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Intro 1 Contents/Credits 2 Quick Facts 3 Why LSU? 4 University Club 5 Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility 6 Practice Facilities 8 University Club Layout

Preview 14 Season Preview 16 Tournament Information

Coaches 18 Head Coach Chuck Winstead 20 Assistant Coach Garrett Runion

Tigers 21 Rhyne Jones 22 Brandon Pierce 23 Eric Ricard 24 Blake Caldwell 25 Sam Burns 26 Luis Gagne 27 Nathan Jeansonne 28 Drew Gonzales 29 Carter Toms

Review 30 2015-16 Season Review 32 2015-16 Statistics & Results 33 2015-16 Round-by-Round Results 34 2015-16 Tournament Summaries 36 2015-16 SEC Recap 37 Tigers on the PGA TOUR

History 40 2015 NCAA Champions 42 NCAA Semifinals: LSU vs. Georgia 44 NCAA Quarterfinals: LSU vs. Vanderbilt 46 2015 SEC Champions 48 2014 NCAA Semifinalists 50 John Peterson: NCAA Champion 52 Tigers in Major Championships 53 2012 U.S. Open Championship 54 LSU at the SEC Championships 55 LSU at the NCAA Championships 56 Record Book 58 All-Time Tournament Wins 59 Home Tournament History 60 All-Time Honors 62 Letterwinners

LSU 63 Campus Life 64 LSU Board of Supervisors 65 President Dr. F. King Alexander 66 Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics Joe Alleva 68 Athletics Administration 72 Academic Success 74 Championship Legacy 76 LSU Greats 78 Prominent Alumni 80 LSU Athletic Hall of Fame 81 LSU Social Media

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UNIVERSITY 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF SCHEDULE Location: Baton Rouge, La. SEPTEMBER Founded: 1860 9-11 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Rocky Face, Ga. The Farm GC Enrollment: 31,527 23-25 Maui Jim Intercollegiate Scottsdale, Ariz. Mirabel GC Nickname: Tigers or Fighting Tigers Home Course: The University Club (Par 72) OCTOBER Mascot: Mike VI (Live Bengal Tiger) 8-9 David Toms Intercollegiate Baton Rouge, La. University Club Colors: Purple and Gold 21-23 Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Alpharetta, Ga. The GC of Georgia Conference: Southeastern Affiliation: NCAA Division I NOVEMBER President: Dr. F. King Alexander 4-6 Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii Ka’anapali GC Faculty Representative: Dr. Bill DeMastes FEBRUARY ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT 20-22 The Prestige at PGA West La Quinta, Calif. PGA West Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics: Joe Alleva 27-28 Louisiana Classics Lafayette, La. Oakbourne CC Deputy Director of Athletics: Eddie Nunez Deputy Director of Athletics: Verge Ausberry MARCH Sr. Associate AD/Chief Financial Officer: Mark Ewing 11-12 General Hackler Championship Myrtle Beach, S.C. Dunes GC Sr. Associate AD/Sr. Woman Administrator: Miriam Segar 19-21 Valspar Collegiate Invitational Palm City, Fla. Floridian GC Sr. Associate AD/Compliance & Planning: Bo Bahnsen Sr. Associate AD/Athletic Facility Management: Ronnie Haliburton APRIL Associate AD/Ticket Manager: Brian Broussard 1-2 Aggie Invitational College Station, Texas Traditions Club Associate AD/Facilities & Project Development: Emmitt David 21-24 SEC Men’s Golf Championships St. Simons Island, Ga. Sea Island GC Assistant AD/Marketing: Matt Shanklin Assistant AD/Fiscal Operations: Neal Lamonica MAY 15-17 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional Baton Rouge, La. University Club MEN’S GOLF STAFF 26-31 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships Sugar Grove, Ill. Rich Harvest Farms Head Coach: Chuck Winstead Alma Mater: LSU, 1991 Season at LSU: 12th SUPPORT STAFF Assistant Coach: Garrett Runion Alma Mater: LSU, 2008 Season at LSU: Fifth

TEAM INFORMATION 2015-16 Record: 125-45-5 2015-16 SEC Finish: 5th Postseason: NCAA Quarterfinalists Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 7/1 WILL STAFFORD KATIE O’BRIEN KIRSTIN DeFUSCO Athletic Communications Administrative Assistant Academic Counselor Top Returnees: Sam Burns (So.), Luis Gagne (So.), Eric Ricard (Jr.), Brandon Pierce (Jr.) Top Newcomers: Drew Gonzales (Fr.), Carter Toms (Fr.) Inaugural Season: 1932 Tournament Titles: 128 NCAA Championships: 5 SEC Championships: 16

SPORTS INFORMATION Sr. Associate AD/Athletic Communications Director: Michael Bonnette CORY COUTURE RICK LEFEBVRE Senior Associate Communications Director Kent Lowe Athletic Trainer Strength & Conditioning Coach Senior Associate Communications Director: Bill Franques Senior Associate Communications Director: Jennifer Rodrigues Associate Communications Director: Brandon Berrio MEDIA INFORMATION Associate Communications Director: Will Stafford The 2016-17 LSU Men’s Golf Media Guide was written to provide members of the media with statistics Associate Communications Director: Clyde Verdin and information needed to adequately cover the LSU Men’s Golf team. For further information on Executive Director of Creative Services: Jason Feirman the team and the scheduling of interviews with head coach Chuck Winstead, assistant coach Garrett Creative Services Manager: PJ Odom Runion or any of the student-athletes, please contact Will Stafford in the LSU Athletic Communications Creative Services Coordinator: Amanda Qubty Department at (225) 578-8226. Creative Services Coordinator: Clint Self Staff Photographer: Steve Franz MAILING ADDRESS OVERNIGHT MAILING ADDRESS Staff Photographer: Chris Parent LSU Sports Information Athletic Administration Building, Fifth Floor Men’s Golf Contact: Will Stafford LSU Box 25095 North Stadium Drive Administrative Specialist: Pam LeBlanc Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Baton Rouge, LA 70894

CONTACT INFORMATION (AREA CODE 225) CREDITS LSU Athletic Communications: 578-8226 Editor: Will Stafford LSU Athletic Communications Fax: 578-1861 Design and Layout: PJ Odom Will Stafford’s Cell: 436-4389 Covers: PJ Odom Will Stafford’s E-mail: [email protected] Photography: Steve Franz Men’s Golf Office: 578-1280 Chris Parent LSU Athletic Department: 578-0628 Tim Cowie Ticket Office: 578-2184 Website: www.LSUsports.net

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David Toms 2001 PGA Champion Why LSU? 13-time PGA TOUR Winner “As far back as I can remember, I have literally bled purple and gold. It never crossed my mind that there was anywhere else to go other than LSU. The experiences and relationships that I developed at LSU have been an integral part of my life. No other colleges existed in my mind. I am fortunate to have attended a place that I considered a dream and look forward to my association with the University until the day I die.”

“I came to LSU to improve myself as “I’ve bled purple and gold from Day “Both of my parents played golf for a player and to have an awesome One. I grew up an LSU fan in Baton LSU, so it was always my dream to experience as a student-athlete. I Rouge, my parents went there and I play golf there too. At LSU, you are was able to do both while playing had always wanted to go to school given the opportunity to play and for a great coach in Chuck Winstead there. I had that opportunity when it practice at top-notch facilities and and a great program he has came down to deciding where I wanted play one of the best schedules in the continued to build at LSU. It really to continue my career. It’s the best country. I got better every year at LSU helped me get to where I am today. University on the planet, and I’m proud and made lasting relationships with After graduating, I bought a house to call it my home.” my coaches coaches and teammates. in Baton Rouge and have always I truly believe this is why I will be enjoyed my time here.” playing on the PGA TOUR next year.”

John Peterson Andrew Loupe Smylie Kaufman PGA TOUR Veteran PGA TOUR Veteran PGA TOUR Veteran 2011 NCAA Champion 2-time NCAA All-American PGA TOUR Winner

Did You Know?

• In the 2009 and 2010 editions of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges, LSU is ranked in the first tier for “Best National Universities.”

• LSU is the only public university in Louisiana designated as having very high research activity (RU/VH) by the prestigious Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the highest ranking awarded to doctorate-granting institutions. classification in 2008, one of 68 public funding, from agencies such as the • LSU was named to the 2009 President’s institutions nationally with this elective National Science Foundation, National Higher Education Community Service classification based on community Institutes of Health and the Department Honor Roll by the Corporation for engagement. of Homeland Security has increased 86 National and Community Service, the percent or more than $90 million over the highest federal recognition a college or • LSU is one of only a handful of universities last five years. university can receive for its commitment in the nation having land-grant, sea-grant to volunteering, service-learning and civic and space-grant status. • Newsweek magazine named LSU the engagement. “Most Diverse” school in the nation in • LSU currently ranks among the Top the Sept. 3, 2003, issue. The enrollment • LSU earned the prestigious Carnegie 30 public universities in total research consists of 24 percent minority students. Community Engagement and Outreach awards. The University’s total federal

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University CLUB

legend and PGA TOUR pro David Toms and renowned golf course architect Jim Lipe, who designed the original University Club in 1998. The course is carved into nearly 300 acres of land just seven miles south of the LSU campus on Nicholson Drive. It came as no surprise that the University Club was selected as an NCAA Men’s Golf Regional host site during the 2013 season, marking the first time in the illustrious history of the LSU Men’s Golf program that the Tigers served as hosts to an NCAA postseason tournament on its home course. The men’s team has again been chosen to play host to NCAA Regional competition in the spring of 2017, while the Lady Tigers hosted a women’s regional in 2015. The challenging 18-hole, par-72 course at University Club plays to 7,700 yards from its championship tees and features wide fairways bordered by pine hammocks and native grasses, in addition to 2,000 feet of beautiful bulkhead. Four additional sets of tees are also available for players of all ages and skill levels. In addition, the lake areas have been increased by 110,000 cubic yards in total and more than 500 trees have been added throughout the course to provide a challenging test of golf for anyone playing the University Club. Not only that, but the course now has one of the most impressive finishing holes in golf as the 18th hole on the back nine features a new championship “Tiger” tee with a beautiful six-foot high wood bulkhead. The lake was expanded near the green, where an additional 180 feet of bulkhead was also added. The course was built on land donated to the Tiger Athletic Foundation and subsequently leased to The University Club. The original vision that drove For more than a decade, the LSU men’s and women’s golf teams have called University Club’s development was having a premier course that would provide a University Club home. The course received the honor of being ranked the 13th- place for TAF members to play, as well as a home for the men’s and women’s golf best home for college golf in the country, according to a survey published in the teams at LSU. September 2005 issue of Golf Digest. The evaluation by Golf Digest ranked the The course opened for members on Oct. 22, 1998. The swimming and tennis Top 15 home courses in college golf, and included such criteria as shot values, facility adjacent to the course opened in the summer of 2000. resistance to scoring, course layout and design, memorability and conditioning. The Tiger Athletic Foundation is a private, non-profit corporation that serves After undergoing extensive renovations in 2010, the home of LSU’s nationally- as the fund-raising and development arm of the LSU athletics department. Each ranked men’s and women’s programs features a newly-designed par-72 layout year, the TAF underwrites scholarship and academics awards, as well as capital that will serve as an impressive showpiece for generations to come. development projects for LSU athletics. The course at the University Club was redesigned under the guidance of LSU

4 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility ONLYINTRO ONE

Bilyeu Golf PRACTICE FACILITY

On April 15, 2011, the former LSU Golf House was primarily as a golf-learning center for the LSU men’s spacious environment. renamed the Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility in honor and women’s teams where student-athletes are able Chuck Winstead, who is the head coach of the of Mary and Woody Bilyeu following their generous to improve their skills at one of the nation’s best men’s golf team and a Top 100 Teacher according to donation toward the redesign of the new University practice facilities. Golf Magazine, believes that having such a facility Club and practice facility. The Bilyeu Practice Facility features a lavish is essential in the development of his players and is Donations raised by the Tiger Athletic Foundation meeting room, office space for both the men’s and evidence that LSU is committed to running a first- allowed for extensive renovations to the University women’s coaching staffs and an area devoted to class program. Club and practice facility in 2010, creating a equipment repair and storage. It also includes locker “The facility offers our student-athletes an more challenging venue for collegiate golfers rooms, an indoor driving range with two hitting bays environment second to none to excel and reach while attracting championship level events to the and a state-of-the-art learning center which can their potential,” Winstead said. “The combination of University Club. The NCAA subsequently awarded utilize the latest technology and video analysis to state-of-the-art technology to work on their game the University Club the honor of serving as one of six benefit each player’s development in a classroom combined with our indoor putting area to fine-tune host sites for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf setting. their stroke enables our players to maximize their Regionals. Outside the facility is a practice tee box that ability. We are able to utilize the tools we have to The Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility first opened in the measures 100 yards in length, a brand new wedge get the best out of each player and teach them in a fall of 2002 to rave reviews from players, coaches game area built in 2007 and a 10,000-square-foot comfortable setting.” and members of the athletic administration alike. putting and pitching green surrounded by practice This $850,000 facility funded by TAF functions bunkers where players are able to practice in a

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TrackMan LSU utilizes TrackMan technology to improve each player’s game with properly-fitted equipment tailored to their specific needs. Each player is able to obtain exact yardages for each club in his bag while measuring various aspects of his swing, such as launch angle, spin rate, attack angle, Practice clubhead speed, ball speed and much more.

An inside FACILITIES view of the luxorious meeting and conference CONFERENCE ROOM u room. The lavish conference room at the LSU Golf House enables the LSU coaching staff and players to meet in a quiet, spacious area.

LOCKER ROOM q The new Tiger locker room includes space for all the players to dress and store their equipment.

VIDEO ANALYSIS LSU head coach Chuck Winstead teaches his players using state-of-the-art video technology that is second to none.

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WEDGE GAME PUTTING GREEN TEE BOX The practice facilities at the Bilyeu Golf In addition to building a new wedge game Members of the LSU men’s and women’s TrackMan Practice Facility feature a wedge game area area, recent renovations to the practice golf teams have the opportunity to practice with three target greens, each measuring facilities at The Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility in a spacious environment as the Bilyeu Golf LSU utilizes TrackMan technology to improve each player’s game with 2,000 square feet. Players can fine-tune their saw the completion of a brand new putting Practice Facility features a large tee box properly-fitted equipment tailored to their specific needs. Each player is wedge game by hitting shots from all lies green measuring 10,000 square feet along measuring 100 yards in length. able to obtain exact yardages for each club in his bag while measuring and angles up to 120 yards as the greens with an existing putting green measuring various aspects of his swing, such as launch angle, spin rate, attack angle, are guarded by rough and five bunkers. The 14,000 square feet that has been overseeded clubhead speed, ball speed and much more. project, designed by LSU alumni David Toms, with bent grass. In all, the improvements Jim Lipe and Chuck Winstead, was completed to the practice facilities at the Bilyeu Golf in the summer of 2007. Practice Facility are estimated at $150,000.

Club Repair The Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility is blessed with a state-of-the-art club repair room that allows the players to re-grip clubs, re-shaft clubs and check and change the lies and lofts of each club, including woods and putters, to ensure your set is where you want it.

SAM PuttLab The SAM (Science and Motion) PuttLab uses the same basic principles as TrackMan technology, but with putting. The Tigers are able to fine-tune their putting stroke from the feedback SAM provides about the angle of the putter face at set up, impact and through the stroke.

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No. 3 University Club Hole-By-Hole In its original state, through the and an impressive 6,602 yards summer of 2009, the University from member tees. Club played at just over 7,200 Here are some characteristics of yards from its Tiger Tees and just the course and pictures of the holes over 6,000 yards for the early LSU (tees are listed in the following Women’s Golf Classics. Now the order: Tiger-Scratch-Member- course measures out at a hefty Senior-Ladies/Juniors). 7,700 yards from the Tiger Tees Distances Tiger Tee – 3892-3808 – 7700 Senior – 3043-2935 – 5978 Scratch – 3648-3586 – 7234 Ladies/Juniors – 2660-2643 -- 5303 Member -- 3377-3225 – 6602

No. 1 – Par 4 – 456-402-385-349-274 A championship tee lengthened the No. 1 hole by 50 yards. The former waste bunker on the left side was replaced by an area of pine hammock and several trees planted in the right rough. On the approach shot, players have to watch for a grass hollow that replaced greenside bunkers.

No. 2 – Par 4 – 447-435-382-324-312 A good hole that didn’t need a lot of change. Two bunkers tempt those looking to carry a drive and the raised left side of the green creates a top shelf pin placement.

No. 3 – Par 5 – 673-632-578-542-496 Can you say long? The No. 1 handicap hole on the course had 53 yards added to its Tiger distance and features native grass areas down both sides of a fairway that was much easier to hit. The water has been expanded off the tee, replacing the old fairway bunker. The elevated green makes a more demanding approach.

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No. 4

No. 4 – Par 4 – 375-341-315-288-231 No. 6 This was a short par-four that some long hitters could put the ball at the edge of the green with an accurate drive. That task is a little tougher as the left side water now extends into the fairway. The green has been extended back for an additional hole location.

No. 5 – Par 3 – 189-172-155-137-96 This picturesque par-three loses the wide bail-out area on the right as you look from the tee. The lake extends closer to the green making accuracy everything from the tee box.

No. 6 – Par 5 – 573-554-522-478-450 This hole has a whole new identity with a new lake down the entire length of the hole. A creek also crosses the fairway, directly in the landing zone of most hitters. The creek extends into a pond at the green making the approach shot more demanding.

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No. 7

No. 7 – Par 4 – 471-457-431-401-349 The beginning of a tough stretch of No. 8 three holes to close the front nine. Native grasses replaced the wetlands in front of the tee box. A fairway bunker has been added and a grass hollow is now left of the green.

No. 8 – Par 3 – 222-188-166-130-107 The long par-three eighth hole has undergone a complete renovation. The tee box has been reshaped and elevated by seven feet. The water on the hole has expanded to the front left of the green. The putting surface has been reshaped with three new bunkers.

No. 9 – Par 4 – 486-467-443-394-345 The second-longest par-four on the course has several trees down the right side. Waste bunkers have been replaced by pine hammock areas and native grass comes into play on the left side. The result is a tighter landing area to try to place a drive.

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No. 11

No. 10 – Par 4 – 484-444-402-354-327 No. 10 Golfers will notice the trees down the left side that give the hole definition. The approach shot will have to avoid pine hammocks short and right of the green.

No. 11 – Par 5 – 567-557-516-484-429 This long par-five has native dunes on the left side. A fairway bunker in the middle of the fairway that is 110 yards out from the green will cause approach problems. The water down the right has been extended close to the newly-elevated green, placing a premium on getting the ball to the hole.

No. 12 – Par 4 – 422-410-368-350-307 Several trees will cause problems with errant drives on both sides of the hole. A new sand bunker has replaced a grass bunker in front of the green. An accurate tee shot is a must.

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No. 13

No. 14

No. 13 – Par 3 – 209-179-151-141-119 This has always been one of the best No. 15 holes on the course. Some trees have been added and the green expanded to add hole locations. A straightforward tee shot is necessary with severe bunkers on the left side of the green.

No. 14 – Par 4 – 460-448-404-351-317 One of the more intimidating holes on the course with an uncompromising dogleg left leaving little room for error off the tee. Water has been extended into the fairway on the left side and pine hammocks down the right. The green has been expanded to the back and to the right.

No. 15 – Par 4 – 365-347-327-287-244 This hole probably had some of the biggest changes on the golf course. There is a new elevated tee box and the right side of the hole features mounding with native grasses. The fairway has been reshaped and bunkers added on the left. The hole has the potential to be played as a drivable par-four.

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No. 18

No. 16

No. 16 – Par 3 – 253-215-167-144-117 No. 17 This hole now could play 250 yards over water from the Tiger tee as opposed to the former distance of 188 yards. The existing green has been expanded to the right to allow more hole locations. Water has been added to the right of the green.

No. 17 – Par 5 – 551-528-501-452-443 The hole has several trees down the right side of the entire hole. The water on the left expands toward the fairway approaching the hole. A lake at the green makes an accurate approach imperative. Long hitters can reach the green in two.

No. 18 – Par 4 – 497-458-389-372-340 The U-Club’s signature hole is one of the best finishing holes in the state. Native grasses are both right and left on this dogleg left hole. The lake, which has always been in play off the tee, has been expanded near the green, replacing the left greenside bunker. There is 180 feet of bulkhead bordering the left side of the green.

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CONTENDERS AGAIN! Tigers Join National Championship Chase Again in 2017

The LSU Tigers announced their arrival as a among the Top 5 nationally five-straight times eye of joining the SEC and NCAA championship national championship contender to the rest of from 1939-43, as well as three-straight times chase once again. the country three seasons ago during the 2014 from 1946-48 and 1953-55 before their current LSU will kick start their 2017 spring season spring season while advancing to the NCAA run. with two tournament titles already under their Semifinals of match play at the NCAA Division While returning Wright, Pierce and Ricard belt from the fall after winning the Maui Jim In- I Men’s Golf Championships. They went a step from their NCAA-title-winning lineup, Burns and tercollegiate in Arizona back in September with further in 2015 by advancing to the NCAA Cham- Gagne were the ones leading the Tigers back to a record-setting performance and defending pionship Match and scoring a 4-1 victory over the Match Play Eight while tying one another for their home turf at the University Club with a win the USC Trojans to capture the program’s fifth 13th place on the final stroke-play leaderboard at the David Toms Intercollegiate in October. national championship all-time and its first in 60 at the NCAA Championships, firing matching Gagne sparked the Tigers to a title sweep at years. The Tigers capped that season as NCAA scores of 4-over par 284 on the par-70 course at Mirabel Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, when Champions after also claiming the SEC title as Eugene Country Club. he fired 17-under par 196 for three rounds to the nation’s premier program. While also winning team titles at the David set the lowest tournament score by an LSU Tiger LSU put up a strong defense of its crown Toms Intercollegiate during the 2015 fall season in more than 30 years while claiming his first at the NCAA Championships last June while and both The Prestige at PGA West and Tiger career medalist honor. The Tigers also set a advancing to the Match Play Eight for the third- Classic in the spring, the Tigers were once again school record touranment score of 41-under 811 straight season, joining Illinois as the only two among the elite programs across the country en route to the victory. programs to advance to match play each year while defending their national championship. The Tigers completed their second-straight since 2014. The Tigers suffered a 3.5-1.5 defeat 2015-16 was a season that saw three Tigers title sweep at the David Toms Intercollegiate to eventual national champion Oregon in the na- earn All-America honors for the third year as Gagne tied Burns, Pierce and Ricard as tional quarterfinals on the Ducks’ home course in a row and just the fourth time in program quad-medalists at 1-under par to lead the team at Eugene Country Club. history. Wright was honored as a Second-Team to a 35-shot victory in its home event at 11-un- With a lineup loaded with five All-Americans All-American by PING and Golfweek, while der. LSU also placed fourth in its fall opener at in senior Zach Wright, juniors Brandon Pierce he was also joined by both Burns and Gagne the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic in Septem- and Eric Ricard and freshmen Sam Burns and as honorable-mention selections on the PING ber followed by an 11th-place finish at The Golf Luis Gagne, the Tigers played as the No. 3 seed All-America Teams as announced by the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate in October and a third- in match play at the NCAA Championships after Coaches Association of America following the place finish at the Ka’anapli Collegiate Classic in taking third place in stroke-play qualifying with a NCAA Championships. Hawaii in November. final score of 16-over par in 72 holes. With Burns and Gagne both returning as Burns is already a Haskins Award candidate By officially tying for fifth place in the final sophomores alongside 2015 All-Americans with his performance this season after wrapping team race at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Pierce and Ricard as seniors, it came as no up the fall season as the No. 4-ranked player in Championships, the Tigers earned a top-five surprise wen the Tigers teed off in September the country by Golfweek and the No. 5-ranked national finish in three-straight years for the with a No. 7 national ranking in the Bushnell/ player nationally by Golfstat. He is the team’s fourth time in school history. They also finished Golfweek Preseason Coaches’ Top 25 poll and an leading scorer with a 69.00 stroke average in

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Brandon Pierce Luis Gagne

18 rounds played through his victory at the 42nd they are set to defend their team title at The pionship Match. Sun Bowl Western Refining College All-America Prestige at PGA West in their opener Feb. 20-22 Northern Illinois will play host to the 2017 Golf Classic at El Paso Country Club in November. before also competing at the Louisiana Classics NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships Burns has cracked the Top 10 in each of his (Feb. 27-28), General Hackler Championship at Rich Harvest Farms from May 26-31. In its six collegiate appearances so far this season af- (March 11-12), Valspar Collegiate Invitational current format, the top eight teams from a field ter also tying for sixth place at the Carpet Capital (March 19-21) and Aggie Invitational (April 1-2). of 30 teams earning a place for a seeded match- Collegiate Classic, placing eighth at the Maui Jim The SEC Men’s Golf Championships return play tournament to crown this season’s national Intercollegiate and tying for ninth place at The to the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club champion. Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate along with his two for the 17th-straight season as the Tigers look The Top 15 teams through three rounds will wins. to contend once again April 21-24 to kick off the make the cut and advance to a fourth and final Gagne, a match-play quarterfinalist at the championship season. round of qualifying with the match-play field set 116th United States Amateur Championship LSU will then look to qualify for the 30-team after 72 holes of stroke play. last summer, is also ranked as high as No. 43 by field at the NCAA Championships with a top-five The team with the lowest score in stroke Golfweek and No. 97 by Golfstat with his efforts team finish as they play host to the NCAA Baton play will meet the team with the eighth-lowest in the 2016 fall season. He follows Burns with Rouge Regional being held May 15-17 at the score, the second-place team will meet the the second-lowest scoring average on the team University Club. By qualifying, the Tigers would seventh-place team and so on in single-elimi- at 70.78 strokes per round through the fall. compete at the NCAA Championships for the sev- nation match play until a champion is crowned. Pierce boasts three top-10 finishes in his five enth time in eight seasons dating back to 2010. The current format is a more attractive option for starts heading into the 2017 spring season as a This year’s NCAA Championships will be held television as Golf Channel has featured live cov- third Tiger to crack Golfweek’s Top 50 nationally at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois. erage of the NCAA Championships in each of the as the No. 48-ranked player in the country this The NCAA’s match-play format for postseason last three seasons, and will continue this spring season. With a current career-low scoring aver- play has been a smashing success since it was at Rich Harvest Farms. age of 71.00 to his name, Pierce is also the No. instituted in 2009 as Texas A&M (2009), Augusta 78-ranked player nationally in the final Golfstat State (2010, 2011), Texas (2012), Alabama (2013, player rankings in the fall season. 2014), LSU (2015) and Oregon (2016) have been Also solidifying their place in LSU’s lineup crowned national champions in the NCAA Cham- with outstanding fall seasons were Ricard and sophomore Nathan Jeansonne. Ranking fourth in the lineup with a 71.83 scoring average in four tournament appearances, Jeansonne tied 2016-17 LSU MEN’S GOLF ROSTER for seventh place at the David Toms Intercolle- NAME HT. CL. EXP. HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) giate for his first Top 10 of the campaign. Ricard Sam Burns 6-1 So. 1L Shreveport, La. (Calvary Baptist Academy) rounds out the lineup with a 72.33 scoring aver- Blake Caldwell 5-9 Jr. 2L Ponchatoula, La. (Ponchatoula HS) age with one win and Top 10 of his own. Luis Gagne 5-9 So. 1L Orlando, Fla. (Orlando Christian Prep) Also looking to earn their spot in the lineup Drew Gonzales 5-10 Fr. HS Lafayette, La. (St. Thomas More HS) as the Tigers compete for SEC and NCAA cham- Nathan Jeansonne 5-9 So. 1L Keithville, La. (Calvary Baptist Academy) pionships again this spring will be senior Rhyne Rhyne Jones 5-9 Sr. 1L Blowing Rock, N.C. (Christ School/Nevada) Jones, junior Blake Caldwell and freshmen Drew Brandon Pierce 5-9 Sr. 3L Covington, La. (St. Paul’s HS) Gonzales and Carter Toms. Eric Ricard 6-1 Sr. 3L Shreveport, La. (Loyola College Prep) The Tigers will compete in five regular-sea- Carter Toms 5-9 Fr. HS Shreveport, La. (C.E. Byrd HS) son tournaments in the 2017 spring season as

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Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Texas, Texas A&M, UCLA, Villanova, Virginia, Wake Forest Date: Sept. 9-11, 2016 LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: 11th Host: The Farm Golf Club SID Contact: Mike Stamus Location: Rocky Face, Georgia SID E-mail: [email protected] Course: The Farm Golf Club SID Phone: (404) 894-5445 Par: 72 SID FAX: (404) 894-1248 Yardage: 7,012 Last Year’s Team Champion: Auburn (868) Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic Last Year’s Medalists: Jacob Joiner, Georgia Tech (212) Date: Nov. 4-6, 2016 Field: Alabama, Auburn, Chattanooga, Clemson, Dalton State, Florida, Host: Hawaii Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State, LSU, Memphis, North Florida, South Location: Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia Course: Ka’anapali Golf Club (Royal Course) LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: 4th Par: 71 SID Contact: Ross Newton Yardage: 6,700 SID E-mail: [email protected] Last Year’s Team Champion: Oklahoma (837) SID Office: (706) 226-9171 Last Year’s Medalist: Zach Healy, Georgia (205) SID Cell Phone: (706) 218-0263 Field: Ball State, Boise State, Bowling Green, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia State, Gonzaga, Hawaii, Maui Jim Intercollegiate Hawii-Hilo, Houston, Kansas, Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount, Date: Sept. 23-25, 2016 LSU, Minnesota, North Florida, Oklahoma, Sacramento State, South Host: Georgia State Carolina, Texas-San Antonio, UC-Santa Barbara, UNC-Wilmington Location: Scottsdale, Arizona LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: Did Not Compete Course: Mirabel Golf Club Media Contact: Derek Inouchi Par: 71 Media E-mail: [email protected] Yardage: 7,147 Media Office Phone: (808) 956-4478 Last Year’s Team Champion: None Media Cell Phone: (808) 954-0234 Last Year’s Medalists: None Field: Augusta, Baylor, California, Chattanooga, Georgia State, Georgia The Prestige at PGA West Tech, Grand Canyon, Hawaii, Houston, Kansas, Kent State, LSU, Notre Date: Feb. 20-22, 2017 Dame, South Carolina, South Florida, UAB Co-Hosts: Stanford & UC-Davis LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: Did Not Compete Location: La Quinta, California SID Contact: Mike Holmes Course: PGA West - Greg Norman Course SID E-mail: [email protected] Par: 72 SID Phone: (404) 413-4033 Yardage: 7,156 SID FAX: (404) 651-3204 Last Year’s Team Champion: LSU (826) Last Year’s Medalist: Zach Wright, LSU (201) David Toms Intercollegiate Field: Arizona State, East Tennessee State, Iowa State, LSU, Oklahoma, Date: Oct. 8-9, 2016 Pepperdine, Saint Mary’s, San Diego State, Stanford, Texas Tech, Host: LSU UC-Davis, University of Stirling Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: 1st Course: The University Club SID Contact: Mike Robles Par: 72 SID E-mail: [email protected] Yardage: 7,220 SID Phone: (530) 752-3680 Last Year’s Team Champion: LSU (864) SID FAX: (530) 754-5674 Last Year’s Medalist: Eric Ricard, LSU (206) Field: Central Arkanas, DePaul, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, LSU, McNeese State, Navy, North Texas, Pennsylvania, Louisiana Classics South Alabama, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern Illinois, Western Date: Feb. 27-28, 2017 Carolina Host: Louisiana-Lafayette LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: 1st Location: Lafayette, Louisiana SID Contact: Will Stafford Course: Oakbourne Country Club SID E-mail: [email protected] Par: 72 SID Phone: (225) 578-7947 Yardage: 6,898 SID FAX: (225) 578-1861 Last Year’s Team Champion: Illinois (849) Last Year’s Medalist: Ben Welle, Kansas (209) Field: Illinois, Kent State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, LSU, Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Missouri-Kansas City, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana, Date: Oct. 21-23, 2016 Southern Illinois, Southern Miss, Texas A&M, Texas-Arlington, Texas- Host: Georgia Tech San Antonio, Texas State, Toledo Location: Alpharetta, Georgia LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: Did Not Compete Course: The Golf Club of Georgia SID Contact: Jeff Schneider Par: 72 SID E-mail: [email protected] Yardage: 7,017 SID Phone: (337) 482-6332 Last Year’s Team Co-Champions: Auburn & Wake Forest (855) SID FAX: (337) 482-6649 Last Year’s Co-Medalists: Derek Bard, Virginia; Will Long, Auburn; Maverick McNealy, Stanford; Cameron Young, Wake Forest (210) Field: Auburn, Clemson, Duke, East Tennessee State, Georgia Tech, LSU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Southern California, TCU,

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General Hackler Championship Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Date: March 11-12, 2017 A&M, Vanderbilt Host: Coastal Carolina LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: 5th Location: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina SID Contact: Chuck Dunlap Course: Dunes Golf Club SID E-mail: [email protected] Par: 72 SID Phone: (205) 458-3010 Yardage: 7,233 SID FAX: (205) 458-3030 Last Year’s Team Champion: South Carolina (841) Last Year’s Co-Medalists: Matthew NeSmith, South Carolina; Jimmy NCAA Regionals Stanger, Virginia (207) Date: May 15-17, 2017 Field: Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, East LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: T-3rd at NCAA Franklin Regional Tennessee State, Iowa State, Kent State, Kentucky, LSU, NC State, North Florida, Pepperdine, South Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Regional Host: LSU (The University Club, Baton Rouge, La.) Forest Regional Host: Middle Tennessee State (The Grove, Murfreesboro, LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: Did Not Compete Tenn.) SID Contact: Mike Cawood Regional Host: Purdue (Kampen Course, West Lafayette, Ind.) SID E-mail: [email protected] Regional Host: Stanford (Stanford Golf Course, Palo Alto, Calif.) SID Phone: (843) 349-2822 Regional Host: Texas (University of Texas Golf Club, Austin, Texas) SID FAX: (843) 349-2819 Regional Host: Washington (Washington National Golf Club, Auburn, Wash.) Valspar Collegiate Invitational 2015 Albuquerque Regional Champion: Arizona State (876) Date: March 19-21, 2017 2015 Albuquerque Regional Medalist: Jon Rahm, Arizona State (212) Co-Hosts: Arkansas & Lamar 2015 Franklin Regional Champion: Texas (819) Location: Palm City, Florida 2015 Franklin Regional Medalist: Michael Perras, Houston (200) Course: Floridian Golf Club 2015 Kohler Regional Champion: Illinois (853) Par: 72 Yardage: 6,916 2015 Kohler Regional Medalist: Tee-k Kelly, Ohio State (209) Last Year’s Team Champion: Texas (855) 2015 Stillwater Regional Champion: Oklahoma State (871) Last Year’s Medalist: Zach Wright, LSU (211) 2015 Stillwater Regional Medalist: Kristoffer Ventura, Oklahoma State Field: Arkansas, Florida, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Houston, (216) Illinois, Kent State, Lamar, LSU, Oklahoma State, SMU, South Florida, 2015 Tucson Regional Champion: Stanford (833) Tennessee, Texas A&M, UCLA 2015 Tucson Regional Medalist: Franklin Huang, Stanford (204) LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: 2nd 2015 Tuscaloosa Regional Champion: Georgia (848) SID Contact: David Beall 2015 Tuscaloosa Regional Medalist: Greyson Sigg, Georgia (207) SID E-mail: [email protected] SID Phone: (479) 575-2752 SID FAX: (479) 575-7428 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships Date: May 26-31, 2017 LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: T-5th (NCAA Quarterfinals) Aggie Invitational Host: Northern Illinois Date: April 1-2, 2017 Location: Sugar Grove, Illinois Host: Texas A&M Course: Rich Harvest Farms Location: Bryan, Texas 2016 NCAA Champion: Oregon Course: The Traditions Club 2016 NCAA Medalist: Aaron Wise, Oregon (275) Par: 72 Yardage: 7,146 Field: The top five teams from each NCAA Regional advance Last Year’s Team Champion: Oklahoma State (864) SID Contact: Donnie Wagner Last Year’s Co-Medalists: Alvaro Ortiz, Arkansas; Kristoffer Ventura, SID Phone: (317) 917-6813 Oklahoma State (212) SID FAX: (317) 917-6826 Field: Arkansas, Baylor, Kent State, LSU, Michigan, New Mexico State, North Carolina, North Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas- San Antonio, Texas Tech LSU’s 2015-16 Finish: 2nd SID Contact: Adam Quisenberry SID E-mail: [email protected] SID Phone: (979) 862-5453 SID FAX: (979) 845-6825

