Junior transfer Liam White has been the most consistent player for the Huskies as he tries to lead one of the country’s youngest teams in the right direction.

White, who transferred from Indian Hills Community College, has experience playing golf at the college level, unlike his teammates. White helped lead Indian Hills to win the 2012 NJCAA Division I National Championship, where he placed in the top 10 in five of the eight tournaments he competed in.

White has played consistent golf during the start of the spring season, and that has been big as the Huskies have one of the youngest teams in all of college golf. White is the lone upperclassman starter for the Huskies.

White doesn’t see the team’s youth as a disadvantage. He said he sees it as an opportunity for the young team to build for the future.

“It’s got its ups and downs,” White said. “We want to try and continue to build the program, as it’s struggled in the last few years, and it could be a good thing that we don’t really know the norm. We’re trying to start a new trend.”

Although White struggled during much of the fall season, he has played well this spring and recorded his first career top 25 finish at the Talis Park Challenge.

Head coach Tom Porten said White’s lower scores show his improvements as a golfer.

“Liam’s really maturing on the golf course,” Porten said. “It seems the harder the conditions we play under the more he learns, and he doesn’t try to overpower the golf course the way he did in the fall.

“For example, at Talis Park the last two rounds the winds were really high, 30 to 35 miles per hour, and with the exception of one of two shots in the round, Liam really stayed in control, and that’s helped him be more consistent in his round from the tee all the way into the hole.”

Porten said White’s putting has seen its biggest improvement during the spring. Putting was an area in which White struggled during the fall season.

“His biggest gain technically has been in his short game,” Porten said. “His putting average has dropped dramatically from the fall to the spring.”

As for White, he’s just glad to be able to get outside and play golf as opposed to hitting into a net indoors like the Huskies had to do all winter.

“I’ve definitely started a lot better than I started in the fall, but we definitely still have a long way to go,” White said. “It’s just nice to be out there and be able to hit the ball around the course.”