![]() ![]() ![]() Isenberg said the back nine at the Columbia course is hard and the front nine “can sneak up on you every now and then.” The well-maintained course has its fair shares of trees and bunkers and water hazards on four or five holes. Reading had a hole on each day where it didn’t end in a timely manner while Smith started out hot on the first nine holes on Day 2 with a birdie but then struggled more when he played the front nine. It’s wet, muddy and you’re soaked so it’s definitely difficult to have two great back-to-back days. “It’s very difficult because you’re walking 18 (Monday) and you’re walking 18 (Tuesday). Just getting here and competing is all you can ask for,” Isenberg said. ![]() The sport demands a lot in terms of consistency so more experience over time will only help each of them as Smith focuses on competing in college at North Central Missouri College in Trenton and Reading tries to make it back to state next year. Head coach Nate Isenberg said the “puddles everywhere” on Monday mean he couldn’t possibly be upset with the higher scores on the first day, but he isn’t upset with either’s play in the whole tournament. “It was raining a lot when we were playing,” Smith said. The rain hurt (on Monday),” Reading said. “There were only seven freshmen here and I was lucky to be seven out of 80 kids here.”Įach recorded Day 2 scores that were better than the rainy Day 1 as Smith shot an 88 to improve on a 91 and Reading had a 96, which was better than his 97 on Monday. “Playing in the town with houses sitting around with bunkers and water is different from the modern course we have around where we play,” Reading said. “It was very good competition, and it’s fun to be playing with people you haven’t played with before,” Smith said They both said better weather would’ve resulted in lower scores for everybody as it rained part of the day Monday and the course was wet on Tuesday but were happy to experience the bigger nature of the state tournament. The senior Smith finished 33rd out of about 80 golfers after shooting a two-day score of 179, or 35-over par and 10 strokes from the top 15 to medal, while the freshman Reading sat in a four-way tie for 59th with a 193. On Monday and Tuesday at the Class 1 state meet at Country Club of Missouri in Columbia, the pair represented Van-Far to give the school its first representation at state since 2019 - a year the school won districts to send a full team. We definitely plan on bringing him back next year.Together, Cody Smith and Pacey Reading had about four and half years of golfing experience heading into the state tournament. He's been carrying around that lemur all week. We bought him a lemur stuffed animal and tshirt from the gift shop. People have no idea what it costs for the care and feed for all the animals, $9 for us to enjoy the animals and a nice day with our grandson was well worth it. We were there for 2 hours and enjoyed every minute. ![]() My grandson had a great time playing in the play area, he even loved the hillbilly bowling. So to the people complaining, they don't have a clue. He also loved seeing the camels, zebras, the mini horses, mini donkeys, kune kune pigs, deer, tortoises, baby alpaca, the porcupines, he even loved the dog. We took my grandson there last Sunday and he absolutely loved it! He loved feeding the goats and parakeets, loved the baby kangaroo, loved the lemurs, those were his 3 favorites. First I want to thank the owners of Lazy L Safari Park for having this nice little zoo for the public to enjoy. ![]()
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