No. 24 Red Raiders open NCAA Stanford Regional Monday

Monday, May 9

Stanford, Calif.

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NCAA Stanford Regional

No. 24 Red Raiders open NCAA Stanford Regional Monday

May 08, 2022 | Women's Golf

First Round Pairings Live Scoring Regional Central

Texas Tech will be paired with Kentucky and Iowa State when play begins at 10 a.m. CT Monday morning

By: Matt Dowdy

LUBBOCK, Texas – No. 24 Texas Tech will look to move past the regional round for the fourth time in program history starting Monday when the Red Raiders tee off at the Stanford Golf Course in California.

The Red Raiders will be the No. 4 seed in the 12-team NCAA Stanford Regional, which will take the top four teams and two individuals the non-qualifying teams onto the NCAA Championships. The host Cardinal are the top seed in the regional followed by No. 2 USC, No. 3 LSU, No. 5 Kentucky, No. 6 Iowa State, No. 7 Northwestern, No. 8 Purdue, No. 9 UNLV, No. 10 Cal Poly, No. 11 Princeton and No. 12 Sacred Heart.

This will be the 21st all-time regional appearance in program history for the Red Raiders and the 11th under JoJo Robertson, the most for a head coach in program history. Texas Tech has visited the Bay Area twice before for the NCAA Regional round, finishing 13th in both of its trips in 2004 and 2016.

A top-four finish would return the Red Raiders back to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2017 when Texas Tech served as a regional host, finishing fifth overall at The Rawls Course. Texas Tech has made two other trips to the national tournament, which came in 1996 when the Red Raiders closed the NCAA West Regional in ninth place and then again in 2015 with another fifth-place finish at the NCAA San Antonio Regional.

The Red Raiders will need higher than a fifth-place showing this week, however, under a new regional format that debuts this season, featuring six regional sites instead of four from previous years. Out of its 11 stroke play events thus far this season, the Red Raiders have finished among the top-four schools six times with two team titles and two runner-up showings.

Robertson will send a veteran lineup to California as four of Texas Tech's five participants – senior Amy Taylor, juniors Cecilie Nielsen and Anna Dong and sophomore Gala Dumez – all took part in the NCAA Louisville Regional a year ago. The Red Raiders finished tied for eighth at that regional, just shy of the top-six cutline, as Dumez and Taylor both ended in a tie for 19th individually.

Of that group, Dumez is the only Red Raider to have participated in just one career regional as Dong and Nielsen were both in the lineup when the Red Raiders closed the 2019 NCAA Norman Regional in seventh place. Taylor's experience in the postseason, meanwhile, dates back to 2018 when the Red Raiders wrapped the NCAA Austin Regional in 13th place.

Chiara Horder will be the lone Red Raider making her postseason debut this week as the freshman is coming off a 19th-place finish just a few weeks ago at the Big 12 Championships. Fellow freshman Libby Fleming is also with the Red Raiders this week as the first alternate.

The Red Raiders will be paired with Kentucky and Iowa State when Texas Tech tees off at 10 a.m. CT Monday morning from the No. 10 box. Live scoring will be provided throughout the regional at www.Golfstat.com.

NCAA STANFORD REGIONAL INFORMATION
Dates: May 9-11, 2022
Format: Stroke play, 54 holes; 18 holes per day
Tee Times: 10 a.m. CT Monday; TBD Tuesday-Wednesday
Site: Stanford Golf Club (Stanford, Calif.)
Host School: Stanford
Course par and yardage: Par 71, 6,267 yards
Regional Field (Golfstat Ranking): Stanford (1), Southern California (12), LSU (14), Texas Tech (24), Kentucky (25), Iowa State (36), Northwestern (37), Purdue (48), UNLV (51), Cal Poly (68), Princeton (82), Sacred Heart (183).