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Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletics department.

BATON ROUGE – Current LSU Tiger Aine Donegan will be one of 28 amateurs who will tee off Thursday in the 2023 United States Women’s Open, being played for the first time at the iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links in California.

Also, former Tiger star Madelene Sagstrom, looking for a spot on Europe’s 2023 Solheim Cup team, will also be in the field.

Donegan, who will be a junior this fall at LSU, will make her U.S. Women’s Open debut after shooting 3-over par 145 at a 36-hole qualifier on June 5 in San Mateo, California. Donegan, a native of Ireland, advanced to match play in The Amateur Championship in England in June and is coming off a successful individual effort for Great Britain and Ireland in the Vagliano Cup in Scotland last Friday and Saturday.

Donegan, who was part of LSU’s team that won four events last season and made a third straight NCAA Championship appearance, has had a good week getting ready for the championship including a practice round on Tuesday with Sagstrom and golf superstar Annika Sorenstam.

“It is so exciting,” Donegan, who is ranked 144 in the world women’s amateur rankings, said earlier this week. “I am so grateful to be here at such a special place like Pebble Beach. It is so amazing to be here and be among the best players in the world.”

After making match play at The Women’s Amateur, she made the semis in the Irish Women’s Close Championship before her play in the Vagliano Cup between GB&I and Europe which featured her teammate, Ingrid Lindblad. Donegan beat Lindblad in a singles match in the final round.

Donegan earned All-SEC honors with a stroke average of 72.97 with third place finishes at the Green Wave Fall Classic (-10 206) and at the SEC Women’s Championship (-2 214).

Sagstrom, whose rookie year on the LPGA tour was 2017, is presently ranked 32 on the Rolex World Rankings and is in position to make the European team for the Solheim Cup this fall. A good finish this weekend would certainly help her chances to make the team for a third time.

The Swedish star has one career win on the LPGA Tour with 15 career top 10s and over $3.4 million in earnings. This will be her seventh appearance in the U.S. Open with her best finish, T17, in 2018.

Donegan will tee off in the fourth group of the day off the 10th tee at Pebble Beach Thursday at 9:33 a.m. CT while Sagstrom will be in the afternoon wave at 4:02 p.m. off the first tee. Those tee times will reverse on Friday as Sagstrom will go off in the morning wave and Donegan in the afternoon wave.

There will be unprecedented streaming and television coverage of the event on Peacock, USA Network and NBC.

Thursday and Friday will feature coverage on Peacock from 3-5 p.m. and then USA Network will have primetime coverage from 5-10 p.m. CT. Saturday and Sunday will be live on NBC from 2-8 p.m. CT.

Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletics department.

BATON ROUGE – LSU’s Ingrid Lindblad of Sweden was part of the winning Continent of Europe Team that Saturday was able to defeat Great Britain and Ireland for the Vagliano Trophy played at Royal Dornoch in Scotland.

Europe won 5 ½ points in the final eight-player singles round to win the Trophy, 13.5-10.5

The competition among women’s amateur golfers is normally held every other year but because of the pandemic has not been played for since 2019. The Continent of Europe team has won every meeting since 2007 and leads the series, 16-15-1.

Ironically, for the second major women’s amateur competition in a month, two LSU golfers were paired against each other as Lindblad faced Aine Donegan. Donegan took the lead for good in the match with an eagle on the par 5 seventh (against a Lindblad birdie) and never looked back in a 2&1 decision.

Donegan won both her matches on the final day and won 2.5 of GB&I’s 10.5 points as the team was tied with Europe, 8-8, entering the final session of singles. She will now head this week to represent LSU after qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open

Lindblad, the World No. 1 Amateur golfer, won two points for Europe and halved one of the feature singles matches on Friday against World No. 12 Hannah Darling of GB&I and plays at South Carolina.

Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletics department.

BATON ROUGE – LSU senior women’s golfer Ingrid Lindblad added another honor to her lengthy outstanding resume’ as she was named to the 2022-23 Academic All-America Women’s At-Large First Team Thursday as selected by the College Sports Communications (CSC).

The At-Large category, in addition to golf, covers such women’s sports as lacrosse, fencing, beach volleyball, rowing, skiing, gymnastics, field hockey, ice hockey and rifle.

Lindblad, a four-time consensus first-team All-America for her efforts on the course where she has 11 collegiate wins and is the No. 1 ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, graduated this past May with her degree from LSU.

The native of Sweden posted a 3.94 GPA in Sports Administration.

Lindblad averaged 70.65 this past season and has the top four stroke averages in LSU history, all under 71.00 strokes per round. She posted two wins this past season. She finished tied for fifth in the NCAA Championships in May and is coming off a semifinal round appearance in the prestigious Women’s Amateur Championship in England this past week.

She is the second player in LSU women’s golf history to earn a CSC Academic All-America At-Large first team citation, joining Devon Day, who earned the honor in 2003.

