[martyup]

I bet Oklahoma State doesn't like this format right now. We didn't like it the year we won the stroke play portion to get the #1 seed and then lost in the match play semis. 

I think it's weird that almost all of the tournaments during the year are stroke play, but the national champion is determined via head-to-head match play. It would be like March Madness switching to head-to-head games of HORSE between two teams at the elite eight rather than playing a regular game.

To me it makes sense for the team competition.  It takes a complete team to win it.  If one guy is a -10 and the other four on his team are scratch golfers, then their team would be -10 in stroke play.  A team that had five -1 golfers would lose to them in stroke play by 5 strokes, but would beat them 4-1 in match play.

[martyup]

I bet Oklahoma State doesn't like this format right now. We didn't like it the year we won the stroke play portion to get the #1 seed and then lost in the match play semis. 

I think it's weird that almost all of the tournaments during the year are stroke play, but the national champion is determined via head-to-head match play. It would be like March Madness switching to head-to-head games of HORSE between two teams at the elite eight rather than playing a regular game.

To me it makes sense for the team competition.  It takes a complete team to win it.  If one guy is a -10 and the other four on his team are scratch golfers, then their team would be -10 in stroke play.  A team that had five -1 golfers would lose to them in stroke play by 5 strokes, but would beat them 4-1 in match play.