2025 NCAA Women's D-I Golf Regional fields selected: Who's in, who's out?

Defending NCAA champion Stanford, Arkansas, Florida State, South Carolina, Oregon and Texas each earned No. 1 seeds as the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee announced its selection of 72 teams and 36 individuals to participate in the 2025 NCAA Women’s D-I Regionals, being held May 5-7.

Twelve schools from the SEC and ACC earned spots into the regional fields, the most of any conference, followed by 11 from the Big 12 and eight for the Big Ten.

For the fourth time, there will be six women’s regional tournaments, each scheduled for 54 holes. And for the third year, five teams will advance from each regional to the NCAA Women’s Championship, aligning it with the number of men’s teams that qualify.

For the first time this year, however, teams earning at-large bids were required to have .500 or better head-to-head winning percentage against their opposition during the 2024-25 season. (This rule has been in place for men's D-I regionals since 2008.) This left out three teams that by their ranking would likely have been in the postseason field in previous years: Clemson, Kentucky and Alabama.

Each regional site has 12 teams and six individuals competing. In addition to the five teams qualifying for nationals, the low individual golfer not on one of those teams will also be moving on to nationals, which take place for the second straight year at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, Calif. The North course, renovated by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, hosts the women's and men's NCAA finals through 2028, with discussions going on that it could become the permanent home for the event.

Once again, the national championship will include a stroke-play segment to determine the individual champion (72 holes) and whittle the field down to eight schools who then compete in a head-to-head match-play bracket to determine a team champion. Thirty-one programs have advanced to match play since the format was adopted in 2015, with Stanford being the lone school that has reached match play all nine times (NCAA finals were cancelled in 2020 due to COVID) while USC has reached seven and Duke has reached five.

Speaking of the Cardinal, they are looking to become the first school to repeat as NCAA team champions since Duke in 2004-05. Stanford won its third title a year ago at Omni La Costa, defeating UCLA in the finals. Texas A&M sophomore Adela Cernousek won the individual title in 2024, but turned pro last fall, assuring that there will be a new champion this spring.

Here's the breakdown of all six Regional sites:

COLUMBUS REGIONAL

Ohio State Golf Club, Columbus, Ohio

Teams (listed by seed; conference champions in parenthesis)

Arkansas

LSU

Ohio State

Kansas

Houston

SMU

UNLV (Mountain West)

Illinois

Kent State (Mid-American)

Illinois State (Missouri Valley)

Xavier (Big East)

Oakland (Horizon League)

Individuals

Isabella McCauley, Minnesota

Vanessa Zhang, Harvard (Ivy League)

Savannah de Bock, Eastern Michigan

Mara Janess, Michigan

Neeranuch Prajunpanich, Youngstown State (Horizon League)

Jillian Cosler, Bradley (Missouri Valley)

CHARLOTTESVILLE REGIONAL

Birdwood Golf Course, Charlottesville, Va.

Teams (listed by seed; conference champions in parenthesis)

South Carolina (SEC)

Virginia

Ole Miss

Florida

UCLA

UCF

College of Charleston (Coastal Athletic Association)

N.C. State

Brigham Young

Princeton (Ivy League)

Richmond (Atlantic 10)

Radford (Big South)

Individuals

Pinky Chaisilprungruang, Charlotte

Nicha Kanpai, Maryland

Isabella Rawl, Clemson

Melena Barrientos, Clemson

Hannah Altman, UNC Wilmington (Coastal Athletic Association)

Paris Fieldings, Howard (Northeast)

GOLD CANYON REGIONAL

Superstition Mountain G. & C.C., Gold Canyon, Ariz.

Teams (listed by seed; conference champions in parenthesis)

Oregon (Big Ten)

Arizona State

Auburn

Mississippi State

Oklahoma State

California

Virginia Tech

San Jose State

Sacramento State (Big Sky)

Cal State Fullerton (Big West)

Navy (Patriot League)

Quinnipiac (MAAC)

Individuals

Vivian Lu, Washington

Jasmine Leovao, Long Beach State

Janae Leovao, Long Beach State

Jensen Jalufka, Cal Poly

Daniela Campillo, ULM

Maddie Montoya, Montana State (Big Sky)

LEXINGTON REGIONAL

Keene Trace Golf Club, Lexington, Ky.

Teams (listed by seed; conference champions in parenthesis)

Florida State (ACC)

Southern California

TCU

Vanderbilt

Kansas State

Georgia Southern

Pepperdine

Louisville

Miami (FL)

Western Kentucky (Conference USA)

Morehead State (Ohio Valley)

FDU (Northeast)

Individuals

Emma Bunch, New Mexico State

Gabi NiCastro, Samford

Marta López Echevarría, Kentucky

Madison Dabagia, Indiana

Caroline Smith, Indiana

Jasmine Driscoll, Ball State (Mid-American)

LUBBOCK REGIONAL

The Rawls Course, Lubbock, Texas

Teams (listed by seed; conference champions in parenthesis)

Texas

Wake Forest

Arizona (Big 12)

Texas A&M

Iowa State

Tennessee

Purdue

Campbell

UC Davis

Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun)

Tarleton State (Western Athletic)

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Southland)

Individuals

Ryann Honea, Abilene Christian

Chantal El Chaib, Georgia

Klara Hurtova, Texas Tech

Kara Kaneshiro, Colorado State

Yvonne Chamness, Texas State

Julia McLaughlin, High Point (Big South)

NORMAN REGIONAL

Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club, Norman, Okla.

Teams (listed by seed; conference champions in parenthesis)

Stanford

Northwestern

North Carolina

Michigan State

Duke

Oklahoma

Baylor

Oregon State (West Coast)

Tulsa (American Athletic)

Denver (Summit League)

Furman (Southern)

Southern Mississippi (Sun Belt)

Individuals

Riana Mission, San Francisco

Grace Jin, Sam Houston

Cynthia Zhang, Boston College

Ffion Tynan, Missouri

Amelia Guo, Sam Houston

Zoe Pinillos, Augusta (Southland)