Quick Answer: Oregon Ducks women’s golf opens its 2026-27 season on September 7 at the Annika Intercollegiate, the ninth season under head coach Derek Radley. The roster carries eight players and zero returning All-Americans, because Kiara Romero and Suvichaya Vinijchaitham both left early for the LPGA Tour this summer. Oregon still holds an 18-year streak of NCAA Regional appearances, the longest active streak in the Big Ten.
Kiara Romero is gone. Suvichaya Vinijchaitham is gone too. Between them, those two players held a Mark H. McCormack Medal, three All-American selections, and roughly a third of Oregon’s scoring punch last season. That’s the part most pages covering this program right now still haven’t connected, and it reframes almost everything about how you should read this year’s roster.
Below is the full 2026-27 roster Derek Radley just announced, the complete schedule, a round-by-round look at how last season actually ended at the NCAA Waco Regional, and a straight comparison against USC, the Big Ten’s other ranked program. No recycled press release copy, no guessing games with the numbers.
Oregon Ducks Women’s Golf Players and Roster for 2026-27
Here are the Oregon Ducks women’s golf players taking the course this fall. Eight names make up Derek Radley’s roster, and three of them weren’t wearing green and yellow last spring.
| Player | Class | Hometown | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tong An | Junior | Shenzhen, China | 2026 All-Big Ten first team |
| Trinity Beth | Sophomore | Calvert City, Ky. | Transfer from Georgia |
| Darae Chung | Senior | Wellington, New Zealand | Transfer from San Jose State; first college win came at The Molly, Sept. 2025 |
| Annika Ishiyama | Junior | Costa Mesa, Calif. | Transfer from Houston |
| Prim Prachnakorn | Freshman | Bangkok, Thailand | True freshman, no college rounds yet |
| Catherine Rao | Fifth Year | Camarillo, Calif. | Transfer from Princeton |
| Shyla Singh | Sophomore | Gold Coast, Australia | Made her college debut in fall 2025 |
| Celina Yeo | Freshman | San Carlos, Calif. | True freshman, no college rounds yet |
Catherine Rao, Trinity Beth, and Annika Ishiyama all arrived through the transfer portal. Prim Prachnakorn and Celina Yeo have never played a competitive college round. Half the roster is either brand new to the program or brand new to college golf entirely, and that’s before you count who left.
The Real Story: Why Two Starters Are Missing
Here’s what the official channels never spell out in one place. Oregon Ducks women’s golf coach Derek Radley enters his ninth season without the two players who defined his last three. Kiara Romero earned her LPGA Tour card on August 14 after clearing the 20-point threshold in the LPGA’s Elite Amateur Pathway program, then announced she’d skip her senior season entirely to turn pro.
She leaves as the best player in program history, and it isn’t particularly close. Romero finished with a 70.06 career scoring average, more than two full strokes better than the previous program record of 72.82. She won six individual tournaments, more than any Duck before her, and racked up 354 career birdies in just three seasons.
Suvichaya Vinijchaitham’s LPGA path ran through Q-school instead of the LEAP points system, but the outcome was the same: gone. She turned pro after a 2025 season that earned her second-team All-American honors. Losing one All-American to the LPGA is normal attrition for an elite program. Losing two off the same lineup in the same summer is not.
Karen Tsuru and 2026 All-Big Ten second-teamer Sophie Han are also missing from the roster Radley released alongside the new schedule. Add it up and five of last season’s nine regular contributors won’t tee it up for Oregon this fall. Tong An, the lone returning first-team All-Big Ten pick, now leads a lineup that’s mostly unproven at this level.
Romero’s jump mirrors an NCAA champion who walked the same LPGA pipeline a few years earlier, right down to skipping the amateur formalities once the points were secured. The Big Ten has produced fast breakthroughs like this before, too, including a Big Ten Player of the Year on the men’s side who needed one transfer season to become a five-time PGA Tour winner. If you’re expecting this year’s Ducks to reload on name recognition, that isn’t what’s happening in 2026. It’s a genuine rebuild.
