The Duke women and Stanford men will have to wait another year to defend their 2019 NCAA golf titles.
On Thursday afternoon, in the wake of countless professional sports organizations and college conferences cancelling their respective tournaments and shutting down athletic competitions and practices due to the coronavirus outbreak, the NCAA followed suit.
The NCAA has announced the cancellation of not just March Madness – the Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments – but all winter and spring NCAA championship events.
The women’s golf NCAA Championship was slated for May 22-27, with the men the following week May 29-June 3 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Per the NCAA release:
Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men’s and women’s 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships. This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities.
Keep up with all the golf tournaments being cancelled and postponed here
