BATON ROUGE – Back-to-back top five finishes by LSU freshman golfer Caroline Nistrup has attracted the attention of Golfweek Magazine Assistant Editor Julie Williams who listed Nistrup on her list of five freshmen who did not come in as heralded as some in the class of 2013, but have put their names among those freshmen worth watching.
Nistrup posted a fourth place finish at the Schooner Fall Invite with a score of even par 210 then followed it up with a third place finish at 4-under par in the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational that finished on Sunday.
Williams wrote of Nistrup: “The freshman from Denmark led the Tigers into the second-round lead at the Schooner Fall Classic with a 5-under 65. (A bit of LSU trivia: Nistrup became just the third player in women’s program history to shoot (aggregate) 65 on the par-70 Belmar Country Club in Norman, Okla.). Before that, Nistrup birdied two of her final four holes in the final round of the Cougar Classic for an even-par 72 that left her tied for 13th, the low Tiger. Nistrup and Swede Madelene Sagstrom, a junior, make a great one-two punch for the Tigers.”
Nistrup came back and posted another 5-under round, this time a 67 on a par-72 course in the second round at Chapel Hill.
Through nine rounds, she has a stroke average of 71.0 and is ranked by Golfweek/Sagarin at No. 20 in the country even before the tournament of the past weekend is factored in.
LSU, after six rounds in nine days at two tournaments, is now starting a two-week break before the final tournament of the fall season, The Alamo Invitational, begins on Oct. 27.