Lauren Stephenson

Photo by: USGA Museum

Photo by: USGA Museum

Photo by: Crimson Tide Photos / UA Athleti

Photo by: Jimmy Mitchell

Height:
5-3
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Lexington, S.C.
High School:
Lexington/Clemson
Prev School:
Clemson University

Accolades

Co-school record-holder, low 54 (200)
School record-holder, low 54 vs. par (-10)
United States Curtis Cup Team (2018)
United States Palmer Cup Team (2018)
First Team All-SEC (2017-18)
Second Team WGCA All-American (2016-17)
Second Team Golfweek All-American (2016-17)
First Team All-SEC (2016-17)
SEC Academic Honor Roll (2016-17)

Junior (2017-18)

First Team All-SEC honoree ... one of eight amateur women's golfers named to the USGA's 2018 Curtis Cup squad ... one of 12 women's collegiate golfers named to the 2018 United States Palmer Cup team ... won the Golfstat Cup as teh nation's leading scorer with a school-record 69.76 average this season ... ranked No. 5 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings at the conclusion of the 2017-18 season ... the No. 1 ranked golfer in the country in the final Golfweek Collegiate Rankings of 2017-18 ... ranked No. 3 in the final Golfstat NCAA Player Rankings of the season ... ANNIKA Award finalist ... has 16 top-five finishes, 17 under-par finishes in 22 career outings at Alabama has finished par or lower in 44 of 64 (69 percent) career rounds at Alabama, including 29 rounds in the 60s (45 percent) ... shot a team-low 65-under par this season ... led the Crimson Tide with 19 rounds in the 60s and 26 rounds of par or better in 33 rounds played this season ... posted two victories, eight top-three finishes and 11 top-10 finishes in 11 outings this season ... tied for seventh in stroke play at the NCAA Championships with a 1-under par 287 (74-69-70-74) ... was 2-1 in match play at the NCAA tournament ... as the Tide advanced to the national championship match ... finished second at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional with a 14-under par 202 (67-69-66) ... the final round 66 equals the UA school record for score and score vs. par in a regional and her 54-hole totalis also the best in UA history in regional play ... tied for ninth in stroke play at the SEC Championships with a 2-over par 218 (72-76-70) ... finished 1-1 in match play at the SEC Tournament, defeating Vanderbilt's Courtney Zeng, 5-and-3, in the quarterfinals before dropping a 2-and-1 decision to Arkansas' Alana Uriell in the semifinals ... tied for individual medalist honors with teammate Cheyenne Knight at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic with a 7-under par 209 (71-69-69) ... tied for third at the Evans Derby Experience with a 7-under par 209 ... finished second at the Darius Rucker Invitational with a 1-under par 212 (69-71-72) ... tied for eighth at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge at 5-over par (74-68-76/218) ... tied for third at the rain-shortened Landfall Tradition with a 36-hole 6-under par 138 (67-71) ... tied for third at the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational with a 10-under par 206 (72-68-66) ... finished second at the Schooner Fall Classic with a 10-under par 203 (69-68-66) ... shared individual medalist honors at the season opening Mason Rudolph Championship with a school-record 16-under par 200 (68-68-64).

Summer 2017

Advanced to the quarterfinals of match play at the U.S. Women's Amateur before being eliminated on the 12th playoff hole in what was the longest match in USGA history ... finished at 2-under par (74-68/142) to tie for seventh in stroke play to qualify for the match play round ... finished 41st at the U.S. Women's Open - and was the No. 4 amateur finisher - with a 4-over par 292 (72-72-73).

