Where college students go for golf

The mission of Nextgengolf is "more golfers, more rounds". We are currently based in US but at some point, we would like to become a global organization helping grow the game outside the United States and get younger generation across the world in to the game. One of the places I personally would like to see golf grow is India. There are a few reasons why India is a good market to grow the game:

The Clemson Tigers out dueled the Georgia Bulldogs at the NCCGA National Championship in Myrtle Beach this past weekend. Both teams finished in the top ten, with Clemson tying East Tennessee State and Miami of Ohio for seventh place (+77, 797), while Georgia was two shots back in tenth place (+79, 799). There was a distinguishable gap between the top five teams and sixth place on down the leaderboard. Nonetheless, Clemson and Georgia can both state their claim as solid club golf teams with room to improve.

With Nationals around the corner, it’s time to take a closer look at what the Southeast Region will bring to the table when the first tee shots are struck at Barefoot Resort in Myrtle Beach. The region had a strong showing this season from several players individually, especially Rhoades Sturkie of Georgia Tech, while the Clemson and Georgia teams showed the consistency necessary to earn a nationals bid. Given that this was Georgia’s first season with a club golf team competing in the NCCGA, their stellar play was extremely impressive.

It’s hard to believe the hype and momentum surrounding the Fall 2013 NCCGA National Championship at the Barefoot Resort’s Love and Dye courses for an organization that had 50 teams last season. In the past year, we’ve over tripled in size, added 8 new regions in expanding across the country, and drawn the attention of the a variety of leading organizations in the golf industry.

With a USGA sectional title, 4 club championships, and a stellar track record as a two-year golf captain at Trinity College, Babson MBA first-year Josh Biren is one of the more decorated players in the NCCGA. After bogeying his first hole and driving a 150-yard duck hook pop up into a pond en route to tripling his second hole, Josh knocked back a 5-hour energy to birdie 5 of the next 16 holes to fire a stellar first round 75 which put him in the lead.

How has the team grown since last year?

We have seen our number of golfer’s balloon from 6 members a semester ago to 17 active members this semester, giving us the title as the fastest growing club sport on campus.

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I'm coming at you from a new angle this week in "Austin's Angle" with a video version of the Fall 2013 Mid-season Recap.

After North Carolina’s first regional a few weekends ago, Campbell, UNC, and UNC Wilmington round out the top three finishers.

NCCGA is a student driven organization with hundreds of natural leaders who help make club golf a reality for thousands of students across the country. While all club presidents are worthy of recognition, John Janisse of Xavier has done an exceptionally good job transforming a dying club into the top club on Xavier's campus.