College Sports Communicators (CSC) began the distinguished Academic All-America® program in 1952, and since then, has honored more than 38,000 deserving student-athletes from numerous sports across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors.

Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletics department.

BATON ROUGE – In the unique format of the R&A’s Women’s Amateur Championship in England, Edit Hertzman of LSU has advanced to the round of 32 Thursday, but she was one of six golfers that had to play two matches to do it.

And it was a good day for LSU’s Swedish contingent as World No. 1 Ingrid Lindblad showed why she’s the present No. 1 as she won her opening match with ease.

Hertzman, who finished her freshman season at LSU, tied for the 62nd mark on the cut number after 36 holes of qualifying at 7-over par. Instead of a sudden death playoff like many amateur events, the women’s amateur has a preliminary match play round to get to the round of 64 to start the day.

Hertzman won her opening match against Gala Dumez of France, who plays for Texas Tech, 4&2, to officially join the round of 64 where waiting for her was senior LSU teammate Latanna Stone, who qualified T2 in the 36-hole qualifier.

Stone had a 1UP lead in the match going to the 18th hole, but Hertzman, who won both her match play opportunities in the SEC Championship, rallied to win the final hole to force extra holes and then won the 19th hole to capture the match and advance on to the round of 32.

Lindblad lived up to her status as the new women’s amateur world number one after a convincing victory to reach the last-32 stage in the 120th Championship at Prince’s, England.

The 23-year-old, who finished in a tie for second place in stroke play qualifying, eased to an 8&7 success over Bailey Shoemaker to continue her form on the Kent links.

Lindblad won the first two holes and never looked back as the Swede will now face England’s Patience Rhodes, who won the St Rule Trophy two weeks ago, in the next round. Rhodes plays her college golf at Arizona State.

“It was nice today,” Lindblad told the R&A. “I played really well. I missed one green and one fairway in 11 holes. I had a few shorter birdie putts and rolled in a long putt on the 9th so it felt good. I’ve been pretty confident in my driver this week, so I’ve just been trying to hit driver wherever I can which gives you a little shorter in obviously. So, on the 2nd I think that drive was like 300 meters long. When it’s blowing, you just trust that the wind is going to pick up the ball and bring it to the fairway. You can attack.”

That round of 32 match will go off in the early morning hours Friday. Hertzman will be off in the final game of the round of 32 against Gile Bite Starkute of Lithuania, who was a senior this past season at Arizona.

LSU’s other match play contenders also fell in the round of 64 with Carla Tejedo falling to Clemson’s Annabelle Pancake of the United States, 3&2, while Aine Donegan dropped a 4&3 decision to Caitlin Peirce of Australia, 4&3.

Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletics department.

BATON ROUGE – LSU seniors Ingrid Lindblad and Latanna Stone were named to the All-American teams chosen this week by Golfweek writers.

Lindblad, who earlier was named to the Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American teams, was named one of the 10 players on the first team.

Stone, who was named to the WGCA Second Team, also picked up second team honors from Golfweek.

Both are playing this week in the Royal and Ancient’s Women’s Amateur in England.

Lindblad had two wins this year and a fifth place finish in the NCAA Championships, is the first LSU women’s golfer to earn first-team All-American honors for a fourth time. The Swedish star, who has a women’s school record 11 career victories at LSU and the most by any LSU men’s or women’s golfer dating back to 1982, finished the 2022-23 season with a stroke average of 70.65, the third lowest in program history.

Lindblad, who last week ascended to the No. 1 ranking in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, is coming off a 7-under par performance in the Scandinavian Mixed event on the DP World and Ladies European Tour in her home country of Sweden.

Stone, from Riverview, Florida, scored the first two wins of her collegiate career in the 2023 portion of the season, winning at the Nexus Collegiate in the Bahamas with a 6-under score of 210 (72-68-70) and at the NCAA Women’s Regional in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida when she posted three consecutive 1-under 71s to shoot 213 at PGA National.

She also posted her second straight top 10 at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur with an eighth-place finish after shooting even par 216. Stone averaged 71.68 for 34 rounds, better than a 1.6 stroke improvement for her average in 2022 and the best of her four years at LSU.

Golfweek All-Americans List

First Team

Jenny Bae, Georgia

Zoe Campos, UCLA

Hannah Darling, South Carolina

Charlotte Heath, Florida State

Rachel Kuehn, Wake Forest

Andrea Lignell, Ole Miss

Ingrid Lindblad, LSU

Julia Lopez Ramirez, Mississippi State

Amanda Sambach, Virginia

Rose Zhang, Stanford

 

Second Team

Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn, Iowa State

Sadie Englemann, Stanford

Sera Hasegawa, Baylor

Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Oklahoma State

Jennie Park, Texas A&M

Megan Schofill, Auburn

Latanna Stone, LSU

Lauren Walsh, Wake Forest

Crystal Wang, Illinois

Lottie Woad, Florida State