The 1961
NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf.
The teams that win their respective Division I conference championships are given automatic spots in th ...
was the 23rd annual tournament to determine the national champions of
NCAA
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Division I men's collegiate
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
.
It was contested in 1961 at the
Purdue University Golf Course
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in
Lafayette, Indiana
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.
Host team
Purdue
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won the team title and
Jack Nicklaus
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from Ohio State won the individual title over Purdue's Mark Darnell.
Team competition
Leaderboard
References
NCAA Men's Golf Championship
Golf in Indiana
NCAA Golf Championship
NCAA Golf Championship
NCAA Golf Championship
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