Date: May 18-23
Location: Stillwater, Okla.
Course: Karsten Creek Golf Club (Par 72 6,328 yards)
Tournament Leaderboard: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=13662
Tee Times: Friday, May 18 (1:16-2:00 p.m. CST)
Saturday, May 19 (8:36-9:20 a.m. CST)
Sunday, May 20 (TBA)
Field (Golfstat Top-25 Ranking): Alabama (1), Arizona (9), Arizona State (10), Arkansas (2), Auburn (19), Baylor, Colorado, Duke (4), Florida (12), Florida State (21), Furman (7), Kent State (16), Louisville (25), Mississippi, Northwestern (13), Ohio State, Oklahoma (20), Stanford (5), Texas (8), UCLA (3), USC (6), Virginia, Wake Forest (18), Washington (15)
The ninth ranked Arizona women's golf team will begin the NCAA Championships at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla. on Friday. The Cats will be making their 30
th appearance at the NCAA Championships in program history. UA qualified for the NCAA Championships after finishing in fourth place at the NCAA Regionals in Tallahassee shooting 11-under par (853 strokes).
Competing for the Cats in Stillwater will be junior
Haley Moore, junior
Bianca Pagdanganan, junior
Gigi Stoll, freshman
Yu-Sang Hou, and sophomore
Sandra Nordaas.
Moore enters the championships with a team leading scoring average of 71.74, two individual victories, five top-10 and seven top-20 finishes, while shooting 20 of 31 rounds at even par or better. Moore finished tied for second shooting 8-under par (280 strokes) at the NCAA Championships in 2016 at Eugene Country Club as a freshman.
Pagdanganan has earned six top-20 finishes in her 10 starts this season, while earning a victory in the first tournament of the season at the Dick McGuire Invitational shooting 8-under par (208 strokes).
Stoll is coming off of a strong finish at the Tallahassee NCAA Regional where she tied for 14
th shooting 4-under par (212 strokes). Stoll has earned five top-20 finishes in her junior season while competing in all 11 events.
Hou has impressed in her short time as a Wildcat as she has shot at par or better in 11 of her 21 rounds with a scoring average of 72.47. Hou has also finished inside the top-20 in six of her seven starts in her freshman campaign.
Nordaas will be competing in her ninth event of the season, with her best finish coming at the Pac-12 Championships where she tied for 27
th place.
The championship format consists of all 24 teams and 12 individuals completing 54 holes of stroke play, and then the top 15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team advance for one additional day of stroke play. The top eight remaining teams advance to match play competition for the championship.
UA will be making its first appearance at the NCAA Championships since 2016 when the Wildcats tied for ninth shooting 15-over par. Arizona has won two national championships in program history in 1996 and 2000, as well as four individual national championships in Susan Slaughter (1990), Annika Sorenstam (1991), Marisa Baena (1996), and Jenna Daniels (2000).
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