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Duke Men?s Golf Program Ranked No. 6 In Golf Digest Inaugural College Golf Guide
8/12/2005 1:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
In the September issue of Golf Digest, the Duke men's golf program was ranked No. 6 among all NCAA golf programs when rating the balance between golf and academics. The ratings also took into account the climate, coaching and facilities. Golf Digest compiled its first-ever college golf guide to give junior golfers advice on how to get recruited, what to expect in college and exclusive rankings of the best schools for men and women.
In the “Balanced” rankings that include golf (45%), academics (40%), climate (5%) and coach/facilities (10%), Duke received a 87.81 rating to finish just outside of the top-five. In the “Golf First” rankings, the Duke men earned a 83.24 rating to ranked 14th overall.
Home of the Duke men's and women's golf programs is the Duke Golf Club, which was also ranked as the 12th-best collegiate golf course by Golf Digest. Robert Trent Jones, Sr. originally designed the course in 1957, while Rees Jones redesigned the Par 72, 7,127-yard Duke Golf Club in 1993. The newly constructed Karcher-Ingram Golf Center will be ready for use during the 2005-06 season and is one of the premier collegiate golf facilities in the nation.
The Karcher-Ingram Golf Center includes coaches offices, player's lounge, study, team indoor practice center, club repair room, lockerrroms and trophy room. There will also be a renovation of the driving range, which will feature brand new tee and short game areas exclusively for the Duke teams. It will include three computer equipped hitting bays and an indoor/outdoor training facility.
The academics rating that was used is the school's Admissions Selectivity Rating from Princeton Review's 2006 edition of its bestselling guidebook, The Best 361 Colleges. Because not every student-golfer has the same skills or priorities, Golf Digest created three categories of rankings: Golf First, Academics First and Balanced. For each category, the publication weighted the values of the four ratings to correspond with what student-golfers are looking for.
GOLF FIRST: This category is for the best junior players, the kind who hope to play professionally after college. These schools provide the best facilities and competition, and are training grounds for future tour pros. Golf performance was 60 percent of the final index, coach/facilities 20 percent, and academics and climate 10 percent each.
BALANCED: This category is for junior players who are looking for first-class golf as well as a quality education. These schools, many of which are also ranked in the Golf First category, provide student-golfers a healthy balance between academics and athletics. Only colleges that had an academics rating of 90 or higher were considered. Golf performance was 45 percent of the final index, academics 40 percent, coach/facilities 10 percent and climate 5 percent.
ACADEMICS FIRST: This category is for junior players who are excellent students first, golfers second. These schools provide the absolute best education and an opportunity to play competitive golf. To highlight the emphasis on academics, we only considered schools that do not offer golf scholarships. In addition, the minimum academics rating was 95 for the men, 92 for the women. Academics count for 70 percent of the final index, golf performance 20 percent, and coach/facilities and climate factor five percent each.
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