2026-27 Oregon Ducks Women’s Golf Schedule
Radley announced the full 2026-27 schedule on August 20, and the structure matches most of his tenure: four fall events, five spring events, then the postseason.
| Dates | Event | Location | TV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 7-9 | Annika Intercollegiate | Lake Elmo, Minn. | — |
| Sept. 14-16 | Jackson T. Stephens Cup | Frisco, Texas | Golf Channel |
| Oct. 5-6 | Windy City Classic | Glencoe, Ill. | — |
| Oct. 19-21 | Abilene Christian Intercollegiate | Granbury, Texas | Golf Channel |
| Jan. 31-Feb. 2 | Therese Hession Regional Challenge | Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. | — |
| Feb. 13-15 | Alice & John Wallace Classic | Palm Desert, Calif. | — |
| March 1-3 | Darius Rucker Intercollegiate | Hilton Head, S.C. | Golf Channel |
| March 22-23 | Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate Invitational | Fort Worth, Texas | — |
| April 5-6 | Huntington Bank Collegiate | Dallas, Texas | — |
| April 23-25 | Big Ten Championships | Farmington, Pa. | — |
| May 10-12 | NCAA Regional | Site TBD | — |
A women’s college golf schedule doesn’t work like a football or basketball calendar. Nobody plays home or away. Every date above is a stroke-play tournament hosted at a neutral course, usually with somewhere between 11 and 20 teams in the field, and the team’s combined score across all three rounds decides where it finishes. Three Golf Channel broadcasts this fall is actually more national TV time than most Big Ten programs get in a full season, and that says the network still values Oregon’s brand even in a down year for the roster.
How Oregon Actually Finished 2025-26
Every version of “oregon ducks womens golf score” that people search this offseason is really asking one question. How good was last season, really? The honest answer sits somewhere between good and disappointing, depending on which month you look at.
| Tournament | Location | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Annika Intercollegiate | Lake Elmo, Minn. | 6th, then 2nd |
| Jackson T. Stephens Cup | Lake Bluff, Ill. | T-1st, then 3rd (lost 3-2 to No. 3 Texas) |
| The Molly Collegiate Invitational | Corvallis, Ore. | 1st (Chung’s first college win) |
| Stanford Intercollegiate | Palo Alto, Calif. | 2nd of 19 teams |
| East Lake Cup | Atlanta, Ga. | 1st of 4 (match play; beat Florida State 3-2 in the final) |
| Therese Hession Regional Challenge | Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. | T-7th, 7th, then 5th |
| Chevron Collegiate | Humble, Texas | T-3rd, then 2nd (Romero’s 5th career win) |
| GameAbove Golf Invitational | Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. | 4th, then 3rd |
| Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate Invitational | Fort Worth, Texas | 4th, then 2nd (Romero’s 6th win) |
| Chevron Silverado Showdown | Napa, Calif. | 4th, T-3rd, 3rd of 16 |
| Big Ten Championships | Glendale, Calif. | T-7th, 7th, 9th of 18 |
| NCAA Waco Regional | Waco, Texas | T-2nd, 4th, 7th of 12 (season ends) |
Oregon punched its ticket to the Chevron Collegiate 2026 field in Humble, Texas, and turned it into Romero’s fifth career title. Look at the full list closely, though, and a pattern jumps out. Oregon opened almost every multi-round event inside the top four, then slid over the final 18 holes. It happened at the Therese Hession. And it happened at the Big Ten Championship. It happened again, at the worst possible time, at the NCAA Waco Regional.
Inside the NCAA Waco Regional
If you searched waco regional women’s golf hoping for the actual leaderboard, here it is. The 2026 NCAA Waco Regional ran May 11-13 at Ridgewood Country Club, a par-70 layout playing 6,094 yards. Twelve teams competed for five spots in the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa. Oregon carried the No. 2 seed and the No. 8 national ranking into the field, alongside No. 4 Texas A&M, No. 16 Tennessee, and No. 21 SMU.
Round one went about as well as it could. Romero tied for the individual lead at 4-under 66, and Oregon sat tied for second as a team at even par. Round two held that position at fourth place, three strokes off the projected cut line. Then round three arrived.
The Waco Regional final leaderboard tells the story in five rows:
| Player | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Total | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiara Romero | 66 | 70 | 69 | 205 (-5) | T-3rd |
| Sophie Han | 69 | 72 | 70 | 211 (+1) | T-15th |
| Darae Chung | 73 | 70 | 75 | 218 (+8) | T-39th |
| Tong An | 72 | 73 | 74 | 219 (+9) | 43rd |
| Karen Tsuru | 77 | 71 | 73 | 221 (+11) | T-46th |
Oregon closed at 849 (+9) as a team and dropped to seventh, missing the cut for Nationals by two spots. Romero tied for the field lead with 13 birdies for the week, and Oregon led every school in the field with 189 total pars.
