This past weekend the 2011 National Collegiate Golf Championship (NCGC) tournament completed it's 10th annual playing at Paiute Golf Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
100 collegiate, competitive recreation golfers representing 28 universities and colleges (including NC State University) from all over the United States earned their way to be eligible to compete for this national championship two-person scramble event put on by the Collegiate Golf Alliance (CGA).What is a competitive recreational golfer you ask? Any golfer who is a current university/college student and is not on a varsity NCAA roster is eligible to compete in CGA local qualifier and national tournament events. In addition, faculty and staff and alumni and community members affiliated with their employing institutions and alma maters respectively are eligible to participate too.
The bottom line is that there is no better way to have the opportunity to compete for a national title in a place like Las Vegas in November than playing in the NCGC - the amateur golf world's hidden secret.
Congratulations to the University of Southern California for taking this year's title with a tournament-record low score of 62 (-10) on the daunting Wolf Course at Paiute.
If you haven't heard about this event before, now you have.
Check out more of what the CGA has to offer at your university or college.
"I'm not good enough" is not an excuse not to play either.
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