CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – A league-record seven Atlantic Coast Conference teams will head to the 2026 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, set for May 22-27 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California.
SMU, Stanford and Wake Forest claimed titles in their respective regionals, as the ACC was the only conference with multiple teams to win a regional. The seven teams are the most the league has sent to the NCAA Championship, breaking the previous record of six set in both 2023 and 2024.
As the only conference to capture multiple regional titles, ACC schools won three of the six regional titles this week, with Stanford, SMU and Wake Forest each claiming victories at their respective sites. Also qualifying were Duke, Florida State, North Carolina and Virginia, with each team finishing in the top five in their respective regional.
Coming off its first ACC title in April, Stanford continued its winning ways by capturing the regional championship on its home course last week. The Cardinal won the three-day tournament by a program-record 38 strokes and posted another program best with a team score of 810 (-42). Stanford has now advanced to the NCAA Championship every year since 2010 and remains the only program in the nation to reach the match play portion of the championship in every season since the format was introduced a decade ago.
SMU will make its third NCAA Championship appearance in four seasons and its ninth overall. After finishing as the runner-up at the ACC Championship, the Mustangs captured the Waco Regional last week, for their first regional title since 2023. The victory was their first tournament title of the season.
Wake Forest won its second straight regional title last week at the Tallahassee Regional at Seminole Legacy Golf Club. The victory marked the program’s first time winning two consecutive regional titles since the 1994 and 1995 seasons. Graduate student Morgan Ketchum shared medalist honors in Tallahassee after firing a 6-under-par 66 in the final round, the lowest regional third-round score in program history.
Duke returns to the NCAA Championship for the 25th time in the last 29 years and the 35th time under head coach Dan Brooks. The Blue Devils are coming off a third-place finish at the Ann Arbor Regional, as ACC Freshman of the Year Rianne Malixi finished seventh in the…
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