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Darren Reese
Women's Golf

New Season Begins for Card

Top-ranked women's golf goes up against a top-15 field

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  • The 2025-26 women’s golf season begins for top-ranked Stanford as the Cardinal heads to Lake Bluff, Ill., for the Jackson T. Stephens Cup on Sept. 15-17.
  • The first two days will feature three rounds of stroke play. Match play on Sept. 17 will determine a team champion.
  • Golf Channel will have live coverage of the Jackson T. Stephens Cup from 2-5 p.m. PT on Monday and 1-4 p.m. PT on Tuesday-Wednesday.
  • The Jackson T. Stephens Cup will take place at Shoreacres in Lake Bluff, Ill.
  • Stanford enters the season as the top-ranked team on Golf Channel’s Top-30. The following ACC teams are ranked: No. 6 Duke, No. 12 Wake Forest, No. 16 North Carolina, No. 22 Florida State, No. 23 SMU, and No. 25 California.
  • All six teams in this year’s Jackson T. Stephens Cup are ranked: No. 2 Texas, No. 3 Oregon, No. 11 South Carolina, No. 12 Wake Forest, No. 13 Northwestern.
  • This is the third trip to the Jackson T. Stephens Cup for the Cardinal. Stanford finished third in the event in 2023 and claimed the title in 2022.
  • Last season ended in heartbreak, as Stanford fell 3-2 in the NCAA Championship match play finals to Northwestern. The Huskies clinched on the 18th green after Stanford made a feverish comeback.
  • Stanford returns its entire starting lineup for the 2025-26 season. All five are ranked inside the top-20 in the Women’s Amateur Golf Rankings.
  • Of the ten Golf Channel Preseason First Team All-America selections, four are Cardinal: Ganne, Martín Sampedro, Örtengren, and Revuelta. Xu was named a Preseason Third Team All-America selection.
    • The four Preseason First Team selections were all First Team All-America choices last year. Xu earned Second Team honors.
  • Among major awards won from 2024-2025: Örtengren was named ACC and WGCA Freshman of the Year, and Anne Walker earned her first Golfweek Coach of the Year award.
  • Stanford has not lost a stroke play event since March 30, 2024, when it came in fifth at the ASU/Ping Invitational. That puts Stanford on an active streak of 12 consecutive stroke play wins.
    • Last year, Stanford became just the second team to go an entire season without suffering a stroke play defeat, joining the 1994-95 Arizona State Sun Devils.
  • 2025 was the Summer of Stanford. Three Cardinal won significant tournaments, earning major national and international recognition.
    • Martín Sampedro won The Women’s Amateur and the European Ladies’ Amateur. In addition, she took home the Smyth Salver at the AIG Women’s Open on the LPGA tour, given to the lowest-scoring amateur in the field. She finished top-10 in the tournament overall.
    • Ganne won the 125th U.S. Women’s Open in August, becoming the sixth Cardinal to win the U.S Women’s Open, and just the second since 1984 (Rose Zhang – 2020).
    • Two weeks later, Örtengren won the Hills Open on the Ladies European Tour (LET) as an amateur, becoming the third amateur to win on the LET tour since 2022. She did so in her home country of Sweden.
  • The 2025-26 schedule features three full-team tournaments in the fall and three more in the spring before the ACC Championship. Match play is also on tap against No. 25 California and San Jose State.
  • Stanford’s lineup for the Jackson T. Stephens Cup is: Paula Martín Sampedro, Andrea Revuelta, Megha Ganne, Meja Örtengren, and Kelly Xu.