POINT CLEAR, Ala. (4/19/26) – The Arkansas State women’s golf team will tee off Monday in the first round of the Sun Belt Women’s Golf Championship at Lakewood Golf Club.

This is the third season the Sun Belt Women’s Golf Championship is contested at Lakewood. The 54-hole tournament features three rounds of stroke play on the par-72, 6,097-yard course. All rounds of competition begin at 8 a.m. in a split tee formant with seven teams teeing off No. 1 and six teams starting at No. 10. All three rounds will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with live results at Scoreboard.

Following 54 holes of stroke play, the top four teams will advance to match play on Thursday, April 23 with the No. 1 and No. 4 seed beginning at hole No. 1 and the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds teeing off at hole No. 10 at 7:30 a.m. The championship match will follow the conclusion of the semifinal matches.

A-State enters the championship as the No. 11 seed based off national rankings. Three Sun Belt Conference teams are ranked among the top 100 nationally according to the latest Scoreboard National Collegiate Golf Rankings: No. 54 Texas State, No. 69 ULM and No. 94 South Alabama. Coastal Carolina (109), Southern Miss (110), App State (114), James Madison (131), Georgia State (133), Georgia Southern (134), Old Dominion (141), A-State (167), Troy (176) and Marshall (206) round out the rankings.

The Red Wolves, ranked third in scoring average at 296.6, will tee off beginning at 8:45 a.m. Olivia Coit will occupy the No. 1 spot in the lineup with a tee time of 9:21 off No. 10. Morgan Beaulieu is second in the lineup and will tee off at 9:12 a.m. Mackenzie Cloutier, Sofia Bastidas and Anne-Lea Lavoie round out the lineup for the opening round with Ceci Lococo on the trip as an alternate.

The Lakewood Golf 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.