Details Of Cancelled NCAA Women's Regionals Keep Getting Worse, TPC Louisiana Offers To Host

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While the failed NCAA Women’s Regional in Baton Rouge is unlikely to be salvaged due to timing issues, the sequence of events and lack of action to address issues just keeps getting worse.

From ESPN.com’s Tom VanHaaren, explaining that teams practiced Sunday and again Tuesday afternoon following rains and saw the lack off effort to getting the course’s flooded bunkers playable. Or to rule them ground under repair.

A similar scenario played out Tuesday, but the teams were allowed to practice on the course later that day.

The coaches were told the bunkers on the course were a concern, with standing water making them unplayable. The rules officials did have the option to mark the unplayable bunkers as such, which would give the players relief if their ball entered the marked area.

"I specifically asked the head rules official why we can't play, what do we have to do," Kieschnick said. "The answer was that 'We don't think you get the right champion if we don't play the bunkers.' I said, 'Well, you're well within your rights to make those ground under repair; that's truly your opinion.' You don't know if that determines the right champion or not -- that's an opinion."

Approximately 12 coaches from the participating teams went to the games committee Tuesday to get some questions answered. The objective was to determine whether there was a way to resume golf and a way to get the tournament in by the Thursday deadline.

Part of what confused the coaches was that the bunkers and standing water were presented as the big issue but they did not see an attempt to clear the water or repair the course. According to Kieschnick and another source, there were no pumps on site to pump the water off the course.

"A great coach said, 'If bunkers are the problem and you're doing nothing about the bunkers, we ought to leave right now,'" Kieschnick said. "That was on Tuesday. They didn't want to take the bunkers out, but this happens all the time and we can do this. When bunkers are the problem and nothing is being done, that's really hard to swallow. It was bizarre."

As noted yesterday, host LSU made it to the finals thanks to the committee simply advancing the top seeds.

Forgive my ignorance, but why did they get home course advantage to begin with? Did I miss a memo?