USC Athletics

Three members of USC's top-ranked women's golf team - junior Allisen Copruz and sophomores Alyaa Abdulghany and Jennifer Chang - are set to compete in the historic first annual Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship, Wednesday through Saturday (April 3-6).
 
USC's trio all earned their berths by being among the top 30 Americans based on the Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings end of the year results. The international field consists of 72 golfers competing over 54 holes of stroke play, with a cut after two rounds.
 
The Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship's first 36 holes will be played at the Champions Retreat Golf Club on April 3-4. The entire field will then play Augusta National for an official practice round on April 5. The top 30 players after 36 holes will tee off on the Augusta National course on April 6 for the final round, a week ahead of the Masters.
 
Corpuz tees off with Spain's Marta Perez (Florida) and fellow American Zoe Campos at 6:24 a.m. PT Wednesday while Abdulghany and American Anna Redding (Virginia) join Chinese Taipei's Yu-Sang Hou (Arizona) at the same time off of 10. Chang tees off 10 at 6:36 a.m. PT with American Andrea Lee (Stanford) and Italy's Virginia Elena Carta (Duke).
 
The trio is part of a Trojan squad that has been ranked No. 1 for much of the 2018-19 season and which has won five tournaments for the second season in a row, including a current streak of two in a row.
 
Chang leads the Trojans with a stroke average of 72.00 and has six top 9 finishes this season, including four in the top 5 and one co-medalist honor. She has five rounds in the 60s.
 
Abdulghany is third in stroke average (72.47) and won her first collegiate title in February at the Battle at the Rock. She has five top 13 finishes this year. Corpuz has a stroke average of 73.67 and is coming off a season-best seventh last week at the PING/ASU Invitational, her third top 21 finish of the season.
 
NBC Sports will broadcast live final-round coverage at Augusta National from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (PT) on April 6.