@HurricanesGolf Set For NCAA Regional in Texas
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – For the fourth consecutive season, the University of Miami women’s golf team is headed to a NCAA Regional.
Miami learned its postseason fate Monday night as the NCAA announced that the Hurricanes were headed to the Bryan Regional in College Station, Texas.
The Hurricanes are one of 18 programs that were selected to play at the Bryan Regional – one of four regional sites.
The top six teams of the 18 selected to play in the Bryan Regional will advance to the NCAA Championships, held from May 20-25 at Eugene Golf Club in Eugene, Ore.
The Hurricanes enter this year’s Regional in the hopes of advancing to the NCAA Championships for the 24th time in program history. Miami’s last appearance in the NCAA Championship was in 1992 where it placed 10th.
The three-day, 54-hole tournament, hosted by Texas A&M, is taking place from May 5-7 at Traditions Club, a Jack Nicklaus-designed, par-72 course that plays between 6,242 and 6,373 yards.
The Hurricanes earned an at-large bid and the No. 11 seed, face a challenging group that includes six top-25 programs in the latest Golfstat rankings: UCLA (3), Georgia (6), Arizona (11), Kent State (14), Furman (19), and Texas A&M (23).
This year’s NCAA Championship is the second year of the revised format for women’s golf, with the top 15 teams and nine individuals not on those teams after 54 holes playing a final round of stroke play on Monday. After 72 holes of competition, the top eight teams will square off in a match-play format to determine a national champion.
The final day of the stroke-play competition, and all three rounds of match play, are televised on the Golf Channel. The Golf Channel also plans extensive coverage and highlights of the preliminary rounds of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships on its studio shows and online at GolfChannel.com.
For the latest information on the Miami women’s golf team, visit HurricaneSports.com, or follow the team’s Twitter account at www.twitter.com/HurricanesGolf.
Participating Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. UCLA
2. Georgia
3. Arizona
4. Kent State
5. Furman
6. Texas A&M
7. TCU
8. Texas
9. SMU
10. Louisville
11. Miami (Fla.)
12. Tulane
13. Campbell
14. Indiana
15. Texas State
16. Delaware
17. Lamar
18. Quinnipiac
