BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s golf team, off a tournament win and a school record low 36 score, moved up seven spots to No. 4 in the latest Golf World/NGCA Division I Coaches’ Poll announced on Wednesday.
The Lady Tigers won the opening event of the season, the NGCA Match Play Championships, at Daytona Beach, beating No. 3 Auburn in the championship match. In the Mason Rudolph Championship, the Lady Tigers finished sixth, but shot a seven-under total for 36 holes, the lowest 36-hole total in the 31-years of the women’s program.
Arizona State, the defending national champion remained No. 1 with 30 first-place votes out of a possible 35, with Pepperdine moving from 13th in the preseason poll to second, garnering three first place votes. Auburn moved to third from eighth with LSU in fourth. Georgia moved from 14th to fifth and USC in sixth and Florida in eighth received the other two first place votes.
Five SEC teams are in the top 10 with Alabama in the 10th spot with South Carolina (18) and Tennessee (23) also in the top 25.
The Lady Tigers will play again in two weeks, defending their championship in the Mercedes-Benz event in Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 15-17, before winding out the fall schedule Oct 23-25 at the Landfall Tradition at the site of the 2010 NCAA Championships in Wilmington, N.C.
Golf World/NGCA Division I Coaches Poll
Pos/School/Pts/Last poll
1. Arizona State (30)/1,018/1
2. Pepperdine (3)/782/13
3. Auburn/772/8
4. LSU/754/11
5. Georgia/728/14
6. USC (1)/682/2
7. UCLA/656/3
8. Florida (1)/613/NR
9. Denver/598/5
10. Alabama/584/7
11. Oklahoma State/559 /4
12. Wake Forest/475/6
13. Purdue/468/12
14. Virginia/461/9
15. Duke/433/10
16. California/432/19
17. Michigan State/392/20
18. South Carolina/360/NR
19. Florida State/301/NR
20. New Mexico/257/25
21. Chattanooga/257/NR
22. North Carolina/236/15
23. Tennessee/230/18
24. Ohio State/207/NR
25. Arizona/197/17