With conference championship season here, the college golf postseason is approaching. A new national championship is on the schedule and preparations are being finalized.
The NCAA announced last May it would allow teams to play in one season-ending event, and Golfweek teamed up with at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa, Arizona, just south of Phoenix to host the inaugural National Golf Invitational in May 2023.
The NGI will feature a men’s and women’s championship, each with a maximum of 18 teams playing 54 holes of stroke play. Women will play first, May 11-14, with the men the following week, May 18-21.
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The field will be invitational-only as decided by a committee using a cumulative average of both the Golfweek/Sagarin and Golfstat rankings along with a committee decision on teams that have strong regular seasons.
The plan is to automatically invite the next best 15 teams according to the average ranking of the teams that did not get invited to NCAA Regionals, with three selections reserved for possible committee picks.
Think of it as the NIT of college golf.