BATON ROUGE – The LSU women’s golf team after a third consecutive under par tournament remains No. 1 in the two performance polls for another week.
LSU is tops in both the Golfweek/Sagarin and the Golfstat performance polls updated after LSU’s last appearance in the Tar Heel Invitational at Chapel Hill, N. C. LSU has a win and two seconds in its three tournaments this season and has shot nine consecutive under par rounds totaling 51-under par for the counting scores.
Following LSU in the Golfweek/Sagarin poll is SEC rival Alabama with Southern California third, UCLA in fourth and Duke rounding out the top five. Two other SEC teams are ranked in the top 10, Georgia at nine and Vanderbilt at 10.
In the Golfstat rankings, Southern California and Alabama switch places behind LSU with California and UCLA in fourth and fifth. Georgia is seventh and Vanderbilt 10th in the Golfstat poll.
Megan McChrystal, LSU’s senior All-American, is ranked No. 1 in the individual Golfstat Cup rankings and in the Golfweek/Sagarin ratings. Golf Digest’s Ryan Herrington in his weekly college blog Thursday said of McChrystal, “It’s asking a lot for LSU senior Megan McChrystal to maintain the crazy pace she’s been on regarding her play in the final round of golf tournaments, but it’s going to be fun to see how she does through next spring. Through three events this fall, she has a 66.50 final-round stroke average with a 65 at the NCAA Fall Preview, a 68 at the Mason Rudolph and a 66 at the Tar Heel Invitational.
“A deeper look at her stats shows that her low scores aren’t necessarily because she’s made a lot of birdies (she’s had 25 this year, only three more than teammate Mary Michael Maggio). It’s the lack of bogeys and worse that she’s made. McChrystal has a 1.33 bogey per round average, the fourth best in the country. Meanwhile, she has yet to make a double bogey this fall.”
The Tigers have four golfers in the top 25 in the Sagarin rankings with freshman Austin Ernst‘s first tournament putting her 13th while junior Tessa Teachman is at 23rd and Mary Michael Maggio 25th.
LSU has one tournament left in the fall semester, a trip to Stanford for the SEC-Pac-10 Challenge Nov. 5-7.