Golfweek 2025 college coaches survey: One host site for NCAAs or rotate and travel around?

The Golfweek College Golf Coaches Survey is back!

For some time, Lance Ringler would survey college golf coaches about the happenings in college golf and publish the results. It has been a few years, but that changed last month. Ringler and Cameron Jourdan gathered emails and sent questionnaires to every Division I men's and women's college golf coach, asking four questions about the current landscape of college golf.

All answers were collected anonymously, meaning Golfweek has no idea how a coach answered the questions, nor were any coaches directed to answer questions a certain way. This survey was done to gauge coaches on what they thought about the state of college golf.

Golfweek will release the results of the survey over the course of this week. On Tuesday, the results of the first question were released: do coaches prefer match play or stroke play to determine a champion?

In the second part of our College Golf Coaching Survey, we asked whether coaches preferred NCAAs to be at one site or rotate and travel. Here are the results:

Men's coaches results

Rotate and travel: 92 (60.5%)

Stay one one site: 60 (39.5%)

The results: Starting with Grayhawk Golf Club in 2021-23, the NCAAs has only been at two venues this decade. And with year No. 3 of 5 coming up next spring at Omni La Costa, the championship will go eight years for D-I programs being at only two venues. As for the men's coaches, about half of them responded, and of those who did, 60 percent of them favor the championship venue rotating and traveling.

Women's coaches results

Rotate and travel: 65 (65%)

Stay one one site: 35 (35%)

The results: Looking at the women's numbers, exactly 100 responded to the question (as of publishing) and it's even more in favor of rotating and traveling around the country. Until Grayhawk, in the NCAA era, the championship had never been held at the same course in consecutive years for the men or the women. And it's early in the process of one course hosting for multiple years, but of the coaches who responded, a majority are not in favor of staying at one spot.

Editor's note: If you are a Division I college golf coach and didn't receive a survey, please email Lance Ringler (lringler@golfweek.com) or Cameron Jourdan (@cjourdan@golfweek.com).