BATON ROUGE – LSU and Elise Bradley‘s wins Sunday in the 2015 LSU Tiger Golf Classic have resonated on the Golfweek/Sagarin performance rankings as the Lady Tigers have now moved up to No. 6.
The Lady Tigers have now won three tournaments in the last five events and finished second in the other two events. LSU will next start post-season play on April 17-19 when it takes part in the annual Southeastern Conference championships in Birmingham.
Bradley, the junior from Mandeville, who has made one of the biggest jumps in the country this year in women’s golf from triple digits to her first collegiate victory on Sunday at the University Club. Bradley made a 12-footer from above the hole on a ridge for birdie on the 54th hole to tie the competition and force a playoff. Her par on the second hole of sudden death, the par 5 11th hole was the difference in collecting the individual title.
Bradley, who entered the event in the mid-30s in the rankings, has now moved up to No. 24 on the Golfweek performance list posting an 83-71-12 record against the top 100 in the rankings.
Also, senior Madelene Sagstrom, who was third in the Classic, has moved up again to No. 2 in the nation with a 32-15-6 record against the Top 25 in the rankings. Sagstrom leads the SEC in stroke average among active players at 71.17.
Sophomore Caroline Nistrup is also holding her spot in the rankings at No. 14 with an even 25-25-3 mark against the Top 25 players.
LSU has three of the top five active averages in the Southeastern Conference. Following Sagstrom, Nistrup is third at 72.25 and Bradley is fifth at 72.42.
Ahead of LSU (which has a 31-12-1 record against the Top 25) in the team rankings are Washington at 1, followed by UCLA, USC, Duke and South Carolina.