2016 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships
Friday through Wednesday, May 20-25
Eugene Country Club (Par-72, 6,369 or 6,331 yards, as 11th hole can play 190 or 152)
Eugene, Oregon
Live Results
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TV Coverage
The Golf Channel will broadcast live coverage of the final round of stroke play on Monday from 4-7 p.m. ET, and quarterfinal, semifinal and final-round coverage of team play on Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET and 3:30-7:00 p.m. ET, and Wednesday from 3-7 p.m.
Tee Times
Defending national champion Stanford is paired with Arkansas and Washington the first two rounds. The Cardinal tee off Friday from 1:06-1:50 p.m. PT on No. 1. On Saturday, Stanford tees off from 8:36-9:20 a.m. PT on No. 10. Third-round pairings will be determined by 36-hole scores. Tee times for Monday’s fourth round are scheduled from 12:10-2:10 p.m. Teams advancing to match play on Tuesday will tee off from 7:00-8:30 a.m., with seeding based on 72-hole team scores. Winners advance to the semifinals on Tuesday afternoon, with tee times running from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Winners play Wednesday for the NCAA title, with the first match set for 2:10 p.m.
Cardinal Contingent • Shannon Aubert, Casey Danielson, Sierra Kersten, Lauren Kim, Mariah Stackhouse
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The Field
• Twenty-four teams and 12 individuals qualified through four NCAA Regional Championships. Participating teams include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Brigham Young, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Furman, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, North Carolina, Northwestern, Oklahoma State, Ohio State, Oregon, South Carolina, Stanford, Texas, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Virginia and Washington
The Format
• All teams will play 54 holes of stroke play, with the top 15 advancing to a final round of stroke play on Monday when the individual winner will be determined. The top eight teams qualify for match play on Tuesday.
Cardinal Catalogue
• No. 12 Stanford has won four tournaments in 2015-16: Branch Law Firm Invitational, Stanford Intercollegiate, Silverado Showdown and tied for first with USC in the NCAA Stanford Regional Championships. The Cardinal has five top-five finishes.
• Stanford is led by senior All-Americans Lauren Kim and Mariah Stackhouse, two of the most accomplished players in program history. Kim is ranked No. 4 in the country by Golfstat (71.77 average) and has produced 21 career top 10 finishes, while Stackhouse is ranked No. 22 (72.31) and has four career victories and 28 top 10s.
• Kim has recorded a team-high five top 10 showings in 2015-16. She was recently selected the Pac-12 Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
• Kim has shined in the NCAA Championships. She tied for seventh in 2015, finished third in 2014 and tied for 42nd in 2013.
• As a freshman in 2013, Mariah Stackhouse set a team, course and NCAA women’s record at Stanford Golf Course by shooting a 10-under par 61 in the Peg Barnard Invitational. She fired a 9-under 26 on the front nine.
• Shannon Aubert has claimed four top 20 finishes this season. Her best showing was third at the Stanford Intercollegiate, where she matched her career-best college score with a 4-under 67 in the second round.
• Casey Danielson has placed in the top 20 five times this season, highlighted by a tie for second at the Peg Barnard Intercollegiate. She led the team at the 2016 NCAA Stanford Regional Championships by tying for fourth, shooting rounds of 72-68-71 to finish at 2-under 211.
• Sierra Kersten has competed in four events for the Cardinal. Her top finish is a tie for 18th at the Silverado Showdown.
Last Year
• Competing in the NCAA Championships for the 30th time, Stanford captured its first national crown by beating Baylor 3-2 in the finals at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida. Junior Mariah Stackhouse produced the deciding point in the last match against Haley Davis by winning the 17th and 18th holes with birdies to force sudden death, then prevailed with a two-putt par on the first hole of sudden death. It marked only the ninth time in NCAA history that a men’s and women’s program from the same school have won national titles in the same sport.
• The Cardinal reached the nationally-televised final by defeating Pac-12 foes Arizona and top-ranked USC. Freshman Shannon Aubert and sophomore Casey Danielson each posted 3-0 match play marks.
The Course
• Organized in 1899, Eugene Country Club is the second-oldest course in the state of Oregon and has hosted many important amateur championships, including the 1959 and 1978 NCAA Men’s Championships, 2008 U.S. Women’s Amateur, 1993 U.S. Men’s Mid-Amateur and 2002 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur. Originally designed by Chandler Egan, the picturesque, tree-lined course was redesigned by legendary architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr. in 1965, who reversed the tees and greens.