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The NCAA announced on Monday that the Division I Women’s Golf Championship will be expanding in 2023. 

The tournament will go from 24 teams to 27 teams starting next spring.  

“There is extreme importance in providing as many participation opportunities as possible for our student-athletes. With an additional three teams qualifying for the finals site, up to an additional 18 deserving women’s golf student-athletes will have an opportunity to compete in the national championship finals, which is an important step for the sport of women’s golf and the  championship,” said Bradford Hurlbut, chair of the Division I women’s golf committee in a statement. 

This comes after the number of women’s regionals went from four to six last season. 

According to the NCAA, a “strength-of-field metric” will be used to decide which three regionals get five berths in the National Championship and which will still have four. 

For what it is worth, the men’s National Championship has 30 teams in it.