Women's Golf Preview: NCAA Regionals (May 8-10)

Fresno State Women's Golf - Event #11 (Individual Qualifier: Gudrun Bjorgvinsdottir)
Tournament: NCAA Regionals
Format: Stroke play/54 holes (18 each day)
Host: New Mexico
Dates: May 8-10
Golf Course: UNM Championship Course (Par 72, 6,637 yards)
Location: Albuquerque, N.M.
Live Scoring: Golfstat.com
Tournament Central: www.golobos.com

Schedule of Events:
Monday, May 8 – First Round; Tee times begin at 6:30 a.m. PT from No. 1 and No. 10 tees.
Tuesday, May 9 – Second Round; Tee times begin at 6:30 a.m. PT from No. 1 and No. 10 tees.
Wednesday, May 10 – Final Round; Tee times begin at 6:30 a.m. PT from No. 1 and No. 10 tees.
Bjorgvinsdottir will tee off at 7:15 a.m. PT all three days

Albuquerque Regional Teams:
1. No. 1 Stanford
2. No. 6 USC
3. No. 9 Duke (ACC)
4. No. 16 Miami
5. No. 17 Oklahoma State
6. No. 24 N.C. State
7. No. 26 Cal
8. No. 32 Illinois
9. No. 36 Pepperdine
10. No. 40 Washington
11. No. 41 SMU
12. No. 48 Campbell (Big South)
13. No. 49 Denver (Summit)
14. New Mexico State (WAC)
15. Cal Poly (Big West)
16. Sacramento State (Big Sky)
17. Houston Baptist (Southland)
18. Texas Southern (SWAC)
(Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in parenthesis next to the institution)

Albuquerque Regional Individuals:
1. No. 15 Martina Edberg, Cal State-Fullerton
2. Bianca Pagdanganan, Gonzaga
3. Jess Yuen, Missouri
4. Gudrun Bjorgvinsdottir, Fresno State
5. Paige Lee, UC Davis
6. Kristin Le, Santa Clara

How Bjorgvinsdottir can advance (format):
The low six teams and the low three individuals not on those teams will qualify for the NCAA Finals – meaning the three lowest 54-hole scores among the individuals from the teams that place seventh through 18th and the six individual qualifiers will vie for the three individual spots available for the final.

2017 NCAA Women's Golf Championship Sites:
(4) Regionals -- May 8-10:
Albuquerque, N.M., site UNM Championship Course (New Mexico, host)
Athens, Georgia, site University of Georgia Golf Course (Georgia, host)
Columbus, Ohio, site Scarlet Course/OSU Golf Course (Ohio State, host)
Lubbock, Texas, site The Rawls Course (Texas Tech, host)

Finals -- May 19-24:
Sugar Grove, Ill., site Rich Harvest Farms (Northern Illinois, host)

Notes:
• Bjorgvinsdottir is the sixth Bulldog to make an individual appearance in the program's 13-year history and seeks to be the first to make it past regional play; Fresno State has had an individual appearance in four-straight postseasons under fourth-year head coach Emily Loftin.
• Bjorgvinsdottir will tee off her first career NCAA regional on May 8; it will be her first visit to the state of New Mexico.
• Bjorgvinsdottir was named second-team All-Mountain West on April 27, the same day she was selected to the Albuquerque Regional.
• Bjorgvinsdottir, a fourth-year senior, played in nine tournaments (27 rounds) during the 2016-17 season and owned a 73.43 scoring average.

• Bjorgvinsdottir is ranked No. 177 in the Golfstat Individual rankings.
• The 18 teams at the Albuquerque Regional have 22 players ranked in the top-100 and 52 players ranked in the top-250.
• There is one individual participant (No. 15 Martina Edberg) ranked in the top-100 while all six individual participants are top-250 golfers.
• Of the 18 participating teams, six are top 25 teams and 13 of the 18 are top 100 teams – the Bulldogs were ranked No. 70 as a team in the final Golfstat poll (May 2).

• Weather at the Albuquerque Regional on Monday (High 80F, Low 53F) is forecasted to have a zero percent chance of rain and 15-25 mph winds; Tuesday (High 73F, Low 45F) is forecasted to have a 20 percent chance of rain and 20-30 mph winds; Wednesday (High 64F, Low 48F) is forecasted to have a 50 percent chance of rain and 10-20 mph winds.

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Women's Golf Preview: NCAA Regionals (May 8-10)

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