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Top-seeded Cardinal hosting at Stanford Golf Course

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  • Top-ranked Stanford hosts a 2026 NCAA Regional at Stanford Golf Course from May 11-13.
  • 2026 marks the first time since 2022 that Stanford has hosted an NCAA Regional.
  • The Cardinal’s last home regional win came in 2021.
  • This is the ninth NCAA Regional hosted at Stanford Golf Course.
  • Stanford Golf Course plays at 6,267 yards and is a par-71.
  • 12 teams and six individuals are in the Stanford Regional. The top five teams following three rounds of stroke play and the highest individual from a non-advancing team will qualify for the NCAA Championship.
  • There are three teams ranked in the top-25 of the most recent Scoreboard, powered by Clippd, rankings aside from Stanford: No. 11 Pepperdine, No. 13 Vanderbilt, and No. 22 Arizona State. The other teams in the field are: Missouri, Arizona, Cal State Fullerton, Navy, South Dakota State, Cal Poly, Illinois, and Oregon State.
  • The Cardinal enters its regional with its first-ever ACC Championship under its belt, after defeating Duke and SMU in match play to claim the conference crown. In the stroke-play portion, the Cardinal set the ACC scoring record of 831 (-33).
  • Paula Martín Sampedro became the second Cardinal in as many seasons to win the individual conference championship, tying Andrea Revuelta’s ACC scoring record of 202 (-14) in stroke play.
  • Four Cardinal finished in the top-11 at ACCs, with all five finishing at least two strokes under par.
  • Anne Walker was named ACC Coach of the Year for the first time in her career, claiming a conference coach of the year award for the fifth time overall.
  • Paula Martín Sampedro was named ACC Golfer of the Year, the second time she has been named a conference golfer of the year. She is the third student-athlete at Stanford to be named an ACC and Pac-12 conference player of the year.
  • All five golfers in Stanford’s lineup were named All-ACC for the second season in a row.
  • At last year’s NCAA Norman Regional, Stanford won with an 841 (-23), while Andrea Revuelta earned medalist honors with a 208 (-8), her second consecutive win at the time.
  • 2026 is the fourth consecutive season that Stanford has entered the NCAA Regionals as the top overall seed.
  • Heading into the regionals, Stanford is 86-3 against the field this year, the only team in the country with fewer than 10 head-to-head losses.
  • Stanford has made every NCAA Regional field dating back to 1993. The Cardinal has advanced to the NCAA Championship every year since 2010.
    • Stanford is also the only program in the country, women or men, to advance to the match play portion every year since it was instituted ten years ago. Additionally, Stanford’s three national championships since 2015 are the most in the NCAA.
  • Stanford’s lineup for its 2026 Regional is as follows: Paula Martín Sampedro, Andrea Revuelta, Meja Örtengren, Kelly Xu, and Megha Ganne. Anna Song is the alternate.