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At the beginning of each season, the Clemson club golf team sits down and makes goals for their team. Usually this is a small list of steps to help them qualify for the National Championship. This season was different.

It has been a fun ride for the Baylor Club Golf Team and its founders. Several Baylor students created the team in the spring of 2013, looking to play competitive golf at a non-varsity level. It took only one year to reach the top, winning the Spring 2014 National Championship at Crystal Springs

This year’s NCCGA National Championship involved several teams playing in the championship for the first time ever. Saint Louis University was one of those teams and due mostly to the play of Tanner Rabb. Rabb’s college career has not been conventional. After playing golf at both the Division 3 and D1 levels, he has finally found a comfortable spot playing in the NCCGA. Bryan Park was Rabb’s second National Championship in his three NCCGA seasons. This year he finished his best ever in a National championship at solo seventh place.

Although she didn’t finish atop the leaderboard as an individual, Laura Kanouse can finally call her team National Champions. After co-founding the club a year and half ago, Kanouse found herself in her final NCCGA tournament at the #Battle4Bryan.

The Michigan State college golf club team was left to wait after falling short in the second Midwest Regional tournament of the Spring 2015 season. Michigan had bested them by 20 strokes to earn the tiebreaker and receive the region's automatic bid to Nationals.

This season’s national championship is shaping up to be one of the best yet. We have more teams than ever before competing for not only a team championship, but also an elusive Red Jacket. Several of the qualified teams are playing in their first ever NCCGA National Championship. Saint Louis University, Illinois State, Iowa State, and Oregon are all making their first ever National appearances. Take a look at these teams’ journey to Bryan Park.

The NCCGA National Championship is known for strong team competition. This weekend will be no different especially with the University of Florida and Golf Academy of America-Carlsbad in the field. Now you can get to know their teams a little bit better

It is a priority of the NCCGA to make sure the National Championship has a diverse, but competitive playing field. There are some very dominant teams in the NCCGA who win their regions and secure bids to Nationals almost every year. Wild card bids allow a variety of teams to take a shot at the National Title. Two college golf teams who have fought through tough competition to secure wildcard bids are Penn State and Stanford. We contacted both club's Presidents to hear how they proved many wrong and earned a spot in the #Battle4Bryan.

Could the Texas region be the most competitive NCCGA region? They are sending the most teams to Nationals this Spring at Bryan Park Golf Course in Greensboro, North Carolina. To get to know these four teams a little better, our NCCGA President Brandon Harrold reached out to Baylor, Texas A&M, TCU, and the Golf Academy of America-Dallas to ask them a few questions.

Here is your visitor's guide to Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for Spring 2015 NCCGA National Championship. These are a few recommendations on where to go and how to spend your free time while in the city for the tournament. For more in-depth information about the city and things to do, visit the Greensboro Tourism Website. The concierge at the Clarion Inn will have more information as well.

#Battle4Bryan

Greensboro, NC – This weekend Nextgengolf is proud to present the 10^th running of the NCCGA National Championship. The much anticipated Nationals Week is finally here, and we will be returning to Bryan Park Golf Course from April 24^th-26^th. Bryan Park hosted our National Championship four and half years ago, but now the field is bigger and better than ever. This will be the NCCGA’s biggest tournament to date with 304 players (37 teams and 18 individuals) competing in the 36-hole event. The golfers will compete on the two courses at Bryan Park, the Players course and Champions course. Both courses are top-notch public courses according to Golfweek and North Carolina Magazine, and have hosted nationally recognized events in the past.

Now that regional play has concluded, the stage is set for the NCCGA National Championship. 304 players will compete at the #Battle4Bryan in two short weeks. The 36 teams and 16 individuals making the trip to Bryan Park, NC, have had exceptional showings in their regional tournaments. This weekend's play was pivotal for many teams and their National Championship hopes. Here's the Region-by-Region recaps of this weekend's regional play.

304 players, 37 teams, 21 individuals, 1 Bryan Park. The NCCGA’s unprecedented growth has once again encouraged us to increase the field size. Adding 64 players to the field compared to the Fall National at Dancing Rabbit, April’s club golf spotlight will shine on Bryan Park Golf Center for the 2015 Spring National Championship in Greensboro, NC.

NCCGA National Championship AND The Masters?!? What a great weekend to be a golfer. The cold winter that plagued the teams in the Northeast seems to finally be in the rearview mirror. The Azaleas are in full bloom in Augusta. Dozens of college golf teams from around the country will be finishing their NCCGA Regional play in hopes of punching their ticket to the spring NCCGA National Championship at Bryan Park, NC. Here's a Preview of the 24 regions hosting tournaments on Saturday and Sunday:

With only three weeks until the NCCGA Spring National Championship in Bryan Park, NC, we had several tournaments this past weekend. A couple teams have secured spots for the national championship and others started their seasons off well. Take a look at how the teams and players faired this past Easter weekend.