WOMEN'S AND MEN’S GOLF
Coaches Group Information
Required Preseason Conference Call: 10am Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Women’s Required Coaches Meeting (at The Carolina Country Club): Sunday, April 5, 2020
Women’s Required All-Conference Conference Call: 10am Friday, April 10, 2020
Men’s Required Coaches Meeting (at Cutter Creek Golf Club): 1:30pm Saturday, April 18, 2020
Men’s Required All-Conference Conference Call: 10am Thursday, April 23, 2020
Committee Chairperson: Jason Gault, Belmont Abbey
Director of Athletics Liaison: Stephen Miss, Belmont Abbey
2020 Regular-Season and Championships Information
Women’s Conference Championship Dates:
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Location of Women’s Conference Championship: The Carolina Country Club (Spartanburg, SC)
Women’s Awards Banquet: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 (following the Championship)
Men’s Conference Championship Dates:
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Location of Men’s Conference Championship: Cutter Creek Golf Club (Snow Hill, NC)
Men’s Awards Banquet: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 (following the Championship)
Future Championships Dates: Men – April 10-13, 2021
Women – April 17-20, 2021
Championship Methods
Each team will enter five players with the top four scores per day counting towards the team championship. A 54-hole championship tournament format will be played. At least 36 holes must be played to determine a champion. If rained out on any day and all teams have completed the same nine holes, those nine-holes scores will count toward the Championship. The official entry form accompanied by the entry fee must be postmarked by March 30 and sent to the Conference office. Late entries will pay an additional $250, payable to the Conference.
In the event of a weather-shortened tournament, the highest-seeded team remaining in the tournament (per NCAA Golfstat regional rankings) becomes the conference champion and receives the automatic NCAA bid. When the winning team is not eligible for automatic qualification the runner up team receives the automatic qualification.
Tiebreaking Procedures
Team: Utilized for first and second places only. All members of the tied teams play the first hole and count the best four scores. If tie remains, play similarly on a hole-by-hole basis until the tie is broken. When weather or darkness prevents playing off a tie, the non-counting players’ scores in the third round will be used to determine the winner. Should a tie remain, the same procedure will be used for the second round and first round if a tie still remained.
Individual: All players tied for medalist immediately have a sudden-death playoff to determine the winner. If weather or darkness prevents a playoff, the final round score will determine the winner. If still tied, the second round is used and if still tied, the first round is used. If still tied, a card playoff will take place using the last 18-hole round completed by all tied starting with hole number 18. The winner shall receive the Medalist Award. The men's award recognizes former Barton golf coach Edward L. Cloyd, Jr.
Multiple Sport Policy: Link to League Mutiple Sport Policy
Media Policy Regarding Officials: Link to Conference Carolinas Media Policy
Delay of Game Policy: Link to Conference Carolinas Delayed Game Policy
Visiting Team Expectations: Link to Visiting Team Expectations
All-Conference Team: The Men’s and Women’s Golf All-Conference Teams will come from a coaches ranking spreadsheet (distributed the week before the Championships from the committee chairperson) that are based around Golfstat program statistics (which includes the nomination process from the spreadsheet). The Conference regional coaches representatives will be responsible for bringing up-to-date statistics to the golf coaches and conference call meetings, where Golfstat statistics will be distributed to assist with voting. Nomination confirmations and initial rankings of the men's and women's 1st/2nd/3rd (five per team) All-Conference Team, Freshman-of-the-Year, Player-of-the-Year, and Coach-of-the-Year nominees will occur at the required coaches meeting at each Championship. A subsequent conference call of coaches to finalize revisions of All-Conference and individual award winners will follow within the next week following each Championship. The conference call should include final ranking votes to be discussed with the final teams and individual award winners released as soon as possible following the conference call. Awards will be preliminarily distributed at the required coaches meeting at each Championship with the caveat that if changes are made and awards need to be exchanged, coaches will exchange/ship those limited corrections between coaches to save in conference expense of having to redeliver all awards, etc. (per coaches vote 1/11/18).
All-Tournament Team: The All-Tournament Team consists of the top ten individual finishers at each Championship.
Biweekly Golfer Award: The Biweekly Golfer Award is announced by the Conference for both fall and spring play.
Tournament MVP: The Tournament MVP is the tournament medalist of each Championship.
Freshman of the Year: The top freshman vote-getter of conference members using the same procedure and time frame as Player of the Year.
- A student-athlete should qualify only if this is the first collegiate institution attended.
- It is the student-athlete’s first year of competition (academic sophomores/redshirt freshmen are eligible as long as they took a redshirt year at the same member institution).
- Any transfer exception is not applicable (e.g., a student-athlete who transfers from an institution but did not play a sport is still not eligible for award).
- Nominators have the responsibility to make sure all qualifications are met.
Student-Athlete Pledge of Sportsmanship Form (Reminder to be signed by each student-athlete during preseason and filed in each institution’s athletics department.)