Golf News: Division I Golf could be Slashed and Minimized

In recent golf news, the NCAA is considering lowering the number of required Varsity sports, and golf is one of those at the forefront of the conversation.

If you are like me, when you look around for golf news during these crazy times, you hope to see good news. Something uplifting, some good news about a tournament, or maybe even something funny, like Brooks Koepka’s new haircut.

Unfortunately, that isn’t where we are going with today’s golf news. In fact, it’s just the opposite. The NCAA has been mulling cutting the number of required sports that a Division I team needs to have. Currently, that number is 16. With that number being so high, it helps some of the non-revenue sports, like golf, to stay in the Division I level, providing scholarships and an opportunity for many high school golfers around the nation to not just continue golf, but their education as well.

I do understand that golf doesn’t provide opportunities for the school to make much money and that it might actually cost the school a little bit of money to field a golf team. It does provide publicity and recognition for the school to have a team though, which is a decent enough trade-off. It also provides those young adults with an education, which should make it worth it for the school.

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The schools should almost treat these low revenue or no revenue sports the way professional sports do with revenue sharing. Due to market size, not all of those teams are able to make the revenue that the Big Boys are able to *Cough* Yankees *Cough*. So some of the revenue that they make is distributed to the smaller markets.

This should be done in college as well. There are plenty of these schools that make a ton of money in basketball and football. Some of the Power 5 schools seem to get new $40 million weight rooms for their football team every decade.

Maybe, just maybe, instead of wasting money on a new weight room that is completely unnecessary, some of this money could go to the smaller programs.

I understand that it’s a form of a handout. One of the ways this is different to me is that these sports, like golf, just aren’t able to pull in the money that the mainstream sports are. Does this mean that they shouldn’t be able to play? I don’t think so. There are so many people around the country that play golf, tennis, or some of the other low to no revenue sports, that the college events should still be able to be given a chance to play.

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It sounds like a vote is going to be had at some point at the end of April, so a decision could be here sooner than you know it.

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