COLUMBIA, S.C. (Aug. 18, 2026) – South Carolina Women’s Golf head coach Kalen Anderson has announced the 2026-27 season schedule on Tuesday morning. The Gamecocks will play in nine regular season events with five of the tournaments repeat events from a season ago.

For the sixth consecutive year, South Carolina will open the season at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 7-9) at Royal Golf Club in Lake Elmo, Minn. The Gamecocks have won the event three of the last five seasons and have claimed the individual title in three consecutive outings (Eila Galitsky ’25, Hannah Darling ’24 and Louise Rydqvist ’23).

South Carolina will then compete in the Jackson T. Stephens Cup for the sixth consecutive season. This year’s edition of the Stephens Cup will run Sept. 14-16 at PGA Frisco in Dallas, Texas and will have live coverage provided by the Golf Channel.

The Gamecocks will close the fall schedule at the Evie Odom Invitational (Oct. 9-11) and the Landfall Tradition (Oct. 23-25). The Evie Odom Invitational will be held at Princess Anne Country Club in Virginia Beach, Va., while the Landfall Tradition takes place at the Dye Course in Wilmington, N.C. This will be the second consecutive season that the Gamecocks will compete in the Landfall Tradition, finishing fifth a season ago.

The spring season will officially get underway Jan. 31 – Feb. 2 at the Therese Hession Regional Challenge at Palos Verdes Country Club in Palos Verdes, Calif. The Gamecocks will then return to the East Coast for a two-day tournament in the Momentum Transportation UNF Collegiate in Jacksonville, Fla.

South Carolina will host the 15th edition of the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (March 1-3) at Long Cove Club in Hilton Head, S.C. Golf Channel has again partnered with South Carolina and Long Cove Club to air all three rounds of the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate live for the sixth straight year.

The final two events of the regular season will be the Valspar Augusta Invitational (March 13-14) and the Country Club of Birmingham Women’s Collegiate Classic hosted by Auburn on April 5-6.

The SEC Championship will be played at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla. for the fourth consecutive year with the tournament set for April 16-20.

NCAA Regional selections will take place in late April with regionals being conducted at six sites across the country May 10-12. South Carolina has been selected as one of the host sites and will host a regional tournament at Old Barnwell in Aiken, S.C.

The top-five teams at each site will advance to the NCAA Championship May 21-26 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa, which has played host to NCAA finals in each of the last three seasons.