Christian Van Nover
-
- Hometown:
- Wichita, KS
-
- Year:
- SO
-
- High School:
- Eisenhower
News mentions
The Barton Community College men's golf team got a preview Monday and Tuesday of the home of the 2017 national championship, leaving Garden City with work to do if the No. 17 Cougars hope to return. Beginning the fifty-four hole Southwest Kansas Shootout with a respectable 315 team score, the Cougars faltered in the afternoon round at Buffalo Dunes Golf Course with a 320 before Tuesday’s final round of 324 left Barton in twelfth place of the thirteen team tournament which included five other NJCAA ranked teams.
The Barton Community College men's golf team made a second round charge on Monday as the Cougars tied for third place in the KJCCC’s first meet of the season. Competing at Manhattan’s Colbert Hills Golf Course, the Cougars were in fourth place with a cold morning round of 311 before heating up for a final round second best 298 score to catch Kansas City Kansas Community College for the third spot at 33-over par 609.
The No. 15 ranked Barton Community College men's golf team broke away from a first round deadlock to win its own tournament Monday at StoneRidge Golf Course pulling out a six stroke victory in the Barton Invitational. Shooting consecutive team 295 score rounds in the 36-hole event, the Cougars out dueled Dodge City Community College in the second eighteen holes finishing at 590 to the Conqs’ 596. The result concluded Barton’s fall season the same as it began, with a victory, as the Cougars won two of their five events while finishing runner-up in one to go along with two third place finishes.
Two themes regarding the Barton Community College men's golf team have emerged in the fall portion of the schedule. First, the Cougars don’t start well but finish strong, and two, sophomore Jakkapat Horsangchai is proving he is a solid collegiate golfer.
One week after pulling off a comeback season opening victory, the Barton Community College men's golf team’s bid for two straight came up short Monday finishing runner-up at the KCK Invitational. The Cougars trailed Kansas City Kansas Community College by ten strokes after the morning eighteen holes at Junction City’s Rolling Meadows Golf Course but the deficit grew by five additional strokes from the afternoon’s round completing the one-day thirty-six hole tournament at 610 to KCK’s winning 595 score.
Trailing by six and battling the second day of extreme hot and humid conditions, the Barton Community College men's golf team rallied to a one stroke victory in the Coffeyville Community College Invitational held Monday and Tuesday at Adams Municipal Golf Course in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Led by the 1-2 punch of the Cougars’ top two golfers, Barton opened its 2016 season defeating eight other teams with a 607 score to edge fellow Jayhawk Conference member Kansas City Kansas Community College’s 608.