Originally designed by Tom and George Fazio, the Champion course was redesigned by Jack Nicklaus in 2014. The course the regional will be contested on has been the home of the PGA Senior Championship and now the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic. Runion was named the SEC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. LSU has four wins this 2022-23 wraparound season, just one off the school mark of five set in the 1985-86 season under Coach Runion who has 10 victories as the head coach of the Tigers. Donegan, a second-team All-SEC selection, comes in with a 72.33 average, with Tejedo at 73.78 and Hertzman, a freshman All-SEC selection, is at 74.14. Lindblad averaged 70.46 on the season with two wins this year (11 for her career), while Stone is at 71.56 with a win and an eighth place finish in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The final three seeds are South Florida (10), Penn (11) and Quinnipiac (12). The seventh seed is California and then two other SEC teams, No. The rest of the team field in seed order is No. LSU, as the top seed, will be in the opening team wave of the event Monday with the second seed Texas and No. Also, junior Carla Tejedo has teed it up in regional play as has sophomore transfer Aine Donegan, who participated as in dividual entrant in last year’s NCAA Regionals while in Indiana.įreshman Edit Hertzman, who stared down some of the best in the women’s game in finishing second in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, will make her first NCAA regional appearance.
LSU has four golfers that have regional experience in its lineup this week led by first-team All-SEC selections Ingrid Lindblad and Latanna Stone. So, finishing first is good, but not the be all, end all as fifth place is just as important for future golf for the teams. Last year, LSU easily advanced in a year when only four teams qualified from each of six regionals, tying for second in the Stanford Regional with a 54-hole score of 845 (-7).įor the first time, the women’s NCAA championships will have the same number of teams as the men’s championships with 30 teams and five will qualify from each of the six regionals being held Monday through Wednesday. LSU has appeared in 26 regionals since the regional qualifying began with just two tournaments in 1993, ironically with one of those in Baton Rouge. We will play in a similar wind and that helps.” “It will blow out of the same direction for us (on Monday). “Luckily for us the wind was blowing out of the east (on Sunday),” the SEC Coach of the Year said. So, the two main things are the speed of the greens and clubs and distances off the tee box. You also want to stay short of bunkers and trouble or carry bunkers and carry trouble.
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Out here, we hit a lot of different clubs other than driver off the tees and they are going to have a couple of holes with different tee boxes so it is figuring out the yardage of what to hit off the tee because water comes into play on so many holes. “But anywhere we go for a practice round we 1) try to get the speed of the greens and 2) get the distances and the lines off the tees. “We knew it was going to be windy down here,” said fifth-year LSU women’s golf head coach Garrett Runion. LSU was able to test itself with the heavy east winds on Sunday as they learned about the course and its many areas of water and sand. in Baton Rouge), the temperature will be in the mid-70s and winds will start out at less than 10 miles per hour, but will get to double figures by the later stages of the round with temperatures in the low 80s. The team went through their practice round Sunday morning and in to the early afternoon as winds held steady between 15-25 miles per hours throughout.
It LSU advances, it would be the first time since 1999-2001 that LSU has gone to the event three straight times. LSU must finish in the top five in this 54-hole event that runs through Wednesday to advance to the final tournament of the year.
The tournament is the first step for the Tigers and a possible return to the NCAA Championships for the third straight year in Scottsdale, Arizona later this month. PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – The LSU women’s golf team tees off Monday morning in the first round of the NCAA Regional Golf tournament at the prestigious PGA National Champions Course, home of the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic.
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