COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the South Carolina women’s golf team tees off Monday in the Louisville regional, it will do so as the number one overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Carolina won a program best four tournaments this season and did not finish worse than third in any event. One of those third place finishes was in the Gamecock Intercollegiate at the Columbia Country Club. But the team seemed to be quite miffed at its inability to win its own tournament because it would win events in Augusta and Athens to close out the regular season.
Carolina would lose to Alabama in the SEC Tournament quarterfinal match play but head coach Kalen Anderson is confident her team is ready to return to form Monday when it tees off in the Louisville regional.
Sophomore Pauline Roussin-Bouchard is ranked as high as third in the amateur rankings and senior Ana Palaez who just won a U.S. Women’s Open qualifier is as high as seventh.
The rest of the roster is more than capable of holding its own and that gives the coach confidence that her team will play like a number one overall seed next week and beyond.