Emily Haas Begins NCAA All-Star Tour in Asia
June 24, 2013 | Women's Golf
June 24, 2013
Louisville, Ky. - Louisville's Emily Haas was one of 10 players selected to play for the NCAA All-Stars this summer. Haas and the nine other players meet up in Santa Monica for two days before departing on the Asia Tour on Thursday, June 20. The team will travel through Asia for a 24-day tour.
The team landed late on Friday at the Narita Airport and took a two-hour bus to Camp Zama, a U.S. Army Garrison. The next day Larry Wheat, the tour coordinator, assigned each player a specific job for the trip. Sadie Palmer of Southern Utah was named the team MC for intros at each event. Shena Yang of USF is in charge of protocol and culture. Louisville's own Emily Haas is the team members gift coordinator. Sara Monberg of Tennessee assigns the room mates for each stay. Victoria House of San Francisco heads airport check-in. Taylor Babcock of Barry University was named sergeant at arms. Savana Bezdicek of Northern Arizona is the charge of coordinating the team uniforms. Samantha Stockton of Point Loma Nazarene University is the raffle coordinator. Lea Garner of BYU is the schedule coordinator while Audrey Dalton of Georgetown is the team blogger.
On Saturday the team took a bus from the Army base over to the U.S. Naval Air Facility at Atsugi for our first tournament overseas. They played a scramble skins game, so each group had one score for each hole against the field. The NAF Atsugi Golf Club was a flat course with subtle greens and perfect for a scramble format. After the rounds the team headed into the clubhouse for lunch and the tournament raffle. They sold raffle tickets for the chance to win a free round trip for two people to Los Angeles next year to play in a tournament. Taylor and Sadie's groups won the skins games with birdies on #9 and #18, two holes that no other groups birdied.
Afterwards the team toured a maintenance hangar where they met some of the air wing squadron of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. They had flown in after doing practice maneuvers in Iwo Jima. The squadron team members explained their functions in the military. After asking lots of questions and taking even more pictures, the team headed back to the bus and left Atsugi for Camp Zama.
Sunday they played at the U.S. Army Camp Zama Golf Club. That afternoon they went sightseeing in Tokyo.
On Monday they played Camp Zama Golf Club again. There was a four way tie for first place at 2-under between Emily, Sara, Lea (and Larry), and Taylor's groups. Emily won the rock-paper-scissors contest for the first place medal. After golf the team went to go shoot guns at a military simulation center. We shot pistols, machine guns, M16 rifles, grenade launchers, and rocket launchers.
Later in the afternoon the team will transfer to Atami-JRJ Lodge.
