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Golfstat College Golf Rankings 

ncaagolf- Parallel to how ESPN releases weekly collegiate rankings for basketball, football, and baseball, Golfstat releases weekly golf rankings for all college levels of play.

Untitled-1Golfstat was started in 1984 by Mark Laesch as he wanted to keep his own golf statistics. After a year, a friend recommended that a local school, Illinois State, seemed interested in using the service if it was available. Illinois State used and enjoyed the system for a year, giving Laesch the idea to reach out to 100+ collegiate golf programs across the country for the next year's season. Laesch received countless amounts of rejection from these programs until 1 program responded with good news. Oklahoma State University showed interest in using the service and after only a year of being a Golfstat customer, the Cowboys were National Champions and Golfstat found national recognition and has yet to look back. 

Now Golfstat has been hired by the NCAA and the NAIA as the official rankings and ratings system and is used by the NCAA selection committees by both men's and women's golf. 

Similar to the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, these rankings are used by a committee to select seeds when it's tournament time in May. Also like the March Madness bracket selection show, the NCAA uses Golfstat rankings for the golf regional selection show the week after conference tournaments. Golfstat now does much more than just collegiate golf rankings and ratings.

Locally, a few collegiate names have been making moves in the Golfstat rankings. Tyler Goecke, from Xenia has reached a new high in the individual rankings as he is now ranked 120th in Division 1. Wright State as a team is now ranked in the Top 100 (92nd) after their 2 wins over their spring break. .

wittenbergThe Wittenberg Tigers men's team is currently ranked 5th in the DIII rankings and are projected to be a top contended for a national championship this spring. They get their spring season started on April 3rd & 4th at the Hershey Cup in Hershey, PA.

cedarvilleThe Cedarville Yellow Jackets also have crept into the Top 100 (96th) in the DII rankings after their Top 10 finish at the Bell Collegiate last week in Southern Pines, NC.



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