SEC Men’s Golf Championships Date: April 21-24, 2017 Host: Southeastern Conference Location: St. Simons Island, Georgia Course: Sea Island Golf Club - Seaside Course Par: 70 Yardage: 6,898 Last Year’s Team Champion: Georgia (853) Last Year’s Medalist: Lee McCoy, Georgia (207) Field: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Rhyne Jones

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 17 COACHES Coaches CHUCK WINSTEAD

HEAD COACH 12TH SEASON

June 3, 2015, is a day that will live long in the SEC award with second-team selections along with Jolly, the 2011 NCAA Championships when John Peterson memory of the LSU Tigers. who ended his collegiate career as a two-time All-SEC claimed the program’s first individual championship in It was on that day at Concession Golf Club in performer. 70 years with his winning performance at Oklahoma Bradenton, Florida, when head coach Chuck Winstead The Tigers were also crowned SEC Champions for the State’s Karsten Creek Golf Club. That’s when the former and the Tigers lifted the national championship trophy first time in 28 years and the 16th time in their history three-time All-American and emerging PGA TOUR for the fifth time in school history and the first time in 60 when they scored a three-stroke victory over Vanderbilt standout fired a 5-under par 211 for three rounds of years. With a 4-1 defeat of the USC Trojans in the NCAA and South Carolina at the 2015 SEC Championships stroke play to win the national title and join former Championship Match, the Tigers capped a historic run returning to Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course in St. Tiger champions Fred Haas, Jr. (1937) and Earl Stewart at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships and Simons Island, Georgia. A season after finishing second (1941). returned to the top of college golf. to Alabama in the final team standings, the Tigers took Peterson had a strong start to his professional The Tigers had a taste of the title a season before in down the Tide with a score of 13-under par 827 to win career that included a tie for fourth place in his 2014 while reaching the Final Four of match play for their first conference title since the 1987 spring season. major championship debut at the 2012 United States the first time. They finished the job a year later when While winning regular-season titles at the Golfweek five All-Americans took down SEC rivals Vanderbilt Conference Challenge (Sept. 14-16), David Toms and Georgia in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds Intercollegiate (Oct. 4-5) and Talis Park Challenge before taming the Trojans in the finals in one of the most (March 15-16), the Tigers equaled a team record with comprehensive victories in NCAA Championship Match five tournament wins a year ago that they last achieved history. during the 1959-60 campaign. The Tigers earned the No. 7 seed in match play after 2014-15 was a season 10 years in the making as finishing stroke-play qualifying with a score of 17-over Winstead – the SEC Coach of the Year and Golfweek par in four rounds at Concession Golf Club. National Coach of the Year that season – has been Seniors Stewart Jolly and Ben Taylor, both All- the architect of LSU’s return to the nation’s elite. The Americans following LSU’s Final Four run in 2014, joined foundation Winstead has laid since his appointment in junior Zach Wright and sophomores Brandon Pierce and the summer of 2005 will have the Tigers competing for Eric Ricard in winning LSU’s first national championship SEC and NCAA championships for years to come. since 1955 and a fifth for a program that also claimed They nearly defended their national championship titles back in 1940, 1942 and 1947. a year ago while returning to the Match Play Eight for Pierce and Wright both capped an All-American the third year in a row as quarterfinalists at the 2016 2015 spring season by tying for 11th place on the NCAA NCAA Championships held at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club. Championship leaderboard with even-par scores of 288 That’s where Sam Burns and Luis Gagne capped their to lead the Tigers back into match play for the second debut season as All-Americans by tying for 13th place year in a row. nationally as the top Tigers in the NCAA field. Pierce, who broke David Toms’ single-season scoring Winstead has led a program that has produced 16 record of 71.26 from 1988-89 with a career best 71.16 All-American selections, 10 All-SEC performers with as the team’s leading scorer in 2014-15, was named a 17 all-conference honors, two Academic All-Americans Golfweek Third-Team All-American and PING Honorable and 17 individual tournament champions in his tenure. Mention All-American by the Golf Coaches Association The Tigers have also competed in nine-straight NCAA of America following his breakout sophomore season. Regionals from 2008-16 while claiming a spot in the Wright and Ricard scored PING Honorable Mention All- NCAA Championships in six of the last seven seasons in American accolades of their own in the wake of LSU’s 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. national championship victory. Winstead is the winningest coach in the program’s In fact, Pierce (71.16), Wright (72.03) and Ricard history with 25 tournament championships in his 11 (72.11) all smashed career-low scoring averages by years as head coach. Ten Tigers have also captured 17 an average of 2.53 strokes per round to establish medalist honors since Winstead’s first season as head themselves among the elite players in college golf in the coach in 2005-06. 2014-15 season. Each also picked up his first career All- LSU’s rise to the top of college golf was first felt at 18 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE COACHES

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Open Championship held at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, and making the cut in his Masters debut in 2013. Peterson will compete as a card-carrying member of the PGA TOUR again in 2016-17 while earning more than $2 million since turning professional following his senior season in 2011. Andrew Loupe, a two-time All-American and teammate of Peterson while at LSU, will also compete as a fully-exempt member in the PGA TOUR during the 2016-17 season as he retained his TOUR card thanks to his performance this past season. Loupe, who became the second former LSU Tiger to win a Web.com Tour event title in 2015 with his victory at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, has earned six career top-10 finishes on the PGA TOUR while approaching $2 million in career earnings. Another former student under Winstead’s teaching at LSU is also off to a flying start in his PGA TOUR career as Smylie Kaufman is already an emerging star after wrapping up his rookie season in 2015-16 with more than $2.5 million in earnings on the year. Kaufman’s rookie season was highlighted by his first career victory at the 2015 Shriners Hospital for Children Open in just his fifth career PGA TOUR start along with four top-10 and 10 top-25 finishes. Golf Digest has also recognized Winstead’s Kaufman, a former PING All-Southeast Region Jack Nicklaus’ Golden Bear Golf, Inc., in North Palm instructional prowess as one of the nation’s top golf performer and member of LSU’s 2014 Final Four team Beach, Florida, in the mid-to-late 1990s where he served teachers. He has appeared on Golf Channel, most while in Baton Rouge, is a two-time professional winner as part of the senior management team developing, recently as a featured guest on “School of Golf” with after also claiming his first career Web.com Tour victory managing and initiating the launch of Golden Bear Golf Martin Hall, and has also contributed to various golf at the United Leasing Championship in May 2015. Centers worldwide. publications including GOLF Magazine and GolfTips. Winstead’s reputation as one of the top golf teachers Winstead has been linked with The University Club since While the Tigers have excelled on the course, LSU’s in the country has been reflected in LSU’s performance 2000 where he has served as the Director of Instruction student-athletes have also achieved great success in on the course over the past 10 seasons as the team’s and owner of the Chuck Winstead Golf Academy. the classroom with a total of 62 selections to the SEC scoring average has dropped dramatically since his Winstead was named a Director of Instruction at English Academic Honor Roll during Winstead’s tenure as head first season as head coach in 2005-06. After averaging Turn Golf & Country Club in New Orleans from 1998- coach. In 2011, two Tigers were chosen as Cleveland 295.6 shots per round as a team during his inaugural 2000. In addition, he was a head instructor for the Bob Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars as standouts Austin season, the Tigers lowered their scoring average each Toski Learning Center in Sunrise, Florida, from 1993-95. Gutgsell and Sang Yi were recognized for their academic season at 296.7 in 2006-07, 293.6 in 2007-08, 293.4 in After graduating from LSU in 1991, Winstead performance. 2008-09, 290.6 in 2009-10 and 290.5 in 2010-11. LSU’s embarked on a career as a professional golfer with a In support of this effort, Winstead provided the vision team averaged was even more impressive the last three stint on the South American tour before launching his and oversight for a multi-million dollar renovation years at 287.3 in 2013-14, 285.8 in 2014-15 and 286.9 in teaching career. project to The University Club golf course and LSU’s 2015-16. He and his wife, Jennifer, are the proud parents Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility in 2010. The course is now His instructional skills have been recognized by many of two sons – Trey, 18, and David, 15 – and are active recognized as one of the best in the country and will of the leading golf publications nationally throughout his members of First United Methodist Church in Baton host an NCAA Men’s Golf Regional in 2017 after already career, including the honor of being selected as a Golf Rouge. hosting the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional in May 2013. Magazine Top 100 Instructor in America since 2005. Winstead’s credentials include an association with 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 19 COACHES GARRETT RUNION

ASSISTANT COACH FIFTH SEASON

2016 Jan Strickland Award Finalist their history when they scored a three-stroke victory historic Final Four run. Jolly took Third-Team All- 2012 Dave Williams Award over Vanderbilt and South Carolina at the 2015 SEC America honors along with a First-Team All-SEC 2012 Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year Championships. A season after finishing second to selection, while Taylor joined Thompson as an 2012 Eaton Golf Pride South Region Coach of the Alabama in the team standings, the Tigers took down Honorable Mention All-American following the NCAA Year the Tide with a score of 13-under par 827 to win their Final Four. first conference title since the 1987 spring season. Not only did Pierce, Ricard and Wright earn their The 2014-15 season is one for the ages in the The Tigers nearly defended their national first career All-SEC honors in 2015, but they joined history of the LSU Men’s Golf program as the Tigers championship a year ago while returning to the Jolly as second-team selections after leading the staked their claim as the premier program in college Match Play Eight for the third year in a row as Tigers to the SEC Championship that season. Wright golf with a 4-1 win over the USC Trojans in the NCAA quarterfinalists at the 2016 NCAA Championships followed with a First-Team All-SEC selection in a Championship Match to cap their run to the national held at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club. That’s where Sam senior season in 2016 in which he also claimed a title at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. Burns and Luis Gagne capped their debut season as Second-Team All-America honor from both PING and It was the program’s fifth national championship All-Americans by tying for 13th place nationally as Golfweek. all-time, and first in 60 years after they were also the top Tigers in the NCAA field. In all, the Tigers have captured 11 team and 11 crowned champions in 1940, 1942, 1947 and 1955. Instrumental in LSU’s return to national individual titles in tournament play along with 10 All- The Tigers had a taste of the title a season before prominence has been former Tiger and 2016 Jan American selections and nine All-SEC honors since in 2014 while reaching the Final Four of match play Strickland Award finalist Garrett Runion, who enters Runion’s return to Baton Rouge in the fall of 2012. for the first time. They finished the job the following his fifth season back with the program as a member Runion has returned to his alma mater following spring when five All-Americans took down SEC of head coach Chuck Winstead’s staff after returning a 2011-12 season in which he led Nova Southeastern rivals Vanderbilt and Georgia in the quarterfinal and to his alma mater prior to the 2012-13 campaign. to the NCAA Division II title with a dominating 5-0 semifinal rounds before taming the Trojans in the Winstead announced on June 22, 2012, that win over Chico State University in the title match finals in one of the most comprehensive victories in Runion would return to LSU as an assistant coach held on May 19, 2012, at Cardinal Club Golf Course in the NCAA Championship Match. for the program after he guided the Sharks of Nova Simpsonville, Kentucky. Seniors Stewart Jolly and Ben Taylor, both All- Southeastern University to the NCAA Division II Their run to the national championship highlighted Americans following LSU’s Final Four run in 2014, national championship in his one and only season as a historic season for the Nova Southeastern Sharks joined junior Zach Wright and sophomores Brandon head coach in 2011-12. as they also won the Sunshine State Conference Pierce and Eric Ricard as one of the most celebrated Runion’s first season back in Baton Rouge proved championship during the 2012 spring season. Runion teams in the history of LSU Athletics while winning to be another strong campaign for the Tigers as they was recognized as the recipient of the Dave Williams the school’s 47th NCAA team championship. again qualified for the 2013 NCAA Championships. Award as the NCAA Division II National Coach of the The Tigers earned the No. 7 seed in match play LSU tied for 23rd place at the NCAA Championship Year, as well as earning Sunshine State Conference after finishing in seventh place in the stroke play held at Atlanta’s Capital City Club to highlight a Coach of the Year and Eaton Golf Pride South Region qualifying with their score of 17-over par in four season that also saw the squad claim team titles in Coach of the Year awards for the 2011-12 season. rounds at Concession Golf Club. back-to-back events at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate Runion actually served two seasons at Nova Pierce and Wright both capped an All-American and David Toms Intercollegiate in the fall season of Southeastern as the team also captured the SCC title 2015 spring season by tying for 11th place on the 2012. during a strong 2010-11 campaign in which he served NCAA Championship leaderboard with even-par Runion has been part of four-straight teams to as the program’s assistant head coach. scores of 288 to lead the Tigers back into match play earn a spot in the 30-team NCAA field as LSU has A native of Orlando, Florida, Runion was a three- for the second year in a row after they officially tied qualified in six of the last seven years in 2010, 2011, year letterwinner during his collegiate career with for third place nationally in 2014. 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. the Tigers as he called Baton Rouge home in four Pierce, who broke David Toms’ single-season The Tigers have also been rewarded for their seasons from 2003-08. A four-time member of scoring record of 71.26 from 1988-89 with a career outstanding performance on the course, led by Curtis the SEC Academic Honor Roll and three-time SEC best 71.16 as the team’s leading scorer in 2014-15, Thompson’s breakthrough sophomore season in Community Service Team selection, Runion graduated was named a Golfweek Third-Team All-American 2012-13 as an Honorable Mention All-American and from LSU in the May 2008 with his Bachelor of Arts and PING Honorable Mention All-American by the First-Team All-SEC performer for the first time in & Science degree in general studies. He also serves Golf Coaches Association of America following his his career. Junior Andrew Presley was also named as the Assistant Coach Representative for NCAA breakout sophomore season. Wright and Ricard a Second-Team All-SEC performer for the second- Division I on the National Golf Coaches Association of scored PING Honorable Mention All-American straight season. America’s National Advisory Board. accolades of their own in the wake of LSU’s national Thompson earned a repeat selection as an Runion and his wife, Meghan, have one son, Reid championship victory. Honorable Mention All-American and Second-Team Shaffer Runion, aka “Rocket,” who was born on March The Tigers were also crowned SEC Champions All-SEC performer in 2014 as three Tigers were 20, 2015. for the first time in 28 years and the 16th time in recognized as All-Americans following the team’s 20 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE Tigers TIGERS

RHYNE JONES

5 FT, 9 IN BLOWING ROCK, NORTH CAROLINA HEIGHT HOMETOWN

SENIOR CHRIST SCHOOL/NEVADA CLASS HIGH SCHOOL/PREVIOUS SCHOOL

1L EXPERIENCE

JONES’ QUICK FACTS University Club in Baton Rouge … Tied for … Earned a 13th-place finish at the 2012 30th place on the final leaderboard with a Junior PGA Championship held in Ft. Wayne, Rounds of par or better: 1 54-hole score of 15-over par 231, including Indiana … Was twice an alternate for the Low Round: 72 (E) at Golfweek Conference his season-low round of 3-over par 75 in United States Junior Amateur Championship Challenge (Sept. 27, 2015) the second round … Ended the season with a in 2010 and 2012. Low Tournament: 225 (+9) at Golfweek Conference Challenge (Sept. 25-27, 2015) 77.00 scoring average in three rounds played Top 10 Finishes: 1 on the year. PERSONAL Top 20 Finishes: 1 Parents are Jonathan and Debbie Jones … Best Finish: T-7th at Tiger Classic (March 29, 2016) PRIOR TO LSU Has an older sister, Darcy … Most memorable The top performer for the University of sports moment was holing out for eagle at Jones’ Career Totals Nevada Wolf Pack during his true freshman the 2012 Junior PGA Championship in front of Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average 2014-15 1 3 231 77.00 season at the collegiate level in 2013-14 … the Golf Channel cameras and making ESPN’s 2015-16 3 8 603 75.38 Ended his rookie campaign as the team’s SportsCenter Top 10 Plays of the Day … Plays Totals 4 11 834 75.82 leading scorer with a 73.37 scoring average right-handed … Plans to pursue a degree in in 12 tournament starts on the season … mass communication at LSU. Earned a pair of top-five individual finishes to 2016 SEC Academic Honor Roll highlight his freshman season … Was named the Mountain West Conference Golfer of the JUNIOR SEASON (2015-16) Week after firing a 36-hole score of 4-under Made his first appearance in LSU’s lineup at par 140 and tying for fourth place on the the Golfweek Conference Challenge during leaderboard at the John Burns Intercollegiate the 2015 fall season … Tied for 51st place held at Wailua Golf Club in Lihue, Hawaii … with a tournament score of 9-over par 225 Also tied for third place at the Fresno State in the event held at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Classic with a score of 2-over par 218 in Burlington, Iowa … Carded a career-low round three rounds played at San Joaquin Country as an LSU Tiger of even-par 72 in the final Club in Fresno, California … Fired his lowest round at the Golfweek Conference Challenge 54-hole tournament score at the SCVB … Followed by tying for 39th place at LSU’s Pacific Invitational, where he tied for 19th David Toms Intercollegiate while playing as place at even-par 213, including a season- an individual … Posted a 54-hole score of low 4-under 67 in the second round … Tied 15-over 231 in three rounds played at the for 27th place at the 2014 Mountain West University Club, including a 1-over 73 in the Conference Championships … Attended Christ second round … Tied for seventh place in the School in Arden, North Carolina, during his prep career … Led his high school team to a final standings at the Tiger Classic during the ROUND-BY-ROUND WITH JONES 2016 spring season with a two-round total of pair of North Carolina state championships in 3-over 147 at the University Club … Ended the 2010 and 2012 … Individually, finished in third 2015-16 season with a 75.38 scoring average in eight place in 2010 and fourth place in 2012 at Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 77-76-72 – 225 (t51) the state tournament while earning all-state David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 82-73-76 – 231 (t39) rounds played on the year … Honored for his Tiger Classic (Baton Rouge, La.) 73-74 – 147 (t7) academic performance with a selection to the honors in both seasons … Was a three-time all-conference performer during his high 2014-15 SEC Academic Honor Roll … Earned his first David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 79-75-77 – 231 (t30) varsity letter with the Tigers. school career from 2010-12 … A standout performer in junior golf nationally during his SOPHOMORE SEASON (2014-15) prep career as a member of the American Made one tournament appearance in his Junior Golf Association … Winner of the 2011 first season with the Tigers as a sophomore AJGA Preseason at Chateau Elan in Braselton, in 2014-15 … Teed off as an individual at Georgia … Winner of the 2011 International the David Toms Intercollegiate held at The Junior Masters held in East Aurora, New York 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 21 TIGERS Tigers

BRANDON PIERCE

5 FT, 9 IN COVINGTON, LOUISIANA HEIGHT HOMETOWN ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS

3L EXPERIENCE

PIERCE’S QUICK FACTS Voted a Second-Team All-SEC selection by the league’s head Solidified his position among the nation’s premier recruits coaches … Enjoyed a record-setting sophomore season in by tying for third place on the leaderboard at the 2012 AJGA which he broke David Toms’ single-season scoring record by Rolex Tournament of Champions held at the Crabapple Rounds of par or better: 30 an LSU Tiger with a team-leading 71.16 stroke average in his Course at Capital City Club in Alpharetta, Georgia … Earned 65 (-5) at NCAA New Haven Regional (May Low Round: eight tournament starts during the 2015 spring season … 15 five top-10 finishes in AJGA events during his breakout 16, 2015) of his 25 rounds played on the season were at par or better 2012 season … Saw action at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Low Tournament: 209 (-7) at The Prestige at PGA West … Earned three top-10 finishes and seven top-20 finishes Vedra Beach, Florida, where he tied for fifth place on the (Feb. 16-18, 2015) in his eight tournament starts for the Tigers during the leaderboard at The Junior PLAYERS Championship presented Top 10 Finishes: 6 spring season … Posted a 2-0-1 mark in his three matches by TaylorMade-adidas Golf … Won an AJGA title for the first Top 20 Finishes: 12 at the NCAA Championships to help the Tigers win their fifth time at the 2010 Sean O’Hair Junior All-Star Championship Best Finish: T-6th at Valspar Invitational at Floridian national championship in program history and LSU’s first with a career-low AJGA tournament score of 10-under par (March 23-24, 2015) in 60 years since 1955 … Matched Zach Wright as the top 206 at The Rawls Course in Lubbock, Texas … Earned his Tigers in stroke play qualifying at the NCAA Championships first career Class 5A all-state selection while competing for Pierce’s Career Totals by tying for 11th place with a final score of even-par 288 St. Paul’s School in 2012 … Earned back-to-back All-District Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average in four rounds played at Concession Golf Club … Led LSU’s 7-5A selections in 2011 and 2012. 2013-14 3 9 665 73.89 charge up the team standings in the final round at the NCAA New Haven Regional with a career-low round of 5-under PERSONAL 2014-15 8 25 1,779 71.16 par 65 on the final day of action at The Course at Yale … Full name is Brandon Chavgney Pierce … Born on Aug. 18, 2015-16 11 33 2,416 73.21 Cracked the Top 20 in a tie for 17th place at the NCAA New 1994 … Parents are Chavgney and Rebecca Pierce … Has Totals 22 67 4,860 72.54 Haven Regional with his final score of 1-over 211 … Earned one younger sister, Brittany … Father played basketball at a top-10 individual finish in his SEC Championships debut to LSU … Mother played college volleyball … Maintained a 4.31 2016 U.S. Amateur Round of 32 help lead the Tigers to their 16th SEC team championship in cumulative grade-point average on a 4.0 scale during his 2016 SEC Academic Honor Roll program history and their first in 28 years since 1987 … Fired prep career at St. Paul’s School in Covington … Was an HP 2015 Golfweek Third-Team All-American a career-low tournament score of 7-under par 209 to tie for Scholastic Junior All-America Team selection in 2011 and 2015 PING Honorable Mention All-American 10th place in his sophomore debut at The Prestige at PGA 2012 … An active member of his community as the founder of 2015 Second-Team All-SEC West … Also cracked the Top 10 of the leaderboard at the Brandon’s Birdies … Has helped raise more than $50,000 for 2015 PING All-Southeast Region Valspar Invitational at Floridian with a final score of 3-under local children’s charities in the New Orleans area since 2009 2015 LSWA Louisiana Collegiate Player of the Year 210 … Added top-20 finishes at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate while leading Brandon’s Birdies … Honored by the United 2015 SEC Academic Honor Roll (T20) and Talis Park Challenge (T13) during the 2015 spring States Golf Association and the AJGA as the 2012 recipient season … Did not compete during the 2014 fall season while of the prestigious USGA-AJGA Presidents’ Leadership Award JUNIOR SEASON (2015-16) recovering from a back injury that sidelined him for much … Majoring in sport administration with a concentration in Ended his junior season as the No. 96-ranked player of the spring during his freshman campaign … Honored for sport commerce. in the country in the final Golfstat individual player his performance in the classroom as a member of the SEC rankings released following the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Academic Honor Roll for the first time in his time as a Tiger ROUND-BY-ROUND WITH PIERCE Championships … Tied for 26th place in 72 holes of stroke … Earned his second varsity letter. play at the NCAA Championships with a final score of 7-over 2015-16 par 287, including back-to-back rounds of 1-under 69 in FRESHMAN SEASON (2013-14) David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 83-74-71 – 228 (t28) the third and fourth rounds at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club … Played in three tournaments as a true freshman in 2013-14 United States Collegiate Championship (Alpharetta, Ga.) 75-72-72 – 219 (t31) Opened the championship season by tying for 13th place at … Earned his first collegiate top-10 finish by tying for ninth Sun Bowl All-America Golf Classic (El Paso, Texas) 71-75-78 – 224 (17) the SEC Championships with a 54-hole score of 7-over 217 place on the final leaderboard at the Louisiana Classics held The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 69-68-71 – 208 (6) at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course … Followed by tying at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette during the 2014 Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 76-74-72 – 222 (t49) for 45th place at the NCAA Franklin Regional held at the spring season … Made his collegiate debut at the Golfweek Valspar Collegiate Invitational (Palm City, Fla.) 72-76-73 – 221 (t31) Vanderbilt Legends Club to help the Tigers tie for third place Conference Challenge held at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Tiger Classic (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-70 – 146 (t5) in the team standings and earn a return trip to the NCAA Burlington, Iowa, during the 2013 fall season … Tied for Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 74-74-79 – 227 (t43) Championships … Part of a record-setting Tiger team at the 34th place with a 54-hole score of 6-over par 222 in his first SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 71-75-71 – 217 (t13) 2016 Prestige at PGA West where he placed sixth individually collegiate event … Earned a spot in LSU’s five-man starting NCAA Franklin Regional (Franklin, Tenn.) 76-70-71 – 217 (t45) with a season-low score of 5-under 208 in three rounds lineup at the David Toms Intercollegiate held at the University NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Eugene, Ore.) 73-76-69-69 – 287 (t26) played at PGA West in La Quinta, California … Earned two Club in Baton Rouge … Tied for 45th place at the David Toms top-10 finishes on the season as he also tied for fifth place Intercollegiate with a score of 13-over par 229 for 54 holes 2014-15 at LSU’s Tiger Classic held at the University Club during … Ended his freshman season with a 73.89 scoring average The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 68-72-69 – 209 (t10) the spring season … Ended the season with a 73.21 scoring for his three tournament appearances … Three of his nine Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 73-72-71 – 216 (t20) average in 33 rounds of stroke play on the season … 12 of rounds were at par or better … Saw his spring season cut Talis Park Challenge (Naples, Fla.) 71-71-70 – 212 (t13) his 33 rounds were at par or better … Recognized for his short due to a back injury … Earned his first varsity letter. Valspar Invitational at Floridian (Palm City, Fla.) 69-70-71 – 210 (t6) academic achievement with a selection to the SEC Academic Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 75-78-73 – 226 (t26) Honor Roll for the second-straight season … Earned his third PRIOR TO LSU SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 67-68-72 – 207 (t9) varsity letter. Emerged as one of the nation’s elite prep prospects with NCAA New Haven Regional (New Haven, Conn.) 73-73-65 – 211 (t17) his performance during the 2012 season … Honored as a NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Bradenton, Fla.) 71-71-73-73 – 288 (t11) SOPHOMORE SEASON (2014-15) Rolex Junior Second-Team All-American by the American One of the NCAA’s Top 30 players in the final season rankings Junior Golf Association in 2012 … Signed with LSU as the 2013-14 Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 76-73-73 – 222 (t34) for both Golfstat (23) and Golfweek (28) released following No. 10-ranked prep recruit nationally for the Class of 2013 in David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 79-71-79 – 229 (t45) the NCAA Championships … Golfweek Third-Team All- the prestigious Polo Junior Golf Rankings … Also ranked No. Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 70-73-71 – 214 (t9) American and PING Honorable Mention All-American … Also 25 nationally by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and No. a PING All-Southeast Region performer for the first time … 60 in the country by Golfweek among high school seniors … 22 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE Tigers TIGERS

ERIC RICARD

6 FT, 1 IN SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA HEIGHT HOMETOWN LOYOLA COLLEGE PREP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS

3L EXPERIENCE

RICARD’S QUICK FACTS honors for the first time in his collegiate career … Named a as one of the elite junior golfers in the country with a run PING Honorable Mention All-American by the Golf Coaches to the Sweet 16 in match play at the 2012 United States Association of America … Voted a Second-Team All-SEC Junior Amateur Championship held at The Golf Club of Rounds of par or better: 32 performer in a vote of the league’s head coaches … Also New England in Stratham, New Hampshire … A two-time 65 (-7), twice, last at NCAA Franklin Low Round: named to the PING All-Southeast Region Team for the first tournament champion as a member of the AJGA … Earned Regional (May 17, 2016) time … Posted a career-low 72.11 scoring average to rank four career top-10 finishes in AJGA sponsored events during Low Tournament: 206 (-10) at David Toms third on the team in 2014-15 … 17 of his 37 rounds played an outstanding prep career … Fired rounds of 5-under 67 and Intercollegiate (Oct. 10-11, 2016) were at par or better … Earned four top-10 finishes and five 4-under 68 to claim the 2012 Louisiana Class 3A state title Top 10 Finishes: 7 top-20 finishes in his 12 tournament starts on the campaign as a junior with a 36-hole score of 9-under par 135 at Beaver Top 20 Finishes: 9 … Posted a 2-0-1 mark in his three matches at the NCAA Creek Golf Club in Zachary, Louisiana … Won the Class 3A Best Finish: 2nd at Golfweek Conference Challenge Championships to help the Tigers win their fifth national state crown as a sophomore in 2011 with a two-round total (Sept. 14-16, 2014) championship in program history … Finished in a tie for 27th of 3-under 142. place in stroke play at the NCAA Championships after posting Ricard’s Career Totals a 72-hole score of 4-over par 292 … Tied for 34th place PERSONAL Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average overall at the NCAA New Haven Regional where the Tigers Full name is Eric Nicholas Ricard … Born on Sept. 27, 1994 2013-14 4 12 905 75.42 climbed five spots up the team standings in the final round … Parents are Frank and Leah Ricard … Has one older sister, to grab the fifth and final spot into the NCAA Championships Lauren … Father played tennis at Louisiana College during 2014-15 12 37 2,668 72.11 … Tied for 37th place in his SEC Championships debut with his collegiate career … Held a 3.52 cumulative grade-point 2015-16 12 36 2,633 73.14 a final score of 3-over par 213 at Sea Island Golf Club’s average at Loyola College Prep … Plays right-handed … Totals 28 85 6,206 73.01 Seaside Course … Earned his best career tournament finish Majoring in general business. to date in second place at the Golfweek Conference Challenge to help lead the Tigers to their first of five team titles on the season … Added a 5-under 211 to tie for eighth place 2016 Tiger Classic Co-Champion overall at the United States Collegiate Championship in the 2016 LSWA Second-Team All-Louisiana team’s fall finale … Opened the 2015 spring season by firing 2016 SEC Academic Honor Roll a career-low tournament score of 9-under par 207 to tie for 2015 David Toms Intercollegiate Champion seventh place at The Prestige at PGA West … Also tied for ROUND-BY-ROUND WITH RICARD 2015 PING Honorable Mention All-American eighth place on the leaderboard with a score of 3-under 210 2015 Second-Team All-SEC in LSU’s victory at the Talis Park Challenge during the spring 2015 PING All-Southeast Region season … Added a top-20 finish at the Valspar Invitational at 2015-16 Floridian where he tied for 16th place overall … Picked up his Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 72-78-78 – 228 (t39) JUNIOR SEASON (2015-16) second varsity letter with the Tigers. Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 76-72-77 – 225 (t51) Nearly cracked the Top 100 players in college golf as a David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 73-65-68 – 206 (1) junior in 2015-16 as the No. 101-ranked player nationally in FRESHMAN SEASON (2013-14) United States Collegiate Championship (Alpharetta, Ga.) 72-77-77 – 226 (t60) The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 70-75-67 – 212 (t14) Golfweek’s final individual player rankings … Tied for 22nd Made four tournament appearances in his debut season with Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 78-69-78 – 225 (t60) place in 72 holes of stroke play at the NCAA Championships the Tigers in 2013-14 … Ended his true freshman season with Valspar Collegiate Invitational (Palm City, Fla.) 74-80-75 – 229 (t63) with a final score of 6-over par 286 … Sparked LSU’s return a 75.42 scoring average in 12 rounds played on the year … Tiger Classic (Baton Rouge, La.) 71-72 – 143 (t1) to the NCAA Championships by tying for ninth place on Made his collegiate debut at the David Toms Intercollegiate Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 74-79-70 – 223 (t24) the leaderboard at the NCAA Franklin Regional held at the held at the University Club in Baton Rouge during the 2013 SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 71-69-82 – 222 (t36) fall season … Tied for 35th place with a 54-hole score of Vanderbilt Legends Club … Posted a final score of 8-under NCAA Franklin Regional (Franklin, Tenn.) 74-65-69 – 208 (t9) 10-over par 226 while playing as an individual in his debut par 208 at the NCAA Franklin Regional, including matching NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Eugene, Ore.) 71-71-72-72 – 286 (t22) his career-low round of 7-under par 65 in the second round event … Followed by earning a spot in LSU’s five-man starting lineup in the team’s fall finale at the Isleworth … Opened the championship season by tying for 36th place 2014-15 Collegiate Invitational … Fired a season-low and career-low at the SEC Championships … Won his first career tournament Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic(Rocky Face, Ga.) 73-74-75 – 222 (t48) title at LSU’s David Toms Intercollegiate during the 2015 round of 1-under par 71 in the first round at the Isleworth Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 69-71-71 – 211 (2) fall season where he fired a career-low tournament score Collegiate Invitational before tying for 38th place in the event David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 80-76-76 – 232 (t33) of 10-under par 206 … First fired his career-low of 7-under … Finished in 63rd place at The Prestige at PGA West after United States Collegiate Championship (Alpharetta, Ga.) 74-68-69 – 211 (t8) 65 in the second round followed by a 4-under 68 in the final posting a tournament score of 13-over par 226 in LSU’s The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 71-70-66 – 207 (t7) round in the event held at the University Club in Baton Rouge spring season opener … Tied for 55th place at the Querencia Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 75-72-71 – 218 (t31) … Co-champion of the Tiger Classic event held during the Cabo Collegiate … Earned his first varsity letter. Talis Park Challenge (Naples, Fla.) 73-68-69 – 210 (t8) 2016 spring season with a final 36-hole score of 1-under Valspar Invitational at Floridian (Palm City, Fla.) 67-74-71 – 212 (t16) par 143 … Ended the season with a 73.14 scoring average PRIOR TO LSU Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 74-74-77 – 225 (t21) in 36 rounds of stroke play … 14 of his 36 rounds on the One of the nation’s premier prep prospects to sign a National SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 69-71-73 – 213 (t31) season were at par or better … Honored for his academic Letter of Intent in the Class of 2013 … Signed with the Tigers NCAA New Haven Regional (New Haven, Conn.) 74-72-69 – 215 (t34) performance with a selection to the SEC Academic Honor Roll as the No. 15-ranked recruit in the country for the Class NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Bradenton, Fla.) 72-74-68-78 – 292 (t27) following the season … Earned his third varsity letter. of 2013 by Golfweek … Also ranked No. 21 by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and No. 35 in the Polo Junior Golf 2013-14 SOPHOMORE SEASON (2014-15) Rankings in his graduating class … Ranked No. 30 by David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 77-73-76 – 226 (t35) One of the nation’s top-ranked players as the No. 61-ranked Golfweek, No. 37 by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 71-74-77 – 222 (t38) player nationally by Golfweek and the No. 62-ranked player and No. 77 by the Polo Junior Golf Rankings regardless The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 79-73-74 – 226 (63) nationally by Golfstat in the final individual rankings for of classification at the time of his signing … Honored as a Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 76-81-74 – 231 (t55) the 2014-15 season … Earned All-SEC and All-America 2011 Rolex Junior Honorable Mention All-American by the American Junior Golf Association … Solidified his reputation 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 23 TIGERS TigersTigers

