Both Virginia golf teams have advanced to the NCAA Championships, the women doing so for the fifth consecutive season and the men for the fourth straight year. The women advanced to the match-play portion and lost in the quarterfinals a year ago, while the men were national runners-up to Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the Cavalier women advanced from the Chapel Hill Regional, led by junior Jaclyn Laha and her score of even par. After all three rounds, the \u2018Hoos were tied with Michigan State and NC State in fourth place at 18-over, requiring a playoff to determine the final two teams advancing to the NCAA Championships. The Spartans and Cavaliers advanced from the playoff.<\/p>\n
This season marks the sixth time that coach Ria Scott has guided the women to the NCAA Championships since taking over the program ahead of the 2019 season. The best finish in program history is a pair of consecutive fourth-place finishes in 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n
On the men\u2019s side, senior Ben James, the No. 3-ranked amateur in the world, led the Cavaliers, winning the individual competition by three strokes and setting an NCAA Regional record 54-hole score of 194, breaking his own record of 196, set in 2023. His 19-under score relative to par was one stroke away from his record of 20-under set that same year.<\/p>\n
James\u2019s win was the second NCAA Regional win of his career and marks the third time in the past four years that a Cavalier has won the individual portion of their regional after Paul Chang won a year ago. It was also the seventh individual win of James\u2019s career, matching Ben Kohles for the most in program history.<\/p>\n
As a team, the Virginia men tied with Pepperdine at 36-under to share the regional title after taking a six-shot lead into the final round. It was Virginia\u2019s first-ever NCAA Regional title and sixth win overall this season, the most in school history.<\/p>\n
The women began play at the NCAA Championships first, teeing off at the Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, Calif., on Friday morning. The men don\u2019t begin play until the following Friday, May 29th.<\/p>\n
Both teams will be vying to make the top-15 cut after the first three days and then the top-eight cut after the fourth day to reach the match-play bracket. An individual champion will be crowned after the completion of four rounds of stroke play, and the top eight teams will be seeded, according to their stroke play finish, into a match-play bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Virginia golf teams have advanced to the NCAA Championships, the women doing so for the fifth consecutive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,84,85],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-golf","tag-olympic-sports","tag-virginia-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}