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Field For Athens Regional Revealed
April 26, 2023 | Women's Golf
Bulldogs to be No. 5 seed at May 8-10 tourney
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ATHENS, Ga. — The Georgia Bulldogs learned their competition for the NCAA Women's Golf Regional they will host at the University of Georgia Golf Course when the 72 teams which qualified for Regional play were announced by the NCAA on Monday. Georgia will be the fifth seed among 12 teams in Athens looking to advance to the NCAA Championships in Scottsdale, Ariz.
"It's always exciting and you always want to know who you're competing against but being at home, we've already had time to think through how we're going to plan for the week," head coach Josh Brewer said. "It's still still exciting. We still had to earn our Regional bid and you don't want to take it for granted, but we understand those three days are now the most important days of the season."
No. 4-ranked South Carolina will be the top seed at the UGA Course, followed by San Jose State, Ole Miss, Ohio State, the Bulldogs, Maryland, Kent State, Charleston, Kansas, Furman, Augusta and Sacred Heart. Those 12 teams will be joined by six individuals – Carla Bernat from Tulane, Mathilde Delavallade from Penn State, Mikhaela Fortuna from Oklahoma, Catie Craig from Western Kentucky, Christy Chen from Boston and Isabella Gomez from Harvard – looking to earn spots at the NCAA Championships.
Six Regional sites will host 54 holes of stroke play on May 8-10, with the top-5 teams and the low individual finisher who is not a member of those teams going on to compete at the national championships on May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club.
Brewer believes his Bulldogs need to focus solely on themselves.
"That's how I see it," he said. "In a way, you just go play golf. We need to worry about taking care of ourselves and try to avoid any distractions that might come up from being at home as opposed to being on the road. You can't even worry about 'punching your ticket' or anything like that. We haven't won this year so the mindset has to be let's get our first victory of the year and get that ultimate momentum going into the national championships."
Georgia will be looking to advance to Scottsdale for the third consecutive year. In 2021, the Bulldogs and Jenny Bae swept the NCAA Columbus Regional titles before finishing 18th at the nationals. A year ago, Georgia was third at the Albuquerque Regional before tying for fifth at the NCAA Championships. Led by top-10 individual finishes by Bae and Candice Mahé, the Bulldogs advanced to match play for the first time since the NCAA adopted the format in 2015 but lost to eventual national champion Stanford, 3-2, in the quarterfinals.
"We've proven we can do it," Brewer said. "We have kind of a plan in place that's worked for us really well at Regionals the past couple of years. We'll stick with that plan and look forward to having a few extra people around cheering us on this year since we're in Athens."
The Bulldogs have historically been one of women's college golf's premier programs. Georgia has captured four national titles, winning the team title in 2001 and three individual crowns – Terri Moody in 1981, Cindy Schreyer in 1984 and Vicki Goetze in 1993. In addition, the Bulldogs have recorded 28 top-20 team finishes since 1979, including 21 top-10 performances.
Georgia also has won eight NCAA Regional titles – five team and three individual – since that format was introduced in 1993. The Bulldogs were team champions at Regionals in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2016 and 2021. Georgia's Regional medalists are Reilley Rankin in 1998 in Durham, N.C.; Bailey Tardy in 2016 in Bryan, Texas; and Bae in 2021 in Columbus, Ohio.
The University of Georgia Golf Course also has a long history with women's college golf. The layout has hosted 51 editions of the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, one of the longest running women's intercollegiate events in any sport. The UGA Course also has been site of the national championships on five occasions – the 1971 Division of Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS) Intercollegiate Championships, the 1981 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Championships and the 1983, 1993 and 2013 NCAA Championships. The 2023 NCAA Regional will be the third contested on the UGA layout in the last 16 seasons following those in 2008 and 2017.
All told, 13 SEC teams earned Regional bids, including No. 1 seeds at four of six sites. The Bulldogs, Gamecocks and Rebels will be in Athens. Texas A&M will be the top seed in San Antonio along with Auburn as the No. 2 seed. Mississippi State will be the No. 1 seed in Westfield, Ind., and will compete along with No. 3 seed Vanderbilt and No. 7 seed Tennessee. In Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., LSU will be the No. 1 seed, followed by Arkansas as the No. 8 seed and Alabama as the No. 9 seed. Rounding out the league teams are Florida as the No. 4 seed in Raleigh, N.C., and Kentucky as the No. 5 seed in Pullman, Wash.
The NCAA altered the format for its women's golf championships this spring, expanding field for the national championships from 24 to 30 teams. Athens is one of six Regional sites along with Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.; Pullman, Wash.; San Antonio, Texas; Raleigh, N.C.; and Westfield, Ind. Those tournaments will take place simultaneously on May 8-10 and feature 72 total teams and 36 total individuals. The top-5 teams and the low individual who is not a member of the advancing schools will go on to compete in the NCAA Championships on May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The format at the NCAAs will remain the same. The entire field will compete in three rounds of stroke play on May 19-21. The competitors will then be cut to the top-15 teams and the top-9 golfers not on advancing teams. Following a fourth round of stroke play on May 22, the individual national champion will be crowned and the top-8 teams will move on to a seeded match play bracket. Match play quarterfinals and semifinals will be on May 23, followed by the championship match on May 24.
