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

BATON ROUGE – LSU senior Ingrid Lindblad advanced through two rounds of qualifying and then through four matches before her run at The Women’s Amateur, presented by The Royal and Ancient, came to an end Saturday in the semifinal round at Prince’s England.

Lindblad who showed her strength in her second week as the world’s No. 1 ranked amateur, finished T2 in the 36-hole qualifying and then won her first match on Thursday, two matches on Friday and a quarterfinal win on Saturday morning before falling to Germany’s Chiara Holder, 4&3, in the semifinal outing.

Lindblad found herself one down early against Horder after her birdie at the par-5 2nd. The Swede birdied the 8th to square the match only to bogey the 10th. Horder then dropped a stunning eagle at the 12th and her eagle again on the par 5 15th gave Lindblad no chance to make any kind of comeback.

Earlier in the day, Lindblad defeated fellow Swede Kajsa Arwefjall 4&3 as the LSU star had six birdies on her card.

Of her quarterfinal win, Lindblad told the R&A: “I just tried to keep the ball in the fairway and keep the ball in the greens and play well today and roll the few putts in and that was enough to win. It’s a nice course even though its very dry. So, sometimes we can hit the fairway and the ball just you don’t know where it’s gonna bounce, but that’s part of the game too. The greens are really nice. You can hit your putts and like be sure that it goes nice.”

Horder in the 36-hole finale on Sunday will face American Annabelle Pancake.

It is expected that Lindlbad will next tee it up in The Vagliano Trophy, a women’s amateur international match between Great Britain and Ireland and the Continent of Europe. Lindblad has already been selected for the event which is scheduled for June 30-July 1 in Scotland.

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

BATON ROUGE – All five LSU golfers advanced through to the match play round with solid 36-hole totals after the second round of the Women’s Amateur Championships hosted by the Royal and Ancient at Prince’s, England.

Ingrid Lindblad, Latanna Stone, Aine Donegan, Carla Tejedo and Edit Hertzman all finished in the top 64 and advanced to Thursday’s opening day of match play that will continue until a champion is crowned on Sunday. Lindblad, Stone, Donegan and Tejedo have all secured spots Wednesday evening into the round of 64.

Both Stone and Lindblad fired low rounds to finish at 2-under par 142 for the 36-hole qualifying round. That put them in a tie for second in the field of 144.

Stone, a senior from Riverview, Florida, fired a 4-under par 68 on the second day after a 2-over 74 on the opening day. Stone had five birdies and an eagle on the Prince course in Wednesday’s second round.

Stone was playing her first event on a links course and told the R&A web site: It’s my first time being here, playing links is actually so much fun. It’s such a different experience compared to the States, and I think that this will definitely help my golf game for future events.”

Lindblad, following was a trend during a lot of her collegiate tournaments this past season, was also under par in the second round with a 3-under par 69 with 2 birdies and eagles on both of the back nine par 5s, the 12th and 15th. The senior from Sweden posted rounds of 1-over 73 to go with her 69.

“I eagled both 12 and 15, which helped a lot because I did have a few bogeys,” she said. “On the Swedish team, if someone makes six birdies or makes an eagle, we have a deal with the coaches that the whole team gets ice cream. So, on the first putt I was standing over a 12-footer for eagle and I was like, “This is for ice cream, if I make it, we get ice cream tonight.”

Donegan, from Ireland, who posted a 1-under par 71 on the first day, easily got into the match play with a T6 finish after birdies on three-of-the-last-four holes to post 72 and finish at 1-under 143.

Tejedo posted a 1-over 73 in her first round on Tuesday and followed that with another solid 73 that put her in the field at T23. Tejedo had three birdies in her round on Wednesday.

In a little different twist in this event, sophomore-to-be Edit Hertzman of Sweden, who finished 36 holes at 7-over 151 (77-74) is on to match play in a group of nine tied for 62nd place.