BLAKE CALDWELL

5 FT, 9 IN PONCHATOULA, LOUISIANA HEIGHT HOMETOWN

JUNIOR PONCHATOULA HS CLASS HIGH SCHOOL

2L EXPERIENCE

CALDWELL’S QUICK FACTS Bayou in Alexandria, Louisiana … Honored for his and earning sixth place at the Class 5A state academic performance with a selection to the SEC championship … Wrapped up his prep career at Rounds of par or better: 1 Academic Honor Roll … Earned his second varsity Ponchatoula High School as a senior in 2014 by Low Round: 71 (-1) at Carpet Capital Collegiate letter. tying for third place at regionals and tying for fourth Classic (Sept. 12, 2015) place at the state championship … Active in junior Low Tournament: 223 (+7) at Carpet Capital FRESHMAN SEASON (2014-15) golf nationally as a member of the American Junior Collegiate Classic (Sept. 11-13, 2015) Played in four tournaments in his debut season Golf Association and Arrowhead Junior Tour … Top 10 Finishes: None with the Tigers in 2014-15 … Helped the Tigers take Honored as an AJGA HP Junior All-American Honor Top 20 Finishes: 3 home the team title at the Golfweek Conference Roll member following his junior season in 2013 … Best Finish: 19th at David Toms Intercollegiate (Oct. Challenge by tying for 29th place with a final score Fired a 54-hole score of 1-over par to tie for second 10-11, 2015) of 9-over par 225 in the event held at Spirit Hollow place on the final leaderboard at the 2013 AJGA Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa … Fired season-low and at The Bluffs held in St. Francisville, Louisiana … Caldwell’s Career Totals career-low rounds of 1-over par 73 in the first and A winner of three Arrowhead Junior Tour events Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average third rounds at the Golfweek Conference Challenge during the 2013 season with a combined score of 2014-15 4 11 838 76.18 … Followed by tying for 38th place with a score of 11-under par in his three victories … Honored as 2015-16 4 11 835 75.91 17-over 233 while playing as an individual at the the 2013 Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour Player of the Totals 22 67 4,860 72.54 David Toms Intercollegiate held at The University Year for his performance … Was a two-time member Club in Baton Rouge during the 2014 fall season of the Louisiana Junior Cup Team in 2011 and 2012 … Opened the 2015 spring season by tying for … Won the clinching match to secure the Louisiana 2016 SEC Academic Honor Roll 71st place at 13-over 229 at The Prestige at PGA Junior Cup for the East team in 2012 … Awarded West held at the Greg Norman Course in La Quinta, the inaugural Frank Mackel Scholarship by the Kelly SOPHOMORE SEASON (2015-16) California … Matched his season-low round of 1-over Gibson Foundation for his outstanding academic Cracked LSU’s lineup in its season opener at the 73 in the final round at The Prestige at PGA West … and community service achievement throughout his Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic where he tied for Withdrew from the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic career for Ponchatoula High School. 19th place with a three-round score of 7-over par with illness after posting rounds of 5-over 77 and 223 … Fired a career-low round of 1-under par 71 2-over 74 in his first two collegiate rounds at The PERSONAL in the second round followed by a 1-over par 73 in Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Georgia … Ended his Full name is Joseph Blake Caldwell … Born on Oct. the final round to break into the Top 20 of the final freshman season with a 76.18 scoring average in 12, 1995 … Parents are Bill, Jr., and Andre Caldwell leaderboard in the event held at The Farm Golf Club 11 rounds played on the season … Followed the … Has three brothers, Bill III, David and Justin … … Followed with a 19th-place finish while playing collegiate season by claiming a second-place finish Mother and father both played golf at LSU during as an individual at LSU’s David Toms intercollegiate on the final leaderboard at the 96th Louisiana their collegiate careers … Was an honor student where he posted a final score of 9-over 225 in three Golf Association Amateur Championship held at during his prep career as he graduated Magna Cum rounds at the University Club … Again featured in the Bayou DeSiard Country Club in Monroe … Fired a Laude at Ponchatoula High School … Plans to major lineup in LSU’s 2015 fall finale at the United States tournament score of 8-under par 280 in four rounds in business at LSU. Collegiate Championship held at the Country Club to finish one shot off the lead at the 2015 LGA of Georgia where he tied for 85th place at 17-over Amateur Championship … Appearance at the LGA ROUND-BY-ROUND WITH CALDWELL 233 for the tournament … Placed 15th overall at Amateur included scores of 3-under 69 in the first the Tiger Classic in his only appearance of the 2016 round and 5-under 67 in the second round at Bayou 2015-16 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 79-71-73 – 223 (t19) spring season … Finished his sophomore season DeSiard Country Club … Earned his first varsity letter in his debut season with the Tigers in 2014-15. David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 73-77-75 – 225 (19) with a 75.91 scoring average in 11 rounds played United States Collegiate Championship (Alpharetta, Ga.) 78-79-76 – 233 (t85) for the year … Enjoyed a record-setting performance Tiger Classic (Baton Rouge, La.) 78-76 – 154 (15) at the Hardee’s Collegiate Tour Championship at PRIOR TO LSU Perdido Bay Golf Club in Florida during the summer The No. 1-ranked prep recruit in the state of 2014-15 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 77-74-WD – 151 … Winning tournament score of 18-under par 198 Louisiana for the Class of 2014 … Was the top- ranked junior golfer in the state during his senior Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 73-79-73 – 225 (t29) smashed the previous tournament record on the David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 82-74-77 – 233 (t38) Southeastern Collegiate Golf Tour by seven strokes season at Ponchatoula High School by the National The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 81-75-73 – 229 (t71) … His second-round 62 at Perdido Bay Golf Club Junior Golf Scoreboard … Helped lead Ponchatoula is also the lowest single round ever recorded by a High School to the Louisiana Class 5A state player on the SECGT … Finished nine shots ahead championship for the first time in school history of West Florida’s Christian Bosso on the final in 2011 … Runner-up in the regional and state leaderboard at the event … Tied for second place championships in Class 5A during his sophomore with a final 36-hole score of 6-under 136 in the U.S. season in 2012 … Followed with a junior season in Amateur sectional qualifier held at the Links on the 2013 in which he won a district title before repeating his runner-up finish at the regional championship 24 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE TigersTigersTigers TIGERS

SAM BURNS

6 FT, 1 IN SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA HEIGHT HOMETOWN

SOPHOMORE CALVARY BAPTIST ACADEMY CLASS HIGH SCHOOL

1L EXPERIENCE

BURNS QUICK FACTS LSU’s lineup at the David Toms Intercollegiate (T28), at Blairgowie Golf Club in Blairgowie, Scotland … Was United States Collegiate Championship (T25) and East unbeaten with a 2-0-1 record in three matches to help Rounds of par or better: 15 Lake Cup in the fall and Querencia Cabo Collegiate (T49) lead the United States to a dominant 16-8 victory over Low Round: 67 (-4), twice, last at Valspar Collegiate in the spring … Finished the season as LSU’s second- the Europeans in the two-day Junior Ryder Cup held Invitational (March 22, 2016) leading scorer for the 2015-16 season with a 72.42 Sept. 22-23, 2014 … Tied for third place in two rounds scoring average while appearing in all 13 collegiate of stroke-play qualifying before advancing to the Round Low Tournament: 209 (-7) at NCAA Franklin events for the year … 15 of his 36 rounds of stroke play of 32 in match play at the 114th United States Amateur Regional (May 16-18, 2016) were at par or better … Followed the collegiate season Championship held at the Atlanta Athletic Club from Top 10 Finishes: 1 by advancing to the Round of 32 of match play at the Aug. 11-17, 2014 … Earned the No. 5 seed in match play Top 20 Finishes: 8 116th United States Amateur Championship held at at the 2014 U.S. Amateur Championship after firing a Best Finish: 4th at Tiger Classic (March 29, 2016) Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan total of 5-under par 138 in two rounds of stroke-play … Earned the No. 29 seed in U.S. Amateur match play qualifying … Lost a playoff for the 2014 Sunnehanna Burns’ Career Totals after tying for 19th place in stroke play with a two-round Amateur title after tying for first place after 72 holes Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average total of 1-under par 139 … Earned his first varsity letter. with a score of 6-under par 274 in the event held at 2015-16 12 36 2,607 72.42 Sunnehanna Country Club in Johnstown, Pennsylvania Totals 12 36 2,607 72.42 PRIOR TO LSU … Officially finished as the runner-up at the 2014 The No. 1-ranked junior golf recruit in the United States Sunnehanna Amateur … Helped lead the West squad for the Class of 2015 … The No. 1-ranked junior golfer to back-to-back AJGA Wyndham Cup titles in 2013 and in the country, regardless of high school classification, 2014 … One of the most decorated junior golfers in the in both the Golfweek Junior Golf Rankings and Polo history of high school golf in the state of Louisiana … 2016 PING Honorable Mention All-American Junior Golf Rankings on National Signing Day … The No. Helped lead Calvary Baptist Academy to a total of five- 2016 PING All-Southeast Region 3-ranked junior golfer nationally in the final National straight Louisiana High School Athletics Association Junior Golf Scoreboard Boys Rankings released prior state championships from 2010-14 … A three-time FRESHMAN SEASON (2015-16) to National Signing Day … Also ranked among the top individual state champion during his time at Calvary One of the elite players in college golf as a freshman as amateurs worldwide as the No. 12-ranked amateur Baptist Academy … Won back-to-back LHSAA Division he finished the 2015-16 campaign as the No. 35-ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking … One of III state titles with winning scores of 2-under par 140 in player nationally in Golfstat’s final individual player the most decorated members of the American Junior 2013 and 8-under par 134 at East Ridge Country Club rankings … Also the No. 55-ranked player in college Golf Association during his junior career … A three- in Shreveport … Also crowned the LHSAA Division IV golf in the final individual player rankings released time AJGA Rolex Junior All-American during his prep state champion in 2012 with a winning score of 6-under by Golfweek following the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf career, earning first-team honors in 2014, second-team par 138 in the event held at Atchafalaya Country Club in Championships … Honored as a PING Honorable Mention honors in 2013 and honorable mention honors in 2012 Patterson, Louisiana. All-American by the Golf Coaches Association of America … Honored as the AJGA Rolex Junior Player of the Year … Also picked up a PING All-Southeast Region selection for his performance during the 2014 season … Crowned PERSONAL ... A catalyst in the Tigers advancing to match play at the champion of the 2014 AJGA Rolex Tournament of Full name is Samuel Holland Burns … Born on July NCAA Championships for the third-straight season … Champions held at Richland Country Club in Nashville, 23, 1996 … Parents are Todd and Beth Burns … Has an Matched fellow freshman Luis Gagne as the top Tigers Tennessee … Fired a tournament-record score of older sister, Tori, and an older brother, Chase … Father in stroke play at the NCAA Championships, tying for 13th 21-under par 267 to take the title by three shots at the and brother both played football at Louisiana Tech … place with a final score of 4-over par 284 in 72 holes 2014 AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions, including An honor roll student during his prep career at Calvary played at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club … Helped lead the back-to-back rounds of 7-under par 65 in the second Baptist Academy … Plans to pursue a degree in business Tigers back to the NCAA Championships by tying for and third rounds … Followed his victory at the AJGA management at LSU. 14th place on the final leaderboard at the NCAA Franklin Rolex Tournament of Champions by taking the title at the Regional where he posted a season-low score of 2014 Junior PGA Championship by two strokes with his ROUND-BY-ROUND WITH BURNS 7-under par 209 for 54 holes … Fired rounds of 2-under winning score of 14-under par 274 at Miramont Country 70 in the first round and a season-low 5-under 67 in the Club in Bryan, Texas … Victory at the 2014 Junior PGA second round at the NCAA Franklin Regional held at the 2015-16 Championship also featured a 7-under par 65 in the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 69-78-76 – 223 (t19) Vanderbilt Legends Club … Opened the championship third round … Tied for fifth place in two other top AJGA Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 74-68-71 – 213 (t16) season by tying for 25th place at the SEC Championships events at The Junior PLAYERS Championship presented David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 80-74-74 – 228 (t28) held at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course in St. by TaylorMade-adidas Golf and The PING Invitational United States Collegiate Championship (Alpharetta, Ga.) 77-73-68 – 218 (t25) Simons Island, Georgia … Earned a top-20 finish in his to finish off the 2014 season … Other top-10 finishes The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 70-75-67 – 212 (t14) collegiate debut at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic during the 2013-14 AJGA season include a third place Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 72-75-75 – 222 (t49) Valspar Collegiate Invitational (Palm City, Fla.) 72-77-67 – 216 (t12) in LSU’s fall opener in 2015 … Fired a 3-under 69 in his at the Thunderbird International Junior, a tie for fifth first career round at The Farm Golf Club … Also earned Tiger Classic (Baton Rouge, La.) 71-73 – 144 (4) place at the Polo Golf Junior Classic, a ninth place at Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 75-75-69 – 219 (t16) top-20 finishes at the Golfweek Conference Challenge the CB&I Boys Championship at Carlton Woods and a (T16) during the fall season and Prestige at PGA West SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 78-72-69 – 219 (t25) tie for ninth place at the Western Junior Championship NCAA Franklin Regional (Franklin, Tenn.) 70-67-72 – 209 (t14) (T14), Valspar Collegiate Invitational (T12) and Aggie … Has earned 17 career top-10 finishes as a member NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Eugene, Ore.) 74-68-69-73 – 284 (t13) Invitational (T16) during the spring season … Placed of the American Junior Golf Association … Capitalized fourth overall in the 36-hole Tiger Classic held at the on his success during the AJGA season by competing University Club during the spring … Also featured in for the United States at the 2014 Junior Ryder Cup held 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 25 TIGERS TigersTigersTigers

LUIS GAGNE

5 FT, 9 IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA HEIGHT HOMETOWN

SOPHOMORE ORLANDO CHRISTIAN PREP CLASS HIGH SCHOOL

1L EXPERIENCE

GAGNE’S QUICK FACTS the Traditions Club and NCAA Franklin Regional at the Country Club in Bryan, Texas … A two-time qualifier for Vanderbilt Legends Club … Tied for 45th place in his the United States Junior Amateur Championship during Rounds of par or better: 8 collegiate debut at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic his prep career … Advanced to the Round of 32 of match Low Round: 69 (-3), twice, last at NCAA Franklin where he posted a score of 13-over 229 in LSU’s 2015 play in his U.S. Junior Amateur debut in 2013 in the Regional (May 16, 2016) fall opener at The Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Georgia event held at Martis Camp Club in Truckee, California … Finished the season as LSU’s third-leading scorer … Teed it up in stroke-play qualifying at the 2014 U.S. Low Tournament: 212 (-1) at Valspar Collegiate for the 2015-16 season with a 72.48 scoring average Junior Amateur Championship at The Club at Carlton Invitational (March 21-22, 2016) in his seven tournament appearances … Eight of his 21 Woods in The Woodlands, Texas … Earned a pair of Top 10 Finishes: 3 rounds were at par or better … Followed the collegiate top-10 finishes in AJGA events during the 2013 season, Top 20 Finishes: 4 season by advancing to the quarterfinal round of match including a third place at the AJGA Ocala-Marion Sports Best Finish: T-1st at Tiger Classic (March 29, 2016) play at the 116th United States Amateur Championship Commission Junior and a ninth place at the AJGA Junior held at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, at Innisbrook … Earned his first career top-10 finish in Gagne’s Career Totals Michigan … Was the No. 10 seed in U.S. Amateur match an AJGA-sponsored event at the 2011 Junior All-Star at Year Tourn Rounds Strokes Average play after tying for sixth place in 36 holes of stroke-play Eagle Ridge where he won an eighth-place finish with 2015-16 7 21 1,522 72.48 qualifying with a score of 3-under par 137 … Defeated his performance … Went out with a bang in his final Totals 7 21 1,522 72.48 Harford’s Paul Pastore, 5-and-3, in the first round; regular-season tournament at the high school level Clemson’s Bryson Nimmer, 3-and-2, in the Round of 32 as he fired an eye-popping 8-under 28 for nine holes and Virginia’s Jimmy Stanger, 3-and-1, in the Sweet 16 while competing for Orlando Christian Prep in the event of match play at the U.S. Amateur … Fell to USC’s Jonah held at the North Shore Golf Club in Orlando, Florida … Texeira, 3-and-2, in the quarterfinal round … Earned his Followed his regular-season finale by being crowned the 2016 U.S. Amateur Quarterfinals first varsity letter at LSU. 2014 Florida Class 1A State Champion with a two-shot 2016 PING Honorable Mention All-American victory in the state finals held at Mission Inn Resort & 2016 Golfweek Honorable Mention All-American PRIOR TO LSU Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida … Fired a 36-hole 2016 PING All-Southeast Region One of the Top 20 high school recruits in the United score of 1-under par 143 to capture the Florida Class 1A 2016 LSWA Louisiana Freshman of the Year States in the Class of 2015 … Ranked as high as the title in his senior season. 2016 LSWA First-Team All-Louisiana No. 16-ranked recruit nationally in the Class of 2015 in the National Junior Golf Scoreboard Boys Rankings on PERSONAL FRESHMAN SEASON (2015-16) National Signing Day … Also tabbed the No. 17-ranked Full name is Luis Gerardo Gagne … Born on Aug. 27, One of the top players in college golf during his recruit nationally in the Polo Junior Golf Rankings and 1997 … Originally from Costa Rica … Parents are Michael freshman season while finishing the 2015-16 campaign the No. 22-ranked recruit nationally in the Golfweek and Graciela Gagne … Has two younger brothers, as the No. 33-ranked player nationally in the final Junior Golf Rankings for the Class of 2015 … Also Michael, Jr. and Nathan, and one younger sister, Isabella individual player rankings released by Golfstat and ranked No. 20 in the National Junior Golf Scoreboard … Plans to major in either business or accounting at Golfweek … Earned Honorable Mention All-America Boys Rankings, No. 24 in the Polo Junior Golf Rankings LSU. honors from both PING and Golfweek for his outstanding and No. 35 in the Golfweek Junior Golf Rankings performance … Also picked up a PING All-Southeast regardless of high school classification on National Region selection ... Honored by the Louisiana Sports Signing Day … A decorated member of the American Writers Association as the Louisiana Freshman of the Junior Golf Association during his junior career … Year and a First-Team All-Louisiana performer … Made Honored as an AJGA Rolex Honorable Mention Junior seven tournament appearances in his debut season with All-American with his performance during the 2013-14 the Tigers, including six starts during the 2016 spring season … Cracked the Top 10 of the final leaderboard at season … A catalyst in the Tigers advancing to match one of the most prestigious events on the AJGA calendar play at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships by tying for 10th place overall at the 2014 AJGA Rolex ROUND-BY-ROUND WITH GAGNE for the third-straight season … Matched fellow freshman Tournament of Champions … Fired a 72-hole score Sam Burns as the top Tigers in stroke play at the NCAA of 10-under par 278 to tie for 10th place at the 2014 2015-16 Championships, tying for 13th place with a final score AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions held at Richland Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 78-75-76 – 229 (t45) of 4-over par 284 in 72 holes played at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee … Performance Valspar Collegiate Invitational (Palm City, Fla.) 73-70-69 – 212 (t3) Country Club … Halved his NCAA quarterfinal match included a tournament-best score of 8-under 64 in Tiger Classic (Baton Rouge, La.) 73-70 – 143 (t1) with Oregon’s Thomas Lim as the Tigers fell, 3.5-1.5, the third round … Also earned a top-10 finish by tying Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 69-75-71 – 215 (t4) SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 77-72-74 – 223 (t38) to the eventual national champions … Tied for third for sixth place at the 2014 AJGA TaylorMade-adidas place in his first spring event at the Valspar Collegiate NCAA Franklin Regional (Franklin, Tenn.) 69-74-73 – 216 (t39) Golf Junior at Innisbrook hosted by Sean O’Hair … NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Eugene, Ore.) 70-70-73-71 – 284 (t13) Invitational with a final score of 1-under par 212 … Highlighted his 2014 season by tying for second place Also fired 1-under par to tie for first place at LSU’s on the final leaderboard at the 97th Western Junior Tiger Classic with a 36-hole score of 143 and tie for Championship held at Flossmoor Country Club in fourth place at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational with a Flossmoor, Illinois … Fired a 2-under par 286 in 72 54-hole score of 215 … Tied for 38th place at the SEC holes to tie for second place at the 97th Western Junior Championships before he tied for 39th place at the NCAA Championship, including a 6-under 66 in the third round Franklin Regional … Fired season-low rounds of 3-under … Tied for 22nd place with a score of 1-over par 289 at par 69 in the first rounds at the Aggie Invitational at the 2014 Junior PGA Championship held at Miramont 26 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE TigersTigers TIGERS

NATHAN JEANSONNE

5 FT, 9 IN KEITHVILLE, LOUISIANA HEIGHT HOMETOWN

SOPHOMORE CALVARY BAPTIST ACADEMY CLASS HIGH SCHOOL

1L EXPERIENCE

JEANSONNE’S QUICK FACTS Sigg in the semifinal round before falling to USC’s Posted an impressive 3-1 record for four matches Justin Suh in the team consolation match … Earned played at the 2014 AJGA Wyndham Cup to help lead Rounds of par or better: 6 his first varsity letter. the West squad to a successful defense of its title … Low Round: 64 (-7) at The Prestige at PGA West Qualified for the match play competition at the 2014 (Feb. 17, 2016) PRIOR TO LSU United States Junior Amateur Championship held at Low Tournament: 213 (-3) at David Toms Ranked among the top-10 recruits nationally in the The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas Intercollegiate (Oct. 10-11, 2015) Class of 2015 by Golfweek … The No. 6-ranked prep … Advanced to the Round of 32 in match play at the Top 10 Finishes: 1 recruit in the Class of 2015 and the No. 8-ranked 2014 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship after tying Top 20 Finishes: 3 junior golfer nationally regardless of class on for 15th place in two rounds of stroke play with a Best Finish: T-2nd at David Toms Intercollegiate National Signing Day according to the Golfweek 36-hole score of 2-under par 142 ... Cracked the (Oct. 10-11, 2015) Junior Golf Rankings … Also the No. 13-ranked high Top 10 of the final leaderboard at the 2014 Junior school recruit in the United States in the Class of PGA Championship by tying for seventh place with Jeansonne’s Career Totals 2015 in both the Polo Junior Golf Rankings and a 72-hole score of 2-under par 282, including a Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average National Junior Golf Scoreboard Boys Rankings 4-under 68 in the final round at Miramont Country 2015-16 5 14 1,021 72.93 released prior to National Signing Day … A decorated Club in Bryan, Texas … One of Louisiana’s most Totals 5 14 1,021 72.93 member of the American Junior Golf Association decorated junior golfers during his prep career at during his junior golf career … Honored as an AJGA Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport … Helped Rolex Second-Team Junior All-American for the lead Calvary Baptist Academy to a total of five- 2014 season … Earned three top-10 finishes in eight straight Louisiana High School Athletics Association FRESHMAN SEASON (2015-16) starts in AJGA events during the 2013-14 season state championships from 2010-14 … Twice the Appeared in five tournaments during his rookie … Finished runner-up at the 2014 AJGA Goodman LHSAA Division III state runner-up in 2013 and 2014 season with the Tigers in 2015-16 … Fired a season- Networks Junior at Traditions held at Traditions to teammate and fellow LSU recruit Sam Burns. low tournament score of 3-under par 213 at LSU’s Golf Club in Bryan, Texas … Fired rounds of 3-under David Toms Intercollegiate to tie for second place on 69, 1-over 73 and 1-under 71 for a 54-hole score PERSONAL the final leaderboard … Opened the tournament with of 3-under par 213 as the silver medalist at the Full name is Nathan Hunter Jeansonne … Born a round of 3-under 69 in the first round, followed 2014 AJGA Goodman Networks Junior at Traditions on Sept. 11, 1996 … Parents are Jerry and Julia by rounds of 1-under 71 in the second round and … Also tied for third-place finish in his first AJGA Jeansonne … Has two older brothers, Marc and 1-over 73 in the final round to earn his best finish appearance of the 2013-14 season at the Polo Golf Jeremey … Brother, Jeremey, played college golf of the season and help the Tigers claim the team Junior Classic held at the Champion and Fazio at McNeese State University before a five-year title … Fired the lowest round of the 2015-16 season courses at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach professional career … An honor roll student during by an LSU Tiger with a 7-under par 64 in the final Gardens, Florida, in November 2013 … Advanced to his prep career at Calvary Baptist Academy with round at The Prestige at PGA West to climb into a tie the semifinals of match play at the 2013 AJGA Polo his 3.8 cumulative grade-point average … Plans to for 19th place on the final leaderboard … Finished at Golf Junior Classic … Finished in a tie for fifth place pursue a degree in business management at LSU. 1-over 214 in three rounds played at PGA West … He at the 2014 AJGA Thunderbird International Junior was the first LSU Tiger in 27 years to post a score of at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona … Fired 64 or lower in a collegiate event … Proved to be the an impressive 8-under par 208 to tie for fifth place catalyst in the final round that propelled the Tigers in the event … Earned a pair of top-20 finishes in two to an 18-shot victory over Arizona State at The of the premier AJGA events of the 2013-14 season ROUND-BY-ROUND WITH JEANSONNE Prestige at PGA West ... Also tied for 19th place at by tying for 13th place at The PING Invitational the Tiger Classic held at the University Club during and tying for 17th place at The Junior PLAYERS Championship presented by TaylorMade-adidas 2015-16 the spring season … Made his first tournament start Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 76-71-69 – 216 (t23) for the Tigers at the Golfweek Conference Challenge Golf … Captured two AJGA titles during his junior David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 69-71-73 – 213 (t2) at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa, tying career … Won his first career AJGA championship The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 75-75-64 – 214 (t19) for 23rd place with a final score of even-par 216 as a 15-year-old with his victory at the 2012 Sooner Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 77-73-70 – 220 (t41) Tiger Classic (Baton Rouge, La.) 82-76 – 158 (t19) … Also tied for 41st place at the Querencia Cabo Junior All-Star … Fired a winning score of 11-under Collegiate during the spring with a three-round par 205 to take the 2012 Sooner Junior All-Star title score of 7-over par 220 … Ranked fourth on the by 10 shots with rounds of 2-under 70, 7-under 65 team with a 72.93 scoring average in 14 rounds and 2-under 70 … Captured the individual title at played during his freshman season in 2015-16 … the 2013 AJGA David Toms Foundation Shreveport Carded six rounds at par or better … Featured for Junior held at Southern Trace Country Club in his the Tigers in the match play event at the inaugural hometown of Shreveport … Scored a four-shot East Lake Cup held at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta victory in the event with a winning 54-hole score of … Halved his match with Georgia standout Greyson 4-under par 212 … Competed at the AJGA Wyndham Cup for the first time in his junior career in 2014 … 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 27 TIGERS TigersTigersTigersTigers

DREW GONZALES

5 FT, 10 IN LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA HEIGHT HOMETOWN

FRESHMAN ST. THOMAS MORE HS CLASS HIGH SCHOOL

HS EXPERIENCE

PRIOR TO LSU PERSONAL One of the top recruits in the state of Full name is Drew Nicholas Gonzales … Louisiana in the Class of 2016 … Signed Born on Nov. 3, 1997 … Parents are Doug with the Tigers following a 2015 season Gonzales, Jr. and Diane Gonzales … Parents highlighted by an appearance at the United are LSU graduates … Paternal grandparents States Junior Amateur Championship held Doug Gonzales, Sr. and Gail Gonzales also at Colleton River Plantation Club in Bluffton, graduated from LSU … Maternal grandfather, South Carolina … Just missed qualifying Dale Fridley, played college golf at Iowa State for match play by one shot after posting a … Has one younger sister, Anna … An honor 36-hole score of 7-over par 151 in stroke-play student at St. Thomas More High School while qualifying … Won the U.S. Junior Amateur maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average during Qualifier at Hot Springs Country Club in his prep career … Plans to major in either Arkansas by two shots with a total score of business or engineering at LSU. 7-under par 137 in two rounds … Also earned an impressive 28th-place finish in a field of 140 competitors at the 2015 Southern Junior Championship held at the Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky … Emerged as one of Louisiana’s rising stars as a sophomore in 2014 when he earned a third- place finish at the Louisiana Golf Association Junior Amateur Championship held at Links on the Bayou in Alexandria … Fired a 9-under 207 for three rounds to win the LGA Junior Amateur bronze medal, including a 4-under 68 in the final round … A standout performer competing in the American Junior Golf Association during the 2014 season while earning four top-15 finishes in five AJGA starts … Placed fourth at the 2014 AJGA Arrowhead Junior at The Bluffs in St. Francisville, Louisiana, for his best AJGA finish of the season … Finished in sixth place at the Killington Junior Golf Championship, ninth place at the AJGA St. Louis Junior and 14th place at the BillardFactory.com Junior Championship hosted by PR during the 2014 season … Also featured in two AJGA events during the 2013 season, including a seasonal- best finish of sixth place … Competed in the Future Masters in 2013, placing 34th out of 221 competitors in the event … Freshman season in 2013 was also highlighted by winning the Louisiana Division II individual state title and the Louisiana Tournament of Champions while competing for St. Thomas More High School. 28 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE TigersTigersTigersTigersTigers TIGERS

CARTER TOMS

5 FT, 9 IN SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA HEIGHT HOMETOWN C.E. BYRD HS FRESHMAN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS

HS EXPERIENCE

PRIOR TO LSU a three-time All-American, three-time First-Team member of High Life, Byrd’s student newspaper, One of the top recruits in the state of Louisiana in All-SEC performer and two-time SEC Player of serving as the sports editor during his senior year … the Class of 2016 … Cemented his position as one the Year at LSU from 1985-89 … Father is also a Plans to major in petroleum engineering at LSU. of the state’s top junior golfers by capturing the 13-time PGA TOUR winner and 2001 PGA Champion Louisiana High School Athletics Association Division during a decorated professional career … An honor I State Championship with a brilliant performance student at C.E. Byrd High School while maintaining at The Farm d’Allie in Carencro … Crowned the a 3.85 grade-point average during his prep career LHSAA Division I State Champion with an 11-shot … Member of the National Honor Society … Ranked victory as the only player in the field to finish under No. 50 in his senior class of 500 students at C.E. par in the 36-hole event … Fired rounds of 5-under Byrd High School … Chosen by the faculty to be on par 67 in the first round and 4-under par 68 in the his school’s Student Advisory Council all four years second round to finish at 9-under par and win the of high school … A member of the Byrd’s Student state title … Guided C.E. Byrd High School to its Council, Hive Leader for the student section at third-straight LHSAA Division I team state crown football and basketball games, Flag Runner for the with his performance … Placed fourth individually at football team as a junior and senior and secretary the state tournament to highlight his junior season of the school’s Key Club service organization … Staff with his high school team … Also earned individual finishes of seventh place as a freshman in 2013 and 24th place as a sophomore in 2014 at the Division I state tournament … Crowned the district and regional individual champion as a freshman in 2013 … Finished runner-up at the district tournament in 2014 and regional tournament in 2015 … Tied for third place individually at the 2015 Louisiana Golf Association Junior Amateur Championship held at Carter Plantation in Springfield … Fired a 36-hole score of 3-under par 141 during the event, including rounds of 2-under 70 in the first round and 1-under 71 in the second round … Earned his best finish in four appearances at the LGA Junior Amateur Championship following finishes of 35th place in 2012, 16th place in 2013 and 18th place in 2014 … A two-time winner as a member of the Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour with victories at Sherwood Forest in 2012 and The Island in 2014 … Earned his first career top-10 finish while competing in the American Junior Golf Association by tying for eighth place 2013 Arrowhead AJGA Junior at The Bluffs in St. Francisville, Louisiana … Also earned three other top-20 finishes at the Arrowhead AJGA Junior at The Bluffs (T12) and AJGA St. Louis Junior (T17) in 2014 and St. Francisville Area Foundation at The Bluffs (T12) in 2015 … Competed in the 2015 Junior PGA Championship held at Miramont Country Club in Bryan, Texas … Carded scores of 75 and 71 for his opening two rounds at the Junior PGA Championship in the summer of 2015 … Also competed as a member of the West squad at the Louisiana Junior Cup in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

PERSONAL Full name is Carter Phillip Toms … Born on July 29, 1997 … Parents are David and Sonya Toms … Has a younger sister named Anna … Father, David, was 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 29 REVIEW Season Review

The Tigers qualified for the NCAA Championships for the sixth time in seven seasons in 2016.

TIGERS RETURN TO NCAA MATCH PLAY ... AGAIN! WRIGHT REMAINS UNBEATEN IN NCAA MATCH PLAY The LSU Tigers arrived at Eugene Country Club in Oregon as the defend- Zach Wright was certainly at the center of LSU’s return to the top of ing national champions following their 4-1 win over the USC Trojans in college golf throughout his time with the Tigers as he capped his career the NCAA Championship Match to cap the 2015 spring season. And they in 2016 with a perfect 6-0 record in match play at the NCAA Division put up a strong defense of their title while advancing to the Match Play I Men’s Golf Championships from 2014-16. Wright was the lone Tiger Eight at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships for the third- to win both of his matches over UCLA’s Matt Pinizzotto and Alabama’s straight season, joining Illinois as the only three teams nationally to Cory Whitsett en route to the NCAA Semifinals as a sophomore in 2014. advance to the eight-team match play in each season since 2014. The He then swept matches against Vanderbilt’s Carson Jacobs, Georgia’s Tigers advanced to match play as the No. 3 seed after finishing third Mookie Demoss and USC’s Sean Crocker to help the Tigers lift the NCAA overall among the 30 teams in stroke-play qualifying at the NCAA Cham- Championship trophy as a junior in 2015. His 3-and-2 win over Crock- pionships with a final score of 16-over par in 72 holes. LSU’s national-ti- er proved to be the title-clincher in the NCAA Championship Match at tle defense ended in the national quarterfinals with a 3.5-1.5 defeat to Concession Golf Club. While making a third-straight appearance for the host Oregon. The Ducks were crowned the 2016 NCAA Champions with Tigers in the Match Play Eight at the NCAA Championships a year ago, a 3-2 win over the Texas Longhorns on their home course. Oregon junior Wright was the lone player in the lineup to earn a victory with a 2-and-1 Aaron Wise also won the NCAA individual title. win over Oregon’s Edwin Yi to move to 6-0 for his career.

FRESHMEN LEAD TIGERS BACK TO MATCH PLAY TIGERS QUALIFY AT NCAA FRANKLIN REGIONAL Despite returning three members of their NCAA-title-winning lineup LSU earned the right to defend its national championship after tying for in 2015 to the NCAA Championships last spring in senior Zach Wright third place in the final team standings at the NCAA Franklin Regional and juniors Brandon Pierce and Eric Ricard, it proved to be two fresh- with a final score of 25-under par 839 at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in men leading the Tigers back to the Match Play Eight as the team’s top the event hosted by the Commodores. It marked the sixth time in seven performers in their championship debuts. Shreveport, Louisiana, native seasons for the Tigers to advance to the NCAA Championships from Sam Burns and Orlando, Florida, native Luis Gagne tied one another regional play. Their qualification from the NCAA Franklin Regional was for 13th place overall on the final stroke play leaderboard at the 2016 secured with a 9-under par round of 279 on the final day. Junior Eric NCAA Championships after posting matching scores of 4-over par 284 Ricard was the top Tiger in the field while cracking the Top 10 in the final in 72 holes at Eugene Country Club. They were among three Tigers to be standings with a total score of 8-under par 208 to tie for ninth place named All-Americans for their performance during the 2015-16 season individually. Three teams qualifying from the NCAA Franklin Regional with a pair of PING Honorable Mention All-American honors by the Golf eventually advanced to the Match Play Eight at Eugene Country Club as Coaches Association of America. the Tigers were joined by Texas and Vanderbilt.

WRIGHT WRAPS UP DECORATED CAREER DEFENDING SEC CHAMPIONS FINISH FIFTH Not only were Sam Burns and Luis Gagne honored as All-Americans In defense of their SEC team title from 2015, the Tigers bounced back with their performance in 2015-16, but senior Zach Wright wrapped from an opening score of 14-over par 294 in the first round and played up his collegiate career as an All-American for the second time while the final 36 holes at 10-over par as a team to earn a fifth-place finish at picking up second-team honors from both PING and Golfweek. Also the 2016 SEC Men’s Golf Championships at Sea Island (Ga.) Golf Club’s a First-Team All-SEC performer in his final season with the Tigers, Seaside Course. Freshman Sam Burns matched the team’s lowest indi- Wright closed out his career with a career-low 71.51 scoring average vidual round of the weekend with his 1-under par 69 in the final round to while earning seven top-10 and 10 top-20 finishes in his 13 tournament help move the Tigers three spots up the team standings after teeing it up appearances on the year. A member of LSU’s SEC and NCAA champi- in eighth place to start the day. Burns climbed 22 spots up the leader- onship team in 2015, Wright went out as a two-time All-American and board in the final round as he carded four birdies and three bogeys on two-time All-SEC selection in his time in Baton Rouge after also earning the day for a team-low 69. Brandon Pierce finished as the top Tiger with Honorable Mention All-America and Second-Team All-SEC honors after a final score of 7-over 217 as he sandwiched rounds of 1-over 71 around his junior season. a 5-over 75 to tie for 13th place on the leaderboard.

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Luis Gagne (left) and Sam Burns (right) were the top Tigers at the NCAA Championships while tying for 13th in stroke play.

TIGERS OPEN SPRING WITH WIN IN CALIFORNIA TIGERS TWICE RUNNERS-UP DOWN THE STRETCH The Tigers made history in the final round at the 16th-annual Prestige at While opening their 2016 spring season with a win at The Prestige at PGA PGA West as they smashed school records with their 19-under par 265 on West in California, the Tigers built momentum heading into the champi- the afternoon and 26-under par 826 for the championship to cruise to the onship season with a pair of runner-up finishes down the stretch at the team title in their spring season opener at the Greg Norman Course. It took Valspar Collegiate Invitational held at Floridian National Golf Club in Palm the Tigers just six holes to erase a five-shot deficit to second-round leader City, Florida, and the Aggie Invitational held at Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Arizona State at the start of the final round before storming to an 18-shot Texas. With Zach Wright ledaing the way as the individual champion, the victory in the end as they claimed their second team title of the 2015-16 Tigers finished runner-up to the Texas Longhorns at the Valspar Collegiate season. It marked the 24th team championship of the Chuck Winstead era Invitational with a final team score of 8-over par 860 for the championship. while smashing their previous school-record score in relation to par of They were again runners-up to Big 12 Conference competition at the Aggie 21-under 843 that was actually set the previous year at The Prestige at Invitational while finishing just two shots back of the Oklahoma State Cow- PGA West in 2015. boys with an effort of even-par 864.

