Gators Women’s Golf Team Tees Off At SEC Championship

The No. 24 Florida Gators women’s golf team tee off round one of the SEC Championship tournament on Monday. UF will be paired with Oklahoma and Tennessee as a No. 10 seed, and aim to make the cut to match play after falling short last season.

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Tournament Information

Dates: April 14 – April 18
Location: Pelican Golf Club – Belleair, Fla. 
Host: SEC
Course: Par 70 – 6,254 yards
Format: 54-hole stroke play (three rounds) and Match Play (3 matches)
Live Scoring: Golfstat

The Competition

Ten SEC squads are in the NCAA top-25 rankings, the most of any conference. Here’s the rundown of competition for Florida:

Alabama, No. 2 Arkansas, No. 14 Auburn, No.23 Georgia, Kentucky, No. 11 LSU, Missouri, No. 20 Mississippi State, Oklahoma, No. 18 Ole Miss, No. 4 South Carolina, Tennessee, No. 6 Texas, No. 16 Texas A&M and No. 21 Vanderbilt.

Gators Lineup

1 – Inès Archer 
2 – Paula Francisco
3 – Jessica Guiser
4 – Karoline Tuttle
5 – Addison Klonowski 
Substitute – Elaine Widjaja

Regular Season Performance

Florida finished the regular season with five team titles, capped off with a nine-shot victory at the Chattanooga Classic on March 29. Its the most regular season wins for the program since the 2015-16 season where they won six and went on to win a NCAA Regional title.

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The Gators also had one individual champion. Guiser became just the second UF freshman to earn medalist honors at the Gators Invitational.

Redshirt-freshman Klonowski brought consistency to the lineup, leading in stroke average at 72.2 and finishing top-25 in all eight regular season events. She has 10 rounds under par this season.

Sophomores Archer and Francisco had strong regular seasons, combining for 6 top-10s and 11 top-25s. Francisco had a stroke average of 72.4 and Archer 72.7.

Freshman Widjaja played in seven events with four top-10s, tied for team-best with six top–25s and stroke average of 73.0

Tuttle, a redshirt sophomore, has battled hard to get a spot in the starting five. She missed most last season and most of this year due to injury. However, Tuttle got some playing time in the last few tournaments of the spring season. She scored her lowest collegiate round at the 2025 Gators invitational (70), and is primed for a good performance at the SEC tournament.

 Tournament History

The Orange & Blue have won the SEC Championship nine times in program history. Its most recent victory was in 2017, where the Gators won by 13 strokes.

Florida missed the cut last season, finishing 13th. In 2023, the Gators dropped their quarterfinals match 4-1 vs. Texas A&M, who went on to win the SEC title. In 2022, Gators finished runner-up and made it to finals for the first time since the match play format addition. 

Tee Off

The Gators teed off round one at 9:40 a.m. on Monday. An individual champion will be crowned after 54-holes of stroke play. Eight teams will then advance to match play to determine the team title.