Those players will have a preliminary match round to open Thursday prior to the official bracket of 64 match play round later on Thursday.

So, in this preliminary match play round, Hertzman will face France’s Gala Dumez at 1 a.m. CT in a full 18-hole match to go to the round of 64. There are six matches with three players from the field that finished at 6-over, joining the players at 7-over to determine the last six spots in the knock-out round of 64.

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

BATON ROUGE – Five members of the LSU women’s golf team will tee off Tuesday in search of one of golf’s most prestigious amateur championships, the Royal and Ancient’s Women’s Amateur Championship at Prince’s in England.

Ingrid Lindblad, Latanna Stone, Carla Tejedo, Aine Donegan and Edit Hertzman will take part in 36 holes of qualifying that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The top 64 from the initial field of 144 will then enter match play on Thursday in what will lead to a final match on Sunday for the title.

The links staging the 120th Championship boats a rich history. Prince’s offers modern championship links golf in an idyllic coastal setting. It boasts 27 holes across the Shore, Dunes and Himalayas nine-hole lay-outs. A host to Final Qualifying for The Open from 2018 to 2022, the course also co-hosted The Amateur Championship in 2013 and 2017. The club sits next to Royal St George’s, host to The Open in 2021.

Lindblad, the No. 1 amateur in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, is coming off a very good performance in the DP World Tour/Ladies European Tour Scandinavian Mixed event in Sweden. Lindblad posted rounds of 73-69-69-70 to shoot 7-under par 281 and finish in the top 35, but more importantly in the top five among the women’s portion of the field.

Lindblad is coming off a season in which she earned first-team All-America honors for the fourth time and finished fifth in the NCAA Championships.

Stone posted two wins this season in earning All-America honors for the Tigers and she has had success in events like this before. Stone, No. 29 in the WAGR, has finished top eight the last two years in the Augusta Women’s Amateur (solo eighth this year at even par 216) and has made it to match play in the United States Women’s Amateur.

Tejedo is No. 83 in the WAGR and has been a constant part of the LSU success in her first three years at LSU. She helped her native Spain to a gold medal last summer in the World University Games and earned her first invitational to the Augusta Women’s Am this past April.

Aine Donegan, who recently qualified for the United States Women’s Open in July at Pebble Beach, had a good first season at LSU after transferring from Indiana. After earning second-team Big 10 honors as a freshman, Donegan earned second team All-SEC honors after finishing third in the individual SEC championship event.

Edit Hertzman, a member of the All-SEC freshman team, had several good appearances in the 2022-23 season as the native of Sweden finished runner-up in the prestigious Darius Rucker tournament in Hilton Head earlier this spring.

Live scoring for the Amateur Championship can be found on the R and A’s website www.RandA.org.

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

BATON ROUGE – One day before she tees off as a special invitee in the Ladies European Tour stop in her native country of Sweden, LSU’s record-setting golf star, Ingrid Lindblad, has added another milestone to her list of accomplishments.

She has ascended to the No. 1 spot in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.

Lindblad will play as an amateur starting Thursday in the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed event at the Ulnna Golf Club, north of Stockholm.

Lindblad moved to the top spot from No. 2 in the rankings which details play over the last two years (104 weeks).

In that time, Lindblad has had eight tournament wins and 24 top 10 finishes out of 34 counting events.

The World Amateur Golf Ranking® / WAGR®, which comprises a women’s ranking and a men’s ranking for elite amateur players, is offered by The R&A and the USGA® as a global service to golf. The purpose is to: accurately rank players as they compete in competitions; to provide a ranking system that enables players to compare with each other even though they may not directly compete against each other in events; and, to stimulate ambition in players and federations to succeed in development of their game and golfing ability.

Through incorporation and assessment worldwide of both amateur and professional events, WAGR aims to be globally recognized as the ultimate ranking system for amateur golf.

Lindblad becom.es the 19th golfer to go to No. 1 in the rankings since the women’s amateur listings began in 2011.

