Carter Loflin’s bid for a fifth season at Georgia highlights a much larger change facing college and amateur golf.
Carter Loflin’s lawsuit against the NCAA is about one golfer trying to get another season at Georgia. The bigger question is what happens to college and amateur golf if five years of competition becomes the new normal.
Loflin was one hole away from playing for the U.S. Amateur championship at Merion. Now the 22-year-old Georgia golfer is fighting for something very different: another year of college golf.
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