many of the 15 teams in attendance.
The scores were higher all around than the previous conference meet, but the players said the course and its design was to blame.
“Fremont’s course is challenging,” senior Andria Hinz said, “It’s a lot narrower than some of the other courses we’ve played this fall, and that can definitely cause you to play timid and trust your swing less.”
Freshman Emma Wynja again led the Raider scoreboard, shooting an 84 to give her fourth place overall. Sophomore Taylor Kline and Hinz shot 93 to tie for 21st.
Freshman Betsy Wallin recovered from a rough front nine to salvage a 99, which put her in 39th place. Freshman Jess Locker rounded out the lineup by carding a 103.
The course will host the second GPAC Qualifier on Oct. 8. The Raiders are currently sitting four strokes behind the leader, Morningside. Wynja is in the hunt for an individual title, sitting in second place.
“One of our main goals [in this last meet] was to get a feel for the course as we will play our other fall GPAC meet there.” Hinz said, “We obviously wanted to compete a little better than we did, but we took the experience and know that it will be valuable when we return there for conference.”
As Hinz alluded to, the Raiders will complete their fall season next time out on Oct. 8.