Drone flyover video of Omni La Costa North Course par-3 16th hole
Omni La Costa is hosting the NCAA mens and womens golf championships for a second year in a row. The North Course’s 16th hole is the final par-3.
CARLSBAD, Calif. — The 2025 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship moves on to Saturday.
Omni La Costa Resort and Spa played difficult for most teams during Friday’s opening round, with sunny afternoon skies leading to breezy, cloudy conditions late in the day for the top-15 ranked teams in the field. With tee times switched, those teams, including No. 1 Stanford, will head back out Saturday morning and battle it out trying to earn a Sunday morning tee time, pivotal to make the 15-team cut coming after the third round.
Follow along below for live updates from the second round of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship:
NCAA Women’s Golf Championship live leaderboard
Follow along here for live scores from the 2025 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship.
Afternoon groups are all on the course, and if early indications are anything, the afternoon scores Saturday will be lower than Friday.
The scoring average Friday was 74.69, and after the morning wave it was exactly a stroke better at 73.69. But as mentioned above, afternoon scores are trending higher early.
Stanford’s 10-under mark won’t be touched. The next closest team was fellow ACC opponent Florida State, which shot 4 under on Saturday.
With two holes to play in her second round, Avery Weed has reached 7 under par and is 4 under on the day. As it stands, she has a two-shot lead in the individual competition.
As a team, Mississippi State sits 10th with a couple holes remaining.
The Cardinal have arrived. A stellar 10-under performance is in the books, and Stanford goes from middle of the pack to solo second before the afternoon wave tees off. Paula Martin Sampedro and Kelly Xu are T-6 at 3 under individually. All four counting scores were under par, with Sampedro’s 4-under 68 pacing the group.
Reminder: Stanford has finished first after stroke play for four straight years at NCAAs. The 10-under round was Stanford’s best at NCAAs since 2023.
A year ago, Hannah Darling shot 84 in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship and didn’t play the remainder of the tournament, calling it the worst week of her life.
Fast forward to Friday, Darling again struggled at Omni La Costa, shooting an 82. She stayed in the lineup, however, and shot 1-over 73 on Saturday morning, which is huge for the Gamecocks.
South Carolina is T-18 and nearly done with its second round but should rise up a bit in the afternoon. Top-15 teams get Sunday morning tee time, which is crucial to making the first cut.
After a 3-under 69 to open in the difficult wave Friday, Mississippi State’s Avery Weed has birdied three of her first holes (and six of her past eight) dating to the first round, and she’s one of three co-leaders at 6 under. Weed is tied with Texas’ Lauren Kim and LSU’s Elsa Svensson. Kim and Svensson are both 2 under early on.
Early on, the course is playing slightly easier Saturday than it did Friday, but the stats could correct once all teams get on the course.
The defending national champions and No. 1 team in college golf is 5 under halfway through its second round, the best team score on the course. After recording only 10 birdies in the entirety of its first round, Stanford has 10 on the front nine alone and has moved into a tie for fourth and back to even par, six shots behind Vanderbilt.
As mentioned yesterday and earlier in the updates, the leaderboard will really start to take shape after today’s round. It was a bit of a surprise to see Stanford start sluggish but not surprising whatsoever to see the Cardinal bounce back in a big way to begin the second round. Now, can the Cardinal finish?
Trying to find second-round scores? Good luck. Live scoring went down about 8:45 a.m. local time Saturday morning on Scoreboard. It’s likely to be fixed soon, but there’s no way to follow all of the action at least temporarily.
Update: 17 minutes later, live scoring seems to be back up and running … for now.
Wake Forest, the 2023 national champion, needed a quick start to its round, and the Demon Deacons got it. Sophomore Anne-Sterre den Dunnen holed out for eagle on the 347-yard, par-4 opening hole.
The big bird was only the third of the championship, thus far, and the first coming on a par 4. Wake Forest was in 27th after the opening round and needed a big bounce back Saturday morning, and den Dunnen did her best to help as the first player off for the Demon Deacons.
Friday is sort of a feeling out day for the 30 teams at the NCAA Championship. It’s not until Saturday when the fun starts and the leaderboard really starts to take shape ahead of Sunday’s cut to 15 teams.
