Where I'm with the OP sentiments, and those agreeing...
1. The bigger failure of the authority is to not have a backup plan... a shortened tourney, a regional alternate course, a pre-thought to postponement and ripple effects. To outright cancel golf at something caused by nature, means cancellation is always on the table in a prominent position
2. Whether or not the call was merited by any reasonable standards by which you or I would make it, the introducing/announcement of this new standard...playable to championship playable, is a bad, bad mistake; it's newly-minted, strained, and inscrutable and as such erodes an authority even further.
Where I'm unsure...
3. The NCAA, this host great golf conference and school, the super and staff did not want this, just like they didn't want CoVid either. I know first hand that maximum pains are taken to execute events, even in compromising conditions, and I'm not going to dismiss out of hand, such a step as completely unwarranted...
4. Though who knows how and what the local staff participated in this decision, I wish there was a forum where I could hear from the super, the course pro, some regular LSU course players, the coach, the ADs... what inputs into this decision were made on that end. While 7 inches in 3 days is fairly extraordinary, it is La. and my cultural recognition is that that part of the country receives flooding rains more often than a lot of places... are more raisn expected on top of what's there?
5. As a board aside, will this cancellation cause the LSU course to undergo a massive drainage/irrigation/re-grassing program?
Where I'm not going.
6. The "dreams crushed" narrative is overblown and weak. I might buy it for a Div II or III senior, for whom such a tournament was/is TRULY the culminating event of their competitive golf career. For so many of those, it IS the last time their scores are reported in the paper and people can make a fuss for and about them or provide them service to play their golf. That's a disappointment worth avoiding. But that it not the case with these young golfers, who to be where they are, means they've played perhaps 100 or more tournaments... college, high school, local amateurs, juniors, club events. If you along the way ask them if any tournament is cancelled, their disappointment is likely couched in these same terms: "I've been working for this all my life."... For them, this cancelation is not the last day of their competitive golf career
7. Moreover, I'm not taking the frustration of a junior in college, as some "life-defeat," replete with her provenance "In 18 years of golf, I've never seen..." Whoa! What? Young lady, you're 20-21 years old... to be playing golf for 18 years means you're counting your mature experiences as starting when you're 3, and it also means you're broadcasting you've played a lot of golf, had a lot of days in the sun, had a lot of people devoting their time and energy to setting your "life's-work" up... season some and get back to us....
8. Accordingly her "phone pic" evidence and reporting of just how reasonably playable the course was or isn't carries very little weight as to discovering why this happened, and more importantly, how it might be avoided in the future...