Women's Golf . February 3, 2026

No. 18 Gamecocks Finish Strong at Therese Hession Regional Challenge

South Carolina Athletics

Carolina shot 279 (-5) in Tuesday's final round to push four spots up the leaderboard ; Heck shoots 68 (-3) in round three to earn first top-10 finish of season

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. – No. 18 South Carolina charged up the leaderboard in the final round of the Therese Hession Regional Challenge on Tuesday to finish T-6^th with No. 2 Southern Cal in a strong 16-team field. The Gamecocks shot 279 (-5) in round three with a trio of players shooting under par.

Nine ranked teams from the Clippd Top-25 competed this week with five ranked inside the top-10. Carolina picked up head-to-head victories over No. 9 Pepperdine and No. 13 Arizona State.

Junior Vairana Heck and sophomore All-American Eila Galitsky each shot 68 (-3) to lead the way. Freshman Laura Nepper shot 70 (-5). Heck and Galitsky each made six birdies. Nepper had five red numbers on her scorecard. The trio all jumped 15 spots or more on the leaderboard with their standout play today in the final 18-holes of the prestigious event.

Heck shot 1-over for the tournament as she finished T-9^th for her first top-10 of the season (third career). Galitsky finished T-23^rd at 5-over while Nepper and fellow freshman Molly McLean finished T-32^nd at 7-over.

Junior Maylis Lamoure finished T-59^th at 12-over and senior Mia Sandtorv Lussand, who competed as an individual this week in her season debut, finished T-77^th at 18-over.

2026 Therese Hession Regional Challenge Gamecock Leaderboard
T9. Vairana Heck – 214 (+1)
T23. Eila Galitsky – 218 (+5)
T32. Laura Nepper – 220 (+7)
T32. Molly McLean – 220 (+7)
T59. Maylis Lamoure – 225 (+12)
T77. Mia Sandtorv Lussand* – 231 (+18)

* – competed as an indy

2026 Therese Hession Regional Challenge Final Leaderboard
1. No. 23 UCLA – 844 (-8)
2. No. 11 Texas – 855 (+3)
3. No. 7 Texas A&M – 861 (+9)
4. No. 6 Florida – 864 (+12)
5. No. 3 Oregon – 865 (+13)
T6. No. 18 South Carolina – 869 (+17)
T6. No. 2 Southern Cal – 869 (+17)
8. SMU – 873 (+21)
T9. No. 9 Pepperdine – 876 (+24)
T9. Kansas – 876 (+24)
11. No. 13 Arizona State – 877 (+25)
12. Ohio State – 884 (+32)
13. San Jose State – 889 (+37)
14. UNLV – 891 (+39)
15. Miami – 904 (+52)
16. Cal – 907 (+55)