Lindblad also recently announced as a two-time Honda Award finalist for golf (2023, 2022). The LSU star from Halmstad, Sweden, is a four-time ANNIKA Award Finalist and a four-time WGCA First Team All-American. She is the first golfer in program history to earn First Team honors four straight years. She finished the season ranked second in Golfstat with a 70.31 adjusted scoring average.

Lindblad added two tournament wins during the 2022-23 season to bring her LSU record career individual win total to 11.

Rose Zhang of Stanford, who previously held the No. 1 spot, turned pro after the conclusion of the NCAA Tournament.

LSU has three golfers in the top 100 of the WAGR with Latanna Stone presently at No. 29 and Carla Tejedo at No. 83.

The tournament Lindblad is playing in is one of the most unique as players from the LET and the DP World Tour play for one title with 78 men and 78 women in the field. Also playing in the event is former LSU All-America and LPGA winner Madelene Sagstrom, also from Sweden. Sagstrom is off the 10th tee Thursday at 1 a.m. CT, while Lindblad will be in the afternoon wave in Sweden which means her round will tee off around 6:40 a.m. CT.

Coverage of the tournament on The Golf Channel will begin Thursday at 6 a.m. CT.

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

BATON ROUGE – Longtime LSU golfer and coach Alexis Rather has been named by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association the Golf Pride Grips Division I Assistant Coach of the Year, it was announced on Tuesday.

Rather is in her 13th season with the Tigers and her fifth working with current LSU head coach Garrett Runion. Rather spent eight seasons under the tutelage of long-time LSU head coach Karen Bahnsen in addition to playing for Bahnsen in the purple and gold from 2003-2008.

Rather is a consummate recruiter and on-course coach and can be seen all over the world searching for talented future Tigers.

“I could not be happier for Alexis Rather in winning the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year Award,” said Runion. “She is beyond deserving of this prestigious award. Alexis has been an assistant coach in the SEC for the last 15 years and considered one of the best for a long time now. That has shown in the last few years with the success we have had.

“She is one of the most loyal and compassionate people I know and has always put the program and the players first. I am glad to see her win this award as she does a lot of behind the scenes work that helps make our program what it is today. As she often says to our current and former players after big accomplishments, ‘Have a day, sis!”

The LSU Tigers in the 2023 season posted a school record scoring average of 285.65 while capturing four wins during the 2022-23 season, tying for the second most in program history. LSU finished the season NO. 3 in the Mizuno WGCA Coaches Poll and earned the No. 1 seed at the NCAA Palm Beach Regional before going on to advance to the NCAA Championships for the third consecutive year.

With a tie for 14th at nationals, the Tigers became one of just five schools to finish in the top 15 each of the three years. In addition, LSU golfers captured four individual titles during the season, while the team boasted three WGCA All-Americans.

The Tigers finished third in the 2011 and 2012 championships when it was a 72-hole stroke play championship and has helped continue to bring some of the world’s top recruits to Baton Rouge, including ANNIKA Award finalists Madelene Sagstrom (2015) and Ingrid Lindblad (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), 2011 NCAA Champion Austin Ernst and two-time top-ten finisher in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur Latanna Stone.

Also recently, the Tigers under Runion and Rather for the first time in 30 years, brought the SEC Championship trophy home to LSU with a win in 2022. The Tigers swept three matches, two in dramatic fashion, defeating Vanderbilt, Alabama and Florida in the nationally-televised finals.

Since Rather joined the staff in the Fall of 2010, LSU has made 10 NCAA Tournament team appearances and sent two individuals in the other seasons. LSU was on pace for a team appearance before the 2020 season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tigers advanced to the NCAA championships five times and placed third in back-to-back seasons in 2011 and 2012. LSU has won 21 regular season tournament titles over the past 13 seasons that Rather has been on staff.

