BATON ROUGE – The LSU Lady Tiger golf team, winners of one tournament so far this fall, moved up one spot to third Wednesday when the Golf World/National Golf Coaches Association coaches’ women’s golf poll was announced.
LSU received two first place votes from the panel of 21 coaches and now has 456 points, 26 points behind second place USC at 482 with one first place vote. Defending national champion UCLA claimed 16 of the available votes.
LSU won the season opening Cougar Classic with a 16-under par total and sophomore golfer Austin Ernst, the defending NCAA Champion, won the individual competition with a score of 13-under par.
Alabama of the SEC was fourth in the poll and North Carolina rounds out the top five. Florida, at No. 9, and No. 10 Georgia make it four SEC teams in the top 10 of this particular poll.
LSU’s next start of the fall campaign is the Lady Tar Heel Invitational, Oct. 7-9, in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Golf World/NGCA Coaches’ Poll
NCAA Women’s Division I
(First Place Vote in Parenthesis)
Rank, Team, Points, Last
1. UCLA (16), 514, 1
2. USC (1), 485, 2
3. LSU (2), 462, 4
4. Alabama (1), 398, 3
5. North Carolina, 381, 9
6. Virginia, 326, 5
7. Arizona State (1), 321, 8
8. Purdue, 320, 6
9. Florida, 290, 16
10. Georgia, 287, 17
11. Duke, 269, 7
12. Arizona, 267, 12
13. Arkansas, 254, 10
14. Tennessee, 243, 11
15. Vanderbilt, 242, 15
16. Auburn, 239, 18
17. Texas, 237, 23
18. California, 173, 13
19. Oklahoma State, 143, NR
20. UC Davis, 116, NR
21. Michigan State, 115, 19
22. Stanford, 90, 21
23. NC State, 82, NR
24. Wake Forest, 73, 14
25. Texas A&M, 59, 20
Also receiving votes: Washington, 58; Oklahoma, 56; S. Carolina, 44; Pepperdine, 39; Ohio State, 34; Kentucky, 30; Notre Dame, 30; Furman, 24; Colorado, 20; Northwestern, 20; Tulane, 18; Florida State, 16; Iowa State, 14; Illinois, 11; East Carolina, 9; TCU, 4; Tulsa, 4; New Mexico, 3; Oregon, 3; Coastal Carolina, 2.