IRVING, Texas – For a third consecutive year, the American Athletic Conference Women’s Golf Championship is headed to Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville, Florida. The American Women’s Golf Championship is scheduled for April 14-16 with teams playing three 18-hole rounds., with live coverage of the third and final round to air on ESPN+ at noon ET/11 a.m. CT.
Split tee times will begin on April 14 between 8-8:40 a.m. (ET) off the first tee with No. 1 East Carolina, No. 2 Tulsa and No. 3 seed North Texas, while No. 7 seed South Florida and No. 8 seed Memphis will tee off on hole ten. Players from No. 4 seed Charlotte, No. 5 seed UTSA and No. 6 seed Tulane will head out from 8:50-9:30 a.m. off hole one, while No. 9 seed Florida Atlantic, No. 10 seed UAB and No. 11 seed Wichita State will begin on the 10th tee. The field will be re-paired for both day two and day three based on the previous round’s scoring, with split tee times off holes one and ten.
NEW CHAMPION TO BE CROWNED
A new champion is guaranteed to be crowned at the 2025 American Women’s Golf Championship as the 11 member institutions vie for the title. Tulane and Tulsa are the lone returning members to have won an American Golf Championship with the Green Wave winning in 2022 and the Golden Hurricane taking home the prize in 2021.
Tulsa finished two strokes out of first place a season ago, shooting 845 (-19) over the three days, while South Florida was seven strokes back of first place. Tulsa and Tulane can become just the fourth school to win multiple American Golf Championships, joining UCF (2015, 2017), Houston (2016, 2018, 2019) and SMU (2023, 24).
AMERICAN WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS SOUTHERN HILLS
For a third consecutive season, the American Women’s Golf Championship will be contested at the Southern Hills Plantation Golf Club in Brooksville, Florida. The course will play at a par-72 and measure approximately 6,289 yards for the weekend.
Southern Hills was designed by renowned golf course architect Pete Dye and opened for play in 2006. The club has hosted both PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour qualifying school tournaments and will serve as the 2024 Monday qualifier site for the PGA TOUR’s Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor.
WHERE TEAMS FROM THE AMERICAN STAND IN THE LATEST CLIPPD RANKINGS
East Carolina enters the 2025 American Women’s Golf Championship slotted 61st in the latest Clippd team rankings from April 9 to pace the conference. Tulsa (64), North Texas (67), Charlotte (8) and UTSA (94) are also ranked in the Top 100. Charlotte’s freshman Pinky Chaisilprungruang is the top ranked individual player from The American according to Clippd, checking in at 47th in the April 9 rankings.