Rather served two years as an assistant coach at Ole Miss before beginning her professional tenure at LSU. At Ole Miss, she helped guide the Rebels back to postseason play and the team won a tournament for the first time since 2004 as the women’s golf team earned the Chancellor’s Cup for the women’s varsity team at Ole Miss with the highest grade point average.

The native of Tupelo, Mississippi, was a four-year letter winner at LSU, appeared in two NCAA Women’s Golf Championships as a player and was a four-time Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar.

Rather, a two-time First-Team All-Louisiana golfer, had three top-10 finishes in her 2008 senior season. That year, she also chipped in for the only birdie in a sudden death playoff for the eighth and final qualifying spot at the NCAA East Regional that got LSU to the NCAA Women’s Championships.

She graduated from LSU in July 2007 with an honors degree in communications and her master’s in sports management from LSU in 2008.

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

BATON ROUGE – LSU All-SEC golfer Aine Donegan is headed to Pebble Beach for the 2023 United States Women’s Open in July.

Donegan, a native of Ireland, captured the second of two qualifying spots Monday in a 36-hole event at The Peninsula Golf and Country Club in San Mateo, California.

She posted rounds of 1-over 72 and 2-over 73 to finish at 3-over 145 on the par 71 layout. That was good for the second spot behind another amateur, Kelly Xu of Claremont, California who finished at 1-under 141 (69-72).

Donegan, who was third after the first 18 holes, finished one shot in front of Miranda Wang of China at 4-over 146 (70-76) and two shots clear of Rachel Heck of Memphis at 5-over 147 (74-73). Wang and Heck will be in the list of alternates for the Open.

Donegan had a solid sophomore season at LSU after transferring from Indiana, earning second-team All-SEC honors with a stroke average of 72.97. She posted three top 10 finishes including a third place finish in the Southeastern Conference Championships at 2-under par 214 (72-71-71).

The women’s Open goes to the prestigious Pebble Beach Golf Links for its 78th championships, July 6-9.

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

BATON ROUGE – LSU senior Ingrid Lindblad, who finished T5 in the most recent NCAA Championships, is one of four finalists for the Class of 2023 Honda Sports Award for Golf as announced by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards.

Joining Lindblad are Jenny Bae from Georgia, Julia Ramirez from Mississippi State and Stanford’s Rose Zhang.

The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 47 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports and signifies “the best of the best in collegiate athletics.” The winner of the sport award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2023 Honda Cup which will be presented during the live telecast of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Presented by Honda on CBS Sports Network on June 26, at 7:30 p.m. CT.

The golf finalists were selected by a panel of coaches and experts from the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA). The Honda Sport award winner for golf will be announced later this week after voting by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Each NCAA member institution has a vote.

Lindblad is a two-time Honda Award finalist for golf (2023, 2022). The senior hailing from Halmstad, Sweden, is a four-time ANNIKA Award Finalist and a four-time WGCA First Team All-American. She is the first golfer in program history to earn First Team honors four straight years. She finished the season ranked second in Golfstat with a 70.31 adjusted scoring average.

Lindblad added two tournament wins during the 2022-23 season to bring her LSU record career individual win total to 11.

The CWSA, entering its 47th year, has honored the nation’s top NCAA women athletes for their superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. Since commencing its partnership in 1986, Honda has provided more than $3.4 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women’s athletics programs.

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

BATON ROUGE – First-Team All-America again for LSU senior Ingrid Lindblad.

Lindblad, off two wins this year and another top-five finish in the just completed NCAA Championships, became the first LSU women’s golfer to earn first-team All-American honors for a fourth time on Friday when the Women’s Golf Coaches Association announced its 2023 All-America team.

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 is the first four-time first-team A-A in either men’s or women’s golf history at LSU.

Also returning to the All-America list of the WGCA is senior Latanna Stone, who after earning honorable mention honors in 2021, is back on the list in 2023, earning second-team listing. Stone was a Golfweek Honorable Mention selection in both 2020 and 2021.