The top-15 ranked teams teed off Saturday morning under cloudy skies with calm winds, so expect scoring to be lower than when they were on the golf course Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, for the teams who played Friday morning, they’ll likely have slightly tougher conditions come Saturday afternoon, and when the second round is completed, expect there to be plenty of leaderboard shuffling.
The biggest questions going into day two: Will Stanford, Arkansas, South Carolina and other top teams rise? Will teams like Vanderbilt and Oklahoma State, the only ones under par after round one, maintain momentum after strong starts? Can Tennessee’s Bailey Davis build off her impressive finish Friday and continue holding the solo lead?
NCAA Women’s Golf Championship predictions, expert picks
Golfweek’s college golf expert Cameron Jourdan and senior writer Beth Ann Nichols made predictions for the championship. You can see their entire selections here.
1st tee
9:30 a.m. – Kelly Xu (Stanford), Abbey Schutte (Arkansas), Maylis Lamoure (South Carolina)9:41 a.m. – Megha Ganne (Stanford), Clarisa Temelo (Arkansas), Sophia Burnett (South Carolina)9:52 a.m. – Paula Martín Sampedro (Stanford), Reagan Zibilski (Arkansas), Hannah Darling (South Carolina)10:03 a.m. – Meja Örtengren (Stanford), Kendall Todd (Arkansas), Eila Galitsky (South Carolina)10:14 a.m. – Andrea Revuelta (Stanford), Maria Jose Marin (Arkansas), Louise Rydqvist (South Carolina)10:25 a.m. – Sky Sload (Wake Forest), Grace Summerhays (Arizona State), Jasmine Koo (USC)10:36 a.m. – Anne-Sterre Den Dunnen (Wake Forest), Beth Coulter (Arizona State), Xin (Cindy) Kou (USC)10:47 a.m. – Chloe Kovelesky (Wake Forest), Paula Schulz-Hanssen (Arizona State), Kylie Chong (USC)10:58 a.m. – Macy Pate (Wake Forest), Isla McDonald-O’Brien (Arizona State), Catherine Park (USC)11:09 a.m. – Carolina Chacarra (Wake Forest), Patience Rhodes (Arizona State), Bailey Shoemaker (USC)11:20 a.m. – Mandy Song (Ohio State), Filippa Sundquist (Mississippi), Ana Pina Ortega (Mississippi State)11:31 a.m. – Marina Joyce-Moreno (Ohio State), Sophie Linder (Mississippi), Chiara Horder (Mississippi State)11:42 a.m. – Nellie Ong (Ohio State), Kajsalotta Svarvar (Mississippi), Sam Whateley (Mississippi State)11:53 a.m. – Faith Choi (Ohio State), Nicole Gal (Mississippi), Izzy Pellot (Mississippi State)12:04 p.m. – Kary Hollenbaugh (Ohio State), Caitlyn Macnab (Mississippi), Avery Weed (Mississippi State)2:50 p.m. – Ebba Nordstedt (Kansas), Elaine Widjaja (Florida), Paula Balanzategui (Michigan State)3:01 p.m. – Johanna Ebner (Kansas), Jessica Guiser (Florida), Ana Sofia Murcia (Michigan State)3:12 p.m. – Amy DeKock (Kansas), Ines Archer (Florida), Brooke Biermann (Michigan State)3:23 p.m. – Lauren Clark (Kansas), Addison Klonowski (Florida), Katie Lu (Michigan State)3:34 p.m. – Lyla Louderbaugh (Kansas), Paula Francisco (Florida), Taylor Kehoe (Michigan State)3:45 p.m. – Maye Huang (UCLA), Alexandra Vidal Rivera (Iowa State), Bailey Davis (Tennessee)3:56 p.m. – Tiffany Le (UCLA), Keeley Marx (Iowa State), Sofie Engesaeth (Tennessee)4:07 p.m. – Francesca Fiorellini (UCLA), Nichakorn Pinprayoon (Iowa State), Manassanan Chotikabhukk (Tennessee)4:18 p.m. – Natalie Vo (UCLA), Pimkwan Chookaew (Iowa State), Martina Lopez Lanchares (Tennessee)4:29 p.m. – Angela Liu (UCLA), Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn (Iowa State), Kyra Van Kan (Tennessee)4:40 p.m. – Malena Castro (Baylor), Samantha Brown (Purdue), Louise Dahl (CSU Fullerton)4:51 p.m. – Baimai Seema (Baylor), Lauren Timpf (Purdue), Katharina Zeilinger (CSU Fullerton)5:02 p.m. – Ashleen Kaur (Baylor), Jocelyn Bruch (Purdue), Zara Ali (CSU Fullerton)5:12 p.m. – Bridget Boczar (Baylor), Natasha Kiel (Purdue), Kaitlyn Zermeno Smith (CSU Fullerton)5:24 p.m. – Silje Ohma (Baylor), Momo Sugiyama (Purdue), Davina Xanh (CSU Fullerton)
