SYRACUSE — The second round of last year’s 5A state girls golf championship was equal parts good and bad for Bountiful’s Vanna Einerson.

Good: she was one group behind her older sister Jobi Einerson, who came back from a two-shot first-round deficit by shooting 74 on the second day to win the state title by one shot at Glenmoor Golf Course.

“I was so happy for her. Even when she did win, I was crying… I’m crying because I’m happy for her, I didn’t care how I played,” Vanna Einerson said.

Bad: Vanna Einerson did not have such a good day herself. She shot 84, hardly made a putt and dropped down the leaderboard, this after shooting an 83 the first day following a region season where she shot in the low-to-mid 70’s each tournament.

“I think I was just so terrified out of my pants that I was shaking on every shot both days from the first hole to the 18th hole,” she said.

Einerson said Monday she purposely doesn’t remember the name of the course. That’s how bad she wants to forget about it.

It’s pretty much ancient history now. In the first tournament of the season, Einerson fired a 3-under 69 at The Bluff and also added a 1-under 70 at Lakeside not too long ago.

“I’m just trying to keep everything positive about it because golf is all mental, I’m going to practice my hardest until it comes and that’s all I can do,” Einerson said.

Her 4-over 76 at Monday’s Region 5 championships was good enough for an 11-shot win at Glen Eagle, helping the Braves win the team title as well. That round might not be notable as much for the number as it was for the manner in which she shot the 76.

Ask any golfer and he or she might tell you that either they are superstitious when it comes to playing golf, or that they know someone who is.

After the first nine holes Einerson was 5-over par and pushing almost every drive to the right.

“I was like, ‘You know what?’ It’s the shoes,'” she said.

So she swapped her black shoes for grey ones, started using her hybrid club off the tee and shot 1-under on the back nine. Einerson made a few up-and-downs in her round and made a few long putts as well.

“Today, I don’t know what it was, (my driver) has been really good. Today it was just going right, so I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to play it safe,'” she said.

Once her drives started finding the fairway, she didn’t have to walk a tightrope anymore and had clear, short shots at the green.

The wide margin of victory for Einerson has been the norm and not the exception. The frequent rain and snow this spring has made for some interesting tournaments, or non-tournaments.

The Region 5 girls golfers were supposed to play a tournament at Eaglewood in North Salt Lake earlier this season. Cancelled.

They could only play nine holes at Rose Park because there was so much standing water.

“You know how you can take (the ball) as far back as you want? You could take it back to the tee box, it was that wet,” Einerson said.

Einerson and Box Elder’s Draygen Taylor actually tied for first place that day, both shooting eight-over 47.

Monday’s 60-degree temperature with a slight northwest breeze in Syracuse constituted some of the best golf weather Region 5 has seen.

Top 5 individual finishers (Par 72)

1. Vanna Einerson, Bountiful, 76

2. Hallie Smith, Bountiful, 87

T3. Draygen Taylor, Box Elder, 91

T3. Macy Richards, Woods Cross, 91

5. Krista Glauser, Box Elder, 92

Team scores

1. Bountiful, 359

2. Box Elder, 373

3. Woods Cross, 383