ATHENS, Ga. — The Georgia Bulldogs learned their competition for the NCAA Women's Golf Regional they will host at the University of Georgia Golf Course when the 72 teams which qualified for Regional play were announced by the NCAA on Monday. Georgia will be the fifth seed among 12 teams in Athens looking to advance to the NCAA Championships in Scottsdale, Ariz.
"It's always exciting and you always want to know who you're competing against but being at home, we've already had time to think through how we're going to plan for the week," head coach Josh Brewer said. "It's still still exciting. We still had to earn our Regional bid and you don't want to take it for granted, but we understand those three days are now the most important days of the season."
No. 4-ranked South Carolina will be the top seed at the UGA Course, followed by San Jose State, Ole Miss, Ohio State, the Bulldogs, Maryland, Kent State, Charleston, Kansas, Furman, Augusta and Sacred Heart. Those 12 teams will be joined by six individuals – Carla Bernat from Tulane, Mathilde Delavallade from Penn State, Mikhaela Fortuna from Oklahoma, Catie Craig from Western Kentucky, Christy Chen from Boston and Isabella Gomez from Harvard – looking to earn spots at the NCAA Championships.
Six Regional sites will host 54 holes of stroke play on May 8-10, with the top-5 teams and the low individual finisher who is not a member of those teams going on to compete at the national championships on May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club.
Brewer believes his Bulldogs need to focus solely on themselves.
"That's how I see it," he said. "In a way, you just go play golf. We need to worry about taking care of ourselves and try to avoid any distractions that might come up from being at home as opposed to being on the road. You can't even worry about 'punching your ticket' or anything like that. We haven't won this year so the mindset has to be let's get our first victory of the year and get that ultimate momentum going into the national championships."
Georgia will be looking to advance to Scottsdale for the third consecutive year. In 2021, the Bulldogs and Jenny Bae swept the NCAA Columbus Regional titles before finishing 18th at the nationals. A year ago, Georgia was third at the Albuquerque Regional before tying for fifth at the NCAA Championships. Led by top-10 individual finishes by Bae and Candice Mahé, the Bulldogs advanced to match play for the first time since the NCAA adopted the format in 2015 but lost to eventual national champion Stanford, 3-2, in the quarterfinals.
"We've proven we can do it," Brewer said. "We have kind of a plan in place that's worked for us really well at Regionals the past couple of years. We'll stick with that plan and look forward to having a few extra people around cheering us on this year since we're in Athens."
The Bulldogs have historically been one of women's college golf's premier programs. Georgia has captured four national titles, winning the team title in 2001 and three individual crowns – Terri Moody in 1981, Cindy Schreyer in 1984 and Vicki Goetze in 1993. In addition, the Bulldogs have recorded 28 top-20 team finishes since 1979, including 21 top-10 performances.
Georgia also has won eight NCAA Regional titles – five team and three individual – since that format was introduced in 1993. The Bulldogs were team champions at Regionals in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2016 and 2021. Georgia's Regional medalists are Reilley Rankin in 1998 in Durham, N.C.; Bailey Tardy in 2016 in Bryan, Texas; and Bae in 2021 in Columbus, Ohio.
The University of Georgia Golf Course also has a long history with women's college golf. The layout has hosted 51 editions of the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, one of the longest running women's intercollegiate events in any sport. The UGA Course also has been site of the national championships on five occasions – the 1971 Division of Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS) Intercollegiate Championships, the 1981 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Championships and the 1983, 1993 and 2013 NCAA Championships. The 2023 NCAA Regional will be the third contested on the UGA layout in the last 16 seasons following those in 2008 and 2017.
All told, 13 SEC teams earned Regional bids, including No. 1 seeds at four of six sites. The Bulldogs, Gamecocks and Rebels will be in Athens. Texas A&M will be the top seed in San Antonio along with Auburn as the No. 2 seed. Mississippi State will be the No. 1 seed in Westfield, Ind., and will compete along with No. 3 seed Vanderbilt and No. 7 seed Tennessee. In Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., LSU will be the No. 1 seed, followed by Arkansas as the No. 8 seed and Alabama as the No. 9 seed. Rounding out the league teams are Florida as the No. 4 seed in Raleigh, N.C., and Kentucky as the No. 5 seed in Pullman, Wash.
The NCAA altered the format for its women's golf championships this spring, expanding field for the national championships from 24 to 30 teams. Athens is one of six Regional sites along with Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.; Pullman, Wash.; San Antonio, Texas; Raleigh, N.C.; and Westfield, Ind. Those tournaments will take place simultaneously on May 8-10 and feature 72 total teams and 36 total individuals. The top-5 teams and the low individual who is not a member of the advancing schools will go on to compete in the NCAA Championships on May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The format at the NCAAs will remain the same. The entire field will compete in three rounds of stroke play on May 19-21. The competitors will then be cut to the top-15 teams and the top-9 golfers not on advancing teams. Following a fourth round of stroke play on May 22, the individual national champion will be crowned and the top-8 teams will move on to a seeded match play bracket. Match play quarterfinals and semifinals will be on May 23, followed by the championship match on May 24.
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