Women's Golf

2026 ACC Women's Golf Championship Set for April 16-19 in Wilmington, North Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The 15 Atlantic Coast Conference women’s golf teams will tee off at the 2026 ACC Women’s Golf Championship on Thursday, April 16, with play continuing through the match-play final on Sunday, April 19, at the Porters Neck Country Club in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Teams will compete in three rounds of stroke play, beginning with 36 holes on Thursday and 18 holes on Friday. The top six teams from stroke play will advance to match play, with the top two receiving byes into the semifinals. The third-place team will face the sixth-place team, while the fourth-place team will square off against the fifth-place team in the first round of match play on Saturday. The winners of those matchups will then take on the first- and second-place squads later that same day at approximately 1:30 p.m. ET. The match-play final is set for Sunday at 9 a.m. ET.

The semifinals and championship match will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra.

Spectators are permitted at the 2026 ACC Women’s Golf Championship. The tournament is not a ticketed event.

ACC Notes
  • In the latest edition of the Mizuno Women’s Golf Coaches Association Coaches Poll released on Friday, April 10, five ACC teams were listed, headlined by Stanford at No. 1. Wake Forest is No. 9, Duke is No. 11, North Carolina is No. 12 and Florida State is No. 16. SMU and Virginia are receiving votes.
  • The ACC has five teams ranked in the top 25 in the most recent spring rankings by Scoreboard powered by Clippd (April 15), highlighted by Stanford at No. 1. Also ranked in the top 25 are Wake Forest (No. 9), Duke (No. 10), North Carolina (No. 12) and Florida State (No. 17). SMU is just outside the top 25 at No. 26.
  • In the most recent Scoreboard powered by Clippd Individual Rankings (April 15), nine ACC players landed in the top 25, including five players in the top 10. The ranking include No. 5 Andrea Revuelta (Stanford), No. 6 Paula Martín Sampedro (Stanford), No. 7 Megha Ganne (Stanford), No. 8 Rianne Malixi (Duke), No. 10 Meja Örtengren (Stanford), No. 15 Macy Pate (Wake Forest), No. 19 Kelly Xu (Stanford), No. 23 Sophia Fullbrook (Florida State) and No. 25 Marie Madsen (NC State).
  • Four ACC players, all from Stanford, are in the top 10 of the latest World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR): No. 2 Paula Martín Sampedro, No. 3 Andrea Revuelta, No. 5 Meja Örtengren and No. 7 Megha Ganne. Within the top 25 is No. 14 Rianne Malixi (Duke), No. 20 Kelly Xu (Stanford) and No. 21 Marie Madsen (NC State).
  • Four ACC players finished in the top 20 of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur two weeks ago, headlined by Stanford’s Andrea Revuelta who finished as the runner-up. Stanford teammates Meja Örtengren tied for fourth, while Paula Martín Sampedro placed ninth and Wake Forest’s Chloe Kovelesky tied for 17th. A total of 16 current and former players from the ACC played in this year’s event.
  • Throughout the 2025-26 season, ACC teams compiled 26 team titles, led by Stanford with five championships on the year.
  • Individually, ACC players combined to win 23 medalist honors this season, as NC State’s Marie Madsen led the way with three individual titles in 2025-26.
  • A total of seven ACC players were named to the 2026 Annika Award Spring Watch List: Megha Ganne (Stanford), Marie Madsen (NC State), Meja Örtengren (Stanford), Macy Pate (Wake Forest), Andrea Revuelta (Stanford), Paula Martín Sampedro (Stanford) and Kelly Xu (Stanford).
  • Last season, Florida State won the 2025 ACC Women’s Golf Championship by defeating Wake Forest, 3-2, in the match play final at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. The ACC title was the first in program history.
  • A total of 12 ACC women’s golf teams earned bids to the 2025 NCAA Regionals, tying for the most selections among all conferences and setting a new league record.
  • After three ACC teams (Stanford, Florida State and Virginia) advanced to match play at the 2025 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, Stanford reached the national final but fell to Northwestern, 3-2.

2026 ACC Women’s Golf Championship Seeds (Scoreboard Rankings as of April 8)
  • Seed 1: Stanford (1)
  • Seed 2: Wake Forest (9)
  • Seed 3: Duke (11)
  • Seed 4: North Carolina (12)
  • Seed 5: Florida State (17)
  • Seed 6: SMU (25)
  • Seed 7: Virginia (33)
  • Seed 8: Virginia Tech (40)
  • Seed 9: California (44)
  • Seed 10: Clemson (46)
  • Seed 11: NC State (47)
  • Seed 12: Boston College (64)
  • Seed 13: Miami (73)
  • Seed 14: Louisville (74)
  • Seed 15: Notre Dame (87)
Based on seeding, please see below first-round pairings and tee times for each team:
  • Hole 1 (10-minute intervals)
    • 7:30 – 8:10 a.m.:  #1 Stanford, #2 Wake Forest, #3 Duke
    • 8:20 – 9:00 a.m.:  #7 Virginia, #8 Virginia Tech, #9 Cal
    • 9:10 – 9:50 a.m.: #10 Clemson, #11 NC State, #12 Boston College
       
  • Hole 10 (11-minute intervals)
    • 7:45 – 8:29 a.m.: #4 North Carolina, #5 Florida St., #6 SMU
    • 8:40 – 9:24 a.m.:  #13 Miami, #14 Louisville, and #15 Notre Dame
2026 ACC Women’s Golf Championship on ACCNX
The semifinals and finals of the 2026 ACC Women’s Golf Championship match play will air live on ACC Network Extra. Ryan Burr (play-by-play) and Julia Johnson (analyst) will provide the call. A championship recap show will air May 10 at 1 p.m. ET on ACCN. Owned and operated by ESPN in partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC Network (ACCN) and its digital platform ACCNX is a 24/7 national network dedicated to ACC sports that launched on August 22, 2019.