If you want to stop REALLY close to Lincoln, I love York Country Club (less than an hour from Lincoln on I-80). If you play in the morning, there’s a great restaurant in McCool Junction called Kerry’s for lunch. Highly recommend.
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I know it’s a long shot but my girlfriend and I are big Nebraska volleyball fans. We are planning to make our first trip to Lincoln this fall the weekend of October 25th-26th to catch back to back matches against Illinois and Michigan.
I know the tickets are hard to come by so if anyone has any leads/is a season ticket holder/knows a season ticket holder please let me know. Would like to avoid paying the outrageous Seat Geek fees if possible.
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We’ve had success finding tickets for sale on Facebook (husker ticket exchange groups, husker football/volleyball fan groups, marketplace, etc.). Generally hard to secure far in advance (usually a few days before the match). Seat Geek / Ticketmaster are fine last minute options but agreed the excess fees suck. Worth it 1-2x per year in my opinion, and the Illinois/Michigan matches won’t be as expensive compared to a Wisconsin/Penn State match.
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Appreciate the insight!
Beatrice CC is about 40 minutes south of Lincoln, allows public play, and is f’n awesome.
Awarii in good conditions (just because its on the way) > BCC > Awarii in bad conditions > York.
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Awarii is… not in great condition this year, correct? Seems like a skip to me
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Is could be a dog run right now.
For the sake of conversation:
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I think it’s kind of odd that an NGA championship gets flighted after the first day and pays out flight winners. Seems like a club tournament move. It also seems to simply reward really good golfers who have a bad first day. Shoot 83-77, here’s 200 some odd bucks. Shoot 77-83, go screw yourself. I think they should just raise the payouts at the top and then payout deeper, like top 25 or so.
I appreciate a tournament like the Indian Creek Invite pre-flighting basing on index, playing slightly different tees amongst flights, and having no crossover. -
Best I can remember this tournament never really filled prior to Landmand 2022? Part of that was being in mid to late September. If it continues to have a waiting list - shout out to the NGA for opening extra spots this year - I wonder if they need to bring the maximum index for entry down from it’s current 7.0?
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If I’m trying to replace the current flighting system, may I suggest a flight for people that have never teed up a single ball in collegiate competition. The truest ams. Truthfully, this was an offshoot of a half-baked idea listening to a recent NLU pod where they discussed that it was probably too easy to retain your am status after being a pro. What I’d like to see is the USGA Championship of golfers who were never collegiate or pro. Just “regular guys.”
Heard that the greens keeper and the owner were trying to poison each others water or something. The owner called the police on the greens keeper cause he was tweaked out. And then it came to be that the owner was trying to poison the keeper lol.
All through the rumor mill but wild if true
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I mean…that 1000% checks out for Kearney County…right?
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Flighting after day 1 will always lead to some accusation of sand-baggery, but in my experience playing in events that do this (Fremont Invite along with the mid-am) that rarely happens, and is typically very noticeable when it does. Sometimes you have it one day, sometimes you don’t, that’s just golf.
And I’d like to push back on this
I didn’t get paid money for playing in college, to me it is no different than getting a scholarship for ACT/SAT scores or other accolades pre-college. I’d be curious to hear why you believe amateurs who didn’t play collegiately are “truer” am’s than someone who did.
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I took that as those of us who have never played for stakes typically melt in the actual tourneys and deserve each others company haha
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I got waxed by @QMany noted hater and stunter of/on of former college golfers, and played with a guy yesterday who beat me pretty soundly going 81-75 who never played collegiately. Maybe cherry-picking, but I think there are a lot of am’s who didn’t play collegiately who are very good players and don’t need to be put into a separate flight. May the best player win, it’s competitive golf!
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LOL this is what i saw too
Admitted beneficiary of flights this weekend, a first for me. But trust me, I’d rather not have had a wild, uncharacteristic five-hole stretch that led to T18 instead of T1 than a 2nd Flight $300 payout. I think the flights give people on the bottom half of the leaderboard something to play for (and come back for day two = club revenue). That being said, I wouldn’t mind seeing flights start at the bottom half (almost like a cut) instead of +2 and only six strokes off the lead.
I only started playing NGA events in 2019, but I am certain the Mid Am was full at Norfolk in 2021. I know because I was on the waitlist and was waiting on the range for a WD. It looks like they used to limit the field to 82ish and have since expanded it quite a bit.
Now we’re talking! 
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Yeah, pre-NIL former college golfers are 100% true amateurs in the never got paid sense of the word, which is technically what we’re talking about. But amateur can also mean “one lacking in experience and competence in an art or science.” Which is what @MrHogan5 is alluding to. We didn’t spend our formative years practicing 100’s of hours and playing in a bunch of tournaments.
There’s a certain romantic mythos about the guy, @QMany as you point out, that starts taking the game seriously after college and is able to hang with all the “naturals” (Which is mostly a bullshit term in golf). I didn’t want to research too deep, but most of the top of the Mid-Am leaderboard is former college golfers? Just seemed like a fun category to me.
Big picture though, everyone in that tourney wants to post a good number and isn’t sandbagging day one. But like Q says
it seems there are just too many flights and it seems really arbitrary.
So, final thought, much like a 10k has results for age groupers, men, women, overall and such, maybe they could break out of the current flighting process and have overall, low man over age 40, low man who never played collegiate golf, low public golfer who isn’t a member of a club, who knows? Seems less arbitrary than the order in which you shoot your two scores being the main factor in how you do.
I guess my only pushback is that I know @QMany isn’t lacking in experience or competence when it comes to golf, if we’re using that definition. Guy has played a lot of tournament golf and knows his stuff, just like the guy I played with and others who didn’t play collegiately but are good players. I would say most of the top of the mid-am leaderboard are former collegiate golfers because they like to play competitive golf and they can still play competitive golf, so they do. I think I just don’t understand that category, which is a me problem.
Also I would agree that the “Championship flight” should be bigger, I like the idea of top half of the field can stay in that and then flight the rest.
To me, if you try to separate a leaderboard by anything other than score (and age when having a senior division) it takes away what makes golf great, which is the objective nature of a score. It doesn’t matter how, it matters how many.
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