The teams compete as members of the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The Rawls Course, home of the Red Raiders golf teams, is located on the Texas Tech campus.

Completed in September 2003, the course features an 18-hole course, 60-acre (240,000 m2) driving range, pitching and chipping areas and an indoor facility containing three hitting bays.

Starting from just a cotton field, the course was created to imitate the land east and south of Lubbock, where the Great Plains suddenly begin falling into the valleys and canyons that lead to the Caprock region.

Lubbock's strong prevailing winds figured prominently in the course's final design.