Baton Rouge, La. – Back-to-back wins for the LSU women’s golf team for the first time since the 1996-97 season has earned them BASF Team of the Month honors for October.
The Tigers got the month of October started by sharing championship honors at the Princess Anne Invitational in Virginia Beach, Va. LSU and Virginia Tech were named co-champs of the tournament that ended on Oct. 6 with three-round totals of 3-over 843s. A final round 1-over 281 helped clean up a five shot deficit that the Tigers faced heading into the final round. Ingrid Linblad (4-under 206/4th place), Latanna Stone (1-under 209/8th place) and Kendall Griffin (even par 210/9th place) all earned top-10 finishes at the tournament.
A little over a week later and the Tigers turned around and won the Magnolia Invitational in Mississippi. LSU finished four shots clear of the field with a 8-under 856 over three rounds. Linblad won her first career collegiate event with a three-round tally of 10-under 206 (71-67-78). She was joined in the top 10 by Kiana Oshiro, who carded rounds of 71, 69, and 70 for a 6-under 210. The Magnolia wasn’t the easiest of fields either as it featured three SEC foes.
The two wins for the Tigers in the first three tournaments make it the first time that LSU has won multiple tournaments in the same season since the 2014-15 season. They are the 42nd and 43rd team championships in program history. Thanks in large part to the two wins, the Tigers are ranked No. 19 in the latest Golfstat rankings. They will close their fall season out this weekend, Nov. 1-3, with the Battle at the Beach in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico.
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