CARLSBAD, California \u2013 The LSU women\u2019s golf team finds itself on the wrong side of the cut line after 36 holes Saturday at the NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Golf Championship.<\/p>\n
But, as they have demonstrated in regional play and last year in the NCAA third round, they seem to know what they need to do when they step on the OMNI La Costa Resort and Spa North Course on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Coming off a 14-birdie even par round on Friday, LSU was unable to match that with eight birdies with three early double bogeys which led to a second-round total of 13-over 301 to stand at 13-over 589 after 36 holes.<\/p>\n
However, just when it looked like things could really be trouble for the Tiger golfers after turning in 9-over par, the team played the final nine holes in just 4-over par. That leaves them very much in the mix to possibly make the 54-hole cut for the sixth year in a row.<\/p>\n
The first cut line, which occurs after 54 holes to the top 15 places, is at this moment is at 10-over par 586 and three teams \u2013 Texas A&M, Tennessee and Florida State \u2013 are at that number. Interestingly enough with the way the tee times are set, only one of those teams based on fifth score tie breaker will play in the morning wave of teams 1-15. The others will be in the afternoon with the teams ranked 16-30.<\/p>\n
LSU will enter the round three shots off the number, certainly in easy reach as several teams have come back into play for the 15th qualifying spot.<\/p>\n
So it appears the afternoon session could have as much say as the morning wave in determining the 54-hole cut number.<\/p>\n
After the teams at 10-over par, North Carolina and Wake Forest are tied for 18th at 11-over with Baylor, Auburn and Virginia next at 12-over. Houston is two shots back of LSU at 15-over par.<\/p>\n
Only three teams are under par through the first 36 holes with No. 1 Stanford at 12-under 564, No. 2 Southern California at 9-under par 567 and Oklahoma State at 7-under 569. It is another seven shots back to Iowa State and Arkansas at 576, even par, tied for fourth.<\/p>\n
LSU is in 23rd place, but just three shots off the number and will play in the wave that starts at 12:45 p.m. PT (2:45 p.m. Baton Rouge time), off the first tee.<\/p>\n
\u201cTough day for the Tigers, certainly not our best,\u201d said LSU Coach Garrett Runion. \u201cWe knew it would be a challenge, teeing off in the afternoon off the back nine, playing that hard stretch of holes on the back nine early in the wind. We tried to right the ship on the front nine and played our back nine better. It still wasn\u2019t our best, but you know anything can happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not out of it, and Sunday we\u2019ve got to believe we can get it done. It helps that we were in the same position last year and we played from the afternoon wave and made our way into the top 15 cut. I made the comment to the team that we didn\u2019t play our best the first day at regionals, and we played great the next two days to make it here, so the likelihood of us playing two rounds not our best is low, and we\u2019ve got one more day to keep our season alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
A year ago, the Tigers were in a tie for 17th place, one shot off the number and posted a 2-over round of 290 to advance to the top 15, eventually finishing tenth.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Francesca Fiorellini did a great job helping keep LSU in the picture after starting her round four-over through five holes. She played the next 13 holes in 2-under par to get back to 74 for the day, equaling LSU\u2019s low round of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Fiorellini on Friday, started bogey-bogey and played the next 16 holes 1-under par to shoot 1-over 73. She is at 3-over 147 after 36 holes.<\/p>\n
