2023 NCAA DI women’s golf championships: How to watch, who’s playing as Stanford aims to defend national title

The road to 2023 NCAA DI women’s golf championships, set for May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, begins in less than two weeks as 70 teams and 36 individuals prepare for regional action. The NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee announced the teams and individuals for each of six regional tournaments on April 26, with Stanford, Wake Forest, LSU, South Carolina, Mississippi State and Texas A&M all earning No. 1 seeds.

The SEC led the way with 13 conference programs securing spots in the regional fields (including four No. 1 seeds), followed by the Big Ten and Pac-12 with eight each, and the ACC and Big 12 with seven. Each regional will host 12 teams and six individuals competing in a 54-hole tournament, with the top five teams — along with the low individual not on an advancing team — from each site qualifying for nationals at Grayhawk.

This year marks the first time in women’s tournament history that that five teams will advance from each regional rather than four (increasing the field from 24 to 30 teams). In January, the NCAA gained approval to increase the number of schools moving on to nationals, aligning it with the number of teams in the men’s championships.

Regionals are set for May 8-10 at the following sites: University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Georgia (hosted by Georgia); PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (hosted by FAU); Palouse Ridge Golf Course in Pullman, Washington (hosted by Washington State); Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh, North Carolina (hosted by N.C. State); TPC San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas (hosted by UTSA); and The Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield, Indiana (hosted by Indiana).

The Stanford Cardinal are the defending champions, beating the