Division I Women's Golf Championships

Dates and sites: Three regionals take place May 5-7 at Texas Tech, Florida and New Mexico State. Oregon State hosts the finals May 17-20 at the Meadows Golf Course in Sunriver, Oregon.

Field: Eight teams and two individuals advance from each of the three regionals for a total of 24 teams and six individuals (126 golfers) at the finals.

2004 team champion: UCLA.

2004 medalist: Sarah Huarte, California.

Top team contenders: Duke, Georgia, UCLA, Arizona State, Pepperdine, Washington, Auburn, Oklahoma State, LSU and Tennessee were the top 10 teams listed in a recent Golf Channel poll.

Championships notes: Duke won its 10th straight Atlantic Coast Conference championship April 17 by a league-record 47 strokes. Sophomore Brittany Lang claimed her second straight individual title, only the second golfer in ACC history to do so ... Auburn outlasted Georgia in a two-hole sudden-death playoff to claim the Southeastern Conference championship April 17. The third-ranked Tigers led by as much as 12 strokes on the back nine only to have Georgia, Arkansas, LSU and Tennessee all pull within two strokes over the final holes. Auburn slipped a stroke behind the No. 4 Bulldogs during the last two holes but pulled even at the end of regulation to extend the championship into what is believed to be the first team playoff in tournament history ... Five different teams have won the last five championships, and two have been from east of the Mississippi River. Before 1999, Western teams had won 12 straight championships.