
No. 4 Gamecocks Begin NCAA Charlottesville Regional Monday
South Carolina Athletics
South Carolina seeking its fifth-straight trip to the NCAA Championship this week at Birdwood Golf Course
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 4 South Carolina begins play at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional on Monday morning as the top seed in the 12-team field. The Gamecocks, the 2025 SEC Champions, will be paired with No. 11 Virginia (host school) and No. 16 Ole Miss the opening 18 holes.
It marks the fifth-straight season SEC Coach of the Year Kalen Anderson’s team has grabbed a top seed at NCAA Regionals. The team is seeking its fifth-straight trip to the NCAA Championship when the third round of stroke play concludes on Wednesday.
Anderson has led the Gamecocks to five NCAA Regional titles in her 18-year tenure, the last coming in 2017 in Columbus, Ohio. The team is making its 26th consecutive NCAA Regional appearance this week at Birdwood Golf Course.
Teams will play 54-holes of stroke play over the course of the next three days with the top-five teams at each of the six regional sites advancing to the NCAA Championship May 16-21 in Carlsbad, Calif. Omni La Costa Resort & Spa will host the National Championship for both the women’s and men’s sides again for the second consecutive year with Texas as the host school.
South Carolina’s trio of First Team All-SEC selections, Louise Rydqvist, Eila Galitsky and Hannah Darling have the top three spots in the lineup this week. Galitsky, a mid-year enrollee, was named SEC Co-Freshman of the Year earlier this week. Second Team All-SEC selection Maylis Lamoure is slotted fourth with gradute Sophia Burnett in the five spot. Sophomore Vairana Heck will serve as the team’s substitute this week as she did at the SEC Championship back in the middle of April.
Birdwood, the home course for UVA, features a par-71 layout with a trio of par-5s on the back nine. Carolina will look to take advantage on the long holes, per usual, with its length off the tee up-and-down the lineup.
Scoreboard powered by Clippd will have live scoring for all six NCAA Regional sites. Living scoring for the Charlottesville Regional can be found here.
2025 NCAA Charlottesville Regional Field
- No. 4 South Carolina*
- No. 11 Virginia
- No. 16 Ole Miss
- No. 21 Florida
- UCLA
- UCF
- College of Charleston*
- NC State
- Brigham Young
- Princeton*
- Richmond*
- Radford*
* – denotes conference champion
2025 NCAA Charlottesville Regional Gamecock Lineup
- Louise Rydqvist
- Eila Galitsky
- Hannah Darling
- Maylis Lamoure
- Sophia Burnett
- Vairana Heck (will serve as team’s substitute)
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