The Tigers on the day counted a 3-over 75 from Elsa Svensson and Taylor Riley and a 77 from Ryleigh Knaub. Svensson, who posted a 1-under 71 on Friday, is the top Tiger in the individual standings after 36 holes at 2-over 146, T46.<\/p>\n
Live scoring for the championships is at Scoreboard.clippd.com and streaming through Babygrande at GolfChannel.com<\/p>\n
NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN\u2019S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
Carlsbad, California \u2013 OMNI La Costa Resort & Spa North Course
Second Round Team Results (Par 288-576)
1 Stanford (No. 1) \u2013 282-282 \u2013 564 -12
2 Southern California (No. 2) \u2013 281-286 \u2013 567 -9
3 Oklahoma State (No. 21) \u2013 283-286 \u2013 569 -7
T4 Iowa State (No. 17) \u2013 284-292 \u2013 576 E
T4 Arkansas (No. 7) \u2013 286-290 \u2013 576 E
T6 SMU (No. 16) \u2013 288-289 \u2013 577 +1
T6 Duke (No. 10) \u2013291-286 \u2013 577 +1
8 Texas (No. 5) \u2013 288-290 \u2013 578 +2
T9 Eastern Michigan (No. 27) \u2013 286-295 \u2013 581 +5
T9 Arizona State (No. 23) 289-292 \u2013 581 +5
T11 Northwestern (No. 31) \u2013 290-292 \u2013 582 +6
11 Florida (No. 3) 297-285 \u2013 582 +6
13 Missouri (No. 32) 287-296 \u2013 583 +7
14 Pepperdine (No. 11) \u2013 296-289 \u2013 585 +9
T15 Tennessee (No. 18) \u2013 291-295 \u2013 586 +10
T15 Texas A&M (No. 4) \u2013 289-297 \u2013 586 +10
T15 Florida State (No. 22) \u2013 292-294 \u2013 586 +10
T18 North Carolina (No. 12) \u2013 293-294 \u2013 587 +11
T18 Wake Forest (No. 8) \u2013 300-287 \u2013 587 +11
T20 Virginia (No. 35) \u2013 289-299 \u2013 588 +12
T20 Baylor (No. 26) \u2013 289-299 \u2013 588 +12
T20 Auburn (No. 6) \u2013 302-286 \u2013 588 +12
23 LSU (No. 34) \u2013 288-301 \u2013 589 +13
24 Houston (No. 28) \u2013 294-297 \u2013591 +15
25 Ohio State (No. 25) \u2013 297-295 \u2013 592 +16
T26 Michigan State (No. 38) \u2013 298-297 \u2013 595 +19
T26 Ole Miss (No. 20) \u2013 301-294 \u2013 595 +19
28 Kentucky (No. 33) \u2013 298-299 \u2013 597 +21
T29 Texas Tech (No. 49) \u2013 296-304 \u2013 600 +24
T30 Oregon State (No. 46) \u2013 300-300 \u2013 600 +24<\/p>\n
Top 10 Individuals (Par 72-144)
T1 Farah O\u2019Keefe, Texas \u2013 69-69 \u2013 138 -6
T1 Kajsalotta Svarvar, Ole Miss \u2013 69-69 \u2013 138 -6
T1 Meja Ortengren, Stanford \u2013 70-68 \u2013 138 -6
T4 Kristian Angosta, TCU \u2013 69-70 \u2013 139 -5
T4 Megha Ganne, Stanford \u2014 68-71 \u2013 139 -5
T4 Beth Coulter, Arizona State \u2013 69-70 \u2013 139 -5
T7 Thanana Kotchasanmanee, Princeton \u2013 69-71 \u2013 140 -4
T7 Kyra Van Kan, Tennessee \u2013 69-71 \u2013 140 -4
T7 Marta Silchenko, Oklahoma State \u2013 70-70 \u2013 140 -4
T7 Maria Jose Marin, Arkansas \u2013 72-68 \u2013 140 -4
T7 Siuue WU, Florida \u2013 76-64 \u2013 140 -4<\/p>\n
LSU Scores
T46 Elsa Svensson \u2013 71-75 \u2013 146 +2
T64 Taylor Riley \u2013 72-75 \u2013 147 +1
T64 Francesca Fiorellini \u2013 73-74 \u2013 147 +1
T94 Ryleigh Knaub \u2013 72-77 \u2013 149 +5
T143 Josefin Widal \u2013 77-78 \u2013 155 +11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARLSBAD, California \u2013 The LSU women\u2019s golf team finds itself on the wrong side of the cut line…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[235,44,237,238,236,234,233,113,239],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-geaux-tigers","tag-golf","tag-homepage-feature-headline","tag-latest-news","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-women-s-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}