The No. 4 LSU women’s golf team finished tied for 11th place this weekend at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championships in Knoxville, Tenn.
Fresh off setting a 36-hole school record at the Mason Rudolph Championships two weekends ago, the Lady Tigers faced several challenges on the par-72, 6,317-yard course at Fox Den Country Club.
LSU was without junior All-American Megan McChrystal (virus) and sophomore Tessa Teachman (flu) for the weekend, as LSU women’s golf coach Karen Bahnsen called upon juniors Lindy LaBauve and Abby Oberthier to step up in their absence.
Junior Amalie Valle had the strongest performance of the weekend for the Lady Tigers, firing a 11-over par 227.
LSU finished the weekend with a 46-over 910, 42 shots behind host Tennessee, who won the event with a 4-over 868.
LaBauve and Oberthier both finished in a five-way tie for 40th place, posting a 54-hole total of 12-over 228.
LaBauve, making her first start and second appearance of the year, had her best day of the weekend Saturday, firing a 1-over 73.
Oberthier also had her strongest day Saturday, finishing one stroke behind LaBauve with a 2-over 74.
Louisville’s Laura Anderson won the individual title with a 3-under 213.
The weekend featured unseasonably cool temperatures, with highs in the low 50s and periods of rain.
The Lady Tigers played through a steady rain Friday on a course that had already seen rain the past three days.
“It rained almost the whole round and the course was just saturated,” Bahnsen said in a news release. “We had some bad breaks… bite us.”
The course conditions showed a toll on LSU, as they finished Friday with seven double-bogeys.
LSU is back in action next weekend at the Landfall Tradition in Wilmington, N.C.
 
—-Contact Sean Isabella at [email protected]