The NCAA revealed the 72 women’s golf teams headed to four
regionals May 5 to 7 and the top seeds mirror the latest Golfstat rankings, as they should.
No. 1 Alabama, the Southeast Conference champion, heads the
field in the Shoal Creek Regional, which the Crimson Tide will host at the
Shoal Creek Club in Shoal Creek, Ala.
No. 2 Southern California, the Pac-12 champion, is the is
top seed in the Stanford Regional, which will be played at Stanford Golf Course
in Stanford, Calif. Defending champion Stanford, ranked 12th, is the
host and the third seed in the regional behind Pac-12 rival USC and No. 7
Arkansas.
No. 3 UCLA, the runnerup to cross-town rival Southern Cal at
the Pac-12 Championship, is the top seed at the Bryan Regional, which will be
played at the Traditions Club in Bryan Texas. The regional is being hosted by 23rd-ranked
Texas A&M, the sixth seed.
No. 4 Duke, which struggled to a third-place finish at the
ACC Championship, is the top seed in the Baton Rouge Regional, which will be
played at the University Club in Baton Rouge, La. No. 48 LSU, the 12th
seed, is the host.
Sophomore Erica Herr, the two-time PIAA champion at Council
Rock North, and Wake Forest are headed west to tee it up in the Stanford
Regional as the 10th seed. The Demon Deacons are coming off a solid
second-place finish in the ACC Championship and are joined in the regional
field by ACC champion Virginia and another ACC rival in North Carolina.
Freshman Isabella DiLisio, the 2013 PIAA Class AAA champion
at Mount St. Joseph, and Notre Dame drew the 10th seed in the Shoal
Creek Regional. The Fighting Irish are hoping to bounce back from a
disappointing 10th-place finish at the ACC tourney.
Joining Notre Dame in the Shoal Creek field is Big Ten
individual champion August Kim, a junior from St. Augustine, Fla., and Purdue. The Boilermakers, coming off a solid
third-place finish at the Big Ten Championship, are seeded ninth.
Also in the Shoal Creek field is Big Ten co-champion Northwestern,
ranked No. 8 and seeded second.
Colonial Athletic Association champion Delaware earned a
trip to the Bryan Regional. The Blue Hens are seeded 16th.
Also representing the CAA in Bryan will be William &
Mary senior Alessandra Liu, the former Lower Merion standout. Liu was the
runnerup to Delaware’s Andi Slane, a senior from Temecula, Calif., in the
individual chase at the CAA tourney and was one of the individual players
invited to the regional.
The top six teams and the top three individual finishers
from a non-advancing team at the four regionals advance to the NCAA
Championship May 20 to 25 at Eugene Country Club in Eugene, Ore.
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