April 20, 2025 • by Dan Davies / Photography: Jamie Schwaberow NCAA Photos / Darren Reese / ACC / Juan DeLeon
Florida State clinches first ever ACC Women’s Championship... South Carolina shows top-seed form at SECs... Oregon dominates Big Ten... Arizona prevails in three-way playoff at Big 12... plus more
Florida State (#3) clinched its first ever ACC Women’s Championship, beating Wake Forest (#8) 3-2 in the Championship Match at Sedgefield Country Club. FSU had previously finished runners-up eight times, including five of the last seven championships.
The Seminoles turned around a 2-1 deficit when both senior captain Kaylah Willliams and freshman Alexandra Gazzoli won their matches on the 18th hole.
"I'm super excited. We have waited a long time for this, and it was well deserved by our crew against a very good Wake Forest squad,” Seminole Head Coach Amy Bond told the FSU website after watching her side lift the trophy.
"We've been talking about one shot, one hole and they showed a lot of grit. That's what you've got to do in golf and especially in match play. You never quite know what you are going to come up against, and they fought through it no matter how much they were down and got the job done when they needed to."
In the semi-finals Wake Forest claimed the scalp of #1 ranked Stanford, who had gone unbeaten all season and earned the top seeding by winning the 54-hole stroke play tournament by a distance, a seventh straight victory of the campaign. Coach Anne Walker’s team set a tournament scoring record at 27 under par.
Freshman Andrea Revuelta (#8, above) bagged her first collegiate title, becoming the first Cardinal player to score her maiden win in a conference championship. The Spanish player made five eagles on the way to finishing at 14 under par, two shots ahead of Amanda Sambach (#12) of Virginia and six ahead of FSU standouts Mirabel Ting (#1) and Lottie Woad (#3).
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Ranked #5 coming into the week, Oregon continued an impressive run of form with a convincing 14-shot victory in the program's first Big Ten Women's Championship. The Ducks shot a brilliant 12-under-par closing round, the best round score of the tournament by five shots, to cruise to victory over Michigan State, the overnight leaders.
Kiara Romero is having a fine season and finally got the win her consistency deserves, closing with a 68 (-4) to clinch individual medalist honors by three shots over Kary Hollenbaugh of Ohio State and Kate Brody of Wisconsin. Romero becomes only the third Oregon player to win a an individual conference title.
Brody entered the tournament ranked #765 but was joint leader after round one and hung around to record comfortably her best result of the season. Oregon has not finished outside the top-five in a stroke play event all season.
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South Carolina senior Louise Rydqvist (#17) holed a 60-foot birdie putt to seal victory over Florida (#22) and deliver a first SEC Women’s Championship in 23 years and only the second in program history.
The #4-ranked Gamecocks made SEC history by becoming the first No. 1 women’s seed from stroke play to go on to win the championship. The league switched to its new match play format in 2018.
Head Coach Kalen Anderson's side downed the Gators by 4.5 to 0.5 in the championship match at Pelican GC. Both Rydqvist and freshman Eila Galitsky (#18) compiled perfect 3-0-0 records in the match play stages, with Galitsky extending her record to 6-0-0 in just a few months with the program.
Rydqvist, Galitsky and Hannah Darling (#13) all finished in the top-10 in the stroke play portion of the championship as South Carolina finished on 16 under par, a new 54-hole program record and the lowest 54-hole total by any team in the history of the SEC Championship. It was a tally that was six shots too good for LSU and 11 for Texas.
Caitlyn Macnab (#23) of Ole Miss was crowned individual champion after shooting a nine-under-par 54-hole total, five better than a quartet of players. Last year's medalist at the Bermuda Run Regional birdied four of her last six holes in a superb closing 65 (-5) to claim the fourth win of her college career.
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Arizona (#18) won a three-way playoff with Arizona State (#9) and Oklahoma State (#29) to win the Big 12 Women’s Championship in its first appearance in the tournament.
The three teams had tied on 19 over par after 54 holes at Houston Oaks GC in Texas before a 5-count-5 playoff saw Arizona win with a score of 20, beating ASU by one shot and OSU by two. TCU finished one shot shy of the playoff.
Arizona led after day one but was fifth going into the last round. Head Coach Giovana Maymon now has three tournament wins in her first season in charge.
No. 8-ranked Arizona State began the final day 11 strokes behind 36-hole leaders Oklahoma State and five strokes adrift of Arizona, but shot up the leaderboard thanks to a brilliant 66 (-5) by Beth Coulter.
Sophie Bert of Kansas State also shot a closing 66 to finish as individual medalist on two under par. Bert, who was ranked #134 coming into the event, finished two shots clear of a group of four players that included her teammate, the 2025 ANWA champion Carla Bernat.
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UNLV (#39) prevailed in the first women's playoff in conference history to take the Credit Union 1 Mountain West Championship at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club. The victory was the eighth in Rebel program history and a fifth for Head Coach Amy Bush-Herzer.
UNLV clawed back a two-shot overnight deficit to tie with San Jose State on 18 over par thru 54 holes. Victory arrived on the second playoff hole as senior McKenzi Hall made a 40-foot birdie putt and seniors Mayumi Umezu and Toa Yokohama both made pars.
After clinching a second team win of the season, a delighted Coach Bush-Herzer told the UNLV website “I'm super proud of this team and we just kept having fun. We've had a beautiful year, with a lot of success and great things to talk about.”
Lucia Lopez Ortega of San Jose State finished as individual medalist on five under par, two ahead of Anna Shultse (#439) of Nevada.
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Oregon State (#50) secured the 2025 West Coast Conference Women’s Championship by two strokes over defending champions Pepperdine (#40) at Green Valley Country Club in Fairfield, California. The Beavers finished at five over par to deliver a first conference title for Head Coach Dawn Shockley.
The individual title went to extra time as Oregon State’s Raya Nakao (#107) defeated San Francisco’s Eva Pett (#268) on the second playoff hole to secure medalist honors. Nakao (66-74-72) and Pett (71-71-70) each finished the 54-hole tournament on four under par. On the second playoff hole, Pett made bogey and Nakao got up and down to capture the individual title.
The win was the first of Nakao’s collegiate career. She tied the course record with a six-under-par 66 to open the tournament and led after both the first and second rounds.