Russell Spring’s Abbie Coffey having a solid junior season for Campbellsville
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Abbie Coffey is having a solid junior season for the Campbellsville University women’s golf team and is emerging as one of their best golfers.
Coffey grew up in Russell Springs, Kentucky (about 40 minutes away from Campbellsville, Kentucky), and played golf at Russell Springs High School. She started golfing at a young age and joined the varsity girl’s golf team in seventh grade. She was an instrumental part of that team and helped lead them to the KHSAA State Championship three times in six seasons. Her junior season was the strongest season of her high school golf career. She earned All-State honors and qualified as an individual golfer for the KHSAA State Championship.
Coffey signed on to play golf for the Campbellsville Lady Tigers in her senior year of high school. She made an immediate impact in the COVID-19 shortened season. She was in first place after day one of the Bill Sargent Invitational (the first golf match of the season). At the end of the invitational, she was in third place and earned All-Tournament honors. Just for context, 38 golfers were competing in that invitational.
Coffey followed up her first performance by finishing fifth in the second invitational. After that invitational, she came back down to Earth and had some more modest results but not before showing her team that she could be an X-factor.
Coffey did not have a particularly strong sophomore season. She had a few top ten finishes but never cracked the top five. In tournaments, she often fell to the middle of the pack and could not mount a comeback to the top ten.
Coffey put her sophomore season behind her and is having a stronger year this season. After finishing the first invitational in 17th, she rebounded and tied for fifth with her teammate, Connor Geralds, in the next tournament. The Campbellsville team finished in first place in that invitational, and it is safe to say that Coffey played a role in that.
Coffey struggled in the following invitational, finishing tied for 44th but followed that performance up with two top ten finishes (eighth and seventh, respectively).
The Campbellsville team is having a strong season thus far, currently ranked at 15th in the NAIA. Coffey has been a significant part of that success and will continue to help as the golf season progresses. She has become a solid No. 2 golfer on a team with three top two finishes in four invitationals. Look out for Coffey as the season continues.
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