Sophomore (2016-17)

Women's Golf Coaches Association and Golfweek second team All-America selection ... first team All-SEC selection ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... ranked 17th in the final Golfweek ratings ... rated seventh nationally in score vs. par ... third on the team in scoring average (71.71) and score vs. par (0.00) ... had eight top-12 finishes in 11 outings for the season ... shared the team lead in top-five finishes with five ... tied with Cheyenne Knight for the team lead in rounds in the 60s with 10 ... third on the team with 18 rounds of par or better this season ... finished under par in a team-high eight of 11 tournaments in 2016-17 ... tied for 74th at the NCAA Championships with a 20-over par 236 ... tied for second at the NCAA Athens Regional with Knight at 5-under par (211) ... dropped a 3-and-2 decision to Northwestern's Janet Mao in the semifinals at the Northwestern Quad Match ... tied for 13th at the SEC Championships with 3-under par 213 that included a final round 67 ... tied for 43rd in the stroke play round at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Invitational with a 10-over par 82 ... dropped a 5-and-4 decision to USC's Gabriella Then then rallied to defeat Denver's Sophie Newlove, 5-and-4 in the semifinals of match play at the Liz Murphey before falling to Georgia's Mary Ellen Shuman, 3-and-2 in the championship match ... tied for third at the Bryan National Collegiate with a six-under par 210 (69-68-73) ... tied for ninth at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate with a five-over par 218 (71-75-72) ... opened the spring with a one-under par 212 (72-67-73) to finish tied for fifth at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge ... tied for 11th at The Landfall Tradition with a one-under par 215 ... finished second at the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational with a nine-under par 207 to equal her season low tournament score set at the Mason Rudolph Championship ... tied for 12th with teammate Lakareber Abe with a one-under par 212 (73-70-69) at the Schooner Fall Classic ... tied for second with teammate Kristen Gillman in her Alabama debut at the Mason Rudolph Championship ... shot a personal-best nine-under par 207 (74-68-65) ... the third round 65 not only set a personal best, but also tied for the second-lowest round in school history ... as a team, the Tide set a school best with a 39-under par 825 to win the tournament.

Freshman at Clemson University (2015-16)

Ranked No. 71 in final 2016 Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index ... first Clemson women's golfer in school history to reach the NCAA Championships ... finished fifth at the NCAA Shoal Creek Regional ... one of just four women to score 75 or better in all three rounds ... led all 96 players in par four scoring average with a 4.10 figure ... led Clemson in rounds in the 60s with four and rounds at par or better with 13 ... best finish came at Yale in the fall when she was co-medalist with a 211 score, two under par ... best tournament vs. par was at Briar's Creek in the spring when she shot a seven-under par 209, the second-lowest 54 hole score in Clemson history ... Clemson's top player in three of the last four tournaments of the year ... her score counted towards Clemson's team score in 29 of 30 rounds ... was Clemson's low scorer in a team-high 12 rounds, and was Clemson's best player in six of their 10 tournaments ... tied for team lead in top-10 finishes with three, all in the top five.

Prep and Personal

A First Team Rolex Junior All-American in 2014, she was honorable mention in 2012 and 2013 ... ranked as heigh as eighth in the Polo Junior rankings ... won six AJGA titles over her career ... second in the Golfweek Class of 2015 juniors ... played for the United States team in the Toyota Junior World Cup Series in summer of 2015 ... finished fourth in the stroke play and reached the quarterfinals of the North-South Amateur at Pinehurst #2 in July, 2015 ... won AJGA Girls Championship and the Wells Fargo Junior Classic in 2014 ... tied for sixth in the Thunderbird International Junior ... second at the Polo Junior Golf Classic in 2014 ... qualified for the U.S. Girls Junior Championship three times ... won individual title as a junior and senior ... finished fifth in the Boys state 4A championship as a senior with a 147 ... named to the girls and boys South Carolina 4A All-State teams, believed to be the first person to do that in history of South Carolina high school golf ... named all-state in girls division five times ... finished 20th at the Boys state championship as a junior ... won the AJGA Girls Championship by three shots in September of 2014 ... appeared in Sports Illustrated Faces in the Crowd after shooting back-to-back course record scores of 66 at Hartsville Country Club ... reached the Final 32 of 2014 US Women's Amateur ... instructor is Kenny Britt, who also instructed Dustin Johnson when he was a youth ... majoring in communications.