Ole Miss on the season that was gone too soon

Ole Miss didn’t get the chance to defend its SEC Championship title this week.

Or try to make a deep run at the NCAA Championship. The Rebels won a school record four times this season and finished the spring 13^th in the Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings, continuing a steep upward climb that’s been years in the making. The global coronavirus pandemic altered the future of all sports teams across the U.S.

Junior Julia Johnson, who was set to compete earlier this month at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, carded an NCAA record-tying 61 in the fall season and was on schedule to shatter the school’s scoring record with a 70.72 average.

Golfweek caught up with Johnson, senior Kennedy Swann, freshman Chiara Tamburlini and head coach Kory Henkes to talk about the abrupt end to their promising season.

Swann gives insight into her next steps at Ole Miss and Henkes, who is due with her second child in early June, talks about a hectic life at home with husband, Kenneth, who works in the emergency room on the front lines of this global pandemic.