POINT CLEAR, Ala. – The Sun Belt Conference Women's Golf Championship tournament begins Monday and runs through Thursday at The Lakewood Golf Club in Point Clear, Ala.
The stroke-play portion of the event is 18 holes on Monday through Wednesday, with the top four teams advancing to the match play portion. Those semifinals and finals are Thursday.
Live scoring will be available via Clippd, and ESPN+ coverage of stroke play begins each day at 11 a.m.
The 13-team field includes five schools with a first-place team finish this year and three more with a runner-up finish. App State took second in three different spring tournaments with fields of 12-plus teams and has a 95-34-3 record this year counting teams it has beaten, finished behind and tied in tournament play.
App State's five-player lineup for second-year head coach
Chan Metts will consist of
Zoe Duval,
Alisa Pressley,
Ona Lukes,
Salem Lee and
Maria Pinedo. Lukes and Lee are returners who competed at the Sun Belt Championship tournament last year. Duval and Pressley are true freshmen, while Pinedo transferred to App State.
Duval has two individual tournament victories this season and enters the tournament with the fifth-best scoring average in the conference at 73.27.
App State has a team scoring average of 298.8 per round, with the teams ranking fourth through eighth all bunched together in a tight group between 297.4 and 298.8.
The Lakewood Club, a member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, had its beginnings in 1944. Perry Maxwell, designer of the Tulsa Southern Hills Country Club, created Lakewood's original Dogwood course in 1947, making it the first professional quality golf course in south Alabama. Lakewood Golf Club hosted the 1974, 1986 and 2021 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur Championship.
For complete championship coverage, visit the
Sun Belt Women's Golf Championship Central page.
The 2026 spring season is presented by Hound Ears Club.