WRIGHT WINS TWO SPRING TITLES IN SENIOR SEASON TIGERS SWEEP DAVID TOMS TITLES IN FALL SEASON There’s no doubt that Zach Wright kick started an All-American spring Following a sluggish start to the 2015 fall season in which the Tigers season by winning two individual titles in his first three starts at The Pres- placed fourth at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic and ninth at the tige at PGA West in February and Valspar Collegiate Invitational in March. Golfweek Conference Challenge, they defended their home course at The He made it a clean sweep of team and individual titles at PGA West with University Club in Baton Rouge while claiming their first tournament title a career-low tournament score of 12-under par 201 that included rounds of the season at the seventh-annual David Toms Intercollegiate. And they of 3-under 68, 5-under 66 and 4-under 67 to finish two shots in front of did so is dominating fashion as their winning score of even-par 864 was 16 San Diego State’s Ryann Ree on the final leaderboard. That was followed shots clear of Kansas State in second place on the final team leaderboard. a month later with a playoff victory over Texas A&M’s Chandler Phillips at Eric Ricard also captured his first career individual title with a career-low the Valspar Collegiate Invitational after the two SEC rivals posted tourna- tournament score of 10-under par 206, including rounds of 7-under par 65 ment scores of 2-under 211 at Floridian National Golf Club. Wright won a in the second round and 4-under 68 in the final round. Freshman Nathan one-hole, sudden-death playoff to capture his third career individual title Jeansonne earned his best finish of the season with a tie for second place with the Tigers after he also won the 2012 Louisiana Classic crown as a behind Ricard at 3-under 213. freshman. WRIGHT REPRESENTS TEAM USA AT PALMER CUP GAGNE ESTABLISHES HIMSELF IN SPRING SEASON After wrapping up his collegiate career with the Tigers, Zach Wright wore Freshman Luis Gagne was a revelation for head coach Chuck Winstead the red, white and blue with Team USA while competing at the 2016 Arnold and his Tiger teammates during the 2016 spring season as he cracked the Palmer Cup held last summer at Formby Golf Club in Formby, Merseyside, lineup in each of the team’s final six tournaments of the season to help England. Desite the United States falling to the Europeans by an 18.5-11.5 LSU make its return to the Match Play Eight at the NCAA Championships. margin, Wright remained unbeaten in his four matches during the event After sitting out much of the fall season with an injury, Gagne returned to with two wins and two draws. He capped his appearance in the Ryder Cup- the lineup at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational in March and promptly tied style event with a 3-and-1 victory over Augusta State’s Robin Petersson for third place overall with a final score of 1-under par 212 to finish just in singles play on the final day. The Arnold Palmer Cup is an annual event one shot back of teammate Zach Wright at the top of the leaderboard. It coordinated by the Golf Coaches Association of America that matches the sparked a run in which he also tied three teammates for the top spot at the best collegiate players from across the country against one another in a 36-hole Tiger Classic and tied for fourth place at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invi- competition reminiscent of the Ryder Cup. Wright was among 10 American tational with matching scores of 1-under par. After appearing at the SEC collegians chosen to compete in the 2016 event, and the second LSU Tiger Championships and NCAA Franklin Regional, Gagne joined fellow freshman in three years after former All-American Stewart Jolly made an appear- Sam Burns as the leading Tigers in stroke play qualifying at the NCAA nace following his senior season in 2014. Championships where he tied for 13th. Gagne had a 72.48 scoring average in seven total appearances in 2015-16.

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Zach Wright ended his collegiate career by posting the fourth-lowest scoring average in school history!

2015-16 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS PLAYER TOURNAMENTS ROUNDS STROKES AVERAGE LOW ROUND RDS PAR OR BETTER TOP 10s TOP 20s Zach Wright 13 39 2,789 71.51 66 21 7 10 Sam Burns 12 36 2,607 72.42 67 15 1 8 Luis Gagne 7 21 1,522 72.48 69 8 3 4 Nathan Jeansonne 5 14 1,021 72.93 64 6 1 3 Eric Ricard 12 36 2,633 73.14 65 14 3 4 Brandon Pierce 11 33 2,416 73.21 68 12 2 4 Rhyne Jones 3 8 603 75.38 72 1 1 1 Blake Caldwell 4 11 835 75.91 71 1 0 2

2015-16 TOURNAMENT RESULTS DATE TOURNAMENT LSU FINISH LSU SCORE Sept. 11-13 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 4th (15) 291-301-291 -- 883 +19 Champion: Auburn Host: The Farm Golf Club Course: The Farm Golf Club Sept. 25-27 Golfweek Conference Challenge 9th (15) 298-286-285 -- 869 +5 Champion: Iowa Host: Iowa Course: Spirit Hollow Golf Course Oct. 10-11 David Toms Intercollegiate 1st (14) 295-283-286 -- 864 E Champion: LSU Host: LSU Course: University Club Oct. 16-18 U.S. Collegiate Championship 11th (17) 297-293-288 -- 878 +14 Co-Champions: Auburn & Wake Forest Host: Georgia Tech Course: The Country Club of Georgia Nov. 2-3 East Lake Cup 4th (4) Lost to Georgia, 3.5-1.5; Lost to USC, 4-1 Champion: Illinois Host: Golf Channel Course: East Lake Golf Club Feb. 15-17 The Prestige at PGA West 1st (14) 277-284-265 -- 826 -26 Champion: LSU Host: UC-Davis Course: PGA West (Greg Norman Course) Feb. 28-March 1 Querencia Cabo Collegiate T-10th (15) 295-289-289 -- 873 +21 Champion: Georgia Host: SMU Course: Querencia Golf Club March 21-22 Valspar Collegiate Invitational 2nd (15) 286-295-279 -- 860 +8 Champion: Texas Host: Arkansas & Lamar Course: Floridian Golf Club March 29 Tiger Classic 1st (6) 287-283 -- 570 -6 Champion: LSU Host: LSU Course: University Club April 2-3 Aggie Invitational 2nd (15) 287-298-281 -- 866 +2 Champion: Oklahoma State Host: Texas A&M Course: Traditions Golf Club April 15-17 SEC Men’s Golf Championships 5th (14) 294-286-284 -- 864 +24 Champion: Georgia Host: SEC Course: Sea Island Golf Club May 16-18 NCAA Franklin Regional T-3rd (13) 288-272-279 -- 839 -25 Champion: Texas Host: Vanderbilt Course: Vanderbilt Legends Club May 27-31 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships T-5th (30) 286-282-283-285 -- 1136 +16* Champion: Oregon Host: Oregon Course: Eugene Country Club * - Lost to Oregon, 3.5-1.5, in the NCAA Quarterfinals.

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ERIC RICARD Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 72-78-78 -- 228 (t39) Golfweek Conference Challenge 76-72-77 -- 225 (t51) David Toms Intercollegiate 73-65-68 -- 206 (1) United States Collegiate Championship 72-77-77 -- 226 (t60) The Prestige at PGA West 70-75-67 -- 212 (t14) Querencia Cabo Collegiate 78-69-78 -- 225 (t60) Valspar Collegiate Invitational 74-80-75 -- 229 (t63) Tiger Classic 71-72 -- 143 (t1) Aggie Invitational 74-79-70 -- 223 (t24) SEC Championships 71-69-82 -- 222 (t36) NCAA Franklin Regional 74-65-69 -- 208 (t9) NCAA Championships 71-71-72-72 -- 286 (t22) ZACH WRIGHT Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 72-77-66 -- 215 (t4) Golfweek Conference Challenge 72-75-73 -- 220 (t38) David Toms Intercollegiate 73-73-75 -- 221 (t8) United States Collegiate Championship 73-71-72 -- 216 (t18) The Prestige at PGA West 68-66-67 -- 201 (1) Querencia Cabo Collegiate 70-73-72 -- 215 (t18) Valspar Collegiate Invitational 69-72-70 -- 211 (1) Nathan Jeansonne Tiger Classic 72-71 -- 143 (t1) Aggie Invitational 70-74-71 -- 215 (t4) SAM BURNS SEC Championships 75-73-70 -- 218 (t18) Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 69-78-76 -- 223 (t19) NCAA Franklin Regional 75-70-67 -- 212 (t22) Golfweek Conference Challenge 74-68-71 -- 213 (t16) NCAA Championships 72-73-73-75 -- 293 (t60) David Toms Intercollegiate 80-74-74 -- 228 (t28) United States Collegiate Championship 77-73-68 -- 218 (t25) OVERALL RECORD: 125-45-5 (3 WINS) The Prestige at PGA West 70-75-67 -- 212 (t14) Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 291-301-291 -- 883 +19 4th of 14 Querencia Cabo Collegiate 72-75-75 -- 222 (t49) Golfweek Conference Challenge 298-286-285 -- 869 +5 9th of 15 Valspar Collegiate Invitational 72-77-67 -- 216 (t12) David Toms Intercollegiate 295-283-286 -- 864 E 1st of 14 Tiger Classic 71-73 -- 144 (4) U.S. Collegiate Championship 297-293-288 -- 878 +14 11th of 17 Aggie Invitational 75-75-69 -- 219 (t16) East Lake Cup 0-2 in Match Play 4th of 4 SEC Championships 78-72-69 -- 219 (t25) The Prestige at PGA West 277-284-265 -- 826 -26 1st of 14 NCAA Franklin Regional 70-67-72 -- 209 (t14) Querencia Cabo Collegiate 295-289-289 -- 873 +21 T-10th of 15 NCAA Championships 74-68-69-73 -- 284 (t13) Valspar Collegiate Invitational 286-295-279 -- 860 +8 2nd of 15 Tiger Classic 287-283 -- 570 -6 1st of 6 BLAKE CALDWELL Aggie Invitational 287-298-281 -- 866 +2 2nd of 15 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 79-71-73 -- 223 (t19) SEC Championships 294-286-284 -- 864 +24 5th of 14 David Toms Intercollegiate 73-77-75 -- 225 (19) NCAA Franklin Regional 288-272-279 -- 839 -25 T-3rd of 14 United States Collegiate Championship 78-79-76 -- 233 (t85) NCAA Championships 286-282-283-285 -- 1136 +16 T-5th of 30* Tiger Classic 78-76 -- 154 (15) * - Lost to Oregon, 3.5-1.5, in the NCAA Quarterfinals. LUIS GAGNE Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 78-75-76 -- 229 (t45) Valspar Collegiate Invitational 73-70-69 -- 212 (t3) Tiger Classic 73-70 -- 143 (t1) Aggie Invitational 69-75-71 -- 215 (t4) SEC Championships 77-72-74 -- 223 (t38) NCAA Franklin Regional 69-74-73 -- 216 (t39) NCAA Championships 70-70-73-71 -- 284 (t13) NATHAN JEANSONNE Golfweek Conference Challenge 76-71-69 -- 216 (t23) David Toms Intercollegiate 69-71-73 -- 213 (t2) The Prestige at PGA West 75-75-64 -- 215 (t19) Querencia Cabo Collegiate 77-73-70 -- 220 (t41) Tiger Classic 82-76 -- 158 (t19) RHYNE JONES Golfweek Conference Challenge 77-76-72 -- 225 (t51) David Toms Intercollegiate 82-73-76 -- 231 (t39) Tiger Classic 73-74 -- 147 (t7) BRANDON PIERCE David Toms Intercollegiate 83-74-71 -- 228 (t28) United States Collegiate Championship 75-72-72 -- 219 (t31) The Prestige at PGA West 69-68-71 -- 208 (6) Querencia Cabo Collegiate 76-74-72 -- 222 (t49) Valspar Collegiate Invitational 72-76-73 -- 221 (t31) Tiger Classic 76-70 -- 146 (t5) Aggie Invitational 74-74-79 -- 227 (t43) SEC Championships 71-75-71 -- 217 (t45) NCAA Franklin Regional 76-70-71 -- 217 (t45) NCAA Championships 73-76-69-69 -- 287 (t26) Luis Gagne

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CARPET CAPITAL COLLEGIATE CLASSIC UNITED STATES COLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP Sept. 11-13, 2015 Oct. 16-18, 2015 Rocky Face, Georgia Alpharetta, Georgia The Farm Golf Club (Par 72) The Golf Club of Georgia (Par 72) LSU’s senior All-American Zach Wright played a nearly flawless final round at The Freshman standout Sam Burns fired a bogey-free round of 4-under par 68 in the final Farm Golf Club while firing a 6-under par 66 to tie for fourth place individually and round at the United States Collegiate Championship to match the lowest round of his lead the No. 2-ranked LSU Tigers into fourth place in the final team standings at the young career and move the Tigers up one spot to 11th place in the final standings of 27th-annual Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic. With one eagle, five birdies and just one the event held at the Country Club of Georgia. Burns equaled his career-low round of bogey on his scorecard, Wright soared 18 spots up the leaderboard into a tie for fourth 68 that he also fired in the second round at the Golfweek Conference Challenge back place at 1-under par 215 to earn his first top-10 finish of the 2015-16 season. After on Sept. 26 en route to his best career finish of a tie for 16th place individually. Senior teeing off in the final round alone in sixth place in the team standings, the defending Zach Wright was the top Tiger on the weekend as he followed rounds of 1-over 73 NCAA Champion Tigers equaled their first-round score with a 3-over par 291 while on Friday and 1-under 71 on Saturday with an even-par 72 on Sunday to tie for 18th climbing two spots into fourth place in the final team standings at 19-over par 883. place individually with his final score of even-par 216. The Auburn Tigers outclassed the rest of the 15-team field this weekend while taking home a nine-shot victory over runner-up Clemson TEAM RESULTS T1. Auburn 285-285-285 -- 855 -9 TEAM RESULTS T1. Wake Forest 284-285-286 -- 855 -9 1. Auburn 293-288-287 -- 868 +4 3. Clemson 286-293-280 -- 859 -5 2. Clemson 296-287-294 -- 877 +13 4. Florida State 282-290-288 -- 860 -4 3. South Carolina 289-295-296 -- 880 +16 5. Georgia Tech 286-299-282 -- 867 +3 4. LSU 291-301-291 -- 883 +19 11. LSU 297-293-288 -- 878 +14 5. Georgia Tech 286-296-303 -- 885 +21 EAST LAKE CUP GOLFWEEK CONFERENCE CHALLENGE Nov. 2-3, 2015 Sept. 25-27, 2015 Atlanta, Ga. Burlington, Iowa East Lake Golf Club (Par 72) Spirit Hollow Golf Course (Par 72) Junior All-American Brandon Pierce closed out a 2-and-1 victory over USC standout Freshman Nathan Jeansonne followed his previous best round of 1-under par 71 in Andrew Levitt late in the match, but the defending national champion LSU Tigers the second round with a new career low of 3-under par 69 in the final round to tie fell to the Trojans by a 4-1 margin in their consolation match at the inaugural East for 23rd place in his collegiate debut with the Tigers while guiding the team into Lake Cup held this week at historic East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. The Trojans turned ninth place in the final standings. Fellow freshman Sam Burns also broke par for the the tables on the Tigers as they took third place in the event by a 4-1 margin after second-straight day as he followed his career-low round of 4-under 68 in the second LSU won the national championship by an identical scoreline over USC in the NCAA round with a 1-under 71 in the final round to finish as the top Tiger in the event in a Championship Match in June 2015. The Tigers also dropped a 3.5-1.5 decision to tie for 16th place overall. Burns earned a top-20 finish for the second time in as many Georgia in the semifinal round that resumed earlier in the day after play on the first starts after tying for 19th place in his debut at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic day of competition was suspended. Pierce put the Tigers on the scoreboard in the two weeks prior. Junior Rhyne Jones fired his low round as an LSU Tiger with an even- afternoon’s consolation match with a narrow win over Levitt as he bounced back from par 72 in the finale. a 7-and-5 defeat to Georgia’s Jaime Lopez Rivarola earlier in the day. LSU’s freshman Sam Burns opened his day by putting the Tigers on the scoreboard against Georgia TEAM RESULTS in their semifinal match with a 4-and-3 win against Sepp Straka, but fell 3-and-2 to 1. Iowa 284-273-285 -- 842 -22 Trojan All-American Sean Crocker in the consolation match. 2. NC State 269-295-281 -- 845 -19 3. Idaho 293-277-276 -- 846 -18 THE PRESTIGE AT PGA WEST 4. Kansas State 290-279-283 -- 852 -12 Feb. 15-17, 2016 5. Charleston Southern 281-293-281 -- 855 -9 9. LSU 298-286-285 -- 869 +5 La Quinta, California PGA West - Greg Norman Course (Par 71) DAVID TOMS INTERCOLLEGIATE The Tigers made history in the final round at the 16th-annual Prestige at PGA West as Oct. 10-11, 2015 they smashed school records with their 19-under par 265 on the day and 26-under Baton Rouge, Louisiana par 826 for the championship to cruise to the team title in the three-day event held at the Greg Norman Course. It took the Tigers just six holes to erase a five-shot deficit to University Club (Par 72) second-round leader Arizona State at the start of the day before storming to a 18-shot When a Shreveport guy wins a tournament named in honor of one of the school and victory in the end as they claimed their second team title on the 2015-16 season North Louisiana’s top pro golfers, it’s a big deal. For Shreveport native and Loyola Prep after defending their home turf at the David Toms Intercollegiate during the fall alum Eric Ricard, his win in the David Toms Intercollegiate event at the University season. Senior All-American Zach Wright made it a clean sweep for the Tigers as he Club of Baton Rouge marked the second time that he has won an event that carried also captured the individual title by two shots over San Diego State’s Ryann Ree with the name of the LSU All-American, PGA major champion and Shreveport-Bossier a career-low score of 12-under par 201. Wright was among four Tigers to break par City native. Ricard captured the 2012 AJGA David Toms Foundation junior event at in the final round as he matched junior All-American Eric Ricard and freshman Sam Shreveport’s Southern Trace. In the final round, Ricard cemented the individual Burns with scores of 4-under par 67, while freshman Nathan Jeansonne set the pace championship with a 54-hole total of 10-under par score of 206 over the 7,000-yard with a career-low, bogey-free round of 7-under 64 on the day to become the first LSU plus par 72 layout. One of those other Shreveport-area golfers, freshman Nathan Tiger in 27 years to fire a round of 64 in a collegiate tournament. Junior All-American Jeansonne, of Keithville and Calvary Baptist Academy, finished tied for second in the Brandon Pierce added an even-par round of 71 on the final day of the event to join tournament at 3-under par 213 on rounds of 71, 73 and a 3-under best of 69. Also Wright in the Top 10 of the final leaderboard and help the Tigers kick start their spring in the top 10 for the Tigers was the lone senior, Zach Wright, finishing tied for eighth season with a resounding victory. with a 5-over score of 221. The LSU victory as a team marked their fifth in the seven years of the David Toms Intercollegiate that dates back to 2009. TEAM RESULTS 1. LSU 277-284-265 -- 826 -26 TEAM RESULTS 2. Arizona State 287-269-288 -- 844 -8 1. LSU 295-283-286 -- 864 E 3. San Diego State 294-275-279 -- 848 -4 2. Kansas State 291-297-292 -- 880 +16 4. Pepperdine 290-282-280 -- 852 E 3. Liberty 288-301-297 -- 886 +22 5. Southern California 285-293-279 -- 857 +5 4. Iowa 292-300-298 -- 890 +22 5. Louisiana-Lafayette 306-306-288 -- 900 +36

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QUERENCIA CABO COLLEGIATE SEC MEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS Feb. 28-March 1, 2016 April 15-17, 2016 Cabo San Lucas, Mexico St. Simons Island, Georgia Querencia Golf Club (Par 71) Sea Island Golf Club (Par 70) Freshman Nathan Jeansonne opened his final round with a hole-in-one on his very Fifth-ranked LSU bounced back from an opening score of 14-over par 294 in the first first shot of the day at the par-three 14th to quickly drop to 2-under par, and holed out round and played the final 36 holes at 10-over par as a team to earn a fifth-place with a team-low 1-under par 70 to highlight the final day of action at the Querencia finish at the 2016 Southeastern Conference Men’s Golf Championships at Sea Island Cabo Collegiate. Jeansonne’s scorecard also showed three birdies, two bogeys and Golf Club’s Seaside Course. The Tigers followed their 6-over 286 in the second round one double bogey as he led the lineup in the final round with the Tigers tying for 10th with a 4-over 284 in the final round to crack the Top 5 of the final team standings in place overall at 21-over par 873 for 54 holes. The Tigers also tallied matching scores fifth place at 24-over par 864 for the championship. Sam Burns matched the team’s of 1-over par 72 from Zach Wright and Brandon Pierce, while Sam Burns counted lowest individual round for the weekend with his 1-under par 69 on the last day to a score of 4-over 75 as the quartet combined to shoot a second-straight score of help move the defending SEC Champions three spots up the team standings after 5-over par 289 as a team. Wright was the lone Tiger to crack the Top 20 on the final teeing it up in eighth place to start the day. Brandon Pierce finished as the top Tiger individual leaderboard as he tied for 18th place after opening the championship with on the weekend with a final score of 7-over par 217 as he sandwiched rounds of a round of 1-under 70 and 2-over 73. South Florida’s Aksel Olsen outlasted Arkansas’ 1-over 71 around a 5-over 75 to tie for 13th place on the leaderboard. Zach Wright Taylor Moore, Georgia Lee McCoy and California’s Collin Morikawa for the individual also cracked the Top 20 in his final SEC Championship as an LSU Tiger in a tie for 18th title with a final score of 9-under 204. place after canceling three birdies with three bogeys for an even-par 70 and final 54-hole score of 8-over par 218 for the championship. TEAM RESULTS 1. Georgia 281-268-285 -- 834 -18 TEAM RESULTS 2. South Florida 274-283-287 -- 844 -8 1. Georgia 277-291-285 -- 853 +13 3. Baylor 275-289-283 -- 847 -5 2. Texas A&M 287-283-286 -- 856 +16 T4. California 281-285-283 -- 849 -3 T3. Arkansas 288-283-290 -- 861 +21 T4. Stanford 286-278-285 -- 849 -3 T3. Florida 285-290-286 -- 861 +21 T10. LSU 295-289-289 -- 873 +21 5. LSU 294-286-284 -- 864 +24 VALSPAR COLLEGIATE INVITATIONAL NCAA FRANKLIN REGIONAL March 21-22, 2016 May 16-18, 2016 Palm City, Florida Franklin, Tennessee Floridian Golf Club (Par 71) Vanderbilt Legends Club (Par 72) After matching Texas A&M’s Chandler Phillips with the leading score in the field The LSU Tigers earned the right to defend their national championship later while at 2-under par 211 after 54 holes, Zach Wright made par at the par-four 18th hole making a sixth appearance at the NCAA Championships in seven seasons after tying to win a one-hole, sudden-death playoff for the individual title to cap the final for third place in the team standings at the NCAA Franklin Regional with a final score round at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational at Floridian National Golf Club. Wright of 25-under par 839 at the Vanderbilt Legends Club. The Tigers teed off in the final matched his Aggie counterpart at 2-under par for the championship after firing a round in third place in the overall team standings after 36 holes, and remained in a tie final round 1-under par 70 to set up a sudden-death playoff for the individual title for third at the end of the day after posting a team score of 9-under 279 in the final and an exemption into the PGA TOUR’s Valspar Championship for the winner. It took round. The three returning members of the team’s national championship lineup all just one hole for Wright to claim the crown as he made par with Phillips settling for broke par in the final round to lead the Tigers back to the NCAA Championships. Zach second place with a bogey. Wright’s victory helped propel the 22nd-ranked Tigers to Wright led the way with a brilliant final round of 5-under par 67, while Eric Ricard a wire-to-wire second-place finish in a loaded 15-team field as they teamed for the fired a 3-under 69 to finish in the Top 10 of the final leaderboard and Brandon Pierce lowest round of the tournament at 5-under par 279. While Wright scored his second added a 1-under 71 on the day. The top-five teams at the NCAA Franklin Regional all tournament title in three starts, freshman Luis Gagne finished one shot behind his punched their ticket to the NCAA Championships being held May 27-June 1, led by the teammate in a tie for third place at 1-under par 212. No. 1-seeded and No. 2-ranked Texas Longhorns at 45-under par 819 in three rounds played at the Vanderbilt Legends Club. TEAM RESULTS 1. Texas 283-287-285 -- 855 +3 2. LSU 286-295-279 -- 860 +8 TEAM RESULTS T3. Texas A&M 294-290-287 -- 871 +19 1. Texas 268-271-280 -- 819 -45 T3. Oklahoma State 295-288-288 -- 871 +19 2. Vanderbilt 285-277-268 -- 830 -34 T5. South Carolina 294-298-282 -- 874 +22 T3. LSU 288-272-279 -- 839 -25 T5. Illinois 295-295-284 -- 874 +22 T3. Houston 293-274-272 -- 839 -25 5. Virginia 285-271-286 -- 842 -22 AGGIE INVITATIONAL NCAA MEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS April 2-3, 2016 May 27-June 1, 2016 Bryan, Texas Eugene, Oregon Traditions Golf Club (Par 72) Eugene Country Club (Par 70) Four Tigers broke par in the final round at the Aggie Invitational to lead a furious The defending national champion Tigers advanced to the Match Play Eight at the NCAA comeback as the 17th-ranked Tigers fired a team score of 7-under par 281 on the day Division I Men’s Golf Championships for the third-straight season after earning the No. to finish two shots behind champion Oklahoma State in the final standings of their 3 seed in stroke play with a 72-hole score 16-over par where they met tournament regular-season finale at Traditions Golf Club. Sam Burns led the lineup with a 3-under host Oregon in the match play quarterfinals. While the Tigers returned Zach Wright par 69, while Eric Ricard carded a 2-under 70 and Zach Wright and Luis Gagne added Brandon Pierce and Eric Ricard from their title-winning lineup a season before, it was matching rounds of 1-under 71 to erase a 10-shot deficit to the 12th-ranked Cowboys a pair of freshmen leading LSU back into match play as NCAA rookies Sam Burns and to start the final round and finish just two shots back in second place with a 54-hole Luis Gagne tied one another for 13th place on the final stroke play leaderboard with team score of 2-over par 866. LSU’s 7-under 281 in the final round was the low round matching scores of 4-over par 284 in their first NCAA Championship. The Tigers would of the tournament as the Tigers moved one spot up the leaderboard. fall to the eventual national champion Ducks on their home course by a 3.5-1.5 margin TEAM RESULTS in the national quarterfinals as Oregon went on to defeat Texas, 3-2, for the 2016 title. 1. Oklahoma State 283-292-289 -- 864 E By officially tying for fifth place, the Tigers earned a top-five national finish at the 2. LSU 287-298-281 -- 866 +2 NCAA Championships in three-straight years for the fourth time in school history. 3. Arkansas 294-293-288 -- 875 +11 4. North Texas 291-289-296 -- 876 +12 5. Baylor 293-296-291 -- 880 +18

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2016 ALL-SEC TEAM FIRST TEAM Chandler Phillips, Texas A&M SEC COACH OF THE YEAR Lee McCoy, Georgia (SEC Medalist) Davis Riley, Alabama Chris Haack, Georgia Sam Horsfield, Florida Sepp Straka, Georgia Michael Johnson, Auburn SEC PLAYER OF THE YEAR Matthew NeSmith, South Carolina ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM Lee McCoy, Georgia Matthias Schwab, Vanderbilt Will Gordon, Vanderbilt Sam Horsfield, Florida Robbie Shelton, Alabama SEC FRESHMEN OF THE YEAR Greyson Sigg, Georgia Patrick Martin, Vanderbilt Sam Horsfield, Florida Zach Wright, LSU Davis Riley, Alabama Jacob Solomon, Auburn SEC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE SECOND TEAM Will Gordon, Vanderbilt OF THE YEAR Euan Walker, Missouri Zach Healy, Georgia Patrick Martin, Vanderbilt Tyler McDaniel, Kentucky Taylor Moore, Arkansas THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE SETTING THE STANDARD FOR INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS IN GOLF

Throughout the rich history of the Southeastern Conference the and Vanderbilt all bowed out of the tournament in the national league has provided a strong tradition of excellence on the quarterfinals. links with its men’s golf programs, and the 2015-16 season While officially tying for fifth place overall, the Tigers was no different as nine of the SEC’s 14 programs made earned their third-straight top-five national finish at the an appearance at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf NCAA Championships for the fourth time in school history Championships held at Eugene Country Club in Eugene, after also doing so five-straight times from 1939-43 and Oregon. three-straight times from 1946-48 and 1953-55. That’s where the defending national champion LSU While LSU, South Carolina and Vanderbilt all qualified Tigers returned to the Match Play Eight for the third- among the eight teams in match play, Arkansas finished straight season as the No. 3 seed thanks to a third-place 12th, Kentucky finished 13th and Florida finished 15th finish in 72 holes of stroke play with a score of 16-over in stroke play qualifying, while Alabama, Auburn and par. Although the SEC did not extend its run of three- Georgia did not make the 15-team cut after 54 holes of straight years of producing the national championship stroke play. team and five-straight years of seeing at least one conference The conference has captured 13 NCAA team titles in its program advance to the NCAA Championship Match, three SEC history with LSU owning a league-leading five titles all-time. teams did feature in the Match Play Eight as LSU, South Carolina MEN’S GOLF NOTES

8 13 58 62 SEC teams finished the season ranked in NCAA team titles and seven NCAA individual Top 10 team finishes at the NCAA Men’s Individuals have placed in the Top 10 of the final Golfweek Top 25, including four champions all-time. Golf Championships since 1985. the leaderboard at the NCAA Men’s Golf in the Top 10, along with a total of 27 Championships since 1985. individuals ranked in the final Golfweek Top 100 in 2016. 53 First-Team All-Americans since 1990.

2016 SEC RESULTS TOP 10 INDIVIDUALS 1. Georgia 277-291-285 -- 853 +13 1. Lee McCoy, Georgia 68-70-69 -- 207 -3 2. Texas A&M 287-283-286 -- 856 +16 2. Tyler McDaniel, Kentucky 68-72-69 -- 209 -1 T3. Arkansas 288-283-290 -- 861 +21 3. Matt Gilchrist, Auburn 68-71-71 -- 210 E T3. Florida 285-290-286 -- 861 +21 4. Gordon Neale, Florida 68-76-67 -- 211 +1 5. LSU 294-286-284 -- 864 +24 T5. Andrew Lister, Texas A&M 74-66-72 -- 212 +2 6. Auburn 291-283-291 -- 865 +25 T5. Chandler Phillips, Texas A&M 68-73-71 -- 212 +2 7. Kentucky 277-289-302 -- 868 +28 T5. Sam Horsfield, Florida 71-72-69 -- 212 +2 8. Vanderbilt 286-294-294 -- 874 +34 T5. Taylor Moore, Arkansas 72-68-72 -- 212 +2 9. Tennessee 286-292-297 -- 875 +35 9. Charles Kim, Arkansas 71-73-70 -- 214 +4 10. South Carolina 292-294-293 -- 879 +39 T10. Greyson Sigg, Georgia 69-75-71 -- 215 +5 11. Alabama 294-292-294 -- 880 +40 T10. Sean Kelly, South Carolina 70-76-70 -- 215 +5 12. Missouri 289-292-300 -- 881 +41 13. Ole Miss 301-298-289 -- 888 +48 14. Mississippi State 304-298-293 -- 895 +55

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DAVID

Turned Professional: 1989 TOMS Joined PGA TOUR: 1992 Best Finish: 1st (13 times) Career Earnings: $41,840,270 PGA TOUR VICTORIES 1997 Quad City Classic 1999 Sprint International 1999 Buick Challenge 2000 Michelob Championship at Kingsmill 2001 Compaq Classic of New Orleans 2001 PGA Championship 2001 Michelob Championship at Kingsmill 2003 Wachovia Championship 2003 FebEx St. Jude Classic 2004 Feb Ex St. Jude Classic 2005 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 2006 Sony Open 2011 Crowne Plaza Invitational

13 career PGA TOUR victories 2001 PGA Champion 2002, 2004 and 2006 Ryder Cup team member 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011 Presidents Cup team member Led the U.S. squad with a 4-0-1 record at The Presidents Cup in 2007 Has finished Top 10 in major championships 11 times in his PGA TOUR career Ranks No. 10 in career PGA TOUR earnings with $41,840,270 as of Nov. 4, 2016.

