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Sooners Cut as Barber Advances to Final Round of NCAA Championships
May 18, 2025 | Women's Golf
CARLSBAD, Calif. – Oklahoma junior Savannah Barber advanced to the fourth and final round of the NCAA Championships on Sunday, as the Sooner is tied for 28th and will be one of nine individuals on a non-advancing team to compete Monday at Omni La Costa's North Course in Carlsbad, Calif.
The Sooners (T21, +32) saw their season come to an end as a team, missing the 54-hole cut in their first national championship appearance since 2018.
Barber (T28, +2) fired the best round of any Sooner at the championships, carding a 3-under 69 in Sunday's third round. The Fort Worth, Texas, product started on the 10th hole and made the turn at 2-under behind a pair of birdies over her first nine. A bogey on No. 1 (her 10th hole) was offset by three more birdies on the back side, as she posted a 69 and jumped 39 spots on the leaderboard – the fourth-largest leap among individuals advancing to Monday. Barber will look to continue her climb and break into the top 20, which would make her the fifth Sooner since 2000 to earn a top-20 finish at the NCAA Championships.
Arkansas' Maria Jose Marin (-9) leads the championship entering the final round, one shot ahead of Stanford's Paula Martin Sampedro (-8).
Freshman Audrey Rischer (T86, +9) was OU's second-highest finisher, shooting 3-over in the final round to tie for 86th.
Junior MaKayla Tyrrell (T101, +11), senior Reagan Chaney (T108, +12) and junior Gracie Mayo (T145, +22) rounded out the OU lineup.
Led by 16th-year head coach Veronique Drouin-Luttrell, Oklahoma outperformed its championship seeding. The Sooners entered the week seeded 26th and finished tied for 21st, ahead of four teams ranked above them.
OU turned in its strongest season since 2017–18, returning to the NCAA Championships for the 10th time in program history and first since 2018. The team won the Paradise Invitational and picked up two individual titles — Gracie Mayo at Paradise and Audrey Rischer at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, the final event of the regular season. The Sooners collected three SEC weekly honors — two by Rischer and one by Chaney — and recorded top-five finishes in every spring tournament leading into the SEC Championship. OU placed outside the top five just three times in 12 events. Its fourth-place showing at the NCAA Norman Regional marked the program's best regional finish since 2014. The team's 288.6 adjusted scoring average across 35 rounds stands as the second-lowest in program history.
Stanford leads the team championship at 23-under, followed by Northwestern (-8) and Oregon (-2) as the only other teams under par. The Southeastern Conference advanced six teams past the first cut, all of which will be among the 15 squads competing Monday. The top eight teams after Monday's round will move on to match play.
Barber will tee off in the final round Monday at 3:23 p.m. CT.
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