ISU Golf Club begins competition in 2013
Photo: Miranda Cantrell/Iowa State Daily
From left to right: Chase Russell, Adam Moline and Brant Mosley of the Iowa State Golf Club. These men will be three out of the eight players that will begin competing in the National Collegiate Club Golf Association for ISU.
August 29, 2013
The fall of 2013 will bring huge changes for the ISU Golf Club. For the first time since the club’s creation in 2010, it will compete against schools around the country.
The club will begin its first campaign in the National Collegiate Club Golf Association on Sept. 21 to 22, in Blue Springs, Mo., in the first of two Central Region tournaments.
“The NCCGA will be something new for the club,” said club president Adam Moline. “Hopefully it works out for us.”
Up until this year the club had been purely for recreation.
“Every week we would meet on Thursday and play nine holes,” Moline said. “We would keep score and then give prizes out to the players with the top scores the next week.”
The NCCGA, which was created in 2006, will grow to nearly 150 schools in the fall of 2013. The process of joining the NCCGA was a simple process for the club.
“We contacted the president of the association directly,” said Chase Russell, the club public relations representative. “They really took care of everything for us after that.”
Eight players will be allowed to play in each tournament. Of those eight scores, five will be combined into an aggregate team score. It will be a process for the club to narrow down to the eight players that can play competitively.
“We will have a range day to see which guys have the potential,” said Brant Mosley, club vice president. “We will then look at who wants to play and narrow it down to 40 players for a tryout.”
The biggest goal for the club will be to field a competitive group of guys, while not getting away from the recreation side.
“We just want to find a solid eight guys, while still focusing on the other side of the club: having fun on Thursdays,” Moline said.
Another goal for the club will be to make the national tournament Nov. 16-17 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Teams can qualify for the national tournament by winning their region outright, but there also is a wild card system allowing other teams to qualify.The top-10 players from each region will also qualify for the national tournament.
“I think we have a strong group of guys,” Mosley said. “We can put a good team together and get the ball rolling for the years to come.”