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ANDREW LOUPE

Turned Professional: 2011 Joined PGA TOUR: 2013 Best PGA Finish: T-3rd (2016 CareerBuilder Challenge) Best Web.com Finish: 1st (2015 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship) Career Earnings: $1,958,549

JOHN PETERSON

Turned Professional: 2011 Joined PGA TOUR: 2013 Best Finish: T-4th (2012 U.S. Open) Career Earnings: $1,889,056

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SMYLIE KAUFMAN

Turned Professional: 2014 Joined PGA TOUR: 2015 Best PGA Finish: 1st (2015 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open) Best Web.com Finish: 1st (2015 United Leasing Championship Presented by PTI) Career Earnings: $2,783,968

CURTIS THOMPSON

Turned Professional: 2014 Joined Web.com Tour: 2014 Best Finish: T-3rd (2016 Panama Claro Championship) Career Earnings: $196,268

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 39 Review HISTORY 2015 NCAA Champions

National Champions! Tigers Tame Trojans for NCAA Championship

Just as he did in the national semifinal against Georgia, LSU’s senior “There are a lot of people at LSU that care about men’s golf, and really the All-American Ben Taylor scored the deciding point by rolling in a nine-foot athletic department, so having graduated from LSU and being a Tiger, it’s very par putt at the par-four 18th hole to claim a 1-up victory over USC’s Bobby special. The supporters at LSU and the administration have very much sup- Gojuangco and hand the Tigers their fifth national championship with a 4-1 ported us these 10 years. We didn’t do this by ourselves, so I think it means victory over the Trojans. quite a lot. They’ve invested.” With All-SEC standouts Zach Wright and Brandon Pierce already in the Taylor scored the third and deciding point to send the Tigers into the NCAA clubhouse with match wins of their own and watching nearby, Taylor made it Championship Match a day before when he defeated Georgia’s Zach Healy by a 3-for-3 for the Tigers in the 2015 NCAA Championship Match by coming from 2-up margin on the 18th green in their semifinal match. behind on the back nine to defeat Gojuangco on the final hole and seal LSU’s The 18th hole was again the site of LSU’s match decider when Taylor victory. rolled in his par putt from nine feet to close out his match with Gojuangco by a Pierce put the first point on the board for the Tigers with a 2-and-1 win narrow 1-up scoreline and deliver the title to Baton Rouge for the first time in over Rico Hoey, while Wright followed with a 3-and-2 victory over Sean Crock- 60 years. But it was a match very much in the balance as Taylor found himself er to push LSU’s advantage to 2-0 as Taylor played the 18th hole. 1-down to his Trojan opponent after 16 holes and both players heading to the With All-SEC sophomore Eric Ricard defeating Jonah Texeira by a 1-up par-five 17th. margin and senior All-American Stewart Jolly going 1-down to Eric Sugimoto, Taylor went up by as many as two holes early on the back nine as he the Tigers were crowned national champions for the fifth time in team history opened the side with a par at the par-four 10th hole to extend his lead, then with a 4-1 victory over the No. 5-seeded Trojans in the title match. They dropped three-straight at Nos. 11-13 to fall 1-down to Gojuangco late in the captured their first NCAA Championship in 60 years after also being crowned match. That’s where he remained as both players put their drives in good champions in 1940, 1942, 1947 and 1955. positions in the fairway on the reachable 17th. “I’m just so proud of these guys,” said LSU head coach Chuck Winstead of Knowing that his opponent would likely make birdie, Taylor addressed his his team winning the national championship for the 2015 season. “It’s hard ball and fired a 4-iron from 258 yards to within five feet of the hole where he to get into a position to even have a chance to win this tournament, and then would knock down his putt for eagle and square the match. when you show up out here today and you still have the resolve to play the “Surprisingly not too bad,” Taylor said of his nerves as he prepared to hit way we did, I’m very proud of the guys on this team. his second shot into the 17th green. “Before I hit my shot Coach (Chuck Win-

40 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 2015 NCAA Champions HISTORY stead) asked me, ‘Are you having fun?’ It was hard to say no because it was a onship on the links in school history, but they also tied a team record with lot of fun. It was a perfect club, a perfect yardage, and we knew it was going five wins in a season as they matched their single-season mark with five to be a good shot. To see it run up that tier and go to the back of that green wins that was previously set during the 1959-60 season. The 2015 SEC by that back pin was pretty special.” Champions and NCAA Champions also took home the title from the Golfweek Gojuangco’s bogey at No. 18 then opened the door for Taylor to seal the Conference Challenge (Sept. 14-16), David Toms Intercollegiate (Oct. 4-5) and title for the Tigers as he buried his par putt after leaving his first putt well Talis Park Challenge (March 15-16) during the 2014-15 campaign. short of the cup from the back-left side of the green. By taking home the team title in the 2015 NCAA Championship Match, the “It was a perfect moment to end a perfect college career, and I couldn’t Tigers also won LSU’s 47th national championship in school history as one be happier. I’m emotional and don’t even know what else to say. It’s been a of the most decorated athletic programs in all of college athletics. great day, and what a finish to my college career. I’m so happy, just a great feeling,” Taylor shared with Golf Channel’s Angela Hamann after the victory. “At first on the birdie putt, we knew that a two-putt was likely going to be good enough to win the national championship, but it was obviously a very fast putt that I left short. I had that putt in the practice round, about 10 feet down the hill. We had the line and I just had to put a good stroke on it.” NCAA Championship Match Like Taylor, Pierce and Wright both ended their time at Concession Golf Final Results – No. 7 LSU def. No. 5 USC, 4-1 Club unbeaten in match play at the NCAA Championships to help lead the Tigers to the team title on a Wednesday afternoon that will live long in the Brandon Pierce (LSU) def. Rico Hoey (USC), 2&1 memory. Pierce took down Hoey 2-and-1 to finish 2-0-1, while Wright closed Ben Taylor (LSU) def. Bobby Gojuangco (USC), 1-up out Crocker 3-and-2 to match Taylor’s perfect 3-0 record for the week. Zach Wright (LSU) def. Sean Crocker (USC), 3&2 Pierce trailed only briefly in his match after making bogey at the par-four Eric Ricard (LSU) def. Jonah Texeira (USC), 1-up second hole to go 1-down to Hoey early on. He rebounded quickly with a Eric Sugimoto (USC) def. Stewart Jolly (LSU), 1-up birdie at the par-four fifth hole, before extending his lead to 2-up with a bird- ie at the par-four 12th hole and 3-up with an eagle at the par-five 13th hole. Despite falling back to 2-up with a bogey at the par-four 15th, Pierce held on for a 2-and-1 win for LSU’s first point in the match. Pierce handed Hoey his only defeat in three matches while running his own record to 2-0-1 after also defeating Vanderbilt’s Theo Humphrey 1-up in the quarterfinal round and squaring his match with Georgia’s Sepp Straka after 18 holes in the semifinal. It was an exclamation point onto the end of what was an All-American spring season for the Tiger sophomore. Wright led the Tigers into the final eight of match play at the NCAA Championships in each of the 2014 and 2015 seasons while posting a per- fect 5-0 mark against the nation’s best. With his match against Crocker remaining all square through 13 holes, it was clear that Wright would have a say in which team would take home the national championship when he stepped up for his tee shot at No. 14 with just five holes to play. Wright then stormed to victory down the stretch when he made back-to-back pars at No. 14 and No. 15 and a birdie at the par-four 16th hole for a comfortable 3-and-2 win in the end. It proved to be an outstanding championship for Wright as he not only tied for 11th place to match Pierce as the top Tiger in 72 holes of stroke play, but he also captured LSU’s highest winning margins in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of match play on Tuesday with a 4-and-2 win over Vander- bilt’s Carson Jacobs and a 7-and-6 victory over Georgia’s Mookie DeMoss en route to the championship match. “Absolutely. I mean, I can be more aggressive so it definitely is not like a fear of losing,” Wright said of his ability to play his best golf in match play. “Because you only lose one hole, you don’t lose multiple strokes to the field. We came here on a mission to try and win this.” A fourth LSU Tiger in the lineup also remained unbeaten in match play as Ricard showed the nerves of a seasoned veteran while playing in his first career NCAA Championship. After finishing all square with Vanderbilt’s Zack Jaworski in the quarterfinal and scoring a decisive 4-and-3 victory over Georgia’s Greyson Sigg in the semifinal round, Ricard finished the title match against Texeira 1-up as they were called off the course after 16 holes once Taylor had sealed the match and the championship for the Tigers. Ricard also left Concession Golf Club with an unbeaten 2-0-1 mark in his NCAA Championship debut as he will team with Pierce and Wright in providing the Tigers with a strong foundation in the lineup as they look to be NCAA Champions once again in 2016 as they are sure to return one of the strongest teams in all of college golf in the spring. Jolly might have dropped his match to USC’s Sugimoto in the final, but the two-time All-SEC pick and All-American had nothing but great memories when looking back on his final NCAA Championship. “It means a lot,” Jolly shared of going out a national champion in his final tournament as a Tiger. “I’m out there playing with my brothers, and just couldn’t be more proud of them. This is what we worked for all year this year. We’ve worked so hard for this. The semifinals last year definitely stung a bit, and we came out here with a chip on our shoulder and got it done this year.” The Tigers not only made history by winning their fifth national champi-

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National Champions! Tigers Defeat Bulldogs in National Semifinals

After knocking off No. 2 seed Vanderbilt by a 3.5-1.5 margin in the national Senior All-American Ben Taylor scored the deciding point for the Tigers to quarterfinals earlier in the day, the Tigers defeated No. 3 seed Georgia by the send the team into the NCAA Championship Match as he defeated Georgia’s same scoreline in their semifinal match in the afternoon to advance to the Zach Healy by a 2-up margin with a strong finish on the back nine. NCAA Championship Match at the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Champion- Second-Team All-SEC performers Zach Wright and Eric Ricard both ships. cruised to comfortable victories over their Bulldog rivals as Wright scored a The Tigers earned the right to play for their first NCAA title in 60 years decisive 7-and-6 win over Mookie Demoss and Ricard followed with his 4-and- where they would meet the No. 5-seeded USC Trojans in the NCAA Champion- 3 win over Greyson Sigg to score the three points needed to win the match for ship Match airing live on Golf Channel. the Tigers. Sophomore Brandon Pierce battled back from a three-hole deficit The Trojans defeated No. 1 seed Illinois by an identical score of 3.5-1.5 in on the back nine to finish all square with Sepp Straka, while senior Stewart their national semifinal to set up a title tilt with LSU in the final. While compet- Jolly rounded out the semifinals with a narrow 2-and-1 defeat to Georgia’s ing as the No. 5 seed in match play, USC opened with a comfortable 4-0 win Lee McCoy. over No. 4 seed Texas in the quarterfinal round.

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“I’m so proud of the guys,” said LSU head coach Chuck Winstead birdie at No. 10 and back-to-back pars at Nos. 11 and 12. following his team’s semifinal victory. “This day was a long day. It takes With his 7-and-6 win over DeMoss, Wright remained unbeaten at 4-0 a lot of focus and a lot of determination to play this much golf in these in his four career matches in match play at the NCAA Championships. He conditions, and you just have to kind of hang in there and keep playing. also defeated Vanderbilt’s Carson Jacobs by a 4-and-2 margin in their Our guys have had a nice year and have done some great things. They’ve quarterfinals match, while also earning wins over UCLA’s Matt Pinizzotto worked really hard and are looking forward to tomorrow. (2-and-1) in the quarterfinal and Alabama’s Cory Whitsett (1-up) in the “USC has a great team. Not only do they have a great team, but they’re semifinal a season before in 2014. playing really well here too. We’re playing well, so I know we’re all looking Like Wright, Ricard never trailed in his match against Sigg as he was forward to getting out there and getting after it.” quickly 1-up thanks to a par at the par-four first hole before extending his All eyes were on Taylor as he and Healy went to the back nine all lead to 4-up with just six holes to play with a birdie at No. 7, par at No. 9 square in their match that proved to be the decider in sending either the and birdie at No. 12. After trading the 13th and 14th holes, Ricard closed Tigers or Bulldogs to the championship finale. Taylor went 1-down in the out the match 4-and-3 when he drained a lengthy birdie putt at the par- match when he opened the back nine with a double bogey on the par-four four 15th hole. 10th hole to hand the advantage over to Georgia. “On this golf course, you have to be good off the tee and not make any But the Tiger All-American ground out the required result after he silly mistakes to give a hole away. You have to make the other person beat again squared the match with a par at the par-four 12th before taking his you,” Taylor added. “That was my mindset. I was able to do that great on first lead of the afternoon by rolling in a clutch six-foot putt for par at the the back nine today. We’ll approach it the same way as we did today, same par-four 15th. After halving Nos. 16 and 17, Taylor fired a 6-iron from 196 routing as we’ve had yesterday , the day before and really what we’ve yards to within three feet of the pin for a tap-in birdie and a 2-up victory done all year to get to the final.” for LSU’s clinching third point. “The front nine was a massive grind. It was quite windy and really rain- ing, so it was pretty tough to win holes and not give any away,” Taylor said of their front nine. “It cleared up on the back nine and we started hitting some proper golf shots. We had to go out and make birdies to win holes. NCAA Match Play Semifinals The 17th was a good example because right when I made a birdie, (Zach Final Results – No. 7 LSU def. No. 3 Georgia, 3.5-1.5 Healy) came back and made birdie to extend the match. “That was huge and got us to the final for the first time in school Brandon Pierce (LSU) vs. Sepp Straka (UGA), A/S history,” Taylor added of his 6-iron into the 18th green. “It was 196 yards Ben Taylor (LSU) def. Zach Healy (UGA), 2-up downwind with the pin back left, and I just fired it right in there at the pin.” Zach Wright (LSU) def. Mookie DeMoss (UGA), 7&6 Wright’s match was never in doubt as he took an early 1-up lead with Eric Ricard (LSU) def. Greyson Sigg (UGA), 4&3 a par at the par-four second hole and never looked back while cruising to Lee McCoy (UGA) def. Stewart Jolly (LSU), 2&1 an easy victory in his match with DeMoss. He put together a run of four in a row as he went 4-up with pars at the par-five third, par-three fourth and par-four fifth holes. Wright dropped his only hole of the day with a bogey at the par-five seventh hole as his lead was cut to 3-up. But order was restored when Wright made par at the par-four eighth hole before closing out his match 7-and-6 with consecutive wins with a

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National Champions! LSU Advances to Second-Straight NCAA Semifinal

Brandon Pierce, Ben Taylor and Zach Wright were the first Tigers to tee round. It marked LSU’s best NCAA finish since finishing in third place in 1967. off in LSU’s national quarterfinal match against Vanderbilt, and each defeated Pierce put the first point on the board for the Tigers in the 2015 quarter- their Commodore rival to send the SEC Champions back to the Final Four of final as he never trailed Humphrey before winning 1-up in 18 holes. He took match play at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships for the sec- a 1-up lead early in the match with a birdie at the par-five third hole before ond-straight season. falling back to all square after dropping the par-three sixth hole with a bogey. Pierce put the first point on the board for the Tigers with a narrow 1-up Pierce then made back-to-back birdies at the par-four ninth and par-four 10th victory over Vanderbilt’s Theo Humphrey, while Taylor followed with a 3-and-2 holes to take a 2-up lead to the back nine. victory over All-American Matthias Schwab and Wright kept his match play After trading holes by dropping the par-three 11th and winning the par- record undefeated with a 4-and-2 victory over Carson Jacobs as No. 7-seeded three 14th, Pierce’s lead was erased when Humphrey birdied consecutive LSU earned a 3.5-1.5 win over the No. 2-seeded Commodores in the national holes at the par-four 15th and par-four 16th holes to square the match on the quarterfinals. back nine. Pierce seized control again when he chipped in for eagle from more LSU’s All-SEC sophomore Eric Ricard played Zack Jaworski all square for than 50 feet on the par-five 17th hole before picking up for par at the par-four 18 holes, while Stewart Jolly dropped a 3-and-2 decision to Vanderbilt’s SEC 18th hole for a 1-up win. Player of the Year Hunter Stewart in their morning match. Like Pierce, Taylor never trailed in his match with Schwab as he fired out The Tigers advanced to the NCAA Final Four for the second-straight of the gate by taking five of the first seven holes to make the turn with a com- season where they set up an SEC showdown with No. 3 seed Georgia in their manding 5-up lead. Schwab would only manage to cut Taylor’s lead to 3-up on semifinal match after the Bulldogs closed out No. 6-seed South Florida by a the back nine after the Tiger All-American dropped two holes with a par at the decisive 4-1 margin in the quarterfinal round. par-five 13th and bogey at the par-three 14th. LSU teed off against Georgia with experience on its side after advancing Taylor improved his record to 2-1 in match play at the NCAA Champion- to the Final Four of match play the season before for its best finish at the ships as an LSU Tiger when he matched Schwab with a birdie at No. 15 and NCAA Championships in 47 years. The Tigers, competing as the No. 3 seed par at No. 16 to claim a 3-and-2 victory for LSU’s second win of the day. after trying for second place in stroke play a year ago, took down No. 6 seed Wright, who won both of his matches in match play at the NCAA Champion- UCLA by a 4-1 margin in the national quarterfinals before falling to No. 2 seed ships a year ago, moved to 3-0 in his career with a 4-and-2 win over Jacobs in and eventual national champion Alabama by the same score in the semifinal the deciding match to send the Tigers to the NCAA semifinals to play Georgia.

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Wright actually fell 2-down in the match after just four holes, but rebounded to square the match with consecutive pars at No. 5 and No. 6 where they remained going to the back nine. LSU’s Second-Team All-SEC selection then NCAA Match Play Quarterfinals won four-straight holes on the back nine at Nos. 13-16 to seal the victory for Final Results – No. 7 LSU def. No. 2 Vanderbilt, 3.5-1.5 the Tigers. The Tigers earned the No. 7 seed in match play following the final round Brandon Pierce (LSU) def. Theo Humphrey (VU), 1-up with a final score of 17-over par 1,169 in stroke-play qualifying at the 2015 Ben Taylor (LSU) def. Matthias Schwab (VU), 3&2 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships that was held at Concession Golf Zach Wright (LSU) def. Carson Jacobs (VU), 4&2 Club in Bradenton, Florida. Eric Ricard (LSU) vs. Zach Jaworski (VU), A/S After teeing off in the fourth round of stroke play in third place overall, Hunter Stewart (VU) def. Stewart Jolly (LSU), 3&2 the Tigers sealed their spot in the “Race for the Eight” for match play with a team score of 10-over par 298 in the final round to finish seventh in the field and take the No. 7 seed into the national quarterfinals to face the second seed Vanderbilt Commodores in the opening round of match play. Illinois, the NCAA runner-up in 2013, earned the top seed in match play NCAA Stroke Play Leaderboard after posting the lowest 72-hole score in the field at 3-over 1,155. Vanderbilt Final Team Results (Top 10 Only) followed two shots back in second place at 5-over 1,157, while Texas and Georgia finished three shots off the pace in a tie for third place at 6-over 1. Illinois 286-292-296-282 – 1155 +3 1,158. USC (1,161), South Florida (1,168), LSU (1,169) and UCLA (1,172) 2. Vanderbilt 301-284-287-285 – 1157 +5 rounded out the eight-team field in the match play competition. T3. Georgia 288-293-286-291 – 1158 +6 Two Tigers nearly cracked the Top 10 of the leaderboard with their T3. Texas 294-300-280-284 – 1158 +6 performance at the 2015 NCAA Championships as Wright and Pierce tied for 5. Southern California 289-285-296-291 – 1161 +9 11th place in the final stroke-play standings. Pierce posted a 1-over par 73 6. South Florida 294-291-292-291 – 1168 +16 and Wright added a 3-over par 75 in the final round as the two Second-Team 7. LSU 292-289-290 -298 – 1169 +17 All-SEC performers finished off matching 72-hole scores of 1-over par 289. 8. UCLA 294-304-280-294 – 1172 +20 Ricard was impressive in his NCAA Championship debut as he added 9. Georgia Tech 293-295-290-297 – 1175 +23 a counting score of 6-over 78 for the Tigers in the final round for a total of 10. TCU 296-293-291-299 – 1179 +27 4-over 292 to tie for 27th place overall.

NCAA Stroke Play Leaderboard Final Individual Results (Top 10 Only)

1. Bryson Dechambeau, SMU 70-67-72-71 – 280 -8 2. Cheng-Tsung Pan, Washington 72-70-72-67 – 281 -7 T3. Thomas Detry, Illinois 68-71-73-70 – 282 -6 T3. Hunter Stewart, Vanderbilt 74-69-71-68 – 282 -6 5. Paul Dunne, UAB 72-69-69-73 – 283 -5 6. Claudio Correa, South Florida 68-75-69-72 – 284 -4 7. Andrew Presley, TCU 73-70-72-70 – 285 -3 T8. Doug Ghim, Texas 72-73-70-71 – 286 -2 T8. Riley Davenport, Charlotte 70-74-72-70 – 286 -2 10. Beau Hossler, Texas 72-75-69-71 – 287 -1

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 45 Review HISTORY 2015 SEC Championships

SEC Champions! Tigers Win First SEC Crown Since 1987

The LSU Tigers lifted the SEC Championship trophy for the first time in 28 firing matching scores of even-par 70 and Pierce adding a 2-over par 72 seasons when they turned a three-shot deficit entering the final round into a toward LSU’s team score in the final round, the Tigers took home the title with three-shot victory with a winning score of 13-under par 827 at the 2015 SEC a total of 1-over 281 in the final round and winning effort of 13-under 827 in Men’s Golf Championships held at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course. 54 holes played at the Seaside Course. The Commodores and South Carolina Not since the sophomore season of the great David Toms in 1986-87 had Gamecocks trailed three back in a tie for second place at 10-under 830 as the Tigers been crowned SEC Champions on the links, but the team of seniors each ended with an even-par 280 in the final round. Stewart Jolly and Ben Taylor, junior Zach Wright and sophomores Brandon Rounding out the Top 5 of the final team standings as this year’s SEC Pierce and Eric Ricard earned their place in history as the champion golfers of Men’s Golf Championships were Alabama and Auburn in a tie for fourth place the year for the 2014-15 season. at 7-under par 833. They claimed the 16th SEC Championship in the program’s history to rank “It came down to the end, and our guys just kept playing,” said LSU head second all-time behind the 26 titles won by the Georgia Bulldogs while snap- coach Chuck Winstead of his team’s performance late in the final round. ping Alabama’s run of three-straight wins from 2012-14. “They really outplayed some great teams down the stretch. The course But the 2014 SEC runners-up appeared set for a second-straight sil- was tougher today, you could see that in the scores. It took a great amount ver-medal-winning finish at the championship as they fell five shots behind in of focus to get through it. They did that and competed very well all the way second place to both three-time defending champion Alabama and title-chal- through the 54th hole. lenging Vanderbilt on the back nine. They trailed the Crimson Tide by five “The guys are thrilled, and I’m happy for them. They’ve worked hard to shots as groups in the final wave began to make the turn before also falling achieve something like this and certainly deserve it. We have five guys here five shots back of Vanderbilt late in the day. who are not just very good players, but they’re all really competitive as a Closing at 1-under par as a team on the back nine and 2-under par over group. When you put our five guys up against some great teams that are here, the final four holes, the Tigers staked their claim as SEC Champions as Ala- they’re very competitive and want to take on the challenge of playing in a great bama came in at 10-over par on the back nine with Vanderbilt posting its score championship event like we have here.” of 4-over par on the final nine holes of the championship, including a cumula- Jolly proved to be a catalyst in LSU’s charge on the back nine as he was tive 5-over par as a team through holes Nos. 15-18. the only Tiger to break par in the final round, firing a 1-under 69 to tie for With Jolly leading the way with a 1-under par 69, Taylor and Wright both fourth place at 5-under par 205 for the weekend.

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After making the turn at 2-over par for his round with bogeys at the par- four fourth and par-five seventh holes, Jolly ignited a furious finish to the championship when he holed a 4-iron from the fairway on the par-five 15th hole for eagle before carding a birdie at the par-three 17th hole en route to a team-low round of 69 on the afternoon. He cracked the Top 10 of the final SEC leaderboard for the first time in his four SEC starts with the Tigers as he eclipsed his previous best tournament finish when he tied for 21st place as a junior in 2014. “It’s huge for us,” Jolly exclaimed following the team trophy presentation. “I couldn’t be prouder of my teammates. We’ve had a good year, and this makes it a great year. I couldn’t be happier. It’s great that we all put it togeth- er when it mattered most. This is an awesome feeling.” Jolly talked about the shot that sparked his outstanding finish to the championship when he holed a 4-iron from 199 yards into the 15th green to level his score at even-par before finishing the day at 1-under. “I actually hit a bad drive into the fairway bunker, didn’t get a very good lie, so I had to lay it up into the fairway from there,” Jolly explained. “I’ve been hitting my irons pretty well lately, and the pin was back left of the green, so it set up a right-to-left shot shape. It suited my ball flight like I hit it. I had a really good number (yardage), it was a good 4-iron if I hit it correct- ly. “Coach (Winstead) and I were both talking to it like, ‘Please be good!’ He was having a little bit of fun saying, ‘Be the right club today!’ It was just perfect. It was the most amped up I’ve ever been on a golf course.” Jolly was among three Tigers to break into the Top 10 of the final lead- erboard following the final round at the SEC Championships as Wright followed in a tie for sixth place at 4-under par 206 to claim his best finish in three career appearances and Pierce wrapped up the weekend in a tie for ninth place at 3-under par 207 while making his championship debut with the Tigers. After firing the lowest round of the weekend for the Tigers with his 4-under 66 in the second round, Wright closed out a top-10 finish with two birdies and two bogeys for an even-par round of 70 in the final round to im- prove his two prior finishes of tying for 36th place at the SEC Championships as a freshman in 2013 and as a sophomore in 2014. Pierce’s 2-over 72 was the final counting score for the Tigers in securing the team title. Both Taylor and Ricard tied one another for 31st place on the final lead- erboard with matching tournament scores of 3-over par 213 for the champi- onship. Like Wright, Taylor canceled out two birdies with two bogeys for an even-par 70 in the final round to his second-round output after opening the tournament with a 3-over par 73 in the first round. While making his SEC Championship debut alongside Pierce, Ricard counted a score of 1-under 69 before adding rounds of 1-over 71 and 3-over 73 to finish the event at 3-over 213. South Carolina’s Matthew NeSmith led wire-to-wire in claiming the SEC individual title as he followed rounds of 5-under 65 and 6-under 64 with a final-round 3-under 67 to take home a comfortable six-shot victory with a final score of 14-under par 196 for the championship. Auburn’s Ben Schlott- man followed six shots back in second place with a 54-hole score of 8-under par 202. “There are so many people who have helped LSU Golf get back to this level during our time here. I’m happy for all of those who have given us so much support,” Winstead added. “Whether it be alumni, past members of our team, the administration and others, there are just so many people who have played a major part in this. We can’t thank them enough for helping us along the way.” Their victory at the 2015 SEC Men’s Golf Championships marked the fourth time during the 2014-15 season for the Tigers to be crowned team champions in their 10 tournament starts on the year. They also claimed team titles at the Golfweek Conference Challenge (Sept. 14-16) and David Toms Intercollegiate (Oct. 4-5) in the 2014 fall season and the Talis Park Challenge (March 15-16) earlier in the spring.

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Tigers Compete for National Championship in Match Play

The LSU Tigers gave themselves an opportunity to win their first national every day. We’re looking forward to it.” championship in nearly 60 years after firing a team score of 4-under par 836 in After opening the championship with a 1-over 71, Taylor caught fire to finish 54 holes of medal play at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships as the top Tiger in the individual competition as he played his final 36 holes at while earning the No. 3 seed in the eight-team match-play tournament for the 5-under par with scores of 3-under 67 and 2-under 68 to tie for sixth place on title in the event held May 23-28 at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, the final leaderboard at 4-under par 206 for the championship. Kansas. It was the third time in five years for an LSU Tiger to crack the Top 10 of the It marked the first time in six seasons of the current format that the Tigers final NCAA standing after three-time All-American John Peterson tied for sixth qualified for the eight-team, single-elimination tournament for the national place as a junior in 2010 before being crowned the NCAA Champion as a senior championship dating back to NCAA’s adoption of match play since the 2008-09 in 2011. season. Taylor played a nearly flawless final round with three birdies and one bogey Sparked by final rounds of 2-under par 70 by junior Ben Taylor and 1-under on his scorecard. After opening with six-straight pars, he reeled off three birdies par 69 by senior Smylie Kaufman, the Tigers capped their third round of stroke- over a four-hole stretch around the turn at the par-five seventh, par-four eighth play qualifying with a team score of 1-under par 279 to finish as the runners-up and par-three 10th holes before making his lone bogey of the day at the par- to the No. 3-ranked Stanford Cardinal and in a tie for second place with the No. four 13th hole to cap his afternoon with a team-leading 2-under par 68. 1-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide among the 30 teams in medal play. It was an outstanding individual finish in the NCAA Championship Stanford ran away from the field with a 54-hole score of 13-under par 827 to claim the No. 1 seed in the match play quarterfinals. Alabama earned the No. 2 seed over the Tigers in match play with the second tiebreaker established by the NCAA of highest 54-hole score by one golfer in the lineup after both teams’ non-counting scores over the three rounds totaled 11-over par. LSU broke par in each of its three rounds in stroke play to clinch its first 2014 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS top-10 team finish at the NCAA Championships in 25 years, sandwiching scores FINAL TOP 10 TEAM LEADERBOARD of 1-under 279 in the first and third rounds around a 2-under 278 in the second 1. Stanford 281-267-279 – 827 -13 round for a 54-hole score of 4-under par 836. T2. LSU 279-278-279 – 836 -4 The Tigers last cracked the Top 10 of the final team standings at the NCAA T2. Alabama 274-278-284 – 836 -4 Championships in 1989 when they tied for eighth place nationally. It 4. Oklahoma State 277-279-284 – 840 E was the 20th time in the program’s history that the Tigers took home a top-10 5. Georgia Tech 277-282-282 – 841 +1 team finish at the NCAA Championships, including four national titles claimed in 6. UCLA 279-284-281 – 844 +4 1940, 1942, 1947 and 1955. T7. SMU 275-285-285 – 845 +5 Their performance set up a quarterfinal match with No. 21-ranked UCLA as T7. Illinois 285-280-280 – the Bruins nabbed the No. 6 seed thanks to an unbelievable display of putting on 845 +5 their back nine to finish off a round of 1-over 281 in the final round for a score 9. South Carolina 272-292-282 – 846 +6 of 4-over 844 for sixth place overall in stroke-play qualifying. No. 1 seed Stanford faced No. 8 seed Illinois after the Fighting Illini tied the SMU Mustangs for seventh place in the team standings at 5-over par 845 after 2014 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS 54 holes. No. 2 seed Alabama battled No. 7 seed SMU, and No. 4 seed Oklahoma FINAL TOP 10 INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD State and No. 5 seed Georgia Tech featured in the remaining match after the Cowboys finished at even-par 840 and the Yellow Jackets ended at 1-over par 1. Cameron Wilson, Stanford 71-63-70 – 204 -6 841. 2. Ollie Schniederjans, Ga. Tech 71-65-68 – 204 -6 “Our guys are excited. They have worked hard this year, and are excited T3. David Boote, Stanford 73-67-65 – 205 -5 for the opportunity to play for a national championship,” LSU head coach T3. James Ross, Houston 70-69-66 – 205 -5 T3. Robby Shelton, Alabama 72-65-68 – 205 -5 Chuck Winstead said of his team’s qualification. “The reality of the NCAA T6. Ben Taylor, LSU 71-67-68 – 206 -4 Championships is that it is two tournaments here. We played very well in stroke T6. Denny McCarthy, Virginia 65-71-70 – 206 -4 play to put ourselves in this position, and now we’ll go to match play with the T6. Seth Reeves, Ga. Tech 66-72-68 – 206 -4 mindset to win. The teams we’ve brought here in the past few years have all T9. Brian Campbell, Illinois 70-74-63 – 207 -3 had it in them to get to this point, but I’m so proud of these guys for believing in T9. Sebastian Cappelen, Ark. 68-71-68 – 207 -3 themselves and taking that next step up. T9. Lorens Chan, UCLA 70-70-67 – 207 -3 “These guys are developing into a very good team. We’ll keep playing the T9. Bryson Dechambeau, SMU 69-69-69 – 207 -3 type of golf we’ve been working toward, and see if we can’t get a little bit better T9. Toni Hakula, Texas 72-68-67 – 209 -3 T9. Ryan Zech, Missouri 70-69-68 – 207 -3

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Tigers Make Historic Run to NCAA Final Four debut for the junior from Leatherhead, Surrey, England, as Taylor joined the The match came down to the final hole after they played 17 holes at all square. program in the summer of 2013 as a two-time NCAA Division II All-American. A par by Thompson and a double bogey by Valder on No. 9 gave the point to the Kaufman and junior Curtis Thompson also broke par for 54 holes to lead Tigers for a crucial 2-1 advantage. the Tigers into match play as they tied one another for 19th place on the After Kaufman clinched the quarterfinal victory for the Tigers, Wright leaderboard at 1-under par 209 for the championship. polished off the win with his 2&1 victory over Matt Pinizzotto in Match 5. Wright Kaufman trailed Taylor by just one shot in the final round with his 1-under found himself 2-down after just three holes, but bounced back for a 1-up lead par 69 that featured an eagle at No. 7 and a birdie at the par-four 14th hole at the turn with a birdie at the par-four 14th, a par at the par-three 15th and along with bogeys at the par-four ninth and par-four 16th holes. Thompson a birdie at the par-four 18th hole. Wright and Pinizzotto traded holes at No. 1 carded three birdies and three bogeys in the last round to take home his best and No. 2, before Wright made birdie at No. 7 and par at No. 8 to finish his 2&1 career NCAA finish with an even-par 70 in Monday’s final round. victory in the match. Junior First-Team All-SEC and All-American standout Stewart Jolly added Alabama, which also scored a 3-2 win in its quarterfinal match against No. 7 a 2-over 72 toward LSU’s team score in the final round as he finished off the seed SMU, featured in the national championship match in each of the previous individual competition in a tie for 55th place at 4-over 214 for the championship. two seasons. The Crimson Tide won the program’s first national championship Sophomore Zach Wright rounded out the lineup in a tie for 105th place at 9-over in 2013 with a 4-1 victory over Illinois in the national championship match after 219 that featured a 4-over 74 on the day. finishing as the NCAA runner-up to Texas in 2012. Stanford’s Cameron Wilson was crowned the 2014 NCAA Champion after It’s a national semifinal that also featured the top two teams from the defeating Georgia Tech standout Ollie Schniederjans in a three-hole, sudden- SEC Championship earlier in April 2014 when Alabama won its third-straight death playoff after the two All-Americans tied one another with matching conference crown with the Tigers finishing as the SEC runners-up for the 2013- 54-hole scores of 6-under par 204 in medal play. After earning the No. 3 seed in 14 season. 54 holes of medal play, the Tigers made history in advancing to the NCAA Final LSU and Alabama squared off on live television as Golf Channel broadcast Four of match play after scoring a decisive 4-1 victory over the No. 6-seeded both national semifinal matches on May 27, 2014, that also featured No. 1 seed UCLA Bruins in their quarterfinal match to set up an SEC showdown with No. 2 Stanford against No. 4 seed Oklahoma State. seed and defending national champion Alabama in the semifinal round at the The SEC rivals finished 54 holes of stroke play qualifying in a tie for 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. second place in the team standings as both LSU and Alabama fired teams Kaufman, Taylor, Thompson and Wright each put the Tigers on the scores of 4-under par 836 in three rounds to earn their spot in the match-play scoreboard with wins in their respective matches as LSU cruised to the NCAA competition. They had certainly matched one another shot-for-shot through five Semifinals to face the Crimson Tide with just one match separating them from a days of action at Prairie Dunes Country Club after advancing to the NCAA Final chance to play for their fifth national championship in the program’s history. Four. Kaufman clinched the win for the Tigers with his 2-up victory over UCLA’s LSU’s historic 2013-14 season came to an end for the Tigers as they went Jonathan Garrick in Match 3. In what proved to be a tight match throughout, down by a 4-1 score to Alabama in the NCAA Semifinals. neither led by more than one hole until Kaufman’s par at the par-four ninth Wright was the lone Tiger to win his semifinal match as he scored a 1-up hole that sealed his 2-up victory and gave the Tigers a clinching 3-1 advantage victory over Alabama’s senior All-American Cory Whitsett to put the Tigers on in the match with only Wright still on the course. the scoreboard after the Crimson Tide had already clinched their spot in the Kaufman took the lead for good in his match with an eagle 3 at the par-five national championship match. Alabama advanced to battle No. 4 seed Oklahoma seventh hole to take a 1-up lead with just two holes to play. He finished his State in the title match to wrap up the 2013-14 collegiate season, defeating the round at No. 9 after teeing off from the back nine to start the day. Cowboys by a 4-1 score to win its second-straight national championship. Taylor, the team’s top performer in stroke play qualifying, scored the first With their run to the NCAA Final Four, the Tigers earned their best team point for the Tigers in the quarterfinal as he stormed to a 4&3 victory over Bruin finish at the NCAA Championships since earning a third-place national finish standout Anton Arboleda as they played only 15 holes in their match. Taylor was in 1967, while they also finished among the nation’s top-10 teams for the first actually 2-down to Arboleda through 3 holes after teeing off from the back nine, time in 25 years when they tied for eighth place in the event in David Toms’ but quickly squared the match with pars at the par-four 13th and par-three 15th senior season in 1989. holes. After grabbing a lead for the first time with a par at the par-four third Their performance capped an outstanding postseason run that featured a hole, Taylor sealed the match by a score of 4&3 as he won four-straight holes at victory at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational in their regular-season finale before Nos. 3-6 to put the Tigers on the scoreboard. finishing as the SEC runners-up at the SEC Championships and tying for fourth The Bruins won their only point for the match when Loren Chan drew UCLA place at the NCAA Columbia (Mo.) Regional in 2014. level at 1-1 in with a 4&3 victory of his own over Tiger junior Stewart Jolly as they also picked up after 15 holes. But Thompson gave the Tigers a lead they would not relinquish thanks to his 1-up victory over Preston Valder as LSU regained the lead by a 2-1 margin.

