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Illinois Golf 2023-24
Take me to your leader - for a lesson. Why do I shank putts?
Kidding. Mike Small is the bestest.
With apologies to Marty Robbins...
"Out in the Illinois town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Bloomington girl..."
Or huevos mas grandes, Got Cs in Spanish., Lo siento. Muchos Gauchos!
Sweet.
I could be wrong but I believe the seeding for the match play is based on the results of the 72 holes of stroke. I don't think rankings come into play in the Championship portion.
danielb927
Orange Krush Class of 2013
- Rochester, MN
That's correct, I think what the OP was referencing is that seeding is used for some of the pairings & tee times in stroke play, so it can have a minor effect. IIRC that's the case for the first three rounds, so the top seeded teams generally get 2 days of better tee times vs. 1 day for the lower seeds. Does anyone remember if that's correct? At some point it switches to being based on the standings.
First two rounds are fixed. Play with the same teams the first two days. You will get one early tee time and one afternoon tee time. After two rounds they re pair. Best scores go out earliest.
By the time you get to the fourth round there are only 15 teams so everyone plays in the same wave.
FlyNavy
- Los Angeles
Good article on the La Costa course in Carlsbad, CA. The course was a PGA Tour mainstay for nearly 40 years, but recently underwent a massive renovation - the NCAA Women's Championship was the first golf played on the new layout. Today is the final day of match play for the women, so the men only get one full day to practice on the North Course before Friday's start. Nobody has played it before, and it's a long course at over 7500 yards. But the weather should be perfect, topping out at around 70 each day (much better than Arizona).
The Championship will be in Carlsbad for the next three years, but the course is bidding to make it a permanent fixture similar to Omaha for the College World Series.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...ships-with-hopes-of-becoming-a-permanent-host
The Championship will be in Carlsbad for the next three years, but the course is bidding to make it a permanent fixture similar to Omaha for the College World Series.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...ships-with-hopes-of-becoming-a-permanent-host
The weather in Southern California is nice?! Shocker.
FlyNavy
- Los Angeles
danielb927
Orange Krush Class of 2013
- Rochester, MN
Am I reading the list right that there are no SoCal teams in the championships this year? That seems like a good thing given the location - nobody's playing a home or "semi-home" course this year.
Fan Since '70
- OBS, Florida
For having won their regional, Illini are seeded and ranked fairly low right before NCAA Championship (seeded 11, ranked 16 according to https://fightingillini.com/news/202...d-illini-ready-for-ncaa-championship-run.aspx).
Sounds about right I would say. This team has had some great results but has lacked consistency. Hopefully the team that showed up at regionals sticks around for another week. Get to match play. That’s all that matters now.
You need to be in the early tee time wave on day three, which is top 15.
Correct which is funny because 3 of the top 8 schools in women’s ncaa tournament were ucla Stanford usc. Stanford won over ucla
Same lineups as the regional. Let’s do this boys! Tee off in 3 hours or so I think? We get one of the later tee times today so early tomorrow.