{"id":35982,"date":"2025-07-31T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35982\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:37:10","slug":"augusta-university-mens-and-womens-golf-teams-join-the-west-coast-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35982\/","title":{"rendered":"Augusta University men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf teams join \u2026 the West Coast Conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conference realignment has been a big talking point within the bigger college sports over the past few years. Hello, football and basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some odd realignment news that\u2019s reached men\u2019s and women\u2019s college golf.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the West Coast Conference announced that the two Augusta University golf programs will join their conference as affiliate members, leaving the Southland Conference. Yes, a school from Georgia is joining a league with teams from California, Washington and Oregon. It is effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great day for Augusta golf,\u201d the university\u2019s director of athletics Ryan Erlacher said. \u201cThe West Coast Conference has an excellent reputation and will provide a wonderful new home for our golf programs. They\u2019ve been beyond impressive to work with and we are grateful to their leadership for this tremendous opportunity. We look forward to representing the WCC exceedingly well for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are excited to announce the addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucdavismwp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ucdavismwp<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucdavisbeachvb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ucdavisbeachvb<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustaJags?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AugustaJags<\/a> men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s golf to the West Coast Conference as affiliate members. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd2\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PFYLZAxuiT\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/PFYLZAxuiT<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WCCsports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WCCsports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ah2IKkGgJs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ah2IKkGgJs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 West Coast Conference (@WCCsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCsports\/status\/1950949878433210419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s golf team won the Southland Conference team title the past three years and finished 28th in the NCAA Championship in May. Augusta junior Bo Blanchard was the individual winner of the conference tournament. They will now be part of a 12-team league this fall, joining Gonzaga, Loyola Marymount, Pacific, Pepperdine, Saint Mary\u2019s, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Seattle and fellow affiliate members Oregon State and Washington State. The Jaguars won the NCAA Championship in both 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Augusta women\u2019s team was fourth at the Southland Conference this year and sophomore Zoe Pinillos advanced to the regionals as an individual. They will be the eighth women\u2019s golf team in the West Coast Conference, joining Gonzaga, Pepperdine, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Seattle and affiliate members Oregon State and Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on golfdigest.com<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conference realignment has been a big talking point within the bigger college sports over the past few years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-35982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}