Three Seniors Play Final Home Round Sunday

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Kent Lowe (@LSUkent)Communications Sr. Associate



BATON ROUGE – Three LSU seniors will play their final home round of their careers Sunday morning when the 2017 edition of the LSU Tiger Golf Classic resumes after a day off for weather.
The teams played 36 holes on Friday to avoid having the battle the elements on Saturday. The final shotgun round will tee off for the 15 teams and 15 individuals at 8:30 a.m.
LSU’s seniors are Carly Goldstein of Coral Springs, Florida; Lana Hodge of Monroe, Louisiana; and, Caroline Nistrup of Dragoer, Denmark. Goldstein and Nistrup area both in their fourth year in the program, while Hodge is in her second year with the program after transferring from ULM.
Nistrup, who shot a team best round of 1-under 71 on Friday, is an All-SEC and All-America after finishing T12 in the 2015 NCAA Championships. Nistrup has come back for her senior season after missing the majority of the 2016 season with a wrist injury that required surgery.
Hodge has played 21 rounds in her two years at LSU, while Goldstein competed in close to 60 rounds in her four years with the program.
The trio were honored at the team’s annual tournament banquet Saturday night at the University Club.
In the tournament, Duke has a 13-shot lead after two rounds, posting rounds of 285-286 for a 5-under 571. The 285 first round equaled the third lowest round at the U-Club by a women’s team since the 2010 renovation and equaled the final round that Duke shot in the 2016 NCAA Regional at the U-Club last May.
The 5-under 571 total is T2 only to the 567 that South Carolina shot in the 2016 Regional. Both individual leader Leona Maguire of Duke in the first round and T2 Virginia Elena Carta of Duke in the second round shot 5-under 67 and that is equal to the third lowest round shot on the U-Club course since the ...


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