The women’s golf team pulled through a cold, blustery tournament in Iowa City, Iowa last weekend, ranking third place out of the 15 schools in attendance.

The weather drove scores up over the weekend with its chilly 25 to 30 mph winds.

Coach Tom McCurdy said the team wasn’t quite accustomed to playing with multiple layers of clothing on.

“The conditions were brutal this weekend,” McCurdy said. “The girls had to stay warm enough to swing.”

Despite the conditions, the Shockers managed to come out of day one in first place. Maria Alejandra Villalobos led the women, scoring 79 and 73 in the first two rounds of the par-72 Finkbine Golf Course.

Villalobos finished the tournament Sunday with another score of 79, tying seventh with her teammate, Meghan Schuetz (81-78-72).

“Maria played a great second round after coming back from a bad first round,” McCurdy said. “Maria is a very consistent player.”

McCurdy said the team’s performance as a whole seemed to lack the prowess it did on day one. He said had they kept their momentum, the women could have come out in first place.

“I haven’t figured out why we played worse [Sunday] than we did on [Saturday],” McCurdy said. “Some of the girls made it harder on themselves to score.”

McCurdy said he still feels good about the overall performance, considering the team beat higher ranked schools.

McCurdy said he plans on working more on swinging with multiple layers of clothing on to combat the cold, as well as working on long putts and iron hitting.

The team’s next destination is the Missouri State University Payne Stewart Memorial tournament in Springfield, Mo., scheduled to begin next Monday.

McCurdy says this course will be easier than the past courses the team has played on recently.

“It’s a tree-line golf course — nothing extreme,” McCurdy said. “It looks straightforward, we aren’t expecting anything to be an issue.”