Earning her first spot on the WGCA top players list was sophomore transfer Aine Donegan. The native of Ireland also earned honorable mention honors.

The criteria used to determine the WGCA All-America teams include the following:

Head-to-head competition; Comparison with common opponents; Scoring average; Place finishes in regular season events and tournament wins; and, strength of schedule.

Lindblad now owns the top four scoring averages from each of her seasons to date at LSU and over four years has averaged 70.53 for 117 career rounds, the best career average in school history. Her teammate, Stone, is second with a 72.43 stroke average for 116 rounds.

In the recently concluded NCAA championships, Lindblad tied the school aggregate scoring record for 72 holes at 7-under 281 (70-72-68-71) to finish T5 in the competition. In the last two NCAA Championships, Lindblad has finished T3 and T5.

Lindblad, along with Stone and Carla Tejedo, became one of just 11 LSU women’s golfers to appear in the NCAA Championships tournament at least three times.

Lindblad won during the 2022-23 wraparound season at the Battle at the Beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in October 2022 when she posted rounds of 67-64-64 to become the first LSU women’s golfer to shoot below 200 in a 54-hole tournament, posting an 18-under 195 to win that event.

Her second win during the season came in the final regular season tournament of 2023, in March, while she tied for the title at the Clemson Invitational at 5-under 211 with rounds of 75-67-69.

Lindblad in 10 events and 31 rounds had two wins, nine top 10 finishes and 19 rounds of par or under.

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 posted five top five finishes for the year and 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. She posted 20 par or under rounds, including a second-round of 4-under 68 in the national championship tournament.

For Donegan, her first year at LSU after transferring from Indiana earned her an honorable mention citation for a consistent season in which she only finished out of the top 18 in one regular season tournament. She finished third in both the Green Wave Fall Classic and the Southeastern Conference Women’s Championship and seventh in the Nexus Collegiate.

Donegan shot 10-under 206 (67-68-71) in New Orleans and at the SECs posted rounds of 72-71-71 for a 2-under 214.

Her first season average with the Tigers was 72.97 with three top 10s and 15 rounds of par or under.

A total of 50 student-athletes were selected for the prestigious recognition by the WGCA. The organization was founded in 1983 as a non-profit group representing women’s collegiate goal coaches. The WGCA represents over 700 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.

The complete WGCA All-America teams:

WGCA 1st Team All-Americans
Jenny Bae, University of Georgia
Zoe Campos, UCLA
Karisa Chul Ak Sorn, Iowa State University
Hannah Darling, University of South Carolina
Charlotte Heath, Florida State University
Madd Hinson-Tolchard, Oklahoma State University
Rachel Kuehn, Wake Forest University
Andrea Lignell, University of Mississippi
Ingrid Lindblad, Louisiana State University
Julie Lopez Ramirez, Mississippi State University
Megan Schofill, Auburn University
Lauren Walsh, Wake Forest University
Crystal Wang, University of Illinois
Lottie Woad, Florida State University
Rose Zhang, Stanford University

WGCA 2nd Team All-Americans
Kajsa Arwefjall, San Jose State University
Rosie Belsham, Baylor University
Carla Bernat, Tulane University
Sadie Englemann, Stanford University
Laney Frye, University of Kentucky
Sera Hasegawa, Baylor University
Lion Higo, Pepperdine University
Carolina Lopez Chacarra, Wake Forest University
Ashley Menne Arizona State University
Jennie Park, Texas A&M University
Amanda Sambach, University of Virginia
Celina Sattelkau, Vanderbilt University
Latanna Stone, Louisiana State University
Chiara Tamburlini, University of Mississippi
Mirabel Ting, Augusta University

