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BRYAN, Texas - The top-ranked UCLA women's golf team looks to advance to its 16th-consecutive NCAA Championships when it takes part in the NCAA Regionals at the Traditions Club this weekend. The 54-hole tournament runs from Thursday through Saturday at the par-72, 6,373-yard layout.
In Thursday's first round, the Bruin fivesome will tee off the first hole at 9:50 a.m. CT/7:50 a.m. PT in the order of junior Hadas Libman, senior Louise Ridderström, freshman Bethany Wu, freshman Lilia Vu and junior Bronte Law. Live scoring will be available here.
The Bruins are the top seed at the Bryan Regional, which also includes Georgia, Arizona, Kent State, Furman, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas, SMU, Louisville, Miami Florida, Tulane, Campbell, Indiana, Texas State, Delaware, Lamar and Quinnipiac.
A total of 72 teams made the NCAA Regionals at four different sites in Bryan, Texas, Stanford, Calif., Shoal Creek, Ala. and Baton Rouge, La. The top six teams from each Regional (54 holes of stroke play) will advance to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. (May 20-25).
The Bruins have not finished worse than sixth in any stroke-play tournament this season, boasting four victories (Nanea Pac-12 Preview, Bruin Wave Invitational, Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic stroke play, PING/ASU Invitational) and a second-place showing at last week's Pac-12 Championships.
Law enters the postseason as the top-ranked collegiate golfer, according to Golfweek, as she has a pair of wins (Stanford Intercollegiate, PING/ASU), two seconds and two T-4's, with a scoring average of 70.7. Vu, ranked fifth by Golfweek, has four Top 10's and a scoring average of 71.8, placing second and T-3 in her last two events. Wu ranked 33rd, has a 73.1 scoring average and a pair of Top 10's, including a T-12 at the Pac-12 Championships. Ridderström posted back-to-back, stroke-play wins at the Bruin Wave and the Liz Murphey and also has four Top 10's, while Libman has played in each of the last two stroke-play tournaments, posting a T-36 at Pac-12's.
The Bruins have advanced out of the NCAA Regionals a school-record, 15-consecutive times, including eight wins (2014, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2005, 2004, 2002). It is the second-straight trip to the Lone Star State for the Bruins in Regional competition after participating in the 2015 San Antonio Regional, where they finished second.
UCLA returns to the scene of its most recent National Championship. The Bruins brought home their third NCAA title at the Traditions Golf Course in 2011.