SEC History
Alabama captured its third Southeastern Conference Championship in 2016 with a five-shot victory over runner-up Florida. The Crimson Tide captured the program's first SEC Championship in 2010 with a four-stroke victory at the NorthRiver Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide then claimed the school's second title in 2013.
In 2013, the SEC Championship moved to a neutral site at Greystone Golf and Country Club in Hoover, Ala., where it remains.
The Crimson Tide boasts a long line of outstanding golfers, but some of the best have played for the Tide and excelled in the Southeastern Conference over the past several years. Alabama has had more first team All-SEC selections over the past 12 seasons (23) than it had in its history prior to 2006 (6). Along with the 2010, 2013 and 2016 victories, Alabama has finished runner-up in the SEC Championship on five occasions, including 1991, 1994, 2009, 2011 and 2017. In 2018, the Tide reached the semifinals of match play in the first season of that format at the SEC tournament.
Along with the eight golfers earning 23 first team All-SEC honors in the past 12 years, the Crimson Tide produced three first-team selections in 2011, 2012, 2017 and 2018 and two each in 2009, 2010 and 2016. Kathleen Ekey and Camilla Lennarth earned first-team honors in 2009 with Lennarth and Jennifer Kirby doing the same in 2010. Lennarth, Stephanie Meadow and Brooke Pancake were first-team choices in 2011 while Kirby, Meadow and Pancake were selected in 2012. Cheyenne Knight and Emma Talley were first-teamers in 2016. Knight, Kristen Gillman and Lauren Stephenson were honored in 2017 and 2018. Alabama has also seen 10 golfers named to the SEC All-Freshman Team over the past 11 years, including four SEC Freshmen of the Year — Kirby (2010), Meadow (2011), Talley (2013) and Gillman (2017) — which gives the Tide its foundation for success. Stephanie Meadow and Cheyenne Knight are the only players to win SEC Player of the Year honors. Meadow won back-to-back honors in 2013 and 2014 while Knight was recognized in 2017. Tide coach Mic Potter was selected as the SEC Coach of the Year in 2007 and then again in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016.
