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Texas Region 1 - The Bear Shootout Tournament Summary

The stakes were high at the first ever NCCGA Texas Regional Tournament in Waco, TX. Baylor, TCU, SMU, and Texas A & M college golf club teams arrived at Cottonwood Creek GC on February 23^rd with high hopes for the tournament and the future of the Texas Region. The weather was beautiful for round one. At 7100 yards from the tips and with the wind was blowing, Cottonwood Creek was no easy task. Nonetheless, TCU was ready to play, with their best two players firing the top individual rounds from Day 1 (Gould 76, Gilmore 77).

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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 (NCCGA) mission to foster the growth of competitive non-varsity golf on campuses across the nation. Brandon Loughren, a senior, has been one of the strongest leaders of the NCCGA since 2010, when he took over as President of the team and soon thereafter the Regional Coordinator for the North Carolina Region.

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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 the break. Instead of removing the missed putt from your memory—a skill all good golfers possess—it lingers as you wait for the groups in front of you to finish the hole. Slow play is a serious problem for beginner golfers, those playing college golf, all the way to PGA Tour players (remember Kevin Na and his trouble pulling the trigger?), and all golfers need to hold one another accountable to speed up our collective pace of play.

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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 Snead’s croquet-style in the 60’s—have been banned by the USGA over time. Will the decision affect college golf?

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