By Dan Hildebrandt

Staff Reporter

@DEN_Sports

The Eastern golf teams will return to the course Sunday as both the men and women will compete in the Butler Fall Invitational.

The tournament will be from Sunday to Tuesday at the Highland Country Club in Indianapolis.

Having been out of action since the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Invitational Sept. 22-24 where it finished eighth out of 10 teams, the women’s team has had some extra time to work on its game.

The Panthers have been working hard on their areas of weakness. One major area the team has shown the need for improvement for has been playing around and on the greens.

“As a team we have worked a lot on short game,” junior Tiffany Wolf said. “More specifically, chipping.”

Wolf thinks the Panthers have gotten better since the Edwardsville tournament and they can expect to have more success at Highland Country Club.

“I think that the team is improving a lot and we can perform much better than the last tournament,” she said. “If we can keep the ball straight and really concentrate around and on the greens, I think we should play very well at this course.”

As for the men’s team, it is coming off a 10th place finish at the DePaul Invitational and will also get the chance to compete at Butler.

Big numbers have been a problem for the men’s team in the past, sophomore Austin Sproles said.

And he knows that keeping them off the scorecard will be essential to the team’s success.

“It’s very important to keep the big numbers off the scorecards and to execute around the greens,” Sproles said.

Sproles said he was disappointed with the team’s overall performance at DePaul, but he thinks this tournament could have better things in store for the Panthers.

“I’m expecting a much better performance than last week,” Sproles said.

Both teams will tee off at Highland Country Club on Sunday with a tee-time is ill yet to be determined.

Dan Hildebrandt can be reached at 581-2812 or djhildebrandt@eiu.edu.