No. 4 Gators finish regular season at Clemson Invitational

Friday, March 27

Sunset, S.C. / The Reserve at Lake Keowee

10 a.m. (18 holes)

Florida Gators

Clemson Invitational

Katelyn Huber tees off during the 2026 Gators Invitational.

No. 4 Gators finish regular season at Clemson Invitational

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | Women's Golf

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Action begins on Friday, March 27 at The Reserve at Lake Keowee.

By: Matthew Hutchison

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Dates: Friday, March 27 - Sunday, March 29
Location: The Reserve At Lake Keowee - Sunset, S.C.
Host: Clemson University
Course Par/Yardage: Par 72 / 6,386 yards
Format: 18 holes each day
Tee Times: 10 a.m. on Friday and 9-10:40 a.m. on Saturday and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday
Live Scoring: Clippd
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LINEUP
No. 1 - Paula Francisco
No. 2 - Siuue Wu
No. 3 - Megan Propeck
No. 4 - Katelyn Huber
No. 5 - Elaine Widjaja
Individual - Addison Klonowski

TEE OFF
The No. 4 Florida women's golf team concludes the 2025-26 regular season at the Clemson Invitational this weekend.

TOURNAMENT HISTORY
The Gators will participate in the event for the fourth in program history and first since 2022. Florida won the inaugural event in 2016 and followed up with a third-place finish the next season.

THE FIELD
No. 8 Arkansas, Charleston, Clemson, No. 4 Florida, Kent State, LSU, Maryland, Miami, Michigan State, No. 20 Tennessee, Ohio State, No. 18 Ole Miss, Princeton, UNC-Wilmington, No. 15 Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech.

LAST TIME OUT
Florida rewrote the record book en route to sweeping the Gators Invitational with Paula Francisco winning her first collegiate individual title.

Florida went wire-to-wire and won the 54th Gators Invitational by 18 strokes while shooting a program-record 820 (-20) 54-hole tournament score and beating the previous record by 15 shots. In the opening round, the Gators reset the tournament low round record by score with a 271 (-9), three shots better than the previous record.

After tying the 54-hole tournament record (202) in the spring opener, Francisco broke the 10-year program record with a final score of 200 (-10) to capture her first collegiate win. In round two, she tied for the second-lowest round in program history with a 65 (-5). The junior closed with a final round of 67 (-3) to win by five shots. The weekend performance boosted new career-bests in round, tournament score and finish as she owned two runner-up finishes. Francisco has spring outings of 2-T15-T20-1.

Florida's victory is the is the 28th all-time in the 54th playing of the Gators Invitational, which started in 1973 as Francisco is the 12th UF golfer to claim medalist honors at the home tournament. The Gator sweep is the 11th occurrence all-time and in back-to-back seasons for first time since 2007-08 and just the fourth time overall. Additionally, the Gators have won 10 of the last 11 Gators Invitationals dating back to 2016.

The tournament title is the fourth this season and 40th all-time under head coach Emily Glaser; 41st total as she was an assistant coach for a season in 2011-12. It is the third straight season with three-plus single-season wins and back-to-back with four-plus victories. This is the fourth season under Glaser of four-plus tournament titles in a season and the 11th in program history.

Since the 2023-24 season, the Gators have won 12 tournaments and posted 26 top-5 and 19 to-3 outings across 31 tournaments.

The victory by both the men and women's teams at the Gators Invitationals in the same season is the 16th time in program history, including back-to-back seasons and the sixth time in the last seven seasons.

PROPECK TO AUGUSTA
Megan Propeck earned the prestigious honor of playing in this year's Augusta National Women's Amateur.

Propeck will make her first appearance in the annual event that was created in part by UF alum and current Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley, who announced the commencement of the ANWA in 2018 with the inaugural event beginning in 2019..

Creating the only event played by women on the prestigious course and home of The Masters. The event features the top-72 amateurs and was established to inspire greater interest and participation in the women's game by creating a new, exciting and rewarding pathway for these players to fulfill their dreams.

Beginning the week prior to the 90th Masters Tournament, the international field will compete across 54 holes of stroke play, with a cut to 30 players taking place after 36 holes. The first two rounds will take place on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Club on Wednesday, April 1 and Thursday, April 2. The entire field will then play Augusta National for an official practice round on Friday, April 3. The final round will take place at Augusta National on Saturday, April 4 and will feature the competitors who made the cut.

FALL RECAP
Florida closed the fall with back-to-back wins at the OU Intercollegiate and The Ally while finishing 3rd and runner-up in the other two fall outings. Florida's win in the fall finale at The Ally was its third straight at the event and marked the 11th win and 21st top-3 outing since the 2022-23 season. The tournament title was also the 38th all-time under head coach Emily Glaser; 39th total as she was an assistant coach for a season in 2011-12. It is the third straight season with multiple wins and nine overall under Glaser in 14 seasons.

Individually, transfer  Megan Propeck won her first collegiate event at the OU Intercollegiate by four shots and final round of 67 (-3). She leads the team in stroke average (71.4), top-10s (3), top-25s (4), and under par tournaments (3).

THE SILENT ASSASSIN
Playing in first collegiate season,  Addison Klonowski was key factor in the Gators' success last season.

Klonowski had the top finish (T24, -2) by a Gator freshman at the National Championship in 20 years. The redshirt-freshman joined the Gators in the spring of last season and redshirted before becoming a mainstay in the lineup in her first season of collegiate golf en route to earning SEC All-Freshman Team honors. Klonowski also secured both match-clinching points in the SEC Championship Quarterfinals (3&2 vs. LSU) and Semifinals (1Up vs. Arkansas). She was in the lineup for all 12 tournaments, including the No. 1 spot on three occasions and led the lineup in top-25 finishes (10) and under par rounds (13).

