HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – The LSU women’s golf team looks to continue the momentum it was gained in its first two tournaments of the spring portion of the season when they tee off Friday in the fourth annual Darius Rucker Intercollegiate at the Long Cove Club.
The Lady Tigers are coming off a second place finish in Puerto Rico and a wire-to-wire winning performance in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate in New Orleans at the end of last month. That win earned LSU Golfweek’s Team of the Week and also moved the Lady Tigers into the Top 10 in both the Golfweek and Golfstat performance rankings.
LSU is presently seventh in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings and No. 8 in Golfstat.
This is LSU’s third appearance in the event on the par 71-course that plays at 6,142 yards. The Lady Tigers were second in 2013 and tied for third in 2014 in the event which features the well-known country singer and former lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish.
Joining LSU and host team South Carolina in the field are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona State, Auburn, Duke, Furman, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi State, Southern Cal, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Wake Forest.
LSU will keep its same lineup from the Allstate Sugar Bowl featuring co-champions senior Madelene Sagstrom and sophomore Caroline Nistrup. The rest of the lineup will be junior Elise Bradley, sophomore Carly Ray Goldstein and junior Nadine Dreher.
Sagstrom leads the team in stroke average at 71.39 for her 18 rebounds, while Bradley and Nistrup are both at 71.94.
The tournament runs through Sunday and begins at 7:30 a.m. CT Friday and Saturday and 7 a.m. CT Sunday. LSU will tee off in the final wave off the 10th tee on Friday at 9:10 a.m. with Virginia and Arkansas. Live scoring can be found through LSUsports.net on golfstatresults.com and follow www.Facebook.com/LSUwomensgolf and @LSUwomensgolf on Twitter for updates.