WGCA Honorable Mention All-Americans
Amari Avery, University of Southern California
Phoebe Brinker, Duke University
Jensen Castle, University of Kentucky
Mathilde Claisse, University of South Carolina
Aine Donegan, Louisiana State University
Megha Ganne, Stanford University
Melanie Green, University of South Florida
Tiffany Le, University of California Riverside
Mackenzie Lee, Southern Methodist University
Lucia Lopez-Ortega, San Jose State University
Patricie Mackova, University of Maryland
Caitlyn Macnab, Texas Christian University
Antonia Malate, San Jose State University
Caley McGinty, The Ohio State University
Emilia Migliaccio, Wake Forest University
Catherine Park, University of Southern California
Louise Rydqvist, University of South Carolina
Emma Schimpf, College of Charleston
Jeneath Wong, Pepperdine University
Michelle Zhang, Southern Methodist University

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

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – LSU senior Ingrid Lindblad tied the school scoring mark for 72 holes in finishing in a tie for fifth place as the Tigers play in the 2023 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships came to an end at Grayhawk Golf Club’s Raptor Course Monday.

Lindblad posted a 1-under par 71 on the final day to finish at 7-under par 281 (70-72-68-71). When stroke play ended, she tied the LSU aggregate scoring record for 72 holes set originally by freshman Austin Ernst in 2011 when she won the NCAA Championship in 2011 at The Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Texas.

Lindblad posted back-to-back top five finishes after finishing in a tie for third at year ago at 1-under 287. Five LSU golfers – Lindblad twice, Ernst, Megan McChrystal, Tessa Teachman and Katy Harris – posted under par 72-hole totals in their NCAA play.

Rose Zhang of Stanford was the individual winner with a 10-under score of 278 after a final round of 68. She was one shot better than Lucia Lopez-Ortega of San Jose State and Catherine Park of Southern California who both posted 9-under 279.

LSU would finish seven shots shy of making the cut to the top eight for match play in a tie for 14th with Georgia. The match play will start on Tuesday morning. The Tigers, despite a bit of a shaky start, posted a solid round of 2-over par on the day to finish 72 holes at 15-over par 1,167.

The Tigers would also set a school mark for aggregate 72-hole total with the 1,167, topping the mark of 1,173 set by the 2011 LSU team that finished third in the NCAA Championships. The 2021 team in the NCAA Championships in Scottsdale posted 1,174.

LSU started the round eight shots out of the eighth spot but the Tigers were only able to get one counting birdie in the first six holes, going to 8-over for the day at that point. But this team, which rallied from eight down with less than nine holes to go in the NCAA Regional to get a qualifying spot, began to get its feet under them.

The Tigers on the par 5 seventh hole got birdies from Alden Wallace, Aine Donegan, Lindblad and an eagle three from Carla Tejedo. Latanna Stone and Donegan followed with birdies on the par 3 eighth hole. At one point early in the final nine holes, the Tigers rallied back to 1-under par in the round and three shots out of the eighth spot.

Besides Lindblad’s 71, the Tigers got a great rebound round from sophomore Aine Donegan, who posted a 1-under 71, playing the last 12 holes in 4-under par. Carla Tejedo finished at 1-over 73 and Latanna Stone finished out with 3-over 75. Alden Wallace, who was playing for the Tigers for the third time in the Championships and for the first time since September, had a 77 in her final college round.

“We fought back today,” said LSU Coach Garrett Runion. “It was nice to see Alden birdie the last hole of her college career after coming back for her fifth year. I was proud of Aine. She struggled the first three days and for her to step up for us when she needed to and shoot 1-under was outstanding. Two years in a row top five for Ingrid. That’s pretty strong. It’s been a great run for her at LSU.

“We just got off to slow starts all four days,” Runion said of the team’s third trip in three Championships at Grayhawk. “I was proud of the way they fought back and make it close and give it a shot. There’s only one team that leaves here happy. I’m proud of the fact that we came here all three years and made the top 15 all three years. It’s never easy. We had a great year. We won four times and won the stroke play at SECs. We were obviously hoping for a special year, but I’m proud of the way the ladies played all year long. We played some good golf and broke some LSU records. We look forward to what the future holds and what we need to do to get back again.”

