Young talents lead Bears in first tournament since March
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Last Updated February 1, 2021
All things considered, golf has been accessible to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as parks remove rims from basketball hoops and goals from soccer fields, golfers have only had to remove rakes from bunkers and ban pulling the flagstick from the hole.
But as for team golf? Well, that’s a whole different story.
As the Bears found out during the Southwestern Invitational — a three-day, 12-team, 54-hole event hosted by Pepperdine from Jan. 25-27 — despite the relatively modest adjustments to the game, returning to a team format brought challenges the squad had not faced since March of last year.