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WGOLF Central: Williams Set to Compete in NCAA Championship
May 16, 2018 | Women's Golf
STILLWATER, Okla. – Tennessee sophomore Micheala Williams will represent the Lady Vols this week in Stillwater, Oklahoma, as she competes as an individual in the NCAA Championship. The tournament will take place Friday, May 18, through Wednesday, May 23, but the individual medalist will be crowned after 72 holes of stroke play.
The tournament will be held at Karsten Creek (par 72, 6,328 yards), a Tom Fazio-designed course that has hosted two NCAA Championships in the past (2003 and 2011).
Williams enters the championship with seven rounds of par or better and a team-leading five top-25 finishes. The Athens, Alabama, native also leads the squad with a 74.39 stroke average through 11 tournaments this season.
Since the women's golf program began in 1992, Tennessee has seen 13 teams and five individuals (with Williams being the fifth) advance to a total of 18 NCAA Championships.
The Field (By Seed)
Teams:
The tournament will be held at Karsten Creek (par 72, 6,328 yards), a Tom Fazio-designed course that has hosted two NCAA Championships in the past (2003 and 2011).
Williams enters the championship with seven rounds of par or better and a team-leading five top-25 finishes. The Athens, Alabama, native also leads the squad with a 74.39 stroke average through 11 tournaments this season.
Since the women's golf program began in 1992, Tennessee has seen 13 teams and five individuals (with Williams being the fifth) advance to a total of 18 NCAA Championships.
The Field (By Seed)
Teams:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- UCLA
- Duke
- Stanford
- Southern California
- Furman
- Texas
- Arizona
- Arizona State
- Florida
- Northwestern
- Washington
- Kent State
- Wake Forest
- Auburn
- Oklahoma
- Florida State
- Louisville
- Baylor
- Virginia
- Colorado
- Mississippi
- Ohio State
- Jillian Hollis – Georgia
- Maddie Szeryk – Texas A&M
- Leonie Harm – Houston
- Emma Broze – Oklahoma State
- Jess Yuen - Missouri
- Hira Naveed – Pepperdine
- Gabby Curtis – Wisconsin
- Rose Huang - BYU
- Erin Harper – Indiana
- Nicole Schroeder – Oregon State
- Micheala Williams – Tennessee
- Marthe Wold - California
- The NCAA Championship will be played on Friday, May 18, through Wednesday, May 23, with four rounds of stroke play and three rounds of match play (weather permitting). The practice round will be held on Thursday, May 17, with all teams and individuals teeing off in a shotgun start at 10:30 a.m. ET.
- The first three days of stroke play (5/18-5/20) will consist of tee times starting at 8:30 a.m. ET. After 54 holes of play, the field will be cut to the top 15 teams and the top nine individuals not on those teams.
- With the reduced field, the final round of stroke play will be played on Monday, May 21, with tee times beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET.
- The individual awards ceremony will be held upon the conclusion of the final round of stroke play.
- Live stats and up-to-date information will be available at Golfstat.com.
- Results will also be posted to the recap and the Tennessee women's golf twitter account at the conclusion of each round.
- At this weekend's NCAA Championship, Micheala Williams will compete with 131 other players for medalist honors during the stroke play portion of the tournament.
- Williams is just the fifth individual from Tennessee to qualify for the championship and the first since Erica Popson did so in 2013 as a senior.
- Williams 207 total (67-69-71) carded in Tallahassee marks a career-low and ranks second-lowest on the team this season. Her seventh-place finish at the regional is also her best placement this season and her best since placing seventh at the 2017 SEC Championship.
- Popson tied for 29th at the 2013 NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga., after shooting a 3-over-par 75 in the final round to close out the championships with a four-day card of 295 (+7).
- In 2001, Young-A Yang qualified for the NCAA Championships as an individual after she finished the West Regional in ninth place with a total of 221. She went on to finish her fourth round of the championship with a 30-footputt for par, giving her a 3-under 69 for a four-day total of 288 and lone possession of fifth place.
- Jessica Lindbergh was Tennessee's second-ever individual to qualify for the NCAA Championships. As a freshman, she finished the 1996 East Regional in seventh place with a score of 223 to advance to the NCAA Championship where she tied for 67th place with a 72-hole score of 328.
- Abby Pearson was the first Lady Vol to play in an NCAA Championship, qualifying as an individual her freshman year with a seventh-place finish (222) at the East Regional. She tied for 21st place in the 1993 NCAA Championship with a four-round score of 301.
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