Old Dominion University golfer Barbara Car will compete in the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship Louisville Regional, according to an April 29 announcement. The regional event will take place at the University of Louisville Golf Club from May 11 to May 13.
Car is among six individuals selected for the Louisville Regional, which features a total of 12 teams and six individual golfers. The top five teams and the lowest-scoring individual not on an advancing team from each of the six regional sites will move on to the national championships, scheduled for May 22-27 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. Texas will host the championship rounds, with final play televised live on GOLF Channel.
The other regional sites this year are Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, Stanford, Tallahassee, and Waco. Teams competing in Louisville include Arkansas (top seed), Auburn, Iowa State, Mississippi, Houston, Virginia Tech, Kansas State, Indiana, College of Charleston, Xavier, Western Kentucky and Murray State. Other individual competitors are Eila Galitsky and Maylis Lamoure from South Carolina; Maria Jose Barragan from BYU; Isabella Johnson from Tennessee; and Sloane Biddle from Belmont.
Car qualified after winning last week’s Sun Belt Conference Championship as an individual medalist with a seven-under-par score of 209. She entered her final round tied for fifth but shot a six-under-par round of 66—the lowest single-round score recorded in Sun Belt Women’s Golf Championship history at Lakewood Golf Club—and earned All-Tournament Team honors by finishing in the top six.
This marks the third time in six years that an Old Dominion Monarchs golfer has played in a regional tournament. Leah Onosato was first to win a conference championship title for Old Dominion women’s golf when she won the Sun Belt title in 2023 before competing at Palm Beach Gardens Regional.
