>> Yep.
>> Even though the course is playable, not playable and
>> The NCAA made a strange announcement to their D1 Golf Tournament in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
>> My God.
>> NCAA committee rep Brad Hurlbut said the course was playable but not a championship
level.
So they canceled the the event only a select few will advance.
>> You just said it was playable.
>> It's playable.
>> It's playable- >> This is what we play.
>> Yes.
>> Rightfully so, the competitors were heartbroken.
>> Is he serious?
>> No, you should be ashamed of yourself.
>> That is so terrible.
>> Thank you for ending our careers.
>> The players devastated, this is the last hurrah for many.
Their season comes to a close not because of COVID, but because the NCAA said so, my
thanks to the user Sarah Byrne for the video.
This treatment athletes face that are not men by the NCAA are wronged routinely.
Take this for example, one Oregon State baseball player shared a video from 2015 of a game
that Beavers played in Texas, because of a rainstorm fish were in the outfield, the flooding
that took place needed to be taken care of.
So the NCAA brought in a helicopter, I mean, heck, in Georgia, high school baseball brought
in a chopper to dry the playing field, Sports_Clash Tweeted the photo.
GOLF.COM wrote, the 54 hole tournament was originally scheduled to begin on Monday but
after heavy rain was postponed to Tuesday, did on Wednesday before the event was canceled
altogether.
These teams, the top seeds advanced to the NCAA Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona.
They are LSU, Mississippi, Baylor, Oregon, Maryland and Alabama.
>> This is hole six, par five.
The hole is totally fine dry.
>> The voice you hear is Miami coach, Patti Rizzo.
For days now, several coaches have maintained that there were windows of time in which golf
could have been played real golf week.
Miami coach Patti Rizzo walked all 18 holes on Tuesday afternoon and said that maybe four
or five bunkers were in bad shape.
It hasn't rained all day, said Tulsa coach Annie Young on May the 12th.
We could easily be through nine right now.
Kristyna Frydlova, another member of the Miami golf team, shared four photos from the course.
She wrote, in part, no water on the greens, looked even nicer yesterday when we couldn't
play either.
After 18 years of playing golf, I've never experienced anything like this.
Yet again, what caught the eye of many was the unequal treatment of women face to comparison
to the men.
Sara Byrne, whose video we showed at the beginning of this piece, noted the LSU men's golf team
was allowed to practice while the women were not.
Shared photographic evidence of the men practicing on the course without issue, why weren't the
women given this?
Sam Houston's women's golf coach Brent Kieschnick said the sun was out Monday from noon on and
there was a full eight hours of sunshine that could have allowed play later in the day.
That option wasn't discussed however, and Kieschnick did not witness any maintenance
crew attempting to get the golf course ready to play.
A big point that is important to outline via ESPN, the coaches were told the bunkers on
the course were a concern with standing water making them unplayable.
The rules officials did have the option to mark the unplayable bunkers as such which
would give the players relief if their ball entered the marked area.
This happens all the time, and we can do this.
When bunkers are the problem and nothing is being done, that's really hard to swallow,
it was Kieschnick added.
It's supposed to be a memorable, exciting experience, said Miami's Rizzo, who added
that players were crying and confused by the decision, it's a really sad situation.
Unfortunately the whole situation follows a familiar pattern with the NCAA and how they've
handled women's collegiate championships events in 2021.
In March women's basketball players were not initially given adequate fitness equipment
like their male March Madness counterparts.
And last month's women's volleyball players played the first few rounds of the NCAA tournament
without locker rooms to change in.