ND Sports
Two Freshman Standouts Paint
A Bright Future For Irish Golf
By Dan Murphy
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Rookies Talia Campbell (above) and Lindsey Weaver tied
for medalist honors at the Big East Championship with
matching 6-under-par scores, three strokes ahead of the
rest of the field.
photo courtesy notre dame media relations
he new state-of-the-art golf simulator in Notre Dame's indoor
practice facility, installed just last
month, is about 12 feet wide and
15 feet long, roughly the size of a
modest dorm room on campus
across the street. It's nestled comfortably inside the 10,333-squarefoot, $2.1 million building on the
grounds of the university's Warren Golf Course and allows the
Irish golfers to get an experience
as close to playing a real 18-hole
course as possible when South
Bend's inhospitable weather isn't
cooperating. The simulator is the
newest addition to a list of perks
that has some of the country's top
high school golfers ditching their
sun-kissed home states to play
on the winter-harboring plains of
northern Indiana.
Notre Dame women's golf
coach Susan Holt needed only a
hand and a finger to count how
many times her team practiced
outdoors before the Big East
Championship in late April. That
didn't stop the Irish from notching a first-place finish on their
way out of the conference. Freshmen Lindsey Weaver and Talia
Campbell led the way for Notre
Dame. They tied for the individual championship with matching
