·Top-seeded Stanford women’s golf makes its way to Southern California for the NCAA Championships, hosted by the University of Texas. The practice round takes place on Thursday, May 16 before stroke play begins on Friday, May 17.
·The NCAA Championships take place at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa and plays at 6,330 yards and is a par-72.
·All participating teams will compete in 54 holes of stroke play before the field narrows down to 15 teams for an additional 18 holes of stroke play on Monday, May 20. The top eight teams will then compete in match play to determine a national champion.
·The Cardinal have advanced to the NCAA Championships every year since 2010 and is the only program in the country to advance to the match play portion since it was instituted eight years ago.
·No team has won multiple NCAA Championships since it switched to a match play format other than Stanford (2015, 2022). An NCAA Championship in 2024 would give Stanford the most NCAA titles since 2008 (3).
·Stanford has had the last three individual national champions: Rachel Heck (2021), and Rose Zhang (2022-23).
·2024 is the second consecutive season that Stanford enters the NCAA Championships as the top overall seed.
·Stanford enters the NCAA Championship as winners of its last two tournaments: the Pac-12 Championship and the NCAA Cle Elum Regional.
·The Cardinal claimed its third-ever Pac-12 title, and the last one the conference will hand out, on April 23 at Palouse Ridge in Pullman. In doing so, Stanford shattered the Pac-12 scoring record by shooting 28-under par as a team through three rounds (836).
·Following up that Pac-12 performance, Stanford cruised through the Cle Elum Regional as the only team to score better than par, shooting 17-under as a team. It marked the sixth time since 2016 that Stanford won its regional (no regionals in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic).
·For the first time in Stanford history, the Cardinal landed four golfers inside the top-four on the leaderboard: 1. Rachel Heck 2. Kelly Xu. T3. Megha Ganne T3. Paula Martín Sampedro.
·Heck won the Cle Elum Regional, claiming her ninth individual tournament win at Stanford, tying her with Andrea Lee for the second most in Stanford history, trailing only Rose Zhang (12). It marked first time in 800 days that Heck won a tournament, after her most recent win came in the 2022 Gunrock Invitational.
·The top-16 teams in the country all qualified for the NCAA Championship. The highest ranked team to miss the 30-team field is Arizona (No. 17).