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A member of the LSU men’s golf program was crowned individual The LSU golf program actually made history with Peterson’s medalist at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships for the victory as it became the first school during the history of the NCAA first time in 70 years as senior All-American John Peterson put an Championships to sweep the men’s and women’s individual crowns exclamation point onto the end of a heralded career on June 2, 2011, in the same season. Lady Tiger freshman Austin Ernst took home the with a national championship after firing a 54-hole score of 5-under par NCAA women’s crown nearly two weeks before in the event hosted by 211 at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Texas A&M at The Traditions Golf Club in College Station. After firing a competitive course record 7-under 65 in the second “This is an unbelievable feeling. I can’t really describe it. It hasn’t round, Peterson finished with an even-par 72 in the final round for a sunk in for me yet,” Peterson said after his victory. “I’m probably most dramatic one-shot victory over UCLA’s Patrick Cantlay. excited about getting to walk out to the 50-yard line in Tiger Stadium Peterson joined LSU greats Fred Haas, Jr. (1937) and Earl Stewart one night next year at a football game. If they let me do that, I want (1941) as an NCAA champion as he was the team’s top NCAA finisher to walk out there in front of 90,000 people with Chuck (Winstead) and since Perry Moss tied for fourth place in 1991. Shane (Warren) and these guys who’ve helped me. LSU’S JOHN PETERSON CLAIMS NATIONAL CROWN IN FINALE

“I’m just so proud of this team and how far we’ve come these last four years. I know we would have liked to play better as a team this week, but we’ve had a great season.” After wrapping up his round at approximately 1:30 p.m. CDT with a one-shot lead over Georgia Tech star James White and a two-shot advantage over the contending trio of Cantlay, Harris English of Georgia and Luke Guthrie of Illinois, Peterson endured many anxious moments in the clubhouse while he watched the contenders try to match his number in the afternoon round at Karsten Creek. After White made bogey on the par-three No. 3 to drop to 3-under par for the championship, no one at the top of the leaderboard would pull to within one shot of Peterson again until the final group approached the par-five 18th hole when Cantlay stood over a 16-foot eagle putt trailing Peterson by two shots at 3-under par. Cantlay, the National Player of the Year who birdied the par-four 17th hole to draw to within two shots of Peterson’s lead, fired a 4-iron to within 16 feet of the flag on the 18th green to give himself a left-to- right putt back up the hill for his eagle attempt. The UCLA freshman burned the right side of the cup before holing out with a birdie and ending a single stroke behind Peterson on the leaderboard with a score of 4-under 212 for three rounds. Five golfers finished four shots back in a tie for third place at 1-under 215, while White was five back in a tie for eighth place at even- par 216 and English tied for 10th place at 1-over par 217. There’s no doubt that the championship was won on the back nine, which Peterson played at 13-under par for the tournament after playing the front nine at a combined 8-over par during his three rounds. “We went back to the hotel after the round,” Peterson said. “I just tried to keep my mind off of it as much as I could, but I had to charge up my phone because I was hitting refresh so many times. I probably won’t be able to even go to sleep tonight. I’m feeling so many different things

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right now.” championship. wrapped up in a tie for 125th place at 21-over Despite teeing off at 8:10 a.m. CDT as A playoff for the NCAA title would have 237 on the week, while Gutgsell followed one part of the very first wave of the day with a been a fitting end to Peterson’s senior season shot back in 128th place at 22-over 238. one-stroke lead for the first 36 holes, the final after competing in three already that spring. Senior All-American Andrew Loupe shot round proved to be anything but a smooth ride Peterson defeated teen phenom Jordan Speith an 18-over 90 in the final round to finish the to the finish for Peterson as his national title to take home the Jones Cup before the start event in a tie for 141st place overall in the hopes appeared dashed after turning with a of the collegiate spring season in February event. Loupe still earned All-America honors 4-over 40 on his front nine. 2011. He also dropped a pair of playoffs to as one of the nation’s top players of 2011. As the only championship contender on Florida standout Andres Echavarria for the SEC “We didn’t drive the ball straight enough the course in the morning round, Peterson individual title and teammate Andrew Loupe this week to be successful as a team on this then found himself in a tie for 10th place as for a spot in the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic golf course,” said LSU head coach Chuck he headed to the back nine with a score of leading up to NCAA postseason play. Winstead. “But you can’t take away from what 1-under for the championship. “I knew he (Patrick Cantlay) was going this group has done for LSU Golf. I love these But as he had done throughout his to make that putt and we would be going to a guys and wish this week would have gone collegiate career, Peterson stormed back to playoff. That is how this season has been for better for them as a group. They’ve done things retake the lead thanks to his near perfect me this year,” Peterson said. “It’s funny how for their time here to restore this program to back nine in which he carded four birdies that seems to happen to me this year in the where it should be. I’m proud of each and every with no bogeys for a 4-under par 32. After biggest tournaments. It was a great feeling one of them.” crawling back to 3-under par with birdies at when he missed his putt.” Peterson also talked about his fellow the par-three 11th hole and par-five 14th hole, By winning the 2011 NCAA individual seniors and the recognition they helped bring Peterson went out in style in his final round as crown, Peterson capped one of the most back to one of the most storied programs in all an LSU Tiger with back-to-back birdies at the prolific careers for an LSU Tiger as he became of college golf during their four years together. par-four 17th and par-five 18th holes. the fifth three-time All-American in program “It makes me extremely glad that I came On the 17th hole, Peterson fired a 4-iron history, joining a list with the likes of Eddie to LSU,” Peterson said. “When I was coming into the wind from 180 yards to within seven Merrins (1952-54), B.R. McLendon (1965-67), out of high school, I was a pretty good player, feet of the cup as he finished with a birdie. He Rob McNamara (1984-87) and David Toms but I wasn’t a great player by any means. We then followed by hitting his second shot on the (1986-89). weren’t even that good when we got here four par-five 18th hole over the green with the ball Peterson led the way for the No. 9-ranked years ago. Andrew and I and the rest of this coming to rest in the long rough. But he then and No. 10-seeded Tigers throughout the senior class have really pushed ourselves took a full-swing flop shot that rolled five feet week as LSU earned a 21st-place finish in toward this point. It’s been an unbelievable past the hole for yet another birdie opportunity. the final team standings with a 54-hole team time for us and we know this program is only Peterson’s putt circled all 360 degrees of score of 41-over par 905. The Tigers improved going to get better.” the cup before falling for a birdie, eliciting an upon their 24th-place finish at the NCAA emotional fist pump from the Tiger senior as Championships the season before with their 2011 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS he regained the overall lead. top finish in the tournament since an 18th- Final Medal Play Leaderboard All Peterson could do at that point was finish in 1997. 1. John Peterson, LSU 74-65-72 – 211 -5 just sit and wait as the rest of those trailing Junior Sang Yi carded his lowest score 2. Patrick Cantlay, UCLA 72-69-71 – 212 -4 him on the leaderboard prepared to begin their of the tournament in the final round with a T3. Lion Kim, Michigan 72-70-73 – 215 -1 T3. Cameron Peck, Texas A&M 68-74-73 – 215 -1 rounds. It would be another six hours before 2-under par 70. Yi posted a total of four birdies T3. Patrick Reed, Augusta State 69-75-71 – 215 -1 Peterson learned his fate with Cantlay rolling to go along with just two bogeys to climb into a T3. J.J. Spaun, San Diego State 69-75-71 – 215 -1 his eagle putt wide right of the cup on the 54th tie for 88th place in the final standings with a T3. Peter Uihlein, Oklahoma State 73-69-73 – 215 -1 and final hole of medal play. 54-hole score of 13-over 229. T8. Michael Weaver, California 71-71-74 – 216 E Peterson was actually on the driving The Tigers also counted scores of 9-over T8. Michael White, Georgia Tech 67-73-76 – 216 E range warming up for a potential playoff with par 81 by senior Ken Looper and 10-over par T10. Todd Baek, San Diego State 72-72-73 – 217 +1 Cantlay when he heard the news that the putt 82 by junior Austin Gutgsell as part of its team T10. Austin Cook, Arkansas 70-74-73 – 217 +1 was missed and he had finally won his national score of 17-over 305 in the final round. Looper 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 51 HISTORY Tigers in Major Championships

LSU Tigers have enjoyed tremendous success in major championships over the years as six program alums have accounted for 30 top-10 finishes since former NCAA champion Fred Haas, Jr., advanced to the quarterfinal round of match play at the 1952 PGA Championship held at Big Spring Country Club in Jefferson County, Kentucky. LSU great David Toms has claimed a school-record 11 top-10 finishes in major championships during his illustrious PGA TOUR career, including a win at the PGA Championship during the 2001 season. Tiger great Jay Hebert was also crowned a PGA Champion during his professional career in 1960 while totaling 10 top-10 finishes in majors in a career that spanned nearly a quarter century. Below are a listing of all top-10 finishes by LSU Tigers in major championships.

The Masters Place Player Year 10 Jay Hebert 1957 T9 Jay Hebert 1958 T8 Jay Hebert 1959 T10 Jay Hebert 1966 T6 David Toms 1998 T8 David Toms 2003 9 David Toms 2007

The U.S. Open Place Player Year T9 Jay Hebert 1953 T5 Fred Haas, Jr. 1954 T7 Jay Hebert 1958 T9 Gardner Dickinson 1961 T9 Johnny Pott 1964 T6 Gardner Dickinson 1967 T5 David Toms 2003 T5 David Toms 2007 T4 David Toms 2012 T4 John Peterson 2012

The British Open Place Player Year T4 David Toms 2000

The PGA Championship Fred Haas, Jr. Place Player Year Quarterfinals Fred Haas, Jr. 1952 7 Jay Hebert 1957 T5 Jay Hebert 1958 1 Jay Hebert 1960 T4 Johnny Pott 1961 10 Jay Hebert 1962 T8 Gardner Dickinson 1963 5 Gardner Dickinson 1965 1 David Toms 2001 T10 David Toms 2005 T4 David Toms 2011 7 David Toms 2013

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NCAA champion, was the first to do so after tying for fifth place back LSU GREATS MAKE HISTORY AT in 1954, while Gardner Dickinson twice cracked the U.S. Open Top 10 by tying for ninth place back in 1961 and tying for sixth place in 1967. 112TH U.S. OPEN Johnny Pott also tied for ninth place in 1964. And while LSU Tigers have earned a total of 20 top-10 finishes in Two LSU Tigers finished among the Top 10 of the leaderboard the history of major championship golf on the PGA TOUR, Toms and in a major championship for the first time in program history when Peterson are the first to do so on the same weekend. LSU greats David Toms and John Peterson matched one another with 72-hole scores of 3-over par 283 in four rounds at The Olympic Club to tie for fourth place at the 112th United States Open Championship held 112th U.S. Open Leaderboard June 14-17, 2012. 1. Webb Simpson 281 +1 After playing alongside one another in the second to last pairing T2. Graeme McDowell 282 +2 in Saturday’s third round, Toms wrapped up the championship with a T2. Michael Thompson 282 +2 2-under par 68 and Peterson carded an even-par 70 on Father’s Day T4. John Peterson 283 +3 to tie Jim Furyk, Padraig Harrington and Jason Dufner for fourth place T4. David Toms 283 +3 overall. T4. Jason Dufner 283 +3 They finished just two shots off the pace as Webb Simpson was T4. Jim Furyk 283 +3 crowned the 2012 U.S. Open champion after having a 1-over par 281 T4. Padraig Harrington 283 +3 to become the 14th different major champion in a run of 14-straight 9. Ernie Els 284 +4 majors. T10. Kevin Chappell 285 +5 With their performance, both Toms and Peterson earned an T10. Retief Goosen 285 +5 exemption into the field for the 2013 Masters Tournament and 2013 T10. John Senden 285 +5 U.S. Open Championship. T10. Lee Westwood 285 +5 Toms earned his best career finish at the U.S. Open and took home T10. Casey Wittenberg 285 +5 his 10th career top-10 finish in a major championship by tying for fourth place for the weekend. Toms had twice tied for fifth place at the U.S. Open in 2003 and 2007 as he posted his third top-10 finish in 16 career starts in the event. Toms was brilliant in firing the second-lowest round of Sunday’s finale as he quickly rebounded from his bogey at the par-four fifth hole with a birdie at the par-four seventh hole before making the turn at even in his round. He then made two birdies on the back nine at the par-four 12th and par-five 17th holes to card an impressive 2-under 68 and finish with a 72-hole score of 3-over 283. Toms was actually tied for the U.S. Open lead after 36 holes while entering the weekend sitting at the top of the leaderboard along with Tiger Woods and Furyk. “You battle a lot of emotions and put a lot of pressure on yourself to keep up,” Toms said of sharing the 36-hole lead. “Leading or being tied for the lead in the golf tournament, in the U.S. Open, was great. To be able to turn it around and play really solid golf after the way I played actually the last several tournaments has been nice, to be back in the hunt.” While Toms made 53 major championship appearances during his illustrious career on the PGA TOUR with his start at the 112th U.S. Open, Peterson made the most of his major championship debut after posting 1-over 71, even-par 70, 2-over 72 and even-par 70 for his 3-over par 283 for the championship. David Toms Peterson’s scorecard featured four birdies, two bogeys and one double bogey as he put himself in position to win the event, even dropping as low as 2-over par for the tournament with his birdie at the par-four 10th hole on the back nine of the final round. “I had my dad there (on Sunday), and it was Father’s Day,” Peterson said of his father, David. “It was tough because my grandmother (David’s mother) passed away the week before. He always told me that a great Father’s Day present would be for me to be playing (on Sunday) in the U.S. Open. So, that’s a thing I guess I’ll treasure the most from the week, him being there with me.” Peterson even provided one of the highlights of the weekend when he put himself in contention to win the U.S. Open title when he aced the par-three 13th hole with a 7-iron from 182 yards for what proved to be the only hole-in-one for the championship. “I never made one,” Peterson said. “I knew I had my yardage right when I hit it. When it landed it landed perfectly. You never expect it to go in though.” It marked the eighth time in U.S. Open history for an LSU Tiger to finish among the Top 10 of the leaderboard. Fred Haas, Jr., the 1937

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YEAR LSU FINISH (SCORE) CHAMPION (SCORE) MEDALIST (SCORE) SITE 1937 1st (614) LSU (614) Vincent D’Antoni, Tennessee Baton Rouge, La. 1938 1st (608) LSU (608) Henry Castillo, LSU Baton Rouge, La. LSU’S SEC INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS 1939 1st (604) LSU (604) Sonny Swift, Georgia Baton Rouge, La. YEAR SCORE PLAYER SITE 1940 1st (601) LSU (601) Henry Castillo, LSU Athens, Ga. 1937 146 Fred Haas, Jr. Baton Rouge, La. 1941 Georgia (616) Earl Stewart, LSU Athens, Ga. 1938 141 Henry Castillo Baton Rouge, La. 1942 1st (597) LSU (597) Arnold Blum, Georgia Athens, Ga. 1939 140 Henry Castillo Baton Rouge, La. 1943-45 No Tournaments- World War II 1940 140 Henry Castillo Baton Rouge, La. 1946 1st (604) LSU (604) George Hamer, Georgia Athens, Ga. 1941 142 Earl Stewart Athens, Ga. 1947 1st (633) LSU (633) Joe Moore, LSU Athens, Ga. 1947 138 Joe Moore Athens, Ga. 1948 1st (303) LSU (303) Albert Swann, Georgia Tech Athens, Ga. 1949 Georgia Tech (303) Hal Spears, Georgia Athens, Ga. 1953 286 Eddie Merrins Athens, Ga. 1950 Georgia (1200) John Owens, Kentucky Athens, Ga. 1954 284 Eddie Merrins Athens, Ga. 1951 Georgia (579) Griffin Moody, Georgia Athens, Ga. 1960 283 Don Essig Athens, Ga. 1952 Georgia (591) Bobby Hill, Alabama Athens, Ga. 1961 281 Howard Fraser Athens, Ga. 1953 1st (586) LSU (586) Eddie Merrins, LSU Athens, Ga. 1965 282 B.R. McLendon Athens, Ga. 1954 1st (576) LSU (576) Eddie Merrins, LSU Athens, Ga. 1966 210 B.R. McLendon Baton Rouge, La. 1955 Florida (575) Lester Kelly, Georgia Athens, Ga. 1967 212 B.R. McLendon Gainesville, Fla. 1956 Florida (591) Dave Ragan, Florida Athens, Ga. 1969 212 Vaughn Moise Birmingham, Ala. 1957 Georgia (590) Tom Aaron, Florida Athens, Ga. 1979 212 Wayne DeFrancesco Augusta, Ga. 1958 Georgia (593) Tom Aaron, Florida Athens, Ga. 1981 211 John Salamone Augusta, Ga. 1959 Georgia (583) Bob Moser, Georgia Athens, Ga. 1984 213 Emlyn Aubrey Augusta, Ga. 1960 1st (573) LSU (573) Doug Essig, LSU/Cobby Ware, Georgia Athens, Ga. 1987 205 David Toms Florence, Ala. 1961 Georgia (570) Howell Fraser, LSU Athens, Ga. 1962 Georgia (1170) David Boyd, Georgia Athens, Ga. LSU’S SEC TEAM CHAMPIONS 1963 Georgia (589) Jim Gabrielsen, Georgia/Jack Oliver, Georgia Athens, Ga. YEAR SCORE COACHES SITE 1964 Georgia (581) Bert Greene, Tennessee Athens, Ga. 1937 614 Maj. J. Perry Cole Baton Rouge, La. 1965 T3rd (596) Georgia (575) B.R. McLendon, LSU (282) Athens, Ga. 1938 608 Maj. J. Perry Cole Baton Rouge, La. 1966 1st (854) LSU (854) B.R. McLendon, LSU (210) Baton Rouge, La. 1939 604 Maj. J. Perry Cole Baton Rouge, La. 1967 1st (872) LSU (872) B.R. McLendon, LSU (212) Gainesville, Fla. 1940 601 Maj. J. Perry Cole Baton Rouge, La. 1968 9th (898) Florida (848) Steven Melnyk, Florida (204) Knoxville, Tenn. 1942 597 Maj. J. Perry Cole Athens, Ga. 1969 3rd (1108) Georgia (1099) Vaughn Moise, LSU (212) Athens, Ga. 1946 604 T.P. Heard Athens, Ga. 1970 2nd (1106) Georgia (1105) Tommy Valentine, Georgia (213) Callaway Gardens, Ga. 1947 633 T.P. Heard Athens, Ga. 1971 4th (1132) Georgia (1099) Jimmy McQuillian, Florida (215) Callaway Gardens, Ga. 1948 303 Mike Barbato Athens, Ga. 1972 5th (1159) Georiga (1117) Mickey Mabry, Tennessee (217) Callaway Gardens, Ga. 1953 586 Mike Barbato Athens, Ga. 1973 4th (1134) Florida (1099) Gary Koch, Florida (212) Callaway Gardens, Ga. 1954 576 Mike Barbato Athens, Ga. 1974 2nd (1128) Florida (1104) Gary Koch, Florida (214) Dothan, Ala. 1960 573 Mike Barbato Athens, Ga. 1975 2nd (1112) Florida (1101) Phil Hancock, Florida (214) Dothan, Ala. 1966 854 Harry Taylor Baton Rouge, La. 1976 3rd (1101) Auburn (1094) Phil Hancock, Florida (207) Decatur, Ala. 1967 872 Harry Taylor Gainesville, Fla. 1977 4th (1092) Georgia (1073) Sam Trahan, Florida (209) Decatur, Ala. 1986 871 Buddy Alexander Florence, Ala. 1978 3rd (1164) Georgia (1142) Larry Rinker, Florida (222) Birmingham, Ala. 1987 869 Buddy Alexander Florence, Ala. 1979 5th (895) Alabama (876) Wayne DeFrancesco, LSU (212) Birmingham, Ala. 1980 6th (912) Tennessee (884) Rick Pearson, Florida (215) Augusta, Ga. 2015 827 Chuck Winstead St. Simons Is., Ga. 1981 T3rd (887) Auburn (884) John Salamone, LSU (211) Augusta, Ga. 1982 7th (904) Georgia (873) Randy Watkins, Ole Miss (211) Augusta, Ga. ALL-TIME SEC TEAM TITLES 1983 6th (898) Georgia (881) Dave Peege, Ole Miss (213) Augusta, Ga. 1. Georgia 27 1984 2nd (885) Ole Miss (881) Emlyn Aubrey, LSU (213) Augusta, Ga. 2. LSU 16 1985 6th (889) Florida (868) Peter Persons, Georgia (213) Florence, Ala. 3. Florida 13 1986 1st (871) LSU (871) Chip Sullivan, Ole Miss (210) Florence, Ala. 4. Alabama 5 1987 1st (869) LSU (869) David Toms, LSU (205) Florence, Ala. 5. Tennessee 3 1988 2nd (872) Georgia (854) Lan Gooch, Ole Miss (209) Florence, Ala. 6. Auburn 2 1989 2nd (890) Florida (874) Chris DiMarco, Florida (215) Louisville, Ky. Mississippi State 2 1990 9th (896) Tennessee (866) Mike Sposa, Tennessee (210) Jackson, Miss. 8. Arkansas 1 1991 5th (879) Florida (860) Jimmy Green, Auburn (205) West Point, Miss. Georgia Tech 1 1992 4th (881) Florida (876) Brian Gay, Florida (211) St. Francisville, La. Kentucky 1 1993 4th (885) Florida (847) Guy Hill, Florida (206) Jacksonville, Fla. Ole Miss 1 1994 7th (889) Florida (860) Brian Gay, Florida (213) Fairfield Glade,Tenn. 1995 7th (874) Arkansas (855) Bud Still, Arkansas (206) Nashville, Tenn. 1996 9th (883) Miss. State (859) Graham Davidson, Miss. State (205) Birmingham, Ala. 1997 3rd (889) Miss. State (879) Bryant MacKellar, Auburn (210) Opelika, Ala. 1998 8th (588) Georgia (567) Eric Ecker, South Carolina (136) Athens, Ga. 1999 T6th (982) Florida (901) Camilo Bendetti, Florida (212) Lexington, Ky. 2000 5th (882) Georgia (852) Roland Thatcher, Auburn (208) Killen, Ala. 2001 8th (887) Georgia (841) Bryant Odom, Georgia (207) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2002 T4th (874) Auburn (857) Camilo Benedetti, Florida (210) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2003 12th (917) Florida (856) Brett Stegmaier, Florida (203) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2004 8th (875) Georgia (843) Brendon Todd, Georgia (207) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2005 T6th (899) Kentucky (875) David Skinns, Tennessee (210) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2006 6th (868) Georgia (827) Brett Stegmaier, Florida (205) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2007 9th (892) Tennessee (869) Patton Kizzire, Auburn (211) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2008 T8th (888) Alabama (853) Michael Thompson, Alabama (208) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2009 T4th (872) Georgia (849) Billy Horschel, Florida (206) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2010 5th (856) Georgia (844) Russell Henley, Georgia (204) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2011 5th (865) Florida (848) Andres Echavarria, Florida (209) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2012 11th (877) Alabama (828) Justin Thomas, Alabama (203) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2013 11th (881) Alabama (848) Sebastian Cappelen, Arkansas (202) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2014 2nd (822) Alabama (806) Bobby Wyatt, Alabama (192) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2015 1st (827) LSU (827) Matthew NeSmith, South Carolina (196) St. Simons Island, Ga. 2016 5th (864) Georgia (853) Lee McCoy, Georgia (207) St. Simons Island, Ga. 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LSU’S TOP 10 NCAA TEAM FINISHES YEAR FINISH SCORE CHAMPION (SCORE) SITE 1939 5th 617 Stanford (612) Wakonda CC, Des Moines, Iowa 1940 T-1st 601 LSU, Princeton (601) Edwanok CC, Manchester, Vt. 1941 2nd 599 Stanford (580) The Scarlet Course, Columbus, Ohio 1942 T-1st 590 LSU, Princeton (590) South Bend CC, South Bend, Ind. 1943 3rd 621 Yale (614) Olympia Field C.C. 1946 5th 629 Stanford (619) Springdale CC, Princeton, N.J. 1947 1st 606 LSU (606) University of Michigan Course, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1948 2nd 588 San Jose State (579) Stanford University Golf Course, Palo Alto, Calif. 1952 7th 602 North Texas State (573) Purdue University Course, West Lafayette, Ind. 1953 3rd 581 Stanford (578) Broadmoor GC, Colorado Springs, Colo. 1954 4th 582 SMU (572) Braeburn CC, Houston, Texas 1955 1st 574 LSU (574) Holston Hills CC, Knoxville, Tenn. 1956 9th 613 Houston (601) The Scarlet Course, Columbus, Ohio 1966 T-8th 607 Houston (582) Stanford University Golf Course, Palo Alto, Calif. 1967 3rd 591 Houston (585) Shawnee GC, Delaware, Pa. 1984 T-6th 1162 Houston (1145) Bear Creek Golf World, Houston, Texas 1985 T-9th 1196 Houston (1172) Grenelefe GC, Haines City, Fla. 1986 10th 1175 Wake Forest (1156) Bermuda Run CC, Winston Salem, N.C. 1989 T-8th 1173 Oklahoma (1139) Oaktree Country Club, Edmond, Okla. 2014 T-3rd 836 Alabama (def. Oklahoma State, 4-1) Prairie Dunes Country Club, Hutchinson, Kan. 2015 1st 1169 LSU (def. Southern California, 4-1) Concession Golf Club, Bradenton, Fla. 2016 T-5th 1136 Oregon (def. Texas, 3-2) Eugene Country Club, Eugene, Ore. LSU’S NCAA TEAM CHAMPIONS 2014 Ben Taylor T-6th 206 YEAR SCORE COACH SITE Smylie Kaufman T-19th 209 1940 601 Maj. J. Perry Cole Ekwanok CC, Manchester, Vt. Curtis Thompson T-19th 209 1942 590 Maj. J. Perry Cole South Bend CC, South Bend, Ind. 2015 Brandon Pierce T-11th 288 1947 606 T.P. Heard Univ. of Michigan Course, Ann Arbor, Mich. Zach Wright T-11th 288 1955 574 Mike Barbato Holston Hills CC, Knoxville, Tenn. 2016 Sam Burns T-13th 284 2015 4-1 Chuck Winstead Concession GC, Bradenton, Fla. Luis Gagne T-13th 284 Eric Ricard T-22nd 286 LSU’S NCAA INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS LSU’S TEAM NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS (SINCE 1985) YEAR PLAYER SITE­ YEAR FINISH SCORE SITE 1937 Fred Haas, Jr. Oakmont CC, Oakmont, Pa. 1986 10th 1175 Winston-Salem, N.C. 1941 Earl Stewart The Scarlet Course, Columbus, Ohio 1987 T-14th 1200 Columbus, Ohio 2011 John Peterson Karsten Creek GC, Stillwater, Okla. 1988 T-20th 907 Thousand Oaks, Calif. LSU’S TOP 25 NCAA INDIVIDUAL FINISHES (SINCE 1985) 1989 T-8th 1173 Edmond, Okla. YEAR PLAYER FINISH SCORE 1991 30th 1228 New Haven, Conn. 1985 Rob McNamara T-10th 291 1992 22nd 588 Albuquerque, N.M. 1986 Emlyn Aubrey T-3rd 287 1993 T-17th 597 Lexing­­ton, Ky. 1987 Rob McNamara 16th 293 1994 22nd 591 McKinney, Texas 1988 David Toms 5th 288 1997 18th 590 Lake Forest, Ill. Greg Lesher T-16th 293 2010 24th 883 Chattanooga, Tenn. Fredrik Lindgren T-19th 294 2011 21st 905 Stillwater, Okla. 1989 Fredrik Lindgren T-17th 289 2013 T-23rd 854 Atlanta, Ga. 1991 Perry Moss T-4th 212 2014 T-3rd 836 (NCAA Semifinalists) Hutchinson, Kan. Scott Sterling T-18th 218 2015 1st 1169 (4-1 in Final Match) Bradenton, Fla. 2010 John Peterson T-6th 211 2016 T-5th 1136 (NCAA Quarterfinalists) Eugene, Ore. 2011 John Peterson 1st 211

Fred Haas, Jr. • 1937 NCAA Champion Earl Stewart • 1941 NCAA Champion

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TOP 20 CAREER STROKE AVERAGES (SINCE 1982) TOP 20 STROKE AVERAGES (SINCE 1982) YEARLY STROKE AVG. LEADERS (SINCE 1985) PLAYER AVG. RDS. PLAYER RDS. AVG. YEAR YEAR PLAYER AVG. RDS. 1. Alan Morgan (1999-2001) 72.17 75 1. Brandon Pierce 25 71.16 2014-15 1984-85 Rob McNamara 73.32 40 2. John Peterson (2007-11) 72.58 146 2. David Toms 43 71.27 1988-89 1985-86 Emlyn Aubrey 72.00 40 1986-87 Rob McNamara 73.38 37 3. Stewart Jolly (2011-15) 72.80 133 3. Stewart Jolly 36 71.50 2013-14 1987-88 David Toms 72.61 39 4. Zach Wright (2012-16) 72.81 138 4. Zach Wright 39 71.51 2015-16 1988-89 David Toms 71.27 43 Curtis Thompson (2011-14) 72.81 102 5. John Peterson 39 71.53 2010-11 1989-90 Perry Moss 72.81 32 Heath West (2002-05) 72.81 132 6. Alan Morgan 39 71.54 2000-01 1990-91 Perry Moss 72.64 42 7. David Toms (1985-89) 72.93 160 7. Sang Yi 34 71.56 2011-12 1991-92 Rett Crowder 73.57 40 1992-93 Scott Sterling 71.60 35 8. Fredrik Lindgren (1987-89) 73.00 76 8. Scott Sterling 35 71.60 1992-93 1993-94 Scott Sterling 73.54 35 9. Eric Ricard (2013-present) 73.01 85 9. Curtis Thompson 36 71.78 2013-14 1994-95 Brian Bateman 73.25 35 Andrew Loupe (2007-11) 73.01 143 10. Craig Webb 35 71.91 1992-93 1995-96 Brian Bateman 72.84 38 11. Chris Wells (2004-07) 73.16 99 11. Ben Taylor 24 72.00 2013-14 1996-97 P.J. Smith 72.67 37 12. Rob McNamara (1983-87) 73.20 143 Andrew Loupe 38 72.00 2009-10 1997-98 P.J. Smith 73.08 37 13. Brian Bateman (1993-96) 73.22 143 Emlyn Aubrey 40 72.00 1985-86 1998-99 Jeremy Wilkinson 73.21 32 1999-00 Alan Morgan 72.86 36 14. Sang Yi (2008-12) 73.28 138 14. Zach Wright 34 72.03 2014-15 2000-01 Nathan Goulding 72.77 27 15. John Humphries (1999-2003) 73.31 141 15. Eric Ricard 37 72.11 2014-15 2001-02 Heath West 72.35 34 16. Andrew Presley (2010-14) 73.33 105 16. Smylie Kaufman 30 72.20 2013-14 2002-03 John Humphries 72.31 38 17. Greg Lesher (1986-90) 73.36 141 17. Greg Lesher 43 72.23 1987-88 2003-04 Heath West 72.80 35 18. P.J. Smith (1995-97) 73.51 130 18. John Peterson 38 72.29 2009-10 2004-05 Chris Wells 72.83 36 2005-06 Andrew Lanahan 73.37 27 19. Perry Moss (1987-91) 73.65 119 19. John Humphries 38 72.32 2002-03 2006-07 Chris Wells 73.00 30 20. Scott Sterling (1990-94) 73.91 139 20. Heath West 34 72.35 2001-02 2007-08 Andrew Loupe 74.06 33 2008-09 John Peterson 72.48 33 * - minimum 70 rounds 2009-10 Andrew Loupe 72.00 38 2010-11 John Peterson 71.53 39 2011-12 Sang Yi 71.56 34 2012-13 Curtis Thompson 73.00 38 2013-14 Stewart Jolly 71.50 36 2014-15 Brandon Pierce 71.16 25 2015-16 Zach Wright 71.51 39

CAREER TOP-10 FINISHES (SINCE 1982) CAREER TOP-20 FINISHES (SINCE 1985) CAREER TOURNAMENT WINS (SINCE 1982) PLAYER NO. PLAYER NO. PLAYER NO. 1. David Toms (1985-89) 29 1. David Toms (1985-89) 37 1. David Toms (1985-89) 6 2. Rob McNamara (1983-87) 22 2. Andrew Loupe (2007-11) 29 2. Rob McNamara (1983-87) 4 3. Emlyn Aubrey (1982-86) 20 P.J. Smith (1995-97) 29 3. Zach Wright (2012-16) 3 4. John Peterson (2007-11) 19 4. Brian Bateman (1993-96) 28 Stewart Jolly (2011-15) 3 Brian Bateman (1993-96) 19 5. John Peterson (2007-11) 27 5. Andrew Presley (2010-13) 2 6. Andrew Loupe (2007-11) 18 Greg Lesher (1986-90) 27 Austin Gutgsell (2008-12) 2 7. Greg Lesher (1986-90) 16 7. Zach Wright (2012-16) 25 John Peterson (2007-11) 2 8. Sang Yi (2008-12) 15 Sang Yi (2008-12) 25 Alan Morgan (1999-2001) 2 9. Zach Wright (2012-16) 14 Heath West (2002-05) 25 Perry Moss (1987-91) 2 Jeremy Wilkinson (1996-99) 14 10. Scott Sterling (1990-94) 23 9. Eric Ricard (2013-present) 1 11. Stewart Jolly (2011-15) 13 11. Stewart Jolly (2011-15) 22 Ben Taylor (2013-15) 1 P.J. Smith (1995-97) 13 12. Curtis Thompson (2011-14) 21 Myles Lewis (2011-15) 1 13. Andrew Presley (2010-14) 12 13. Rett Crowder (1989-92) 20 Curtis Thompson (2011-14) 1 14. John Humphries (1999-2003) 11 Perry Moss (1987-91) 20 Andrew Loupe (2007-11) 1 Bob Friend (1982-86) 11 15. Andrew Presley (2010-13) 19 Beck Troutman (2004-08) 1 16. Scott Sterling (1990-94) 10 16. John Humphries (1999-2003) 18 Rett Crowder (1988-92) 10 John Humphries (1999-2003) 1 Fredrik Lindgren (1987-89) 10 Alan Morgan (1999-2001) 18 Brian Bateman (1992-96) 1 19. Curtis Thompson (2011-14) 9 Jeremy Wilkinson (1996-99) 18 Scott Sterling (1990-94) 1 Chris Wells (2004-07) 9 19. Fredrik Lindgren (1987-89) 17 Greg Lesher (1986-90) 1 Heath West (2002-05) 9 20. Chris Wells (2004-07) 15 Tommie Mudd (1983-87) 1 Alan Morgan (1999-2001) 9 Emlyn Aubrey (1982-86) 1

BEST TEAM ROUNDS (SINCE 1985) BEST TEAM TOURNAMENT SCORES (SINCE 1985) BEST IND. TOURNAMENT SCORES (SINCE 1985) SCORE TOURNAMENT SCORE TOURNAMENT SCORE PLAYER -19 265 The Prestige at PGA West, 2016, 3rd rd. -26 826 The Prestige at PGA West, 2016 -12 201 Zach Wright (The Prestige at PGA West, 2016) -17 263 SEC Championships, 2014, 3rd rd. -25 839 NCAA Franklin Regional, 2016 -12 204 John Peterson (Gary Koch Invite, 2009) -16 272 NCAA Franklin Regional, 2016, 2nd rd. -21 843 The Prestige at PGA West, 2015 -11 199 Smylie Kaufman (SEC Championships, 2014) -15 273 The Prestige at PGA West, 2015, 3rd rd. -19 845 Louisiana Classics, 2014 -11 205 Perry Moss (LSU National Invite, 1990) -14 274 NCAA Columbia Regional, 2014, 3rd rd. -18 822 SEC Championships, 2014 -11 205 David Toms (SEC Championships, 1987) -13 275 Gary Koch Invitational, 2009, 1st rd. -17 847 Louisiana Classics, 2012 -10 206 Eric Ricard (David Toms Intercollegiate, 2015) -12 268 NCAA New Haven Regional, 2015, 3rd rd. -16 848 David Toms Intercollegiate, 2010 -10 206 Myles Lewis (The Prestige at PGA West, 2015) -12 276 David Toms Intercollegiate, 2010, 2nd rd. -16 848 University Club Intercollegiate, 2004 -10 203 Stewart Jolly (Valspar Invitational at Floridian, 2014) -11 273 Valspar Invitational at Floridian, 2015, 1st rd. -15 849 Golfweek Conference Challenge, 2014 -10 206 Myles Lewis (Louisiana Classics, 2014) -11 277 Schenkel Invitational, 2011, 2nd rd. -15 849 NCAA Columbia Regional, 2014 -10 206 Andrew Presley (Louisiana Classics, 2012) -11 277 Louisiana Classics, 2010, 2nd rd. -15 849 Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate, 1994 -10 206 Austin Gutgsell (David Toms Intercollegiate, 2010) -11 273 David Toms Intercollegiate, 2009, 2nd rd. -15 849 Chris Schenkel Invitational, 1986 -10 206 Chris Wells (UC Intercollegiate, 2004) -11 277 SEC Championships, 2009, 3rd rd. -14 838 Talis Park Challenge, 2015 -10 206 Alan Morgan (CCLA Intercollegiate, 2000) -11 277 CCLA Intercollegiate, 2000, 2nd rd. -13 827 SEC Championships, 2015 -10 206 David Toms (Golf Digest Collegiate, 1988) -11 277 Chris Schenkel Invitational, 1986, 2nd rd. -13 851 LSU Spring Invitational, 2004 -9 207 Eric Ricard (The Prestige at PGA West, 2015) -11 281 Tar Heel Invitational, 1986, 2nd rd. -13 851 Tournament of Champions, 2000 -9 207 Stewart Jolly (Golfweek Conference Challenge, 2014) -10 278 Golfweek Conference Challenge, 2014, 1st rd. -12 840 Valspar Invitational at Floridian, 2015 -9 207 Stewart Jolly (Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic, 2014) -10 278 University Club Intercollegiate, 2004, 2nd rd. -12 852 Chris Schenkel Invitational, 1989 -9 207 Austin Gutgsell (LSU National Invitational, 2012) -10 278 Billy Hitchcock Invitational, 1992, 2nd rd. -12 852 Henry Homberg Invitational, 1987 -9 207 Greg Lesher (LSU National Invite, 1989) -9 279 NCAA Franklin Regional, 2016, 3rd rd. -11 853 LSU National Invitational, 2012 -8 208 Eric Ricard (NCAA Franklin Regional, 2016) -9 279 U.S. Collegiate Championship, 2014, 2nd rd. -11 853 Squire Creek Invitational, 2008 -8 208 Andrew Presley (Argent Financial Classic, 2013) -9 279 LSU National Invitational, 2012, 3rd rd. -11 853 LSU National Invitational, 1990 -8 208 Andrew Loupe (Louisiana Classics, 2010) -9 279 Louisiana Classics, 2012, 2nd rd. -9 855 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic, 2014 -8 205 John Peterson (David Toms Intercollegiate, 2009) -9 275 Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, 2009, 2nd rd. -9 843 Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate, 2006 -8 205 John Peterson (Hootie at Bulls Bay, 2009) -9 279 Bank of America Intercollegiate, 2008, 2nd rd. -9 855 Mercedes-Benz Collegiate, 2001 -8 205 Chris Wells (Jerry Pate Intercollegiate, 2006) -9 279 LSU Spring Invitational, 2002, 1st rd. -9 855 Country Club of Jackson Invitational, 1987 -8 208 Alan Morgan (ASU Invitational, 2001) -9 279 CCLA Intercollegiate, 2001, 2nd rd. -8 844 David Toms Intercollegiate, 2009 -8 208 Greg Lesher (Chris Schenkel Invite, 1988) -9 279 Gary Koch Invitational, 2000, 3rd rd. -8 856 Bank of America Intercollegiate, 2008 -8 208 David Toms (Jerry Pate Intercollegiate, 1988) -9 279 Henry Homberg Invitational, 1987, 1st rd. -8 856 CCLA Intercollegiate, 2000 -8 208 Emlyn Aubrey (Chris Schenkel Invite, 1986) -9 283 Tar Heel Invitational, 1986, 2nd rd.

