Here's one biased point of view that believes the best choice (certainly worthy of debate) is Yale. Here's a variety of reasons why you would want to attend yourself (if you could do it over again) or send your son or daughter to play for the programs:
1. True amateur athletics. Academics are the top priority, ahead of golf. Students athletes are not given any special treatment or compromised expectations.
2. Opportunity to receive world class education with diverse and interesting classmates from every state in the country and along with many countries from around the world.
3. Opportunity to play the Ray Tompkins Memorial on a daily basis, including fall and spring home events.
4. Fall season ends in mid-October around the time of mid-terms. Students dedicate the remainder of that semester to academics. Spring season doesn't begin until spring break in March so students have the first half of the spring semester to dedicate exclusively to academics.
5. Only program in US to make a quadrennial trip to the UK to play matches against the university golf teams of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews and Edinburgh along with fixtures with many other clubs like Royal Cinque Ports among others.
6. Play the top courses in the US and the UK. See below.
7. Team achieves one of the highest gpa in college golf. Last year they had a 3.64. One of half-dozen teams to break the 3.5 threshold. Team also has an average of two Academic All-Americans each year. (Award only eligible to juniors and seniors.)
8. 100% graduation rate for the program. Following graduation, players move on to variety of options, including med school, law school, Wall Street, Washington DC, etc....even pursuit of professional golf.
9. Fantastic indoor facility with Trackman.
10. Opportunity to represent one of the oldest and most decorated program in college golf history that remains one of the best teams in the northeast. While not in the peer group of national championship contenders, the team is capable of very high benchmarks, and finished the 2014 season ranked 72 in the country ahead of Florida, Duke and Chapel Hill among others. Notable recent results included -20 at St. John's event at Bethpage Red, -17 at Princeton Invitational, -8 at Macdonald Cup.
Today is graduation for the seniors. Here's a list of some of the courses they have played since they began as freshmen: Augusta National, Pine Valley, Merion, Seminole, Shinnecock, Winged Foot, National Golf Links of America, St. Andrews Old Course, Turnberry, Royal St. Georges, Muirfield, Kingsbarns, North Berwick, Prestwick, Royal Worlington, Rye (England), Swinley Forest, Elie, Riviera, Bel Air, Maidstone, The Bridge, Los Angeles Country Club, Newport, Baltusrol, Torrey Pines, Quaker Ridge, Stanwich, Piping Rock, Caves Valley, Aronimink, The Creek, Mountain Lake, Chechessee Creek, Cherokee Plantation, The Dunes Club, Sakonnet, Yeamans Hall, Friar's Head, Peachtree, Sebonack, Rancho Santa Fe, Century, Old Oaks, Medalist, Indian Creek, Palmetto, Streamsong Blue & Red, and more.