STANFORD, Calif. — For the fourth year in a row, Stanford women’s golf was announced as the top overall seed in advance of the NCAA Regionals. Stanford will host a 2026 regional at Stanford Golf Course for the first time since 2022. The Cardinal has made every regional field dating back to 1993 and looks to win its third NCAA Championship in the last five years.
Regional action runs May 11-13 at six regional sites, with a total of 396 student-athletes competing. All six regional sites will have 12 teams and six individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to play in the NCAA Championship (156 student-athletes total). The final three days of the championship will be televised live on Golf Channel.
Stanford Regional Site
The Stanford Regional will be played at Stanford Golf Course, hosted by Stanford University. The 12 teams and six individuals are listed below.
Team:
- Stanford
- Pepperdine
- Vanderbilt
- Arizona State
- Missouri
- Arizona
- Cal State Fullerton
- Illinois
- Oregon State
- Cal Poly
- South Dakota State
- Navy
Individuals:
- Emma Bunch (New Mexico State)
- Leia Chung (Boise State)
- Kelsey Kim (Santa Clara)
- Adora Liu (California)
- Eva Pett (San Francisco)
- Madison Le (Long Beach State)
The tournament features 54 holes played over three days with the top five teams and one individual from non-qualifying teams advancing to the NCAA Women's Golf Championships, beginning May 22 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
The other five regional sites are: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Michigan), Chapel Hill, N.C. (North Carolina), Simpsonville, Ky. (Louisville), Tallahassee, Fla. (Florida State), and Waco, Texas (Baylor).
Stanford continues to be the top team in the country after a dominant spring season that featured the program’s first ACC Championship. Paula Martín Sampedro won the individual championship at Porters Neck Country Club, giving Stanford two individual ACC champions in two years. For the season, the Cardinal has won six team tournaments and is 2-2 in match play.
The last regional win for Stanford on its home course came in 2021, when Rachel Heck and Angelina Ye finished 1-2 as the Cardinal shot 28-under as a team. 2026 will be the ninth time that Stanford Golf Course hosts an NCAA Women’s Golf Regional.
Stanford won a rain-soaked Normal Regional last year by nine strokes over eventual NCAA Champion Northwestern, and has won four of its last five regional appearances. The Cardinal also had the individual medalist at last year’s regional in the form of Andrea Revuelta. The team has qualified for every national championship since 2010, as Stanford looks for its 16th straight NCAA Championship appearance in 2026.