10th tee
9:52 a.m. – Alexandra Gazzoli (Florida State), Karen Tsuru (Oregon), Bohyun Park (Texas)10:03 a.m. – Kaylah Williams (Florida State), Ting-Hsuan Huang (Oregon), Angela Heo (Texas)10:14 a.m. – Sophia Fullbrook (Florida State), Tong An (Oregon), Cindy Hsu (Texas)10:25 a.m. – Mirabel Ting (Florida State), Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (Oregon), Farah O’Keefe (Texas)10:36 a.m. – Lottie Woad (Florida State), Kiara Romero (Oregon), Lauren Kim (Texas)10:47 a.m. – Rebecca Skoler (Virginia), Elise Lee (Northwestern), Josefin Widal (LSU)10:58 a.m. – Kennedy Swedick (Virginia), Hsin Tai Lin (Northwestern), Taylor Riley (LSU)11:09 a.m. – Jaclyn LaHa (Virginia), Dianna Lee (Northwestern), Elsa Svensson (LSU)11:20 a.m. – Amanda Sambach (Virginia), Ashley Yun (Northwestern), Áine Donegan (LSU)11:31 a.m. – Megan Propeck (Virginia), Lauryn Nguyen (Northwestern), Rocío Tejedo (LSU)11:42 a.m. – Anna Davis (Auburn), Marie Madsen (NC State), Moa Svedenskiold (Houston)3:12 p.m. – Tillie Claggett (Vanderbilt), Ellie Bushnell (Oklahoma State), Sophie Bert (Kansas State)3:23 p.m. – Sara Im (Vanderbilt), Tarapath Panya (Oklahoma State), Noa van Beek (Kansas State)3:34 p.m. – Angelina Tolentino (Vanderbilt), Summer Lee (Oklahoma State), Alenka Navarro (Kansas State)3:45 p.m. – Lynn Lim (Vanderbilt), Grace Kilcrease (Oklahoma State), Nanami Nakashima (Kansas State)3:56 p.m. – Ava Merrill (Vanderbilt), Marta Silchenko (Oklahoma State), Carla Bernat (Kansas State)4:07 p.m. – Georgia Southern (Natachanok Tunwannarux), MaKayla Tyrrell (Oklahoma), UNLV (Pin Hsi Chen)4:18 p.m. – Jiarui Chen (Georgia Southern), Audrey Rischer (Oklahoma), Foong Zi Yu (UNLV)4:29 p.m. – Louise Reau (Georgia Southern), Reagan Chaney (Oklahoma), Hina Matsui (UNLV)4:40 p.m. – Mary Miller (Georgia Southern), Gracie Mayo (Oklahoma), McKenzi Hall (UNLV)4:51 p.m. – LoraLie Cowart (Georgia Southern), Savannah Barber (Oklahoma), Mayumi Umezu (UNLV)5:02 p.m. – Sofia Barroso Sá (TCU), Audrey Ryu (Furman), Lousiane Gauthier (Florida Gulf Coast)NCAA Women’s Golf Championship format
Finals play for both championships consist of three days of stroke play on Friday thru Sunday (54 holes), after which the top-15 teams and nine individuals not on an advancing team will be determined. That is followed by a final day of 18 holes of stroke play (Monday) to determine the top eight teams that will advance to match play as well as the 72-hole individual champion. The team national champion will be determined by a match-play format that will consist of quarterfinals and semifinals conducted on Tuesday, followed by the finals on Wednesday.
NCAA Women’s Golf Championship TV information
Golf Channel is the TV home for the NCAA Championships. All times ET
Monday, May 20
Live coverage – 6-10 p.m.
Tuesday, May 21
Live coverage – 1-3:30 p.m.
Live coverage – 6-10 p.m.
Wednesday, May 21
Live coverage – 6-10 p.m.
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