Emma Talley wins NCAA Women's Medal Championship

5/25/2015 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff

Emma Talley

While Alabama's Emma Talley captured the medal play, the top-eight teams, including Duke and USC, advanced to match play

(Live match play scoring can be found at the link at the bottom of this article) BRADENTON, Fla. — Alabama junior Emma Talley, the 2013 U.S. Women's Amateur champion, won the NCAA Women's Medal Championship on Monday, shooting 69 in the final round to edge Gaby Lopez of Arkansas and Leona Maguire of Duke by a stroke. Though her Crimson Tide team didn't make it to the match play portion of the tournament, which begins Tuesday at The Concession Golf Club, the stroke play victory for Talley is quite a feat. Each year, the women's national championship is one of, if not the most elite stroke play tournament in women's amateur golf. Talley entered the fourth round with the lead, and was almost caught by both Lopez and Maguire. Lopez, a junior from Mexico City, fired 66 on Monday while Maguire, a freshman from Ireland, posted 68 as both players finished just one shot back of Talley. Meanwhile, the eight teams qualifying for match play are the No. 1 seed USC Trojans, followed by Duke, Baylor, Stanford, Arizona, Tennessee, Texas Tech, and Washington. The first match kicking off Tuesday morning will be Duke's Maguire facing off with Texas Tech's Sarah Brown.

Results: NCAA Division I Women's Championship

Place	Player	Location	Pts	Scores
1	Emma Talley	Princeton, KY	1500	70-73-73-69=285
T2	Gaby Lopez	, Mexico	1000	70-76-74-66=286
T2	Leona Maguire	, Ireland	1000	71-74-73-68=286
4	Dylan Kim	Sachse, TX	700	73-76-72-67=288
5	Monica Vaughn	Reedsport, OR	700	75-71-71-72=289

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About the NCAA Division I Women's Championship

30 teams and 6 individuals not on a qualifying team make up the field for the championship of NCAA Division I women's golf. After 72 holes of stroke play, the individual champion is crowned, and the low 8 teams advance to match play to determine the ...

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