The favorite, three who could challenge and dark horses for the 2023 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship

Starting Friday, the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships gets underway from Grayhawk Golf Club.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Starting Friday, the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship gets underway from Grayhawk Golf Club.

Thirty teams and six individuals will battle it out, beginning with four rounds of stroke play, starting Friday and concluding Monday when an individual champion will be crowned. Then the top eight teams will advance to match play, which begins Tuesday, and the finals will be Wednesday, when the team champion will be crowned.

Ahead of the first round of competition, Golfweek takes a look at some of the players to watch, including the favorite, those who could challenge for the individual crown and some dark horses who could make a run.

Golfweek/Sagarin rankingsWomen’s team | Women’s individual

2023 NCAA Division I men’s golf regionals full fields, seeds announced

The Road to Grayhawk continues with the announcement of the six regionals.

The 2023 NCAA Division I men’s golf regional fields were announced Wednesday.

Of the six regional sites, three will feature 13 teams and 10 individuals not on those teams while the other three will have 14 teams and five individuals (81 teams and 45 individuals total). Regionals will be played May 15-17 at the following sites:

Auburn University Club in Auburn, Alabama (hosted by Auburn); The Cliffs at Keowee Falls in Salem, South Carolina (Clemson); Eagle Eye Golf Club in East Lansing, Michigan (Michigan State); Bear’s Best Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada (UNLV); Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club in Norman, Oklahoma (Oklahoma); and The Institute Golf Club in Morgan Hill, California (San Jose State).

The top five teams and top individual not on an advancing team will advance from each regional to the national championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 26-31. This is the third and final year the men’s and women’s championships will be at Grayhawk.

Texas is the defending national champion.

Here are the regional fields (Golfweek/Sagarin rankings in parentheses):

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