Deal earns second team All-Ohio honors – Sent-trib

COLUMBUS — Perrysburg junior Sydney Deal completed eleventh out of 72 golfers on the Division I state event Friday and Saturday.

On the Ohio State College Grey Course, Deal shot 37-39—76 on Friday and 40-36—76 on Saturday to put up a last rating of 152, incomes second group All-Ohio honors.

The highest rating was shot by Cincinnati McAuley senior Kylee Heidemann, who shot 72-69—141 to win the person state championship.

Deal hoped to complete larger up among the many particular person golfers.

“It was a bit bit tough right this moment,” Perrysburg golf coach Rick Rettig stated.

“Sydney didn’t have her sport off the tee, her driver obtained her in a bit little bit of bother, and by the point we obtained to the seventh gap we type of made the suggestion that she would need to contemplate taking three-woods off the tee.

“That truly type of straightened some issues out. However I do know it wasn’t the weekend she hoped for.”

Rettig thought Deal, who has her senior 12 months forward of her, made an honest spherical out of one thing that would have been a lot worse. The coach chalks it as much as a studying expertise.

“The nice factor was, clearly if you get right down to state you need to have your absolute A-game, and together with your driver, she was having this push-slice that she was battling all weekend,” Rettig stated.

“I suppose the one huge constructive we are able to draw from the weekend is she has performed that course a complete of six instances within the (state) event, and the again 9 has all the time been her Achilles.

“She has normally performed that wherever between 43 and 46 on the again 9, however coming house she was making the flip right this moment at five-over-par and he or she completed at six-over-par,” Rettig continued.

“So, she performed that again 9 predominantly in Sydney Deal style. So, I believe if something she confirmed a whole lot of maturity in her spherical right this moment to take what might have been a very robust spherical and never multiply it.”