Marta López Echevarría Takes On NCAA Regional at Champion Trace

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. – Marta López Echevarría will compete in the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship Lexington Regional at Champion Trace at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky, from May 5-7. The Wildcat will tee off in the first round Monday at 9:50 a.m. ET off hole one.

Champion Trace was the home of the ISCO Championship on the PGA Tour last summer. The course will play as a par 72 at 6,095.

The Roquetas de Mar, Spain, native was one of 36 individuals selected to one of the six NCAA Regional fields across the nation, including one of six individuals in the Lexington Regional. Following 54 holes of stroke play this week, the leading individual not on an advancing team will advance to the final site at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, on May 16-21.

López Echevarría is currently the No. 146 player in NCAA DI, boasting a 72.7 stroke average and a 72.0 adjusted stroke average through 24 rounds and eight events in 2024-25. Twenty-two of her 24 rounds contributed to the team total this season, and nine of her 24 rounds were par-or-better. That includes her season-best 67 (-3) in the final round of the Southeastern Conference Championship in Tampa, Florida, last month.

The Wildcat had two finishes inside the top 10 and three finishes inside the top 20 this season, the best finishes of her college career. Ironically, she began her season at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational at Champion Trace. There, she came up with a career-best fifth place on a 217 (+1). Two tournaments later at the Charles Schwab, she tied for sixth place on a career-best 213 (E).

At the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational – one of the most decorated fields in college golf – she landed T19 with a 217 (+7).

The team captain of the Wildcats in 2024-25, she is having a monster turnaround season. She shed two full strokes off her scoring average from just a season ago. In fact, a testament to her continual improvement, she has improved her scoring average each season at UK.

Returning to the site of her fifth place, 217 (+1) showing earlier this season at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational, López Echevarría strung together rounds of 75, 72 and 70 at Champion Trace.

Live scoring throughout the event can be found here.

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