No. 2 Women's Golf to Make 13th NCAA Championship Appearance on Friday
CARLSBAD, Calif. – The second-ranked Arkansas women’s golf team will look to claim its first team national title at this week’s NCAA Championship, hosted at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa’s Champions Course in Carlsbad, California.
The tournament will begin on Friday, May 16. from Nos. 1 and 10. All 30 teams will play three rounds of stroke play before the field is cut to the top 15 teams. Those 15 teams will compete in one more round of stroke play, on Monday, May 19, with the top eight moving on to match play.
An individual national champion will be crowned following Monday’s final round of stroke play.
The Hogs finished 10th at last year’s NCAA Championship and have never advanced to match play since it was added in 2015. Arkansas’ best finish came in 2011, when it tied for fifth at Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Texas.
The Razorbacks will use the same lineup as regionals with SEC Player of the Year Maria José Marin, All-SEC First Teamer Kendall Todd, All-SEC Second Teamers Reagan Zibilski and Clarisa Temelo, and Abbey Schutte. Graduate Cory Lopez will serve as Arkansas’ substitute.
Omni La Costa is hosting the championship for the first time last year will host until at least 2028. The course underwent a major renovation in 2023. The course will again play to a par of 72 and a max distance of 6,330 yards with alternate yardages possible on 10 holes.
TV Coverage
NBC’s GOLF Channel will provide live coverage of the final round of stroke play and all three rounds on match play on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
Live Scoring
Live scoring, results, tee times and more can followed at scoreboard.clippd.com.
Tee Times
Arkansas, the No. 2 seed, received the morning-afternoon waves for the first 36 holes and is paired with No. 1 Stanford and No. 3 South Carolina. Friday’s tee time is set for 1:40 p.m. CT from No. 10 and Saturday’s morning time is set for 8:30 a.m. CT from the first tee.
Field
The teams in seed order in the waves they will play in (with NCAA Scoreboard by Clippd rankings):
1 Stanford (1), 2 Arkansas (2), 3 South Carolina (3)
4 Florida State (4), 5 Oregon (5), 6 Texas (6)
7 Wake Forest (7), 8 Arizona State (8), 9 Southern California (9)
10 Virginia (10), 11 Northwestern (11), 12 LSU (12)
13 Ohio State (13), 14 Ole Miss (14), 15 Mississippi State (18)
16 Kansas (21), 17 Florida (22), 18 Michigan State (23)
19 Vanderbilt (24), 20 Oklahoma State (25), 21 Kansas State (27)
22 UCLA (28), 23 Iowa State (29), 24 Tennessee (31)
25 Ga. Southern (32), 26 Oklahoma (33), 27 UNLV (35)
28 Baylor (37), 29 Purdue (41), 30 Cal State Fullerton (69)
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