Escobar Tees Off National Championships Friday

Friday, May 20

Scottsdale, Ariz. / Grayhawk Golf Club

4:31 PM (18 holes)

Florida Gators

NCAA National Championships

Marina Escobar is the No. 7 seed in the National Championship and will be paired with Camryn Carreon (UTSA) and Leila Raines (Michigan State).

Escobar Tees Off National Championships Friday

Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Women's Golf

Live Scoring

Marina Escobar will tee off round one at 4:31 p.m. ET at Grayhawk Golf Club.

By: Matthew Hutchison

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Dates: Friday, May 20 - Monday, May 23
Location: Grayhawk Golf Club
Host: NCAA / Arizona State University
Course Par/Yardage: Par 72 - 6,383 yards
Format: 72 holes - one cut after 54 holes on Sunday
Tee Times: 4:31 p.m. ET on Friday and TBA other days
Live Scoring: Golf Stat
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TEE OFF
Marina Escobar begins play at the 2022 National Championships on Monday by teeing off on hole 10 at 4:31 p.m. ET at Grayhawk Golf Club.

FORMAT
The championship format in Scottsdale will include 24 teams and 12 individuals completing 54 holes of stroke play, and then the top 15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team competing for one additional day of stroke play to determine the top eight teams for match play competition and the 72-hole stroke play individual champion.

TOURNAMENT HISTORY
Escobar becomes the second individual to clinch a spot in the finals as Karolina Vickaova was the first in 2015, the inaugural year the top individuals in regional play qualified for the national championship as match play was added to the format.

Florida has had one individual national champion, which came in 1986 by Gator Great Page Dunlap as the Gators also won their second straight National Championship that year. There also have been three runner-up performances by UF as well - Sierra Brooks (2019), Andrea VanderLende (2003) and Deb Richard (1985).

Notes on Escobar

Played in all 33 rounds and 11 tournaments
Second on the team in stroke average (72.4) and under-par rounds (13), top-25 finishes (8)
Third on the team in tournaments under-par (3) and rounds in the 60s (6)
Recorded career-low 54-hole score with a 211 (-5) in spring opener at the FAU Paradise Invitational for one of two Florida team titles
Had two consecutive birdies on 15 and 16 with a great put on 18 to help UF win the 2022 VyStar Gators Invitational for the seventh straight season
Ranked 60th by Golstat and 76th by Golfweek

INDIVIDUALS

Seed	Player	School
No.1	Chiara Tamburlini	Ole Miss
No. 2	Letizia Bagnoli	FAU
No. 3	Anna Morgan	Furman
No. 4	Emily Mahar	Virginia Tech
No. 5	Taglao Jeeravivitaporn	Iowa State
No. 6	Jana Melichova	Old Dominion
No. 7	Marin Escobar	Florida
No. 8	Camryn Carreon	UTSA
No. 9	Leila Raines	Michigan State
No. 10	Natalia Yoko	Augusta
No. 11	Ruby Chou	Iowa State
No. 12	Viera Permata Rosada	Sam Houstson State