Coach Beatty says:
"Well it's complicated. With the Division II situation, we are allowed 24 days to compete in three or four events and practice/qualify in the fall semester. The spring season sees the team playing seven of nine weeks, so there just isn't a lot a time to spend qualifying.
What I will tell you is this: You need to be at the top of your game when you arrive in the fall because that's where the majority of the numerical qualifying will occur.
Generally, I will pick the team for the most important events, and let the players left at home play 18 or 36 holes while the team is gone. The winner of that 'back home' qualifier will play the person with the worst score from the tournament, so everyone has a chance to get in the lineup.
The fall will go a long way of predicting who will play in the spring. The events in the spring will see those players that have done the best job in the off-season (conditioning, grades, and working on things that we identify as golf problems).
Qualifying is just half of the equation; you have to perform well to keep your spot. But you need to understand that if you need -- or are use to -- hanging up the spikes after the last tournament of the season, you will have a hard time breaking into (or back into) the lineup after the 90-day off-season. The only athletes that improve at this level are the ones that work at it because they are trying to improve fractions of strokes.
Basically, the qualifying in the fall is 'shoot the best scores,' and the Spring method is 'impress me.'"
