If you walked into Northwestern swimming and diving’s afternoon practice on Oct. 25, you may have seen a whiteboard with golf scorecards written all over it.
No, a putting range was not installed inside the Norris Aquatics Center. And despite the flood of golfer photos that were sent to the team GroupMe in the days prior, the Northwestern swimmers were not going to be playing golf. What really went on was a competition in the pool that was scored golf-style. Each swimmer had a par value that was 95% of their best 100-yard freestyle time, and they went through three rounds of swimming to figure out their score.