Lindblad birdied the two par fives on the front side and turned at 1-under 35 after a three-putt on the par 3 eighth hole. The putter did the Swede no favors as she was unable to drop birdie putts on nine, 10 and 11 before finally getting one to drop on 13. Lindblad bogeyed the par 4 14th and had a chance for the LSU individual 72-hole record on the 18th hole but her birdie putt stayed just outside the hole giving her 35-36 nines for her 71.

Lindblad did most of her work on the par 5s this week, tying for second in the field at 8-under par for the 72 holes. Stone and Tejedo played the par 3s for the week at 1-under par to lead the Tigers. Lindblad was best for the team on the par 4s at even par.

After three years in Scottsdale, the NCAA Championships will move to California as Texas will host the tournament in 2024, 2025 and 2026 at the remodeled La Costa Resort, the former site of the old PGA Tour Tournament of Champions.

NCAA WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
Grayhawk Golf Club Raptor Course
Scottsdale, Arizona
Final Stroke Play Results (Par 288-1152)
Top 8 Advance To Match Play on Tuesday
1 Stanford 288-273-29-282 – 1133 -19
2 Texas 292-276-290-280 – 1138 -14
3 Wake Forest 279-280-299-281 – 1139 -13
4 South Carolina 286-276-302-289 – 1153 +1
5 Southern California 296-276-290-282 – 1154 +2
6 Florida State 288-286-289-292 – 1155 +3
7 Texas A&M 287-284-298-287 – 1156 +4
8 Pepperdine 295-279-296-290 – 1160 +8

(Did Not Advance)
T9 New Mexico 287-288-301-287 – 1163 +11
T9 Arizona 292-288-289-294 – 1163 +11
T11 SMU 291-295-295-283 – 1164 +12
T11 Oklahoma State 280-291-300-293 – 1164 +12
13 Mississippi State 301-288-291-285 – 1165 +13
T14 Georgia 286-290-294-297 – 1167 +15
T14 LSU 294-288-295-290 – 1167 +15

Individual Top 5 (Par 72-288)
1 Rose Zhang, Stanford – 72-67-71-68 – 278 -10
T2 Lucia Lopez-Ortega, San Jose State – 68-69-71-71 – 279 -9
2 Catherine Park, Southern California – 71-64-71-73 – 279 -9
4 Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Oklahoma State – 66-70-74-70 – 280 -8
T5 Ingrid Lindblad, LSU – 70-72-68-71 – 281 -7
T5 Michelle Zhang, SMU – 72-72-67-70 – 281 -7

LSU Scores
T5 Ingrid Lindblad 70-72-68-71 – 281 -7
T45 Latanna Stone 73-67-77-75 – 292 +4
T45 Carla Tejedo 73-71-75-73 – 292 +4
T76 Alden Wallace 78-78-75-77 – 308 +20
T78 Aine Donegan 78-79-81-71 – 309 +21

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

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – LSU senior Ingrid Lindblad called her 4-under par 68 Sunday in the third round of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships “a bit of a grind” on a day when Grayhawk’s Raptor Course flexed its muscle after two days of record setting scores for many in the field of 30 teams.

The Tigers played the last three holes of their third round at 4-under par and came home at 7-over par 295 to post a three-round score of 13-over par 877 to move up one spot to 13th place entering Monday’s final qualifying round.

LSU will need to be in the top eight after Monday’s round to advance to match play for the first time in the women’s championship. But in this survive and advance round when no team in the field of 30 broke par on Sunday, the Tigers were able to get pars and key birdies when needed.

Meanwhile, Lindblad after a four-birdie, no bogey round of 68 has moved into a tie for third in the individual competition. The senior from Sweden is just four shots out of the lead held by Southern California’s Catherine Park at 10-under par 206 (71-64-71). Lindblad moved up 21 spots in the standings.