Here’s the honest limitation in that stat line. A total of 189 pars sounds great until you notice only 31 birdies came with it, the eighth-most in a 12-team field. Stroke play doesn’t reward avoiding bogeys. It rewards making enough birdies to cover the ones you can’t avoid, and on the third day, Oregon simply didn’t make enough of them.
The result snapped a four-year streak of NCAA Championship appearances. It didn’t touch the program’s bigger streak: 18 consecutive NCAA Regional appearances dating back to 2008, with only the COVID-shortened 2019-20 season excluded. That’s the 30th regional trip in program history, and no other Big Ten women’s golf program can match it.
Oregon vs. USC Women’s Golf: The Big Ten’s Two Ranked Programs
Ask which Big Ten program actually had the better 2026, and the honest answer is USC, and it isn’t especially close. The Trojans won the 2026 Big Ten Women’s Golf Championship outright, their first conference title since joining the league and the program’s first six-tournament win streak in school history. Sophomore Jasmine Koo won the individual title at 3-under 207 and picked up a Curtis Cup selection a few weeks later. USC then reached the NCAA Championship final before Stanford beat the Trojans 4-1 for the national title.
| Category | Oregon | USC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 Big Ten Championship finish | 9th of 18 | 1st (champion) |
| 2026 national ranking entering postseason | No. 7-8 | No. 2 |
| Individual Big Ten champion | No | Yes, Jasmine Koo |
| 2026 NCAA Championship result | Missed the field (Waco Regional) | Runner-up |
| Roster turnover into 2026-27 | 4 of 8 spots new | Core largely returns |
Oregon actually beat USC head-to-head at two of the six tournaments both teams entered in 2025-26. The GameAbove Golf Invitational in March told the real story anyway: USC won at 22-under par while Oregon finished third at 11-over, a 33-shot swing between the conference’s two ranked programs over the same 54 holes. USC women’s golf enters 2026-27 as the clear favorite in the conference. Oregon is rebuilding from close to scratch.
“Duck Golf”: Which Team Are You Actually Searching For?
If “duck golf” brought you here, there’s a real chance you want a different page. Oregon fields two Division I golf programs, and fans use “Duck Golf” loosely for both. The men’s team runs its own separate schedule and roster under a different coaching staff. Everything above, the roster, the schedule, the Waco Regional breakdown, refers specifically to the women’s program. Head to goducks.com’s golf hub if you actually wanted the men’s side.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is on the Oregon Ducks women’s golf roster?
Eight players: Tong An, Trinity Beth, Darae Chung, Annika Ishiyama, Prim Prachnakorn, Catherine Rao, Shyla Singh, and Celina Yeo. Derek Radley coaches the team, with Monica Vaughn Fisher as assistant coach.
What happened to Kiara Romero?
Romero earned her LPGA Tour card on August 14, 2026, through the LPGA’s Elite Amateur Pathway program and chose to skip her senior season at Oregon to turn pro immediately, closing out a career that included six wins and a program-record 70.06 scoring average.
When does Oregon’s 2026-27 golf season start?
The 2026-27 season opens September 7-9 at the Annika Intercollegiate in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.
Is Oregon’s golf program in the Big Ten Conference?
Yes. Oregon joined the Big Ten Conference in the 2024-25 realignment, won the conference’s team title in 2025, then finished ninth in 2026.
What was Oregon’s final score at the NCAA Waco Regional?
Oregon shot 849 (+9) over three rounds and finished seventh out of 12 teams, missing the NCAA Championship field by two places.
Is USC or Oregon better at women’s golf right now?
USC, clearly, as of 2026. The Trojans won the Big Ten Championship, reached the NCAA Championship final, and return most of their roster, while Oregon missed Nationals and lost its top two players to the LPGA.
The Bottom Line
Oregon Ducks women’s golf isn’t the same program it was in May. Two of the sport’s best amateurs turned pro in the same summer, four new names joined an eight-player roster, and the Ducks open 2026-27 as something close to a question mark for the first time in years. The NCAA Regional streak, 18 years and counting, is the reason Oregon fans shouldn’t panic despite all the turnover.
Whether Tong An and a mostly new supporting cast can stretch that streak to 19 gets answered starting September 7 in Lake Elmo. For more on how the world amateur system actually works, including the Mark H. McCormack Medal Romero just won for the second straight year, that breakdown covers the full ranking mechanics.