CARLSBAD, Calif. — Megha Ngannou capped her Stanford profession with a brief par putt because the Cardinal defeated Southern California within the championship sport for the NCAA Girls’s Golf Championship for the third time previously 5 years.
This was Stanford at its finest. They completed 13 photographs higher than the subsequent group, USC, to earn the No. 1 seed for the sixth yr in a row, then crushed each opponent of their path to win their fourth ladies’s golf general championship.
Ngannou had a comparatively simple time within the anchor battle with Bailey Shoemaker, who did not get a birdie via 15 holes at La Costa Resort. Ultimately, Ngannou received 4-3.
Meja Ortengren, who performed her worst golf of the week on Monday when the person title was on the road, bounced again with nice play over the previous two days, defeating Jasmine Koo for sixth and fifth within the shortest of the ultimate three rounds.
Moments later, Paula Martin-Sampedro shut out USC’s Catherine Park on 3-2, and it was solely a matter of time earlier than Stanford obtained the ultimate level.
The one factor Stanford could not do was the motivating purpose of profitable all 5 video games in all three rounds. Stanford defeated Pepperdine 5-0 within the quarterfinals and defeated energetic Japanese Michigan 5-0 within the semifinals.
Stanford received the championship sport 4-1.
If a group wins by three factors, all matches on the course finish with that rating. USC’s Kylie Chong had a one-point lead over Andrea Revuelta on the 18th gap. In different matches, Stanford senior Kelly Hsu led Elise Lee by one via 16 holes.
Stanford by no means trailed on the flip in any of the 5 video games. Ngannou was 4-up towards Shoemaker via 5 holes, whereas Oltengren made 4 bogeys on the entrance 9 to place Kou, who had fallen again, up 5-up on the flip.
“Sadly we obtained off to a gradual begin. You may’t depart that many holes towards a group like this,” USC coach Justin Silverstein stated. “That is a part of the sport. There isn’t any disgrace in dropping to Stanford. They’re pretty much as good a group as I’ve ever seen.”
Stanford, which received the NCAA title by defeating UCLA in 2024, was upset by Northwestern within the championship sport a yr in the past. This group confirmed dedication to by no means let one thing like this occur once more.
“Since final yr, profitable the nationwide championship has been our solely purpose,” Oltengren stated. “Since that day final yr, I’ve been working in the direction of this second every single day.”
The Cardinal’s 4 NCAA titles in ladies’s golf are behind Arizona State’s eight and Duke’s seven. Stanford College, with head coach Ann Walker and elite gamers from around the globe, has received all 4 video games since 2015.
Walker walked the whole leadoff sport towards San Pedro.
“Paula by no means opened the door,” Walker stated. “And from what I heard, all of them did.”
