BATON ROUGE – The LSU Lady Tiger golf team, in preparation for its final tournament of the fall Nov. 5-7, remained NO. 1 in the country in the two performance rated polls and moved up to No. 2 in the National Golf Coaches Association’s poll of 31 women’s golf coaches.
The Lady Tigers remain No. 1 in the Golfstat and the Golfweek/Sagarin ratings with teams right behind them they will face in the upcoming SEC-Pac 10 Challenge at Stanford.
Following LSU in the Golfstat rankings is Southern Cal, Alabama, California and UCLA. LSU is 48-2 in its first three tournaments this fall with a win and two seconds, both of those to Alabama.
In the Golfweek rankings, Alabama is second behind LSU followed by Southern Cal, UCLA and Duke.
The coaches voting moved LSU from fourth to second as the Lady Tigers got nine of the 31 first place votes and moved within 17 points of No. 1 Alabama who got 21 first place votes. No. 3 USC dropped from two to three but got the other first place vote.
Other SEC teams in this poll are Georgia at 10 (down from six), Vandy at 11 (downs from seven), Auburn at 16, Tennessee tied at 17 (up from 24), previously unranked Arkansas is 20th, South Carolina is 21st and Florida 25th. Tulane moved up one spot from 14th to 13th.
NGCA Division I Coaches Poll
(First Place Votes in Parenthesis)
Team, Points Last
1. Alabama (21) 762, 1
2. LSU (9), 745, 4
3. USC (1), 691, 2
4. UCLA, 639, 5
5. Duke, 636, 3
6. Purdue, 628, 9
7. California, 547, 17
8. Virginia, 535, 10
9. Arizona, 489, 8
10. Georgia, 487, 6
11. Vanderbilt 478, 7
12. North Carolina 358, 11
13. Tulane, 341, 14
14. Wake Forest 327, 15
15. Michigan State 300, 16
16. Auburn, 265, 12
17. Oklahoma 250, NR
17. Tennessee 250, 24
19. Colorado 209, 21
20. Arkansas 165, NR
21. South Carolina 160, 20
22. Notre Dame 126, NR
23. Oklahoma State 125, 22
24. Oregon, 117, 13
25. Florida, 100, 23