PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The Alabama women’s golf team is one of 12 teams set to tee of the 2023 NCAA Palm Beach Gardens Regional Monday morning. The Crimson Tide enters the three-day, 54-hole tournament as the No. 9 seed in the Regional that will take place at the par 72, 6,102-yard PGA National Resort Champions Course.
The Palm Beach Gardens Regional is one of six regional sites will feature 12 teams and six individuals, with the top five teams and the low individual not on an advancing team from each regional site advancing to the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championships hosted by Arizona State University in Scottsdale, Ariz. at the Grayhawk Golf Club, from May 19-24.
With this year’s selection, the Crimson Tide made its 17th consecutive regional appearance under head coach Mic Potter and its 24th appearance in the event overall.
From Head Coach Mic Potter
“We are very excited for the opportunity to compete at this year’s NCAA Regionals. We thought we may be going somewhere further away but we are looking forward to traveling to Palm Beach and competing on a golf course such as PGA National. It’s a course a lot of us are familiar with and have played there. It’s also a place that has hosted numerous big-time tournaments so you can’t fake your way around the course. It’s something we will have to prepare for so we are at our best. We are very pleased and look forward to competing.”
The Lineup
- Sarah Edwards (72.96, +1.08) and Benedetta Moresco (73.18, +1.29) enter NCAA Regional play leading the Crimson Tide in both stroke average and average vs. par, respectively
- Both Moresco and Edwards have combined to be the Crimson Tide’s top finisher in seven of the team’s 10 tournaments played this season
- Emilie Øverås has earned a starting spot in each of UA’s five spring events and is third on the team with a 74.71 stroke average and a +2.93 average vs. par
- Kynadie Adams (74.75), Taylor Kehoe (75.20) and Isabella van der Biest (77.23) are among the additional Crimson Tide golfers who made the trip
- Adams and Kehoe, who led the Crimson Tide with a 15th-place showing at the SEC Championships, earned the start in round one, with van der Biest serving in the alternate…
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