Sorry if this comment is going abit off topic but having finished university in England only a few years back now and having played a bit of Golf for the University team during that time this list makes me feel quite sick...
It makes me feel nauseous because it drives home how poorly university sport is treated on this side of the pond compared to the US. I do not know of one university in Britain which has its own golf course let alone one worth visiting. The list of architects attached to these uni courses seem unbelievable to me.....Mackenzie, Ross, CB Macdonald, Raynor, Dye, Coore & Crenshaw, Doak!!!
If you play in a uni team over here you may if lucky enough get a reduced rate membership at a local course and unless your at St Andrews Uni (or Oxford or Cambridge whom I am sure they will play at a decent track) most of those courses are pretty poor. The best I knew of other than St Andrews was where I went, Birmingham where after some complaints to the uni and talking during my second year we managed to get a reduced rate membership at Edgbaston, a Colt course and we played our matches at another Colt course Little Aston. Though we were only allowed to play at Little Aston during matches which meant we hardly knew the course therefore it defeated the object of home advantage! This doesn't sound too bad, but unfortunately due to the uni year we only played Edgbaston during the winter when it was pretty much a swamp as the drainage was poor to say the least. So even though it was a decent enough track we always saw it at its worst and I am fairly sure it wouldn't get anywhere this US campus list on condition alone.
Most other unis that I visited played at very poor courses, for instance Loughborough who regularly challenge for the BUSA (NCAA equivalent) titles played at a local course called Park Hill, a very poor overly long modern course built on poor clay based land. To put it in perspective the standard green fee at Park Hill is £28 for 18 holes.
Even though it seemed I was fortunate with the courses I got at Birmingham the set-up of the team was another matter. I went there partially due to the fact the uni ran a degree in conjunction with the PGA, a "Golf Management" course for prospective teaching pros who want a better background in the golf industry and business. Although I did not take this degree it meant there was a good amount of decent golfers (all of handicap 4 or below) at the uni so I assumed the golf team would be run well. As it turned out the captain was picked by people putting themselves forward for the position. Usually only one person, a final year student put themselves forward and then he ran the teams himself with some help from a few friends. This generally resulted in the captain picking his mates. There were golfers of +1 or +2 on scholarships from the EGU who didn't play in the teams as the captain didn't know them or they were fed up of the pathetic approach to the games, yet guys of 3 or 4 regularly played. The 3rd team I played for until I got fed up (I was put in the 3rd team after coming 3rd in the start of year "trial"....it made no sense!) was run by one of the captains friends who played off 4, lost nearly all of his matches yet refused to drop himself from the team!
There were no coaches or help from the PGA nothing. This was the case even though Golf was one of 4 'Focus' sports at the uni and Birmingham managed to top the BUSA league tables whilst I was there......allegedly we were a top sporting university with this set-up. The football (soccer) team won the league with the final league winning game being played in front of maybe 100 or so people, not the 60,000 70,000 or even 100,000 you get at NCAA American Football or Basketball matches!
Having visited a friend who was on the golf team at Purdue and seeing the Kampen facilities I am certain we would get laughed at if we were in America with this sort of approach.
Sorry for the rant as most of you probably don't care but I just wanted you to know your guys and girls playing uni sport in the US are as luck as hell!
Perhaps I should have practiced a bit more as a kid and tried to get a scholarship out there....?!