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College Golf: NC State Starts With Leadership, Delivers Strong Play
North Carolina State is a household name, synonymous with successful collegiate athletics, and he NC State college golf club team is no exception. Two individuals—Brandon Loughren and Josh Rackley—have sparked the growth and success of the program over the past few years, demonstrating leadership and stellar golf that epitomizes the National Collegiate Club Golf Association’s...
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Does College Golf Play Slowly?
It’s a tournament round and you’re off to a rough start after lipping out a four-footer for par. Only compounding the frustration, there is a multi-group back up on the next par three, the hole that always seems to slow us golfers down, and you are forced to ponder how that par putt didn’t hold...
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And If You Play Golf, You’re My Friend
The title of Harvey Penick’s famous book: And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend, is particularly significant for Kris and I as we met fundraising for a caddy scholarship organization—the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund—back in 2008. In addition to playing competitive junior golfer, we spent a combined twenty years caddying which allowed us...
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Will Anchoring Affect College Golf?
Taking the golf world by surprise this past November, the USGA proposed a controversial decision to prohibit anchored strokes starting in 2016. While it may surprise the recreational college golfer, many tour pros have anchored putters over the past 30 years, and thus USGA’s decision “makes sense” in that various other forms of putting—including Sam...
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