Ankeny senior Drake Shadwick carded a 14-over-par 85 and is tied for 69th place after Monday’s opening round in the boys’ Class 4A state golf meet at Davenport Country Club.
Shadwick had seven pars, eight bogeys and three double bogeys.
“Today was a good learning experience for Drake, and I think (Tuesday) the nerves will be more under control,” said Ankeny coach Mike Weddingfeld. “Davenport Country Club is a very challenging course with big undulating greens that are difficult so even though Drake played a practice round on Sunday, it took some time today to get some putts to start dropping for him. Drake did not play bad; he just put himself in some places on the golf course that caused him to make more bogeys than we liked.”…