BELLEAIR, Fla. – On a blustery Sunday at Pelican Golf Club, Vanderbilt women’s golf battled to a 9-over 289 to advance to match play at the SEC Championship for the first time since 2022-23. The Commodores will take on top seed Florida in Monday’s quarterfinals.
Senior Lynn Lim and freshman Kathryn Ha led the Dores with 1-over rounds of 71. Ava Merrill carded a 2-over final round to finish 1-under for the tournament and in 12th place individually. Angelina Tolentino fought to a 5-over 75, including a pivotal par save on the 18th. Sara Im came home in 78.
“We sure didn’t make it easy on ourselves today, but it feels good to advance to match play for our first time at Pelican,” head coach Greg Allen said. “The course was set up longer today and some of the hole locations were brutal, but we did enough to sneak in. Hopefully dealing with the pressure today will help us next month in NCAA play.”
Vanderbilt finished tied for seventh in the stroke play portion of the championship and will be the No. 8 seed in the quarterfinals.
“Now we need to shift our mindset a little bit as we head into match play,” Allen said. “Florida is playing really good golf and they are well coached. Anything can happen in match play, and I fully expect our girls to be ready for challenge.”
The Commodores and Gators face off in a best-of-five match format. The quarterfinal pairings are:
| TEE TIME (ET) | VANDERBILT vs. FLORIDA |
| 8 a.m. | Lynn Lim vs. Megan Propeck |
| 8:10 a.m. | Kathryn Ha vs. Katelyn Huber |
| 8:20 a.m. | Angelina Tolentino vs. Siuue Wu |
| 8:30 a.m. | Ava Merrill vs. Elaine Widjaja |
| 8:40 a.m. | Sara Im vs. Paula Francisco |
Vanderbilt and Florida will tee off from the first tee at 8 a.m. ET Monday morning. The winner will advance to Monday afternoon’s semifinals against either Auburn or Ole Miss. Live scoring for the SEC Championship is available on SCOREBOARD. Monday’s semifinal matches will stream on SEC Network+.
