It’s not the nationwide championship, but it surely’s a great preview of who may very well be there come spring.
The Golfweek D-III October Basic kicks off Sunday in Sandestin, Florida, at Sandestin Golf and Seashore Resort’s Raven and Hyperlinks programs. The lads’s discipline will tackle the Raven whereas the ladies will battle the Hyperlinks.
And each fields resemble ones that you’ll find at a nationwide championship.
On the boys’s aspect, the place top-ranked Methodist returns because the defending champion, the top-seven groups within the Oct. 11 Bushnell/Golfweek coaches ballot are teeing it up within the Florida panhandle.
And on the ladies’s aspect, the highest three and 7 of the highest 10 faculties within the newest Mizuno WGCA coaches ballot are within the discipline, together with defending champion Pomona-Pitzer, which is ranked third.
The Golfweek October Basic has lengthy been one of many prime occasions on the Div. III calendar, however this yr, just a few extra prime groups joined the sphere, making it even stronger and giving groups a great take a look at close to the top of the autumn season to gauge the place they’re at earlier than winter break.
The lads have been enjoying the Golfweek October Basic in Sandestin since 2011, and the ladies adopted a pair years later. In 2013, the programs joined to host the 2013 Division III Nationwide Championship, with the boys enjoying one spherical every on the Hyperlinks and Raven programs earlier than a 36-hole reduce. The highest 15 groups then performed the ultimate 36 holes at Raven.
The Raven course hosted the PGA Tour Champions’ Boeing Championship in 2006 and 2007.
