Men's Golf North Regional Day 2 Results

LAC LA BICHE, AB - Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt but in the case of ACAC golfers, it breeds better scores. Golfers from four Alberta post-secondary institutions played their second round at the Lac La Biche Golf & Country Club on Sunday at the ACAC Golf Regional (North) and walked off the 18th feeling a bit better than they had 24 hours earlier. Many golfers knocked six, seven, eight - even 27 strokes - off their first-round score.

Chase Broderson of Medicine Hat College (MHC) improved his score by five shots on Sunday, enough to claim first place. Rounds of 79 and 74 gave him a five-stroke cushion over runner-up Dylan Gunderson of SAIT. Broderson noted that improved conditions and having a round under his belt definitely helped.

"Yeah, a little less wind today made it a little easier," he said. "Obviously knowing the course one more round helped."

In the Men's Team competition, SAIT edged out MHC by two strokes to take first place.

Like many of the golfers, Broderson found the course very challenging, particularly on the greens.

"It's tough. Really small greens," he said. "It's tight. You get in the bush and you're probably not finding your ball."

Broderson will have home course advantage next weekend at the Men's South Regional and is looking forward to playing in more familiar confines.

"We play out at Desert Blume in Medicine Hat which is more of a linksy style so you can kind of hit it. Bigger greens. I'm not used to these kind of small greens [in Lac La Biche], very slopey," he said.

Broderson jokingly added that he was at least thankful for the warm sunshine and lack of a breeze this past weekend, something he didn't experience the last time he visited Lac La Biche.

"I played here four years ago and it was zero degrees so this was definitely a better experience than that," he laughed.