IRVING, Texas – For the first time in tournament history, the American Athletic Conference Women’s Golf Championship is headed to Southern Hills in Brookesville, Florida. The American Women’s Golf Championship is scheduled for April 17-19 with teams playing three 18-hole rounds., with live coverage of the third and final round expected to air on ESPN+.
 
Tee times will begin on April 17 between 8-8:34 a.m. (ET) off the first tee with No. 1 seed UCF and No. 2 seed SMU starting things off. Players from No. 3 seed Tulsa and No. 4 seed Houston will head out from 8:42-9:16 a.m., followed immediately by No. 5 seed South Florida and No. 6 seed and defending championship Tulane at 9:25-9:59 a.m. No. 7 seed Memphis and No. 8 seed East Carolina are set to take the course between 10:07-10:41 a.m., and No. 9 seed Cincinnati and No. 10 seed Wichita State round out the entries with tee times from 10:50-11:24 a.m. The field will be re-paired for both day two and day three based on the previous round’s scoring, with split tee times off numbers one and 10 awaiting the round three pairings.
 
TULANE LOOKING TO JOIN HOUSTON AS REPEAT AMERICAN CHAMPION
Over the first eight American Women’s Golf Championship tournaments only Houston has managed to defend the team title, repeating as the conference champion in both 2018 and 2019. Entering the 2023 conference tournament Tulane will look to join the Cougars with a repeat victory at Southern Hills.
 
The Green Wave secured a five-shot victory over Houston last season to bring home the championship trophy. Tulane returns all three members of the American All-Conference team from a season ago in sophomore Carla Bernat (tied for 7^th in 2022), junior Daozeng Liu (tied for 4^th in 2022) and senior Sandra Vazquez (3^rd in 2022).
 
HOUSTON LOOKS TO RETURN TO WINNERS CIRCLE
Following back-to-back championship in 2018 and 2019, Houston has finished as runners-up in two straight seasons. They will look to change that trend at the 2023 American Women’s Golf Championship. The Cougars enter the championship ranked 37^th in the NCAA with four players ranked in the Golfstat Top 250 golfers – freshman Moa Svedenskiold (93), freshman Natali Saint Germain (157), junior Nicole Abelar (202) and senior Annie Kim (248).

AMERICAN WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP DEBUTS AT SOUTHERN HILLS
For the first time in tournament history, the American Women’s Golf Championship will be contested at the Southern Hills Plantation Golf Club in Brooksville, Florida. The course will play at a par-72 and measure approximately 6,289 yards for the weekend.
 
Southern Hills was designed by renowned golf course architect Pete Dye and opened for play in 2006. The club has hosted both PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour qualifying school tournaments and will serve as the 2023 Monday qualifier site for the PGA TOUR’s Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor.
 
WHERE TEAMS FROM THE AMERICAN STAND IN THE LATEST GOLFSTAT RANKINGS
UCF enters the 2023 American Women’s Golf Championship slotted 20th in the latest Golfstat team rankings from April 12 to pace the conference. Tulsa (36), Houston (37), South Florida (56) and Tulane (60) are also ranked in the team top 100.
 
Tulane’s Carla Bernat is the top ranked individual player from The American according to Golfstat, checking in at 8th in the April 12 rankings. Nine other golfers are ranked in the Top 100 – SMU’s Mackenzie Lee (37), South Florida’s Melanie Green (40), UCF’s Tunrada Piddon (67), Tulsa’s Lilly Thomas (86), UCF’s Anna Nordfors (88), UCF’s Pimpisa Sisutham (92), Houston’s Moa Svedenskiold (93), SMU’s Ellie Szeryk (95) and SMU’s Michaelle Zhang (98).