LAWRENCE — Kansas women’s golf just participated in a NCAA regional for the second-straight year, enjoying something the Jayhawks have now done for a third time in program history.

Kansas, which played in from Monday through Wednesday, competed at the Tumble Creek Club in the Cle Elum Regional in Washington. The Jayhawks were the No. 9 seed in a 12-team field, which went three rounds to discover the top five teams that qualify for the NCAA championship event later this month. If KU didn't advance as a team, and its best-performing individual was the low scorer, that athlete would head to the NCAA championship.

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“We are excited to be competing again this time of year,” Kansas coach Lindsay Kuhle said in a Jayhawks release ahead of the regional. “Our ladies worked very hard this season to get to this point. Now, anything can happen and your ranking doesn’t matter. It is all about playing three solid rounds of golf to help the team. We are very motivated right now and I feel we are playing our best golf collectively.”

There were six players who traveled for Kansas. Five of them were senior Hanna Hawks, sophomore Amy DeKock and juniors Jordan Rothman, Lily Hirst and Lauren Clark. Johanna Ebner, a junior, was also there as an alternate.

The teams, seeded No. 1-through No. 12, were in order No. 1 Stanford, No. 2 Duke, No. 3 Arizona State, No. 4 Virginia, No. 5 San Jose State, No. 6 Washington, No. 7 Alabama, No. 8 Virginia Tech, No. 9 Kansas, No. 10 Long Beach State, No. 11 Sacramento State and No. 12 Seattle.

“I’m excited for these ladies to get another opportunity to represent KU and play their best golf at the end of the season,” Kuhle added in a pre-regional release. “This is a difficult championship course with challenging colder weather. This is about who wants it and who is tough mentally and physically to get the ball in the hole. It doesn’t have to be pretty this week, but you’ve got to keep the ball in play and have an exceptional short game and wedges, which we have been working extremely hard on all season.”

Here's what happened as Kansas looked to advance:

Kansas ends day one in 6th as a team, with an individual standing out

Kansas shot +6 for the day as a team, which puts it in sixth place. The teams in front of it, from first through fifth place, are Duke (-6), Stanford (-4), Arizona State (E), Virginia (+1) and Long Beach State (+4). The team closest to Kansas, in seventh place, is San Jose State (+10).

Lily Hirst finished as Kansas' lowest individual scorer at -4. She tied for second place with an individual from Stanford. In first is an athlete from Duke, who shot -5.

Kansas ends day two in 7th as a team, with an individual still in top 10

At the end of the second day, Kansas sits at seventh place at +22. The teams in front of it, in order, are Stanford (-18), Duke (-6), Virginia (+9), Arizona State (+15), San Jose State (+19) and Long Beach State (+19). The team that's closest to Kansas, in eighth place, is Washington (+23).

Lily Hirst remains Kansas' lowest individual scorer. At this point, Hirst (E) is tied for seventh place. The leader is an athlete from Stanford who's at -8.

Kansas finishes 6th as a team, with an individual in top 15

Kansas wrapped up its season with a sixth place finish in the regional, with a score of +35. The team that won the regional was Stanford, at -17. The team that finished in front of the Jayhawks in fifth place was San Jose State at +23.

“I am really proud of the way we fought today,” Lindsay Kuhle said in a KU release after the round. “It was another difficult day out there with the weather and course conditions. To finish that close and be the nine seed just shows how great this team is and how competitive we are. I am proud of the fight we put up all week.”

Lily Hirst continued to lead Kansas individually. Hirst finished tied for 13th at +5. It's one of the best finishes in program history.

“Lily was really great the first day shooting a 68,” Kuhle noted in the KU release after the round. “She was in contention to advance to the championship as an individual, which was great as well.”

Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.

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