By Dave Jennings
This year, the Golf Channel shared with us three days of extensive television coverage of the NCAA D-1 Men’s Golf Championship for the first time in a number of years. This year’s championship was played at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. The Golf Channel seemed to have every camera they owned on site for this tremendous event, and I was impressed with the coverage.
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