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Smylie Kaufman Andrew Loupe LSU’S INDIVIDUAL MEDALISTS (SINCE 1985) YEAR PLAYER TOURNAMENT SCORE 1985 Rob McNamara University of New Orleans Invitational 139 1985 Rob McNamara Country Club of Jackson Invitational 207 1987 David Toms LSU National Invitational 212 1987 Rob McNamara Miami-Doral Park National Invitational 213 1987 Tommie Mudd Country Club of Jackson Invitational 210 1987 David Toms SEC Championships 205 1988 David Toms Jerry Pate Intercollegiate 208 1989 David Toms Golf Digest Collegiate Invitational 206 1989 David Toms Florida Southern-Imperial Lakes Classic 205 1989 David Toms Gator Invitational 204 1989 Greg Lesher LSU National Invitational 207 1991 Perry Moss LSU National Invitational 205 1994 Scott Sterling Southeastern Intercollegiate 209 1996 Brian Bateman PING-Tulsa Invitational 216 2001 Alan Morgan Tennessee Tournament of Champions 209 2001 Alan Morgan Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate 206 2003 John Humphries LSU Spring Invitational 211 2005 Beck Troutman LSU Spring Invitational 211 2009 John Peterson John Hayt Invitational 214 2010 Austin Gutgsell David Toms Intercollegiate 206 2010 Andrew Loupe Louisiana Classics 208 2011 John Peterson NCAA Championships 211 2012 Austin Gutgsell LSU National Invitational 207 2012 Andrew Presley Louisiana Classics 206 2012 Stewart Jolly Shoal Creek Intercollegiate 210 2012 Curtis Thompson Shoal Creek Intercollegiate 210 2012 Andrew Presley David Toms Intercollegiate 220 2013 Zach Wright Louisiana Classics 209 2013 Stewart Jolly Golfweek Conference Challenge 210 2014 Myles Lewis Louisiana Classics 206 2014 Stewart Jolly Golfweek Conference Challenge 207 2014 Ben Taylor David Toms Intercollegiate 214 Eric Ricard 2015 Eric Ricard David Toms Intercollegiate 206 2016 Zach Wright The Prestige at PGA West 201 2016 Zach Wright Valspar Collegiate Invitational 211

LOW ROUNDS (SINCE 1985) PLAYER CLASS SCORE PAR TOURNAMENT DATE SITE Tommie Mudd So. 63 72 LSU Invitational 1985 Sherwood Forest Country Club - Baton Rouge, La. Nathan Jeansonne Fr. 64 71 The Prestige at PGA West 2/17/16 PGA West (Norman Course) - La Quinta, Calif. Greg Lesher Jr. 64 70 Gator Invitional 2/10/89 University Course - Gainesville, Fla. Eric Ricard Jr. 65 72 NCAA Franklin Regional 5/17/16 Vanderbilt Legends Club - Nashville, Tenn. Eric Ricard Jr. 65 72 David Toms Intercollegiate 10/10/15 The University Club - Baton Rouge, La. Brandon Pierce So. 65 70 NCAA New Haven Regional 5/16/15 The Course at Yale - New Haven, Conn. Ben Taylor Sr. 65 70 NCAA New Haven Regional 5/16/15 The Course at Yale - New Haven, Conn. Myles Lewis Sr. 65 72 The Prestige at PGA West 2/18/15 PGA West (Norman Course) - La Quinta, Calif. Austin Gutgsell Sr. 65 72 LSU National Invitational 4/1/12 The University Club - Baton Rouge, La. Smylie Kaufman So. 65 72 Argent Financial Classic 3/11/12 Squire Creek Country Club - Choudrant, La. John Peterson Sr. 65 72 NCAA Championships 6/1/11 Karsten Creek Golf Club - Stillwater, Okla. Clayton Rotz So. 65 72 SEC Championships 4/19/09 Frederica Golf Club - St. Simons Island, Ga. Andrew Loupe Fr. 65 70 Gator Invitational 2/9/08 Mark Bostic Golf Course - Gainesville, Fla. Garrett Runion So. 65 71 Mason Rudolph Intercollegiate 9/27/04 Vanderbilt Legends Club - Nashville, Tenn. Jeremy Wilkinson Fr. 65 72 Tennessee Tournament of Champions 9/30/97 Holston Hills Country Club - Knoxville, Tenn. Scott Sterling So. 65 72 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 9/21/91 The Farm Golf Club - Rocky Face, Ga. Perry Moss Sr. 65 72 Southern Intercollegiate 11/11/90 Athens Country Club - Athens, Ga. Perry Moss Jr. 65 70 Gator Invitational 2/11/90 University Course - Gainesville, Fla. Rett Crowder So. 65 Taylor Made/Doral Park 2/24/90 Doral Park Country Club - Miami, Fla. Perry Moss So. 65 72 Florida Southern Invitational 3/3-5/89 Imperial Lakes Country Club - Lakeland, Fla. David Toms So. 65 72 SEC Championships 5/17/87 Turtle Point Yacht Club - Florence, Ala. 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 57 HISTORY All-Time Tournament Wins

2014 GOLFWEEK CONFERENCE CHALLENGE 2015 DAVID TOMS INTERCOLLEGIATE 2016 PRESTIGE AT PGA WEST

1935-36 1958-59 1973-74 1988-89 2005-06 Southern Intercollegiate All-America (Two Ball) Louisiana Intercollegiate LSU National Invitational Shoal Creek Intercollegiate Jim Corbett Classic Florida Southern Invitational 1936-37 1959-60 Golf Digest Collegiate Invitational 2008-09 SEC Championships All-America (Team Match) 1974-75 Chris Schenkel Invitational Gopher Invitational Southern Intercollegiate All-America (Best Ball) LSU Invitational John Hayt Invitational Southern Intercollegiate Centenary Classic 1990-91 Reunion Intercollegiate 1937-38 SEC Championships Jim Corbett Classic Taylor Made Doral Park SEC Championships All-America (Two Ball) Intercollegiate 2009-10 Southern Intercollegiate 1975-76 David Toms Intercollegiate 1960-61 LSU-Tulane Invitational 1991-92 Louisiana Classics 1938-39 LSU Invitational Florida Invitational Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate SEC Championships 1961-62 1976-77 1993-94 2010-11 1939-40 LSU Invitational Seminole Classic Country Club of Louisiana Gopher Invitational SEC Championships Jim Corbett Classic Intercollegiate David Toms Intercollegiate Southern Intercollegiate 1963-64 Southeastern Intercollegiate Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate NCAA Championships Buckhaults Invitational 1977-78 Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate LSU National Invitational Louisiana Intercollegiate 1941-42 1964-65 1994-95 2011-12 SEC Championships Buckhaults Invitational 1978-79 Louisiana Classic Louisiana Classics Southern Intercollegiate Southern Mississippi Invitational All-American Intercollegiate Argent Financial Classic NCAA Championships 1965-66 Broadwater Beach Invitational LSU National Invitational LSU Invitational 1995-1996 1945-46 Southern Intercollegiate 1980-81 Reliastar Classic 2012-13 SEC Championships SEC Championships Seminole Classic Ping-Tulsa Invitational Shoal Creek Intercollegiate New Orleans Invitational Blue-Gray Intercollegiate David Toms Intercollegiate 1946-47 1966-67 SEC Championships B.O. Van Hook Invitational 1983-84 1998-99 2013-14 NCAA Championships L.R. Goldman Invitational Yale Fall Intercollegiate The Bridges All-American Aggie Invitational SEC Championships Morton Braswell Intercollegiate 1947-48 Louisiana Intercollegiate 2000-01 2014-15 SEC Championships 1967-68 Orange Lake Intercollegiate Tennessee Tournament of Golfweek Conference Challenge Southern Intercollegiate B.O. Van Hook Invitational Champions David Toms Intercollegiate 1984-85 Country Club of Louisiana Talis Park Challenge 1948-49 1968-69 USM-Laurel C.C. Invitational Intercollegiate SEC Championships Gulf Coast Invitational B.O. Van Hook Invitational UNO Invitational LSU Spring Invitational NCAA Championships 1949-50 1969-70 1985-86 2001-02 2015-16 Gulf Coast Invitational LSU Invitational USM-Laurel C.C. Invitational Gator Invitational Tulane Invitational Gator Invitational LSU Spring Invitational David Toms Intercollegiate 1952-53 Louisiana Intercollegiate Country Club of Jackson Invitational The Prestige at PGA West SEC Championships SEC Championships 2002-03 Tiger Classic 1970-71 LSU Spring Invitational 1953-54 McNeese Invitational 1986-87 Southern Intercollegiate Country Club of Jackson Invitational 2003-04 SEC Championships 1971-72 SEC Championships Baylor Invitational Jim Corbett Classic Country Club of Louisiana 1954-55 1987-88 Intercollegiate NCAA Championships 1972-73 Gator Invitational LSU Spring Invitational Louisiana Intercollegiate Jerry Pate Invitational 1955-56 Port Malabar Invitational 2004-05 All-America (Team Match) Jim Corbett Classic LSU Spring Invitational

LSU’S WINNINGEST COACHES COACH YEARS TOURNAMENT TITLES COACH YEARS TOURNAMENT TITLES COACH YEARS TOURNAMENT TITLES Chuck Winstead 11 25 Maj. J. Perry Cole 11 12 Buddy Alexander 5 10 Britt Harrison 11 16 Bill Brogden 5 11 Harry Taylor 7 10 Mike Barbato 13 15 Greg Jones 6 10

58 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE Home Tournament History HISTORY 1961-1992, 2011-12 1993-2003 LSU National Invitational Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate

YEAR TEAM CHAMPION (SCORE) INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION (SCORE) YEAR TEAM CHAMPION (SCORE) INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION (SCORE) 1961 LSU (591) Howell Fraser, LSU (145) 1993 LSU (879) Ryan Perna, North Florida (215) 1962 LSU (578) Roy Pace, Louisiana Tech (142) 1994 Tennessee (884) Jamie Neher, Tennessee (213) 1963 Memphis State (579) Buddy Short, Southwestern La. (138) 1995 Georgia (881) Simon Cooke, Virginia (214) 1964 LSU (584) John Lamey, Alabama (142) 1996 Auburn (865) Michael Connell, Mississippi State (207) 1965 LSU (591) Pat O’Brien, McNeese State (140) 1997 Georgia (857) Jeremy Parrot, Georgia (207) 1966 LSU (577) B.R. McLendon, LSU (141) 1998 E. Tenn. State (862) David Christensen, E. Tenn. State (209) 1967 Houston (849) B.R. McLendon, LSU (208) 1999 North Florida (880) David Bennett, North Florida (211) 1968 Memphis State (573) Jimmy Day, LSU (133) 2000 LSU (856) Alan Morgan, LSU (206) 1969 Houston (849) John Mahaffey, Houston (208) 2001 UAB (856) Graeme McDowell, UAB (204) 1970 LSU (1,340) Gary Bennett, Memphis State (279) 2002 No Tournament No Tournament 1971 Houston (1,439) Jim McLean, Houston (282) 2003 LSU (851) Michael Thompson, Tulane (207) 1972 Houston (1,430) Mike Drury, LSU (278) 1973 Houston (1,073) Bill Rogers, Houston (208) 1974 Houston (1,076) Keith Fergus, Houston (212) 1975 LSU (1,063) Bruce Douglass, Murray State (207) 1976 LSU (592) Allen Ritchie, Alabama (144) 1977 Houston (1,082) Jerry Anderson, Texas (212) 1978 Oklahoma State (1,067) Mark Tinder, Oral Roberts (207) 1979 Oral Roberts (842) Mark Tinder, Oral Roberts (204) 1980 Houston (854) Hal Sutton, Centenary (208) 1981 Oral Roberts (858) Joe Rassett, Oral Roberts (206) 1982 UCLA (831) Jay Delsing, UCLA (202) 1983 Texas (562) Mark Brooks, Texas (138) 1984 Houston (847) John Slaughter, Houston (206) 1985 Oklahoma (870) David Peege, Ole Miss (210) 1986 Florida (856) Philip Jonas, Lamar (206) 1987 LSU (863) David Toms, LSU (212) 1988 Arizona State (1,091) Dave Miley, Ole Miss (210) 1989 LSU (862) Greg Lesher, LSU (207) 1990 Clemson (875) Oswald Drawdy, Clemson (209) 1991 Florida (846) Perry Moss, LSU (205) 1992 Florida (896) Carl Paulson, South Carolina (215) 2011 LSU (886) Stephan Jaeger, Chattanooga (209) 2012 LSU (853) Austin Gutgsell, LSU (207) 2009-Present David Toms Intercollegiate

YEAR TEAM CHAMPION (SCORE) INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION (SCORE) 2009 LSU (844) Jade Scott, Rice (204) 2010 LSU (848) Austin Gutgsell, LSU (206) 2011 Oklahoma (862) Andrew Noto, Louisiana-Lafayette (208) 2012 LSU (897) Andrew Presley, LSU (220) 2013 Southeastern La. (860) Grady Brame, Southeastern La. (209) 2014 LSU (891) Ben Taylor, LSU (214) David Toms 2015 LSU (864) Eric Ricard, LSU (206

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 59 HISTORY All-Time Honors ALL-AMERICANS

YEAR GOLFER SELECTION 1937 Fred Haas, Jr. First Team 1941 Earl Stewart First Team 1943 Sonny Ellis First Team 1948 Gardner Dickinson First Team 1952 Eddie Merrins 1953 Eddie Merrins 1954 Eddie Merrins 1955 Johnny Pott First Team 1962 Howell Fraser Second Team 1965 B.R. McLendon Honorable Mention 1966 B.R. McLendon Second Team 1967 B.R. McLendon First Team Randy Wolff Honorable Mention 1969 Vaughn Moise Third Team 1970 Jimmy Wittenberg Honorable Mention Eddie Merrins 1973 Dick Clark Honorable Mention 1974 Stan Lee Second Team 1975 Stan Lee Second Team 1979 Wayne DeFrancesco First Team 1980 John Salamone Honorable Mention 1981 John Salamone Second Team 1984 Emlyn Aubrey Honorable Mention Fred Dupre Third Team 1985 Rob McNamara Honorable Mention 1986 Emlyn Aubrey Third Team Rob McNamara Honorable Mention 1987 Rob McNamara Second Team David Toms Honorable Mention 1988 Greg Lesher Honorable Mention Fredrik Lindgren Honorable Mention David Toms First Team 1989 Greg Lesher Second Team David Toms First Team B.R. McLendon 1990 Perry Moss Honorable Mention 1991 Perry Moss Second Team 1992 Rett Crowder Honorable Mention 1994 Scott Sterling Honorable Mention 1996 Brian Bateman Third Team 1997 P.J. Smith Honorable Mention 2001 Alan Morgan Honorable Mention 2003 John Humphries Honorable Mention 2009 John Peterson Second Team 2010 Andrew Loupe Honorable Mention John Peterson Honorable Mention 2011 Andrew Loupe Honorable Mention John Peterson First Team 2012 Sang Yi Honorable Mention 2013 Curtis Thompson Honorable Mention 2014 Stewart Jolly Third Team Ben Taylor Honorable Mention Curtis Thompson Honorable Mention David Toms 2015 Brandon Pierce Third Team Eric Ricard Honorable Mention Zach Wright Honorable Mention 2016 Sam Burns Honorable Mention Luis Gagne Honorable Mention Zach Wright Second Team ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS

YEAR GOLFER 1989 Greg Lesher Fredrik Lindgren 1991 Rett Crowder 1995 Brian Bateman 1996 Chip McDonald 2011 Austin Gutgsell Sang Yi Brian Bateman

60 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE All-Time Honors HISTORY ALL-SEC SELECTIONS

YEAR GOLFER SELECTION 1970 Tommy Evans Second Team Vaughn Moise First Team Jimmy Wittenberg First Team 1971 Mike Drury Second Team Jimmy Wittenberg First Team 1972 Shelby Houston First Team 1974 Dick Clark First Team Stan Lee First Team 1975 Jim Adams Second Team Louis Lee Second Team Stan Lee First Team 1976 Frank Gusmus Second Team Louis Lee Second Team 1977 Steve Cromwell First Team 1978 Louis Lee Second Team Gary Marlowe Second Team Freshman of the Year 1979 Wayne DeFrancesco First Team John Salamone First Team Player of the Year 1982 Dudley Bienvenu Second Team 1983 Emlyn Aubrey Second Team Fred DuPre First Team Brandon Pierce 1984 Emlyn Aubrey First Team Fred DuPre First Team YEAR GOLFER SELECTION Rob McNamara Second Team 1989 Greg Lesher First Team Freshman of the Year Fredrik Lindgren Second Team 1985 Rob McNamara First Team David Toms First Team 1986 Emlyn Aubrey First Team Player of the Year Rob McNamara First Team 1990 Greg Lesher Second Team David Toms Freshman of the Year Perry Moss Second Team 1987 Rob McNamara First Team 1991 Rett Crowder Second Team Player of the Year Perry Moss First Team David Toms First Team Player of the Year 1988 Greg Lesher Second Team 1992 Rett Crowder First Team David Toms First Team 1993 Scott Sterling Second Team Player of the Year 1994 Brian Bateman Second Team Scott Sterling First Team 1995 Brian Bateman Second Team 1996 Brian Bateman First Team 1997 P.J. Smith First Team 1998 P.J. Smith Second Team 1999 Jeremy Wilkinson Second Team 2000 Alan Morgan Second Team 2001 John Humphries Second Team Alan Morgan First Team 2002 Nathan Goulding Second Team Heath West Second Team 2003 John Humphries First Team 2004 Heath West Second Team 2005 Chris Wells Second Team 2007 Chris Wells Second Team 2008 Andrew Loupe All-Freshman Team John Peterson All-Freshman Team Clayton Rotz All-Freshman Team 2009 John Peterson First Team Sang Yi All-Freshman Team 2010 Andrew Loupe First Team 2011 Andrew Loupe First Team John Peterson First Team 2012 Andrew Presley Second Team Sang Yi First Team 2013 Andrew Presley Second Team Curtis Thompson First Team 2014 Stewart Jolly First Team Curtis Thompson Second Team 2015 Stewart Jolly Second Team Brandon Pierce Second Team Eric Ricard Second Team Eric Ricard Zach Wright Second Team 2016 Zach Wright First Team 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 61 HISTORY Letterwinners

A G Lorio, Duane (1987) S Adams, Jim (1973-74-75-76) Gagne, Luis (2016) Loupe, Andrew (2008-09-10-11) Salamone, John (1978-79-80-81) Adams, Wright Jr. (1934-37) Gatlin, Butch (1963-64) Loupe, Chris (1998-99) Sample, John (1959-61-62) Aitchison, David (2003) Gaudin, Russ (1962-63-64) Love, Sam (1958-59-60) Schmitt, Phil (1993-94-95) Amerman, Wink (1999) Goodwin, Mark (1972) Lyons, Eddie (1975-76) Schroeder, Mike (1972-73-75) Anthony, Richard (1966) Goulding, Nathan (2001) Lyons, Landon (2012-12-13-14) Self, Neil (2002) Aubrey, Emlyn (1983-84-85-86) Guido, Paul (1979) Shaw, Jake (2004-05) Aydlett, Brandon (2003-04-05) Gusmus, Frank (1974-75-76) M Shaw, Robert (1973) Gutgsell, Austin (2010-11-12) Magee, Gary (1970) Silman, Teddy (1970-71-72) Mangum, James (1954-55-56) Silvers, Mark (1965) B Smith, Aaron (2003-04-05-06) Barsamian, Jarrod (2006-07-08-09) Manuel, Adam (1995-96-97-98) H Smith, P.J. (1995-96-97-98) Bateman, Brian (1993-94-95) Haas, Fred (1935-36-37) Marlowe, Gary (1979) Spencer, John (1958-59-60-61) Beard, Tommy (1953-54-55-56) Harrell, Bobby (1952) Martin, Bill (1964) Spiller, Lindsey (1975) Beckers, Michael (2000) Harris, Billy (1979-80) Mason, Greg (2004) Sterling, Scott (1991-92-93) Biancalana, Roy (1980-81-82) Harris, Chad (1995) McDonald, Chip (1995-96) Stewart, Earl (1940-41-42) Bienvenu, Dudley (1982) Hebert, Junius (1948) McDonald, Maxwell (1968-69-70) Stewart, Travis (1999) Bigham, Neil (1957) Henriksen, Steve (1977-78) McLendon, B.R. “Mac” (1965-66-67) Struthers, Brent (2005-06) Blaum, Brent (2007) Hitchcock, Brett (1998-99) McNamara, Rob (1984-85-86-87) Bourgeois, Jason (1993-94) Hoffman, Tico (1977-78-79) Merrins, Eddie (1952-53-54) Burns, Sam (2016) Holmes, Jim (1975-77) Miller, Bo (1994-95) T Byman, Pete (1980-81-82-83) Hoover, Tom (1962-63) Moise, Vaughn (1968-69-70) Taylor, Ben (2014-15) Horrell, Jason (2002-03-04) Morgan, Alan (2000-01) Taylor, Craig (2000-01) Houston, Shelby (1973-74-75) Morrow, Tommy (1952-53-54) Thomas, Phil (1964) C Huguet, Marty (1969) Moss, Perry (1989-90-91) Thompson, Curtis (2012-13-14) Caldwell, Bill (1972) Humphries, Earl (1971-72-73) Mudd, Tommie (1984-85-86-87) Thornton, Pressly (1948) Caldwell, Blake (2015-16) Humphries, Jason (1998-99-00) Timbrook Bud (1948-49-50) Calhoun, Cecil (1953-54-55-56) Humphries, John (2000-01-02-03) Todd, Ray (1959) Carmichael, Sam (1959-60-61) N Toms, David (1986-87-88-89) Castillo, Henry (1938-39-40) Nevils, Rich (1964-65) Torda, Jay (1975) Castro, Franco (2011-12) Noonan, Brian (2006-07-08) I Troutman, Beck (2005-06-07-08) Clark, Dick (1972-73-74-75) Inman, Scott (1981-83-84) Nutt, Julio (1992-93-94) Clark, Frank (1950-51) Cole, Henry (1965-66-67) O V Collier, Jo (1971-72) J Vallillo, Michael (1998-99-2000) Jeansonne, Nathan (2016) O’Neill, Jack (1960-61) Crowder, Rett (1989-90-91-92) Jolly, Stewart (2012-13-14-15) Osberg, Rick (1971) Cuthbert, Tommy (1969) Jones, Josh (2009-10) W Jones, Rhyne (2016) P Weaver, Bert (1952-53) D Jordan, Mart (1950) Park, Don (1952) Weaver, Bret (1978) Daigle, William (1968-69) Peterson, John (2008-09-10-11) Webb, Chris (1985) Day, Jimmy (1966-67-68) Pierce, Brandon (2014-15-16) Webb, Craig (1990-91-92) DeBaus, Claude (1951) K Wells, Chris (2005-06-07) Kaufman, Jeff (1984) Poerschke, Fred (1951) DeFrancesco, Wayne (1979-80) West, Heath (2002-03-04-05) Kaufman, Smylie (2012-13-14) Points, D.A. 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CAMPUS LIFE

Location: Baton Rouge, La. Founded: January 2, 1860 Enrollment: 31,527 President: Dr. F. King Alexander Major Fields for Bachelor’s Degrees: 72 Major Fields for Master’s Degrees: 72 Major Fields for Doctoral Degrees: 54

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College has, throughout its 156-year history, served the people of Louisiana, the region, the nation and the world. LSU is creating a revolution, one of pervasive change and advancement. The focus of the LSU community has been an increased commitment to excellence. Our progress has been dramatic and shows no sign of stopping. Having witnessed many of yesterday’s possibilities become today’s tangible realities, the LSU community LSU’s Memorial Tower (top main photo) was one of set forth to capitalize on its success. The goal was to the first structures completed on the present campus improve our standing as a nationally competitive flagship and sits east of the quadrangle (above, left). It represents the University as a memorial to those university. Following intense discussions among the LSU who gave their lives during World War I. Although it currently houses the LSU Anglo-American Board of Supervisors, campus administrators, faculty Art Museum, plans are in process to return Memorial Tower to a military museum as originally and student leaders, the objectives required to reach this intended. Students often enjoy concerts on the LSU Parade Ground (above, right). status crystallized, providing the impetus for LSU’s National Flagship Agenda.

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LSU Board of Supervisors

Ronald Anderson Scott Angelle Glenn Armentor Scott Ballard R. Blake Chatelain Ann Duplessis Baton Rouge, La. Breaux Bridge, La. Lafayette, La. Covington, La. Alexandria, La. New Orleans, La. Member-at-Large District 3 District 3 District 1 District 5 District 2 Chair-Elect Past Chair

Zachary Faircloth Stanley J. Jacobs Raymond Lasseigne Lee Mallett Rolfe McCollister Jim McCrery Baton Rouge, La. New Orleans, La. Bossier City, La. Iowa, La. Baton Rouge, La. Shreveport, La. Student Member District 1 District 4 Member-at-Large District 6 District 4 Chair

James Moore J. Stephen Perry James M. Williams Robert Yarborough Monroe, La. New Orleans, La. Metairie, La. Baton Rouge, La. District 5 Member-at-Large District 2 District 6

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Dr. F. King Alexander President, LSU

Dr. F. King Alexander is the President of Louisiana State University, which enrolls more than 45,000 students and includes institutions across Louisiana. He began at LSU on June 24, 2013. During his tenure as president, the university has seen consecutive record-breaking graduating classes in terms of both size and diversity and enrollment growth across all campuses.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Alexander was president of California honors, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of State University, Long Beach (2005-2013) one of the nation’s largest Education Alumni Achievement Award (2002) and has research public universities. university faculty affiliations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison During his more than seven-year tenure at California State Center for the Study of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) and University, Long Beach, Dr. Alexander was twice named the California Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). State University Student Association (CSSA) “President of the Year,” Dr. Alexander also has been asked to represent public higher which represents all 23 California State Universities and its more than education colleges and universities on numerous occasions to the 440,000 students. United State Congress on issues of college affordability, student Prior to becoming president of California State University, Long indebtedness, and institutional efficiency and effectiveness in efforts Beach, Dr. Alexander was president of Murray State University in to address many of the growing challenges facing American higher Kentucky (2001-05) and was a faculty member at the University of education. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he was the director of the graduate Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP), the U.S. Commission on Civil higher education program. Rights, and the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, A Kentucky native who grew up in north Florida, Dr. Alexander to name a few. Due to his national recognition and involvement in received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in higher higher education issues, Dr. Alexander has served on numerous U.S. education administration with a focus on finance and educational higher education and statewide organizational leadership boards, and policy analysis, and a Master of Science degree in comparative remains very active in policy and planning discussions. educational studies from the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Dr. Alexander and his wife, Shenette, have three children: Kylie, As a teacher and administrator, Dr. Alexander has received many Savannah and Madison.

Dr. Bill Demastes Faculty Athletics Representative

Dr. Bill Demastes, a professor Sciences from 2001-04 and Director of Undergraduate Studies for of English at LSU, is in his fifth year the Department of English from 1999-2001 and 2010-11. He has also as Faculty Athletics Representative. served as Associate Chair of the Department of English (1998-99); Dr. Demastes earned his Ph.D. in Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program (1996-04); and English in 1986 from the University Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English (1992-94; of Wisconsin-Madison with a Field 2005-06). of Study of Drama as Genre and He was honored with the LSU Alumni Association Faculty a specialization in 20th-Century Excellence Award in 2000, and in 2002 he won the LSU Distinguished American and British Drama. He Faculty Award. He was named in 2009 an LSU Rainmaker, which earned his masters in English in June 1979 from the University of is given to the top 100 LSU Faculty. In 2010 and 2013 he received Georgia in Athens, where he specialized in 19th-Century American the Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, and Literature. in the summer of 2011, he was named the Harry Ransom Summer At LSU, he served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Fellowship recipient by the University of Texas.

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Joe Alleva LSU Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics

Joe Alleva continues to bring unprecedented national recognition to LSU as Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics. Under Alleva’s leadership, LSU enjoys one of the country’s premier athletics programs with success on and off the field of competition. Now in his ninth year at LSU, Alleva is dedicated to athletic and academic excellence, and he is committed to providing the opportunities and the resources necessary for student-athletes to excel in competition, in the classroom and in the community. Alleva joined the LSU family on April 4, 2008 after a highly successful tenure as director of athletics at Duke University for 10 years. He was named vice chancellor at LSU in August of 2009, marking the first time in school history that the director of athletics has also held a vice chancellor position.

Alleva completed last spring a five-year athletics program. Alleva has also bolstered the L-Club program term on the prestigious NCAA Men’s Basketball Living up to Alleva’s mantra of “competition, to connect with former student-athletes, and he Committee, enhancing his reputation as one classroom, community,” a total of 83 proud has supervised the thriving “Project Graduation” of the most respected athletic administrators Tigers received their degrees from the university program in which former student-athletes return in the country. He has been appointed to during LSU commencement ceremonies in to LSU to earn their degrees. numerous national committees throughout his December and May. LSU’s Graduation Success Alleva’s tenure has been distinguished by career, including the Football Bowl Certification Rate as reported by the NCAA remains at an all- a number of significant athletic achievements, Committee, the NCAA Division I Championships/ time high for the university with a score of 84. including four 10-win seasons and 78 total Competition Cabinet and several Southeastern LSU student-athletes in 2015-16 logged 5,612 victories by the football team. The Tigers have Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference hours in community service work across 21 played in a bowl game in each of Alleva’s eight committees. sports through LSU’s “Geaux Givers” program. gridiron seasons and LSU has finished in the Top Upon his arrival at LSU, Alleva unveiled Alleva’s strong commitment to academics 20 six times in that period. LSU under Alleva’s a strategic master plan for the LSU athletics ensures that the Cox Communications Academic leadership has claimed the 2009 baseball program -- “LSU: Defined by Excellence” -- to Center for Student-Athletes is a first-class national championship and three College World confirm the advancement and future of LSU facility that cultivates success in the classroom Series berths, the 2015 men’s golf national Athletics as an exemplary enterprise. The central and the development of life skills. And with an championship, two women’s basketball Sweet mission of the plan is to create an environment emphasis on community outreach programs, the 16 appearances, four gymnastics Super Six for student-athletes to reach their ultimate implementation under Alleva’s direction of the berths, three softball College World Series potential, prepare them to be champions in “Geaux Givers” fosters a relationship between appearances and 18 NCAA Top 5 finishes life and to set goals and values for the entire the local citizens and LSU student-athletes. indoors and outdoors by the men’s and women’s

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track and field teams. in dietary support. The Tigers in the past eight seasons have earned 37 individual In the fall of 2014, LSU opened the expansion of the South End Zone NCAA championships in the sports of men and women’s track and of Tiger Stadium -- a project that added premium seating, general public field, gymnastics, men’s golf and women’s golf. LSU has captured 14 seating and two state-of-the-art video boards -- continuing an effort to Southeastern Conference team championships, and the Tigers have won augment one of the most iconic venues in all of college sports. Since 2010, 102 individual SEC titles during Alleva’s term. Alleva has directed an aggressive campaign to preserve and enhance the LSU in 2014-15 became the first school in SEC history to play in a appearance of Tiger Stadium that has included the installation of new football bowl game, have both its men’s and women’s basketball teams windows, lighting systems, gating systems, and championship plazas. reach the NCAA Tournament, and advance to the College World Series in The Football Operations Building is undergoing a significant renovation to baseball and softball in the same athletic year. maintain its status as a high-functioning workplace for coaches and players. LSU enjoyed another banner year in 2015-16, as the school produced LSU’s world-renowned track and field program in 2010 received a new five Top 5 NCAA finishes and earned a No. 19 national ranking in the annual running surface in Bernie Moore Stadium, and extensive renovations to Learfield Directors’ Cup, which measures the overall excellence of collegiate the Maddox Field House in the spring of 2014 gave the Tigers a first-class athletic programs. Fifteen LSU teams competed in an NCAA championship indoor track and field venue. Alleva directed a major renovation to the event, and the Tigers finished in the Top 10 in seven sports. University Club golf course that was completed in September 2010 and The Fighting Tiger football squad played in a bowl game for a school- allows the LSU men’s and women’s golf teams to play on one of the most record 16th straight season and finished the year ranked No. 17 in the challenging courses in the country. An overhaul of the LSU soccer facility nation after posting a dominating 56-27 win over Texas Tech in the Texas was completed in the fall of 2011, converting the stadium into fan-friendly Bowl. venue. The gymnastics team completed the season No. 2 in the nation, the Alleva is an innovator with bold ideas that benefit all of Greater Baton highest finish in program history, and the softball squad appeared in the Rouge. He has been instrumental in the planning of the Bayou Country Women’s College World Series for the second straight year, reaching the Superfest, a three-day country music concert and festival held in Tiger semifinals to finish No. 3 in the country. Stadium each spring. The event attracts over 100,000 visitors to the LSU’s storied track and field program produced three Top 10 finishes in LSU campus and makes a tremendous economic impact upon the local 2015-16. The men’s team placed fourth at the NCAA Indoor Championships community. and fifth at the NCAA Outdoor meet, while the Lady Tigers placed sixth Alleva became director of athletics at Duke in 1998 and his impressive outdoors. The men’s golf team advanced to match play at the NCAA tenure there propelled the university into the ranks of America’s top all- Championships for a school-record third straight season and the Tigers tied around collegiate programs. Among his outstanding list of accomplishments for fifth overall. includes the greatest 10-year period in Duke Athletics, winning more ACC LSU in 2016 became just the second baseball program in NCAA history and NCAA championships than in any other decade in school history. to earn five straight NCAA Tournament National Seeds. The Tigers advanced Alleva, whose hometown is Suffern, N.Y., majored in finance at Lehigh to the NCAA Super Regionals and finished the year tied for ninth nationally. University and received his bachelor’s degree in 1975. While at Lehigh, LSU advanced to the NCAA Tournament second round in both men’s Alleva was the quarterback of the football team and team captain in 1974. and women’s tennis, while also reaching NCAA postseason in women’s golf, Alleva also played on the Lehigh baseball team. He served as a graduate women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving. assistant football coach and earned an MBA in 1976. Alleva’s vision keeps LSU among the nation’s leaders in athletic facilities. While at Duke, Alleva played a key role in Durham’s community sports Last year, LSU unveiled two new venues -- a magnificent Gymnastics scene. He started Little League Baseball in Durham over 20 years ago, and Practice Facility and a tremendous Tennis Center featuring both indoor and he also began the American Legion baseball program. outdoor courts. Construction will begin this year on a Nutrition Center within He is a member of the North Carolina American Legion Hall of Fame, the the expansive existing space at the South End of Tiger Stadium. The new Suffern High School Hall of Fame and the Rockland County Hall of Fame. facility will feature 30,000 square feet of dining and kitchen area and all of Alleva and his wife, Annie, have three children, J.D., Jeff, and Jenny, and the elements necessary to ensure that the Tigers receive the absolute finest four grandchildren.

