Postseason tracker: Kansas women’s golf enjoys second-straight NCAA regional appearance
LAWRENCE — Kansas women’s golf is participating in an NCAA regional for the second-straight year, enjoying something the Jayhawks have now done for a third time in program history.
Kansas, which will play in the regional from Monday through Wednesday, is at the Tumble Creek Club in the Cle Elum Regional in Washington. The Jayhawks are the No. 9 seed in a 12-team field, which will go through three rounds before the top five teams qualify for the NCAA championship event later this month. If KU doesn’t advance as a team, and its best-performing individual is the low scorer, that person will head to the NCAA championship.
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“We are excited to be competing again this time of year,” Kansas coach Lindsay Kuhle said in a recent Jayhawks news release. “Our ladies worked very hard this season to get to this point. Now, anything can happen and your ranking doesn’t matter. It is all about playing three solid rounds of golf to help the team. We are very motivated right now and I feel we are playing our best golf collectively.”
There are six players traveling for Kansas. Five of them are senior Hanna Hawks, sophomore Amy DeKock and juniors Jordan Rothman, Lily Hirst and Lauren Clark. Johanna Ebner, a junior, is also there as an alternate.
The teams, seeded No. 1-through No. 12, are in order No. 1 Stanford, No. 2 Duke, No. 3 Arizona State, No. 4 Virginia, No. 5 San Jose State, No. 6 Washington, No. 7 Alabama, No. 8 Virginia Tech, No. 9 Kansas, No. 10 Long Beach State, No. 11 Sacramento State and No. 12 Seattle.
“I’m excited for these ladies to get another opportunity to represent KU and play their best golf at the end of the season,” Kuhle said in the release. “This is a difficult championship course with challenging colder weather. This is about who wants it and who is tough mentally and physically to get the ball in the hole. It doesn’t have to be pretty this week, but you’ve got to keep the ball in play and have an exceptional short game and wedges, which we have been working extremely hard on all season.”
Follow along for updates each day as Kansas competes to advance:
This story will be updated at the end of each day of competition.
Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.
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