Where college students go for golf

Pace of Play is a serious problem in college golf. Unlike other golf “issues” such as how big the cup should be or what tees golfers of different calibers play from, everyone agrees when it comes to Pace of Play; we need faster rounds of golf.

With the addition of five new regions—Twin Cities, Philadelphia, Southern Connecticut, Pacific, and the Ozark—we’ll now have 27 regions for the fall 2014 semester. With new regions comes new rivalries (and old ones potentially lost) and most importantly, more college golfers getting the opportunity to experience competitive golf.

#GOLFIS a challenge because if you don’t play for an extended period of time, your game gets rusty and you make mistakes that you wouldn’t make in midseason form.

This is part 6 of a series of articles written by the GOLF 20/20 Ambassadors highlighting ways for the golf industry to engage with 18 to 34-year-olds and promote the game to millennial golfers. Read the rest of the series.

Whether you are a Club Golf President looking for new members, or a student looking to build a club team from scratch, recruiting can be a challenge. Having started over hundreds of teams, the NCCGA has uncovered proven strategies to find golfers on your campus.

For a growing number of club golfers, reaching the NCCGA National Championship represents the pinnacle, the true premier event of their competitive golf careers.

But for a select few, that event is only the beginning.

Enter Patrick Colburn.

There is something about the game of golf that no one will ever understand until they actually step out onto the course and hit that little ball into a tiny hole. It seems silly, but there is nothing like it. I grew up swinging the golf club out in the front yard with clubs that were taller than me at the time. I never really showed interest into golf until my Grandfather and eighth grade history teacher Mr. Theis told me I should play. I am an athlete that has played sports since the young age of three, and nothing has ever fascinated me, angered me and taught me so much about myself and life like the game of golf has.

Every Civil Engineering student at Umass Lowell must take a Senior Capstone class in order to graduate. Capstone normally entails a group of students working together to complete a design project that encompasses all of the aspects and skills they have learned throughout their engineering schooling. It's a year-long class that everyone dreads taking because it is a large amount of work to design something that won't ever actually be created.

As a follow-up story to Cormac Kelly’s blog post on caddying as a summer job, I wanted to share about my experiences as a caddy this summer and what I learned about the similarities between different types of college golfers.

This is part 2 of a series of articles written by the GOLF 20/20 Ambassadors highlighting ways for the golf industry to engage with 18 to 34-year-olds and promote the game to millennial golfers. Read the rest of the series.

I am really grateful that my Dad introduced both my little sister and I to The First Tee program, which brought golf into our lives.

If you look at our map of NCCGA college golf teams, you may be surprised at how east-coast centric our player base is. The NCCGA originated in the Southeast and has expanded rapidly over the past year into Central, Northwest, and Southwest. Leading the charge for us in our Pacific Region is Adam Englehorn, recipient of the 2014 spring Regional Coordinator of the semester award. We caught up with him on his summer plans and goals for the fall 2014 semester.

After nearly 10 years of caddying, I have been the beneficiary of some of the great perks that caddying has to offer. While there are many perks to the job, I have narrowed them down to four of the best:

Fundraising can often be the biggest headache for a new president or an existing team. Many of our teams, however, find creative ways to raise money each semester and most of them do not take much time or effort. Fundraising can be intimidating at first, but if it is done right you can raise hundreds or thousands of dollars for your team.

This is part 2 of a series of articles highlighting the reasons why playing the game is a challenge for 18 to 34-year-olds. Read the rest of the series.