Off the course, she earned Academic All-American honors.

NEW FACES IN THE ORANGE & BLUE
The Gators welcomed a pair of new golfers this season in All-American Graduate transfer  Megan Propeck (Leawood, Kan.) from Virginia and Gainesville native  Katelyn Huber (P.K. Yonge HS), who both are in the lineup this week.

Florida also welcomed the 2024 Florida State Amateur Champion & Junior Player of the Year in Sophia Dyer (Shorecrest Preparatory) this spring. She is a legacy Gator, brother Blake (2016-20) and dad Kevin (1984-88) were members of the men's golf program

NO MORE BABY GATORS
After rolling out a lineup of all underclassmen, the Gators are an experience team as the group finished won five tournaments, qualified for the NCAA National Championship for the first time in 2019 and finished runner-up at the SEC Championship. All five from the National Championship lineup return, headlined by  Paula Francisco, who was tabbed a preseason All-American by Golf Channel.

The young Gators also collected some preseason recognition by being ranked No. 10 via Golf Channel and No. 12 via Golfweek and WGCA Coach's Poll.

A SEASON AGO
Last season a young Gators squad laid the ground work behind five tournament victories, a runner-up finish at the SEC Championship, T3 at NCAA Regionals and advancing to the NCAA National Championships for the first time since 2019, and finished 17th. Additionally, Florida was the only team in the field of 30 teams at NCAAs, to play an all underclassmen lineup each round and travel a fully freshman-sophomore group.

Individually, freshman  Jessica Guiser won the Gators Invitational becoming the second UF freshman to earn medalist honors at the 53rd Gators Invitational while head coach Emily Glaser was tabbed to the WGCA National Coach of the Year Watch List.

Closing out the successful season on a strong note and momentum into next season, redshirt-freshman  Addison Klonowski finished T24 with a final round of 2-under for the best finish by a UF freshman golfer at the NCAA National Championships since Tiffany Chuddy (T16) in 2005.

The Gators qualified for the National Championships for the first time since 2019 behind sophomore  Paula Francisco's runner-up finish with a 54-hole score of 4-under 209 at the Charlottesville Regional, as she was just one shot behind medalist honors. Francisco led through the first two rounds and opened her second start in regionals with a career-low 4-under 67, her second of the postseason after the same mark in round one of the SEC Championship. She was tied for a tournament-best this week with 12 birdies and one eagle. The finish is the best by a Gator at an NCAA Regional since 2017 when Kelly Grassel won medalist honors in Columbus.

Florida had a final team round of 293 (+9) for a three-round score of 864 (+12) to finish tied for 3rd with host Virginia and earn a trip to the final tournament of the season behind an all underclassmen lineup of three sophomores and two freshmen while overcoming some heart breakers at regionals over the last four years, including missing by a shot in back-to-back seasons (2021 & 2022) and leading at the turn last year.

At the SEC Championship, led by a lineup of all underclassmen (three sophomores & two freshmen). The Gators reached the match play finals for the second time in program history since the format was added in 2018 after defeating the No. 2 seed LSU Tigers 5-0 and the No. 6 seed and No. 2 ranked Arkansas Razorbacks 3-2. UF was edged in the finals 3.5-1.5 to the No. 1 seed and veteran (two seniors & graduate student) South Carolina Gamecocks.

All five in the lineup had key moments in the conference tournament as  Addison Klonowski highlighted her first appearance with two match-clinching point victories in the quarterfinals and semifinals while firing a final stroke play round of 3-under 67 to help UF advance to match play.  Paula Francisco placed T11 in stroke play and went 2-0-1 in match play with two big putts on the 18th, one to clinch a point in the semifinals and another to keep Florida's SEC title hopes alive in the finals.

Florida defended home turf and swept the 53rd Gators Invitational, winning the event for the 27th time in program history in the tournament's 53rd occurrence, dating back to 1973. The Gators won the tournament for the ninth time in the last 10 seasons. Six UF golfers finished in top-23 led by Guiser's first collegiate victory at 4-under 206. The last time Florida swept both the team and individual titles at the home tournament was in 2021. The win by Guiser marks the second Florida freshman to win the Gators Invitational in program history joining RikoHigashio (1996), becoming the 11th UF golfer to earn medalist honors at the home tournament and just fourth underclassmen: Annabell Fuller (2021) and Sandral Gal (2006).

In the fall portion of the season, Florida closed out the first leg of the season with back-to-back victories, including defending its team title at The Ally. The Gators shot a final round of 6-under to end 15-under for a six-shot victory over host Mississippi State.

THE TURN
UF opens up postseason play at the SEC Championship in Belleair, Fla. at Pelican Golf Club from April 17-21. Last year, the Gators finished runner-up, their best finish since 2022.

Following the conference tournament, the Gators will learn their regional assignment on Apirl 29 at 5 p.m. on Golf Channel. NCAA Regionals are slated fro May 11-13 at six predetermined locations:

Ann Arbor, Michigan | University of Michigan Golf Course (University of Michigan, host).
Chapel Hill, North Carolina | UNC Finley GolfCourse (University of North Carolina, host).
Simpsonville, Kentucky | University of Louisville Golf Club (University of Louisville, host).
Stanford, California | Stanford Golf Course (Stanford University, host).
Tallahassee, Florida | Seminole Legacy Gold Club (Florida State University, host).
Waco, Texas | Ridgewood Country Club (Baylor University, host).