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“Very awkward.”
“A little funky.”
Those were just a couple of the sentiments from Division I women’s college golf coaches following last week’s news that the number of teams advancing to the NCAA D-I Women’s Golf Championship was increasing by three, to 27, after the NCAA’s D-I Competition Oversight Committee approved a proposal put together by the D-I Women’s Golf Committee.
The change, the committee states, is designed to “provide an equitable championship access ratio across both Division I men’s and women’s golf.”
In terms of percentages, it technically achieves that, as the men and women each now have 10% of their total number of sponsored D-I programs advancing to nationals (the men send 30 teams to their NCAA Championship).