Bulls are making their second straight NCAA Regional appearance.
Tournament: NCAA Bermuda Run Regional
Schedule/Dates: May 6-8
Location: Bermuda Run, N.C.
Course: Bermuda Run Country Club – Bermuda Run East
Follow: Live scoringvia Golfstat| Twitter @USFWGolf
TAMPA, FLA., May 3, 2024 – The USF women’s golf team will compete in the NCAA Bermuda Run Regional in Bermuda Run, N.C., the Bulls are making their 16th NCAA Regional appearance. USF was assigned the sixth seed and will begin play Monday May 6 at 8:00 a.m. (ET) off the 10th tee.
The 34th-ranked Bulls are playing in back-to-back NCAA Regionals for the first time since 2001-02. USF has advanced to the championship round four times in its history, finishing in the Top 10 all four times, with a school-best fourth-place finish in 1991.
The three-day 54-hole tournament begins Monday, May 6, and will be played on the par 72, 6,297-yard Bermuda Run Country Club – Bermuda Run East in Bermuda Run, N.C.
The Bulls will compete in a 12-team field that includes No. 1 seed and host Wake Forest (ranked No. 3 nationally), No. 2 Texas, No. 3 Ole Miss, No. 4 Mississippi State, No. 5 UCF, No. 6 South Florida, No. 7 Tennessee, No. 8 Oregon State, No. 9 North Texas, No. 10 Delaware, No. 11 Charleston Southern, and No. 12 Navy.
Tee times will begin on Monday, May 6 at 8:00 a.m. (ET) off the first and 10th tees. The players will be re-paired for the second and third rounds based on the previous round’s scoring. The tee times for the second round on Tuesday, May 7, and Wednesday, May 8 will also start at 8:00 am (ET) on the first and 10th tees.
In the record-setting 2023-24 season, the Bulls won three times and finished in the top four in nine of 10 events. The three wins are the most in a season since four 2011-12. USF finished third in the American Athletic Conference Championship, which equals the best finish in the tournament in program history.
The Bulls set program records, including low round 271 (-17), low 54-hole total 836 (-28), while matching the program record for 36-hole score (565) in the Westbrook Invitational. USF’s previous 54-hole record was 852 set last season.
In addition, at the FAU Paradise Invitational, the team won, and senior Melanie Green won the individual title, the first time since the 2020 Old Friends Invitational that the team won, and a player captured the individual title when Erika Smith was the individual winner.
The Bulls are led by senior Melanie Green, the AAC Women’s Golf Player of the Year. Green, ranked 20th nationally, has been selected to represent Team USA the 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup and competed in the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
Green has two wins on the season, at the Mountainview Collegiate and the FAU Paradise Invitational, and three in her career at USF. This season, she has finished in the top 10 in nine of the 10 tournaments and in the top four in eight events. She has shot par or better in 29 of 30 rounds. Green tied her career-best and program record round of 64 (-8) in the final round at the Westbrook Invitational and has earned AAC Women’s Golfer of the Week three times in the Spring. Green was named the AAC Women’s Golfer of the Month for September and October.
Joining the charge for the Bulls are senior Alizee Vidal, who posted her first top five and third top 10 finish of the season at the Chattanooga Classic, graduate transfer Alyssa Montgomery, who carded her lowest round as a Bull, a 68 (-4) in the final round to help the Bulls close out the win at the Mountain View Classic, freshman Emma Falcher who posted three top 10 finishes in her first season as a Bull, which included a ninth-place finish in the AAC Championship, and junior Leonor Medeiros, who has three top 10 finishes this season.
The Bulls
Head coach Erika Brennan has announced the following lineup for USF:
- Melanie Green (Sr./Medina, N.Y)
- Alizee Vidal (Jr./Le Gosier, France)
- Alyssa Montgomery (Gr./Knoxville, Ten.)
- Emma Falcher (Fr./ Fousenant, France)
- Leonor Medeiros (Jr./Palmela, Portugal)
Sub: Juliana Camargo (Jr./Bogota, Columbia)
Quoting Head Coach Erika Brennan
“Getting back to the post-season this year is awesome, and the team is hungry to advance to Nationals. Managing expectations will be key. This tournament is different – there aren’t really any bonus points for winning you just need to finish in the Top-5 so swinging at it freely with aggressive swings to conservative targets will be important. The team is in a great place and we are encouraged with the caliber of performances at practices as we gear up.”
About USF Women’s Golf
The 2023-24 campaign is the Bulls’ sixth full season under head coach Erika Brennan. South Florida is among the fastest-rising programs in the country, as they climbed 75 spots in the national Golfstat rankings following Brennan’s first season in 2018-19. The Bulls have earned two NCAA Regional bids, in 2022-23 and 2023-24, and have captured six tournament titles under Brennan, while setting numerous program scoring records under her leadership. Senior standout Melanie Green, the AAC Conference Player of the Year in 2023-24, has been an all-conference performer in each of her first four seasons, qualified for the 2022 NCAA Regional as an individual and was named a 2023 All-American Honorable Mention. Green and the Bulls reached the NCAA Regional as a team in 2023, marking the program’s first postseason appearance in 11 years. Follow @USFWGolf on Twitter for the latest information concerning the program.
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