Lucia Lopez-Ortega of San Jose State is second at 8-under 208 (68-69-71) with Lindblad, the world No. 2 in the amateur rankings, tied with world No. 1 Rose Zhang of Stanford and Maddison Hinson-Tolchard of Oklahoma State.

Lindblad has rounds of 70-72-68 for her 210 total, while Zhang has posted 72-67-71 and Hinson-Tolchard’s rounds are 66-70-74.

Lindblad birdied the par 4 3rd hole, the par 4 fifth and the par 4 ninth holes on her front nine then posted eight straight pars before a birdie on the final hole to complete her lowest round in an NCAA Championships. Four times she has posted a 2-under 70 at Grayhawk, including in the opening round of this event.

“To be honest if you look at the scorecard it looks like it was one of those easy rounds, but it was actually a little bit of a grind,” Lindblad said of the day. “I chipped in for par on five and made like a good up and down on six so it wasn’t like it was just hitting greens and everything. I think today was the least amount of greens I’ve hit this week, but I did have a lot of putts just kind of from the fringe and just lagged it to the hole. I drove it a lot better than (Saturday) because when you drive it well here you can go for more pins. I gave myself a few more looks.”

“Having the only clean card in the morning wave is so impressive,” LSU Coach Garrett Runion said of Lindblad. “She played well the second round just didn’t make any putts. Today, having some putts fall. I know she enjoyed having Chuck (LSU Director of Golf Chuck Winstead) out here and being her hype man and following her around. Big time player making big-time plays when they need to. She played an excellent round of golf and hopefully we can get one more tomorrow.”

LSU turned the front nine at 5-over par and was at one point 11 over par entering the final three holes for the round. But Carla Tejedo birdied the par 3 16th then grad student Alden Wallace birdied the par 4 17th and the par 5 18th and Lindblad finished things off with her birdie on the final hole.

“You can’t win the national championship if you don’t have a tee time (Monday) and we have a tee time. I’m proud that this is three straight years we’ve made it to Grayhawk and three straight years we have advanced through the top 15,” said Coach Runion. “You’ve heard me say it a hundred times, we don’t just want a good team, we want a good program. To have a good program you have to be around it and be consistent. We’ve done that the last three, four years.

“Monday, we are eight back and have a realistic shot to make the top eight. It will be a little different as we are chasing instead of being chased. We’re healthy compared to last year. I’m really proud of Alden (Wallace). Her play the last three days has held us in there. Her birdies on the last two holes were huge for us.”

Runion also noted, “The course played a lot firmer and faster (Sunday) and they had some tricky pins where the ball was going away from the hole and they were in some speedy spots. We handled it well for the most part and I’m glad we have a chance to make the eight Monday.”

LSU counted a 75 from Wallace, as well as Tejedo and a 77 from Latanna Stone. Stone is tied for 30th after 54 holes at 1-over par 217 (73-67-77).

Stanford has moved to a seven-shot lead in the team standings at 13-under par after a 2-over round of 290, while Wake Forest, despite posting 11-over on the day, is tied for second with Texas at 6-under 858. Southern California is at 2-under 862 and Florida State in fifth the other under par team for 54 holes at 863.

Arizona and Texas are tied for the seventh and eighth spots at the moment at 5-over 869. LSU was 4-shots clear of the cut as Mississippi State finished 14th at 16-over par 880 and SMU finished 15th at 17-over 881. Those three teams will play together on Monday. San Jose State missed the cut by one shot at 18-over par.

The Monday round is set to begin at 10 a.m. local time (Noon Baton Rouge time) with the Tigers wave to lead the field off the first tee. Live scoring will be available on Golfstat.com and coverage will begin on College Central at 3 p.m. CT followed by live coverage at 4 p.m. CT. Bob Papa will lead the broadcast with Paige McKenzie and Steve Burkowski also in the booth with Billy Ray Brown, Jim Gallagher, Jr., and Julia Johnson on the course.

There will also be updates during the round @LSUwomensgolf on Twitter and @LSUKent.