BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s golf team, off a performance in the Southeastern Conference Women’s Golf Championship which left it just two shots out of a playoff for the title, moved up to ninth Tuesday in the Golfstat rankings of Division I women’s golf teams.
LSU and Tennessee, the team it tied with for fourth in the championship, switched places with LSU now ninth and Tennessee 10th as LSU finished in the top four of the conference championship event for the ninth time in the last 11 championships.
Duke, easy winners of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and the winner of six tournaments this season, remains the number one team with SEC runner-up Georgia at No. 2. UCLA is third, followed by Arizona State, Pepperdine and Washington.
Auburn, the SEC Champion, is seventh with Oklahoma State in eighth ahead of LSU and Tennessee. Tulane is ranked 11th, Florida 15th and Arkansas 20th.
In other GolfStat team statistical categories, the LSU team is 10th in the country in par 3 scoring at 3.23 stroke average on those holes this season, while LSU is seventh in the country in par 4 scoring, averaging 4.27.
The Lady Tigers also moved up into the top 10 of the National Golf Coaches Association Women’s NCAA Division I poll released after the SEC Tournament. The coaches’ poll has Duke on top, followed by UCLA, Arizona State, Georgia and Auburn in the top five. The second five finds Pepperdine, Washington, Tennessee, Oklahoma State and LSU in the 10th spot. Tulane is 12th in this poll with Florida 14th and Arkansas 21st.
LSU awaits for its placement in the NCAA Regional Golf Championships field which will be announced this Monday (April 25) at 2 p.m. The regional tournaments are set for three locations, May 5-7. The top eight teams from the three regionals go to the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championships in Sunriver, Ore., later in May.