05-17-2019, 05:15 PM
(05-17-2019, 04:16 PM)winflop Wrote: This feels a lot like a U.S. Open in that par will be a winning score at the individual level and the teams that scramble the best will be the ones who climb the leaderboard.
The USGA used to say that the US Open set up was designed not to embarrass the best golfers in the world, but to identify them. That seems to be the case here too. The top 7 teams includes perennial contenders (all ranked in the top 7) plus the host school. The next 2 teams are the 2016 national champ and the 2017 national champ. That's a pedigree leaderboard.
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