NCCGA competitors put hours of time and effort into making their team—and the Association as a whole—a successful entity through which we enjoy competitive non-varsity golf. Nobody exemplifies this better than University of Virginia Club Golf President Christian Dolan who recently qualified at Bethpage for the 2013 U.S. Amateur Pub Links Championship.
Nicknamed “Big C” due to...
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College Golf Coaches Need to Hit the Clubs
Learning to play good golf takes years, and unlike other sports, it’s difficult to gauge when golfers will enter their prime as players mature at different times. Who would have thought that Masters Champion Zach Johnson was not the best player on his high school or college team as he openly admits.
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Try Less: A Method to Phil Mickelson’s Madness?
Phil Mickelson is quite possibly the most enigmatic golfer on tour. Be it his Houdini-esk tricks with the wedge, a seemingly different putting style each week, or an inexplicable driver from the rough, Phil never backs down from anything on the golf course but often gets in his own way at the US Open where...
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Merion’s U.S. Open: The Three-Act Test
As I eagerly await restart of play on Thursday morning of our national championship, I begin to question how low these craftsmen of steel and iron can really go.
In the 2011 U.S. Open, young stud Rory McIlroy astounded the golf world with his runaway, eight shot...
College Golf Represented at Merion: Three Bears on the Loose
One of the great distinctions between the U.S Open and the other 3 majors in golf is the qualification process. It’s more open to amateur than the Masters, but still, we see a star-studded field. But among those stars, including this year, we’ll see some college golf amateurs as well. Read more
Merion’s “Big Three” for US Open
Each year, the US Open forces players to grind unlike any other tournament on the PGA Tour. Thick rough, firm fairways, and fast greens force each player to give every shot the attention it deserves. Thus, the US Open leads to an abundance of high scores each year. After spending the last three days at...
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MSU Club Golf Sets The Standard
Garnering interest for the Michigan State Club Team has never been a problem since we launched the club last spring. We knew that there was significant interest on campus to play golf, and rather than limiting ourselves to a small group of competitive players, we secured a discount rate with a local course and offered...
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