W Golf advances to NCAA Championship for second straight year
Cinderalla is headed back to the dance.
A year ago, Michigan stunned everyone in women's college golf, advancing to the NCAA Championship as a 13 seed. Only the second National Championship appearance in the program's 38 year history.
This year, the team did not need to sneak into the regional. In safely as a 9 seed with a 90-50 record that included a team title in Dallas at the Trinity Forest Invitational where wins over #21 Baylor, #22 Texas A&M and #25 Ohio State were notched.
Michigan traveled to Columbus for the NCAA Columbus Regional, held at OSU's Scarlet Golf Course. A difficult course, but one that we already played on this season and in past seasons. So a nice advantage for Michigan.
And it paid off. The Wolverines advance to Sugar Grove, taking 6th place at the Regional.
The weather wasn't great for the tournament. The team only shot 312 on Monday, but a STRONG comeback performance of 293 yesterday started the comeback.
Michigan put up 303 today, edging out 5 seed and #21 Colorado on the final hole. Elodie Van Dievoet birdied a putt to clinch the final spot.
The NCAA format is a 72 team field. 18 teams are sent to 4 different regional sites with the top-6 at each regional advancing to the NCAA Championships.
This is only the 3rd NCAA Championship appearance in program history. 2 of the 3 have come in the last two seasons.
This year has been quite the success. Belgian import Elodie Van Dievoet won the B1G Individual Championship 3 weeks for the first B1G Championship of any kind for the program.
There are ranked teams and higher seeded teams that are done, and coach Jan Dowling has willed this program to a place it has never been. Playing for a National Championship for the second straight season.
Exlcuding the Lacrosse newbies, W Golf is only one of two Michigan teams to never have won a B1G Championship.
That may change pretty soon. Things are definitely looking up.
Here's the final results from today-
| Place | Seed-Team (Ranking) | R1 | R2 | R3 | Score |
| 1. | 1 Florida (#6) | 297 | 293 | 296 | 886 |
| 3 South Carolina (#14) | 309 | 289 | 288 | 886 | |
| 3. | 2 Florida State (#5) | 299 | 298 | 294 | 891 |
| 4. | 8 Ohio State | 302 | 289 | 302 | 893 |
| 5. | 7 Purdue | 302 | 305 | 297 | 904 |
| 6. | 9 Michigan | 312 | 293 | 303 | 908 |
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| 7. | 5 Colorado (#21) | 313 | 299 | 297 | 909 |
| 8. | 4 Arkansas (#13) | 309 | 301 | 300 | 910 |
| 9. | 6 Texas A&M (#20) | 308 | 301 | 308 | 917 |
| 10. | 10 San Jose State | 310 | 304 | 306 | 920 |
| 11. | 11 Houston | 323 | 300 | 305 | 928 |
| 15 Old Dominion | 327 | 297 | 304 | 928 | |
| 13. | 13 Wisconsin | 314 | 302 | 314 | 930 |
| 14. | 12 Louisville | 314 | 300 | 319 | 933 |
| 15. | 16 Delaware | 320 | 310 | 308 | 938 |
| 16. | 14 Kentucky | 326 | 311 | 306 | 943 |
| 17. | 17 Missouri State | 324 | 315 | 329 | 968 |
| 18. | 18 Cleveland State | 340 | 328 | 328 | 996 |
I hope they win the Green Jacket!
Belgian thing I could find besides beer. No real connection to Michigan but . . . .
It's hard to move on from that one.
have excellent aim
Lol, I covered the UM Women's Golf team for the Michigan Daily before the OP was born..
They are much better now than back then as a program and that's awesome! Go Blue!
GET IN THE HOLE!!!!!
If tournament champions count, then I think it's just women's basketball (neither soccer team has won the regular season championship either).
Elodie Van Dievoet birdied a putt to clinch the final spot."
She sounds like a great player (not sure how you "birdie a putt" but I get the gist of what WD's ... driving ... at). Note to the Women's Golf Coach: She's just a sophomore now, but when Elodie leaves, please replace all Dievoets.
Of the 24 finalists, 21 are from "Power 5" conferences. The Big Ten was tied for the most finalists with 5 (ACC, P12), while the B12 and SEC only had 3 each.
B10 Michigan, MSU, Northwestern, OSU, Purdue
ACC Clemson, Duke, FSU, Miami, North Carolina
P12 ASU, California, Oregon, USC, Stanford
B12 Baylor, Texas, Texas Tech
SEC Alabama, Florida, South Carolina
other Furman, Kent State, Pepperdine
I didn't think the Big Ten was a women's golf power, but apparently they are.
In the finals, there's a cut to 15 teams after the third round, and the top 8 teams after the 4th round have a match play playoff for the championship.