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He first joined LSU in an administrative capacity in 1994 as resident assistant of Broussard Hall, then the Verge Ausberry school’s athletic dormitory, before moving to the weight room as a student assistant strength coach. Deputy Director of Athletics Haliburton became a resident manager in 1996 before being named coordinator of residence life later that A former LSU football standout, Verge Ausberry joined the athletics year. In 1998, he became Manager of Facility Maintenance at LSU. administrative staff in August 2001 as the Associate Athletics Director for Operations and was appointed to the position of Senior Associate Athletics Director in May 2006. He was named Deputy Director of Athletics in January of Eddie Nuñez 2016. Deputy Director of Athletics Ausberry supervises and is responsible for football operations, football Eddie Nunez was named Deputy Director of Athletics in January of 2016. scheduling and football management. He also oversees the LSU men’s and As a member of the Senior Management Team, Nuñez’s responsibilities include women’s track and field programs, the equipment staff, the strength and assisting in the oversight of day to day operations of the athletic department and conditioning staff, the Dr. Martin Broussard training room, the video department and football game management. serves as the sport administrator for the men’s basketball program, men’s and Ausberry, from New Iberia, La., played inside linebacker for the Tigers, lettering in 1986-89. He was part of two women’s tennis programs. SEC championship teams, playing on teams that went to four bowl games. In his role, he also oversees the planning and management of the athletic Before joining the LSU athletic administration, he was very closely involved in the athletic program, first strategic plan, the Marketing/Promotions, Athletic Communications, Social serving for almost seven years as a member of LSU’s highly regarded Academic Center for Athletes. and Digital Media, Creative Services, Video and Network Broadcast Services After leaving the Academic Center, he moved in July 1999 to the Tiger Athletic Foundation staff as part of departments and directs all capital projects for the Athletic Department. LSU’s fundraising arm. Nuñez also serves as the Athletic Department’s liaison with LSU Sports Properties and the University Licensing Ausberry received his Bachelor of Science degree in education in May of 1990, his Master of Education degree and Brand Management as well as the Tiger Athletic Foundation. in May of 1992 and his specialist in higher education administration in 2004. He is presently a doctoral candidate Under his guidance, the athletic department has experienced over $380 million dollars in renovations and in higher education administration at LSU. He is married to the former Cheri Morial of New Orleans and they have construction of athletic facility projects. He also spearheaded the renegotiations of a 10 year multi-media rights two boys, Austin (11) and Jaiden (10). agreement with Outfront Media Sports. During his time at LSU, he has been appointed to represent the department of athletics on various University and community committees. Nuñez joined the Athletics Department in October 2003 and was promoted to Associate Athletics Director for Bo Bahnsen Operations and Project Development in June of 2007 and Senior Associate Athletic Director in 2009. Senior Associate AD/Compliance and Planning Nuñez has 16 years of experience working in intercollegiate athletics. Nuñez came to LSU after two and half Returning in 2009 to serve the department in the Compliance Office, Bahnsen years as the Director of Game and Event Management at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, along with directing is once again proving to be a very versatile member of the athletic department. the Game and Event Management department, he also assisted in construction of numerous facilities. Prior to that, Before moving back to Compliance, Bahnsen served the previous five years, Nuñez served as men’s basketball administrative assistant coach at Marquette University for one year and two in a valuable role as Associate Athletics Director for Internal Relations, overseeing years as men’s basketball graduate assistant for coach Billy Donovan at the University of Florida. the ticket office and all customer service operations. Nuñez, played two seasons on the University of Florida basketball team in 1996-97 and 1997-98. He Prior to December of 2003, Bahnsen’s primary responsibility for the previous transferred to Florida after playing two years and obtaining a degree from Miami-Dade Community College. 14 years was to serve as LSU’s NCAA compliance officer. The native of Miami, Fla., received his Associate degree in arts and architecture from Miami-Dade Community Bahnsen served as manager of the LSU basketball team as an undergraduate College in 1995, his Bachelor’s in Sports Management and Masters in Sports Administration from the University of at LSU. In 1982, he became the administrative assistant for the men’s basketball team, where he worked for five Florida in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He is married to the former Jane Hess and the couple has two daughters, years. Elizabeth Kendall (7) and Anna Caldwell (5). In July 1987, he became administrative assistant to Athletics Director Joe Dean, overseeing the purchasing office and departmental travel operations until his promotion in 1989. In 1989, he was assigned his primary responsibility as NCAA compliance officer as assistant athletics director, and then was promoted to associate AD Miriam Segar in 1996. Senior Associate AD/Senior Woman Administrator Bahnsen has been responsible for overseeing the successful implementation of LSU’s Tradition Fund Program, Former LSU women’s basketball player Miriam Segar has been a part of a football-seating plan that requires contributions for the right to purchase approximately 45,000 seats in Tiger the athletics administration since June of 1995 and is now the Senior Associate Stadium. In 2009, he helped organize the highly successful LSU celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Men’s AD and the department’s Senior Woman Administrator after having served as Basketball Program. Associate Athletics Director for Student Services since April 2007. She had served A native of Wharton, Texas, Bahnsen attended Wharton County Junior College for two years before transferring as Assistant Athletics Director since 2004. to LSU in 1979. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education. As LSU’s Senior Woman Administrator, Segar’s responsibilities include Bahnsen, 57, is married to the former Karen Mayson, a former LSU golfer and current head coach of the Lady oversight of the highly successful Tiger Olympic Sports program. She also Tigers golf program. The couple has two children, Darren and Devin. supervises the Tiger baseball program and the LSU cheerleaders. Segar began her administrative career at LSU as the compliance coordinator where she served for three years. Following that, in 1998, Segar was named the director of the CHAMPS/Life Skills Program where she worked until Mark Ewing 2001 when she became the Director of Student Services. Senior Associate AD/Business While working with CHAMPS/Life Skills, Segar guided the program to the Division I Athletic Directors Program Mark Ewing, a 32-year employee of Louisiana State University, is in his of Excellence Award in 2001. 16th year with the Athletics Department, and serves as the department’s Senior Prior to returning to her alma mater, Segar spent one year at the SEC office as the championships assistant Associate Athletics Director for Business and the department’s Chief Financial and the officiating assistant, assisting in the management of all SEC championships and tournaments and the Officer. coordination of women’s basketball officials. His duties as the department’s Chief Financial Officer includes oversight Segar, the 2006 Athletic Department Female Alumnus of the Year, was a three-year captain for the Lady Tigers of the departments over $126 million budget, management of the athletic basketball team and received four letters from 1990 to 1994. She earned the 1994 NCAA Post-graduate Scholarship business office, oversight of all travel, human resources, and purchasing. He also and was a member of the 1994 NCAA All-Academic team. supervises the Athletic Ticket Office and serves as the liaison for concession Segar and her husband Jamie have four children -- Grant, Reid, Maggie and Hayes. operations. He is responsible for the department’s financial forecasting and provides the financial information necessary for funding athletic construction and maintenance projects. He also serves as the department’s administrator for men’s and women’s golf. Brian Broussard Ewing came to athletics from LSU’s Office of Budget and Planning. He served as LSU’s Budget Director Associate AD/Ticket Sales and Operations overseeing the development and management of the university operating budget. A 20-year veteran of the Athletics Department, including 16 years as ticket Ewing, who is a native of Pointe Coupee Parish, received a bachelor’s degree in finance from LSU in 1978 and a manager, Brian Broussard was promoted to Assistant Athletics Director for Ticket master’s degree in public administration from LSU in 1995. Operations in July 2007 and Associate AD in 2012. Ewing is married to the former Gail Ingram of Morgan City, Louisiana and they have three daughters, Andrea, Broussard is responsible for revenue in excess of $50 million, which includes Arleen and Molly Sue. He also has three grandaughters -- Ainsley Grace, Dorothy Claire and Evelyn McLain -- and the management of ticket and parking sales and renewals for all sports, as well one grandson, Parker Ryan. as Tradition Fund donations for football, men’s basketball and baseball. Broussard began at LSU in August 1996 as an assistant ticket manager responsible for men’s basketball sales and the day-to-day operations of ticket Ronnie Haliburton office. In March 2000, he was promoted to ticket manager, becoming responsible for the ticketing in all sports. Senior Associate AD/Athletic Facility Management Prior to joining the LSU staff, Broussard was the ticket manager at Northwestern State in 1996. He worked as Ronnie Haliburton, who served as director of facility services in the LSU Athletics a promotions assistant at the University of Miami in 1995 and was the gameday club manager for the New Orleans Department for three years, was promoted to Associate Athletics Director for Athletic Saints in 1994. Facility Management in March 2007. The Gretna native earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from LSU in 1993. He is married to the Haliburton came to the athletics department in December of 2003 from LSU’s former Aimee Hodges of Alexandria. facility maintenance department, where he served as manager for five years. He was responsible for the overall management of custodial operations, special events crews, stock room inventory and equipment repair. Haliburton played as a tight end for the LSU football team from 1986-89, and was a member of two Southeastern Conference championship teams. He later played for the Denver Broncos for three years. 68 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE LSU Athletic Administration - Senior Staff LSU

Emmett David David Taylor Associate AD/Facility and Project Development Assistant AD/Game-Event Management Emmett David joined the LSU Athletics Department in 2012 after serving David Taylor, who has been a part of LSU’s game management team since as Director of the Office of Planning Design and Construction at LSU since June September 2005, was promoted in August 2014 to Assistant Athletic Director of 1996. of Game and Event Management. Taylor handles all aspects regarding game He assists in facility and project development for the Athletic Department management of athletic events while overseeing a staff that helps coordinate all including the South Stadium addition and the recently completed tennis stadium, events within the LSU Athletic Department grounds. the gymnastics practice facility and other property holding enhancements. Taylor, who started as game management coordinator, was promoted to Among his responsibilities for the University was to serve as facility officer Assistant Director in 2006 and Associate Director in 2008. He assumed the for Doctoral I Research Institution consisting of 11.2 million gross square directorship of Game and Event Management in September 2011. feet with 250 primary buildings. He also was responsible for the 5-year Capital Outlay project planning of some Prior to that, Taylor served as Assistant Coordinator of Athletic Facilities and Game Operations at Texas State $484 million, deferred maintenance reporting and funding; and, ADA and Life Safety Code deficiency projects, University from 2003 to 2005. budgets and tracking of expenditures of some $200 million. He was responsible for nearly $800,000 in physical Taylor earned his B.S. degree from Texas-El Paso in 1999 and his Masters in Sports Management in 2003 from development on campus with projects such as Choppin Annex, Residential College, Business Education Complex, the University of Texas. Raphael Semmes Parking Garage and numerous major maintenance, repair and restoration projects. He also coordinated and implemented master plans for such departments as Parking and Traffic, Athletics, Veterinary Medicine, Student Health Center, Union, University Recreation, South Campus and Residential Life. Blair Napolitano David developed long range planning of future projects and the impact of associated displacement and Assistant AD/Compliance monitored and managed space inventory and he has served as a Staff Senator. Blair Napolitano, who is in her 10th year with the LSU athletic department, David graduated from LSU with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982 and his Master of Public Administration in was promoted to assistant athletic director in October 2014. She directs the 2006. He is a registered licensed architect by the state of Louisiana. day-to-day-operations of the compliance office, and her primary duties include Emmett and his wife Maurine have two children Chloe and Gabe, who are both residents of Baton Rouge. researching and communicating with coaches, counselors and prospective student-athletes regarding prospect’s intital eligibility and amateurism status. She also serves on the liaison for student-athletes to the LSU admissions Neal Lamonica office, and she researches and provides interpretations on NCAA rules and SEC Assistant AD/Fiscal Operations bylaws to coaches, staff and student-athletes. Neal Lamonica, a member of the LSU Athletic Department staff since Napolitano began her LSU career as a compliance coordinator in October 2005, and she was named director of January 2000, was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for Fiscal Operations compliance in October 2009. in August 2013. A native of Baton Rouge, she earned her bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from LSU in 2005 while serving His primary duties include monitoring the Athletic Department’s over $125 as a student manager for the track and field team from 2003-05. She received her Master’s degree in business million budget, and assisting coaches and administrators in formulating budgets administration from LSU in August 2010. for future years. He also serves as the liaison to the athletic department’s retail Napolitano and her husband, Anthony, have one son, Carter, born in May 2015. sales operations and Tiger Booster Clubs. Lamonica began his professional career at LSU in 2000 in the athletic department compliance office before moving to the business office in June 2003. He served as Coordinator of Wendy Nall Athletic Business until December 2005, when he was named Business Manager. Lamonica was promoted to Assistant AD/Human Resources Director of Fiscal Operations in November 2009. Wendy Nall has served in the LSU Athletics Human Resources department Lamonica received a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from LSU in 1998, and he earned an LSU since 2001. She was promoted to Manager in 2003 and named an Assistant AD master’s degree in business administration in 2003. in November of 2015. Lamonica and his wife, Blythe, are the parents of three sons -- Davis, Sam Henry and Luke. Nall, graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond in May 2000 with a major in kinesiology with a sports administration concentration. She completed her Masters of Science at LSU in August 2001. Mathew Shanklin Nall is married to husband Slater and they have two daughters; Kendall Assistant AD/Marketing and Olivia. Mathew Shanklin is in his fifth year at LSU serving as the Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing and as the General Business Manager for LSU Sports Properties, the multi-media rights holder for Tiger Athletics. Previously, Michael Bonnette Shanklin served 20 years as the Associate Athletic Director of Marketing and Associate AD/Communications Licensing at the University of Arkansas. Michael Bonnette enters his 17th year as LSU’s Communications Director and Shanklin supervises all operations and client services for LSU Sports 10th as Associated Athletic Director. Bonnette was originally elevated to Sports Properties, while also managing the LSU Marketing efforts. Since joining LSU, Information Director in August of 2000 and the promoted to Assistant Athletic he has implemented several new initiatives including the Bengal Brigade Street Director in July of 2004. team and the new band pre-game presentation for men’s basketball. He also spearheaded the partnership with As Communications Director, Bonnette serves as the chief contact for LSU’s Halftime Live, coordinating the unique halftime concert with Grammy winners 3 Doors Down and the LSU Marching nationally-ranked football team as well as overseeing all publicity activities for Band at the LSU-Texas A&M game in 2015. the 21 sports sponsored by the Athletic Department. While at Arkansas, Shanklin was in charge of all department marketing/promotions, corporate sponsorships, The 46-year-old Bonnette, who served as an Associate Sports Information advertising sales and coordinated all sales and programming for the football, basketball and baseball video Director for seven years, is in his 23rd year with the LSU Athletic Department. boards. He was instrumental in developing the HogPen, a tailgating area for fans inside Baum Stadium, the Hog His 2012 LSU Football media guide as named “Best in the Nation” by CoSIDA, one of several awards he has Spa hot tub area at Baum Stadium and the RBI Girls. Shanklin was instrumental in establishing the school’s first received from the organization and in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association annual writing contests. His 2014 baseball radio network in 1992, one of the nation’s largest with more than 25 affiliates statewide as well as football media guide was ranked second in the nation. creating the first Hispanic radio network for the University of Arkansas. In 1998, Shanklin became the university’s The Lake Charles, La., native has been around the sports media profession his entire life as he is the son of licensing coordinator and under his direction, licensing revenues increased every quarter. retired McNeese State Sports Information Director Louis Bonnette, a member of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame. The field Shanklin was assistant marketing director at East Carolina University for a year before going to Arkansas. He at Cowboy Stadium in Lake Charles is named “Louis Bonnette Field”. His brother, Matthew, continued the family had served as an intern at Arkansas for five months before joining the ECU staff. tradition at McNeese by being named Sports Information Director in July 2012, following his Dad, who held that A 1984 graduate of South Mecklenburg (N.C.) High School in Charlotte, N.C., where he lettered in baseball and position for 46 years. soccer, Shanklin earned his degree in communications from North Carolina-Wilmington in 1988. Bonnette, who is a 1993 graduate of LSU, is past president of SIDs for the Southeastern Conference and is A graduate of Ohio University’s highly respected sports administration program, Shanklin earned a master’s currently the vice-president for SIDs for the LSWA. He is married to the former Robin Arnaud of Opelousas, La and degree in that program in the fall of 1989. the couple has three sons: Peyton (18), Grant (17) and Max (11). Peyton recently graduated from University High An avid golfer, Shanklin married the former Missy Emmerson of Jacksonville, Texas, in 2003. She has a and will be a freshman at LSU this fall. daughter, Jordan (21) who attends LSU, and they are also the parents of Barbara Blake (11) and Izabella Grace (9).

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 69 LSU Athletics Administration ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION ATHLETIC TRAINING

Wanda Carrier Kristen Cain Jackie McClendon Andy Barker Shawn Eddy Micki Collins Cory Couture Administrative Asst. L Club, Special Events Office Coordinator Sr. Associate Sr. Associate Sr. Associate Associate to the Athletic Director & Community Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer Relations Coordinator BUSINESS OFFICE

Pam Workman Mallory Mickus Hannah Roudebush Alisha Tolbert Josh Pratt Lauren Reagan, RD Matthew LaBorde Associate Assistant Assistant Assistant Asst. Athletic Trainer Director of Business Manager Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer & Drug Testing Sports Nutrition Coordinator

Hunter Geisman Terri Poleman MaryJane Merrill Wanda Babin Wendy Carpenter Jeff deVeer Mo Carney Assistant Business Short’s Travel Travel Manager Accountant Tech Accountant Tech Director of IT Assistant Director Manager Services - Athletics of IT Services

COMMUNICATIONS

Lane Director James Thomas Kent Lowe Bill Franques Jennifer Rodrigues Will Stafford Clyde Verdin IT Analyst Mail Services Sr. Assoc. Sr. Associate Sr. Associate Assoc. Assoc. Administrator Communications Communications Communications Communications Communications Director (MB, WG) Director (Baseball) Director (FB, WB) Director (SC, TF, MG) Director (FB, SB) COMPLIANCE CREATIVE SERVICES

Brandon Berrio Pam LeBlanc Matt Jakoubek Taylor Jacobs Shalini Gogawale Jason Feirman PJ Odom Graduate Assistant Administrative Director of Compliance Compliance Executive Director Creative Services (VB, Gym) Specialist Compliance Coordinator Coordinator for Creative Services Manager

FACILITIES & GROUNDS

Clint Self Amanda Qubty Steve Franz Chris Parent Todd Jeansonne Terrance Bold Mark Lee Creative Services Creative Services Staff Photographer Staff Photographer Director of Facilities Asst. Director of Asst. Director of Coordinator Coordinator & Grounds Facilities & Grounds Facilities & Grounds

70 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE Athletics Administration LSU GAME/EVENT MANAGEMENT

Flo Williams Hunter Sexton Amanda Adams Katie Gerlach Kelly Willie Julie Cribbs Richard Dempsey Manager of Assistant Manager Manager of External Events Asst. Manager of Assoc. Director Coordinator of Game/ Facilities and Grounds of Facilities & Grounds Internal Projects and Coordinator Facilities and Grounds of Game/Event Event Management Facility Operations Management SPORTS PROPERTIES

John Ross Maher Nicole Batista Aaron Boseman Kaylee Aulds Maddie Bray Ward Wyatt Lance Burgos Coordinator of Game Graduate Assistant Graduate Assistant Event Management Event Management General Manager Assistant General Event Management - Intern Intern Manager - Sales Parking Ops

Kevin Burke Kevin Wagner Jake Sims Todd Politz Wes Baylor Emily Bloss Logan Schroeder Director of Sales Sr. Account Account Director of Account Executive, Account Executive, Account Executive, Executive, Sales Executive, Sales Digital Media Client Services Client Services Client Services

MARKETING/PROMOTIONS

Brad Morales Brooke Hochstetler Chris Blair Daniel Nunes Jason Suitt Kyle Huber Pauline Zernott Account Executive, Administrative Asst., Director of Radio Director of Marketing Director of Fan Assistant Spirit Coordinator Operations Client Services Broadcasting Experience Marketing Director

MARAVICH CENTER STRENGTH & CONDITIONING

Dreyfus Milstead Ben Iannacchione Earl Chevalier Eric Donoval Ricky Lefebvre Jake Riedel Travis Roy Operations Manager Asst. Strength & Asst. Strength & Asst. Strength & Asst. Strength & Asst. Strength & Asst. Strength & Conditioning Coach Conditioning Coach Conditioning Coach Conditioning Coach Conditioning Coach Conditioning Coach (VB, MG) (GYM, WG) (VB, MG) (MB) (SD, TF, FB) (BSB, FB) TICKET OFFICE

Melissa Moore Seal Will Wright Emily Hairston Tim Messa Eric Hummel Garrett Thibodeaux Elise Evans Assoc. Strength & Asst. Strength & Strength & Director of Assistant Assistant Accounting Manager Conditioning Coach Conditioning Coach Conditioning GA Ticket Operations Ticket Manager Ticket Manager (SB, WB, WT) (SC, BSB)

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 71 LSU Cox Communications Academic Center

A December 2011 graduate in marketing, Ken Looper recently earned his Web.com Tour card for the 2017 Ken Looper season after tying for eighth place at the recent Web.com Tour Q School Finals. ACADEMIC SUCCESS COX COMMUNICATIONS ACADEMIC CENTER FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES

MODELS OF EXCELLENCE LSU, in particular the efforts of the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes, is one of eight colleges and universities nationwide that was honored by University Business magazine in its Spring 2016 Models of Excellence recognition program. The Models of Excellence program recognizes innovative approaches to Kenneth O. Miles Walt Holliday Jason Shaw Calvin Marshall encouraging and nurturing student success on campus. Assistant Vice Chancellor/ Director of Associate Director Academic Advisor Executive Director Academic Affairs “For student-athletes, pressure bears down from all angles - from classroom expectations to media scrutiny,” says University Business senior editor Tim Goral. “LSU realizes the unique challenges this population faces, and offers a holistic solution that helps this group succeed outside of game day.”

72 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE Cox Communications Academic Center LSU VALUES Accountability “ENTER TO LEARN, LEAVE TO SERVE” Exhibiting the willingness to accept responsibility for your actions. STUDY AREA Included in the Commitment 54,000 square feet Pledging excellence every day, of the Academic every meeting, every situation, Center are individual every time. study areas as well as 12 private Success computer rooms for Achieving excellence in all that is student-athletes to desired, planned or attempted. work one-on-one with tutors or by Integrity themselves. Adhering to a strict moral and ethical code of behavior and action by consistently upholding rules, regulations and values.

Diversity Embracing and valuing the differences we all bring to the table.

Teamwork Valuing each other as members of our team and working together to achieve common, agreed upon goals.

Service Individually and collectively, creating an environment of social awareness, establishing an appetite for helpfulness and discovering a world with issues greater than our own. BO CAMPBELL AUDITORIUM The 1,000-seat auditorium is used throughout the year as Education a classroom and lecture hall. Each seat in the auditorium Fostering a thirst for knowledge has space for a laptop and a modem hookup, providing each and promoting the discipline to student unlimited learning opportunities. The auditorium also THE LIBRARY pursue life-long learning. contains a movie theatre size screen to aid professors with The library provides a perfect setting for lectures and classroom activities. individual study, or with a tutor as a group.

ACADEMIC CENTER VISION A $15 million renovation to the Gym Armory in 2002 put the Cox To be the premier provider of transformative Communications Academic Center For Student-Athletes at student-athlete support services. the forefront of today’s academic centers. The facility features over 54,000 square feet of working space, 136 computer workstations, study rooms and a 1,000-seat auditorium. MISSION Our team is committed to challenging student- athletes to achieve their highest level of intellectual and personal development. GOALS • Graduate our Student-Athletes • Prepare Student-Athletes for Life after LSU • Promote and Preserve Academic Integrity Through Education and Example • Nurture the Personal Well-Being and Professional Aspirations of Our Team

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 73 LSU LSU Athletics - Championship Legacy The Nation’s Elite Teams Gymnastics After winning its fourth straight NCAA Regional championship, the LSU gymnastics team easily qualified for its fifth NCAA Super Six appearance with an outstanding performance in the NCAA Semifinal on April 15, 2016. In a season of fantastic performances, none was more exciting than the Super Six. In that championship meet, the Tigers rallied from behind to finish as the 2016 National Runner-Up, the best finish in school history. With a second-place finish in the Super Six, LSU defeated rivals Alabama, Florida and Georgia by posting a 197.450. Not only was it the highest finish in school history, it marked the fifth Super Six appearances in nine years and the third Top-5 national finish in the last four years, cementing LSU as one of the nation’s best gymnastics teams.

Track & Field Softball Men’s Golf Women’s Tennis For the 15th time in 17 seasons, The LSU softball team has made One year after clinching the The 2015-16 season marked the Tigers cracked the Top three of its five total appearances NCAA national title, the LSU another year of firsts for the LSU 5 of the final men’s team in the Women’s College World men’s golf team reached the women’s tennis team under the standings at the NCAA Outdoor Series in the last five years, quarterfinal round of match play direction of Julia and Michael Championships in 2016. The qualifying for the postseason in at the NCAA Championships, Sell. LSU reached the ITA Team Tigers tallied 41 points to take each of the last 11 years which making the 2016 season another Indoor Championships for the fifth place. The Lady Tigers is a program-record run. In 2016 rousing success. LSU is only the first time in school history and clinched sixth place at the the Tigers finished third at the third team in the match-play era also reached a program-best Outdoor Championships, giving Women’s College World Series to qualify for “Match Play 8” in ranking on three separate the LSU track & field teams one for the second-straight season, three-straight seasons, and the occasions. The Lady Tigers of the best finishes of any team and the Tigers wrapped up the Tigers also earned a Top-5 finish cracked the Top 10 for the first in 2016. year with a 52-18 record. for the third-consecutive season. time in program history, reaching No. 9 in March.

Ashleigh Gnat Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Ben Simmons Sahvanna Jaquish Ashleigh Gnat had one of Before anchoring the Tigers Ben Simmons was the Sahvanna Jaquish became the finest seasons in LSU to the NCAA title in the 4x100- consensus National Freshman only the third player in LSU gymnastics history. The junior meter relay to end the 2016 of the Year and was named the softball history to earn three ranked No. 1 nationally on vault season, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake SEC Freshman of the Year in All-America honors when she and floor and led the nation with won the SEC Commissioner’s 2015-16. The No. 1 overall draft earned the distinction in 2016. an LSU single-season record six Trophy as the top individual pick of the Philadelphia 76ers, She batted .343 with a team-high perfect 10.0 scores. An 11-time point scorer at the SEC Outdoor Simmons averaged 19.2 points, 19 doubles to go along with 13 All-American, Gnat was named Championships. Mitchell-Blake 11.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists home runs this past season. She the 2016 SEC Specialist of the was crowned the SEC Champion per game, which ranked in tied her own school record of Year, the 2016 Central Region in the 100 meters, 200 meters the top five in the SEC in each 76 RBI which also ranked fifth Gymnast of the Year, and she and 4x100-meter relay to category. Simmons also led all nationally. Jaquish started all won the SEC floor exercise become the first Tiger to sweep major conference players with but one of LSU’s 70 games and title with a perfect 10 at the all three events since three-time 23 double-doubles and posted served as a catalyst in LSU’s run SEC Championship. She was a Olympic Silver Medalist Richard six of the SEC’s eight 20-10-5 to a third-place national finish major catalyst in LSU’s national Thompson in 2008. games during the season. at the Women’s College World runner-up finish. Series.

74 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE LSU Athletics - Championship Legacy LSU

47 National Team Championships Elite Student-Athletes Baseball (6) 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009 Men’s Basketball (1) 1935 Boxing (1) 1949 Football (3) 1958, 2003, 2007 Men’s Golf (5) 1940, 1942, 1947, 1955, 2015 Men’s Indoor Track (2) 2001, 2004 Women’s Indoor Track (11) 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004 Men’s Outdoor Track (4) 1933, 1989, 1990, 2002 Women’s Outdoor Track (14) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2008

132 SEC Team Championships Baseball (16) 1939, 1943, 1946, 1961, 1975, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2009, 2012, Zach Wright Alex Lange 2015 Men’s Basketball (10) 1935, 1953, 1954, 1979, 1981, MEN’S GOLF BASEBALL In his final season at LSU, Zach Wright led Alex Lange in his first two seasons at LSU 1985, 1991, 2000, 2006, 2009 the Tigers back to match play at the NCAA has established himself as one of the top Women’s Basketball (3) 2005, 2006, 2008 Division I Men’s Golf Championships for pitchers in college baseball. The right- Boxing (4) * 1935, 1938, 1939, 1940 the third-straight season as they tied for hander was named the 2015 National Football (11) 1935, 1936, 1958, 1961, 1970, fifth-place nationally in defense of their Freshman Pitcher of the Year, the SEC 1986, 1988, 2001, 2003, 2007, national championship from the spring of Freshman of the Year and a First-Team 2011 2015. Wright was the team’s leading scorer All-American after posting a 12-0 mark Men’s Golf (16) 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1953, 1954, with a career-low 71.51 scoring average and a 1.97 ERA with 131 strikeouts in 114 1960, 1966, 1967, 1986, 1987, while finishing the 2015-16 season as innings. He became the first freshman in 2015 the No. 13-ranked player in the country in LSU history to record over 100 strikeouts in Women’s Golf (1) 1992 the final Golfweek rankings. Wright was a season, and he helped lead the Tigers to Gymnastics (1) 1981 honored for that performance as a PING the College World Series. Lange fired 125 Softball (5) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 Second-Team All-American by the Golf strikeouts in 111.2 innings in 2016, and he Men’s Swimming & Diving (1) 1988 Coaches Association of America, as well as was named to the USA Baseball Collegiate Men’s Tennis (4) 1976, 1985, 1998, 1999 a First-Team All-SEC performer for the first National Team. Lange will enter the 2017 Men’s Indoor Track (4) 1957, 1963, 1989, 1990 time in his career. season with a 20-4 LSU career record in 34 Women’s Indoor Track (12) 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, starts with 256 strikeouts in 225.2 innings. 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2008, 2011 Men’s Outdoor Track (22) 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1988, 1989, 1990 Women’s Outdoor Track (13) 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2007, 2008 2010, 2011, 2012 Volleyball (5) 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2009 Wrestling (4) * 1970, 1971, 1978, 1979 * discontinued sports

Overall NCAA Championships * Overall Women’s NCAA Championships (Division 1. UCLA 112 I only) 2. Stanford 109 1. Stanford 47 3. USC 102 2. UCLA 39 4. Kenyon 60 3. North Carolina 30 5. Abilene Christian 57 4. LSU 25 6. Oklahoma State 51 5. Texas 23 Jordan Daigle Jorian Baucom 7. Penn State 48 MEN’S TENNIS SOCCER 8. Texas 44 * - The NCAA does not recognize Jordan Daigle spent his junior season Jorian Baucom proved to be one of the Arkansas 44 champions from the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision exclusively on court one for the Tigers. He most prolific strikers in college soccer 10. LSU 43 was named to the 2016 All-SEC Second throughout the 2015 season while Team, which marked the second time in scoring 15 goals in 22 appearances on his career that he earned All-SEC honors. the season to lead the Tigers back to the Top 20 Director’s Cup Finishes 10 of Daigle and doubles partner Boris Arias NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the Last 11 Years finished the season ranked 13th in the program history. Among her 15 goals were LSU has garnered a top-20 finish in the Learfield Sports nation after compiling a 16-11 record a team-leading five game-winning goals, Director’s Cup standings in ten of the last 11 years. overall after advancing to their second- including a 1-0 win over 15th-ranked and 2005-06 20th straight NCAA Round of 16. Arias and Daigle eventual NCAA runner-up Duke. Baucom’s 2006-07 17th were named ITA All-Americans in their performance earned her a First-Team All- 2007-08 8th second-straight season, which marked the SEC selection by the league’s head coaches 2008-09 9th first time in LSU history that a pair earned and a First-Team All-South Region selection 2009-10 19th honors in back-to-back years. by the National Soccer Coaches Association 2010-11 19th of America. 2011-12 13th 2012-13 19th 2013-14 24th 2014-15 15th 2015-16 19th

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 75 LSU The following ten individuals are the only athletes to have their jerseys retired by LSU. Men’s basketball has retired the No. 23 for Pete Maravich, No. 50 for Bob Pettit, Jr., No. 33 for Shaquille O’Neal and No. 40 for Rudy Macklin. Women’s basketball retired the No. 33 for Seimone Augustus. Football’s only two retired jerseys are the No. 20 worn by Billy Cannon and the No. 37 worn by Tommy Casanova. Baseball retired the No. 15 in honor of longtime coach and former athletics director Skip Bertman, the No. 19 for Ben McDonald and the No. 36 for Eddy Furniss. Augustus became the first woman in LSU Athletics GREATS history to have her jersey retired in January 2010. Furniss joined the prestigious list in LSU April 2016.

50 BOB PETTIT 23 PETE MARAVICH 20 BILLY CANNON Pettit led LSU to its first NCAA Final Four in 1953 “Pistol Pete,” Maravich still holds the NCAA record One of the true legends of college football in the and he later became the first player in NBA history for career points with 3,667 and for career scoring South, Billy Cannon was the 1959 Heisman Trophy to exceed the 20,000-plus point barrier. Pettit is a average with 44.2 points a game. He was selected winner and helped the Tigers to the 1958 national member of the NBA Hall of Fame, and in 1997, he the National Player of the Year in 1970 after leading title. Cannon’s most memorable performance came was named as one of the top 50 players in NBA the Tigers to the NIT Final Four. He scored 50-plus in 1959 against Ole Miss when No. 1 LSU trailed No. 3 history. points an amazing 28 times. He went on to a 10-year Ole Miss 3-0 in the fourth quarter. He fielded a punt, professional career and was selected as one of the broke seven tackles and returned it 89 yards for NBA’s 50 greatest players in 1997. the 7-3 victory. He went on to a successful 11-year professional career.

33 SHAQUILLE O’NEAL 15 SKIP BERTMAN 40 RUDY MACKLIN Shaquille O’Neal was the first pick in the 1992 NBA A legend in the college baseball ranks, Skip Bertman Rudy Macklin was a two-time basketball All-Ameri- Draft. He was named MVP of the league in 2000 and created a dynasty at LSU, guiding the Tigers to five can selection during his Tiger career from 1976-81 was a three-time NBA Finals MVP after leading the national titles in a 10-year stretch from 1991-2000. during which time he became LSU’s all-time leading Los Angeles Lakers to three World Championships. At He also coached the United States to a bronze rebounder with 1,276 boards and the second-leading LSU, O’Neal averaged 21.6 points and 13.6 rebounds medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and was an scorer in school history behind only the legendary for his career, and in 1991, he was named the assistant on the gold medal-winning U.S. squad in Pete Maravich with 2,080 points. He led the Tigers to World’s Amateur Athlete of the Year as well as SEC Seoul, Korea, in 1988. Bertman retired from coaching two Elite Eight appearances and the 1981 Final Four Athlete of the Year and National Player of the Year. In following the 2001 season and served as LSU’s in Philadelphia. He still holds the school single-game 1997, he was named as one of the top 50 players in athletics director for seven years. Bertman was rebound record with 32, a mark like some of the great NBA history. inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in records in any sport that may never be broken. 2006.

76 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE LSU ABOUT LSU RETIRED JERSEYS The retirement of the jerseys of Casanova, Furniss, McDonald, Macklin and Augustus comes under a new provision of the LSU jersey retirement bylaws that says the retirement of an athlete’s jersey in a particular sport does not preclude a current student-athlete in that sport from wearing the jersey number in that or any other sport, subject to the discretion of the head coach. This provision applies only to jerseys retired after January 1, 2007, so the numbers worn by Maravich, Pettit, O’Neal, Cannon and Bertman may never again be worn by future student-athletes in their respective sports. To have a jersey retired at LSU, an athlete must have completed intercollegiate competition for LSU a minimum of five years prior to nomination. Athletes must have demonstrated truly unusual and outstanding accomplishments, exceeding and in addition to all criteria used for Hall of Fame selection. Nominees must have a unanimous vote of support from the Hall of Fame committee.

37 TOMMY CASANOVA 19 BEN MCDONALD 33 SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Tommy Casanova is the only three-time All-American Ben McDonald won the prestigious Golden Spikes Seimone Augustus is the only women’s basketball in the history of LSU football and is a member of the Award, given annually to the nation’s most outstand- player in school history to earn State Farm Coaches College Football Hall of Fame. During his Tiger career ing player, in 1989 and is a member of the College Association All-America honors three times: 2004, from 1969-71, Casanova personified versatility for Baseball Hall of Fame. He led LSU to two College 2005 and 2006. Augustus became LSU’s first NCAA his myriad of talents as he played offense, defense, World Series appearances. In 1989, McDonald was National Player of the Year, and she claimed the returned punts and kickoffs. One of just two three- named National Player of the Year by Baseball honor twice in 2005 and 2006. A 2006 graduate of time All-SEC performers at LSU, he played six America, The Sporting News and Collegiate Baseball. LSU, Augustus was the 2012 WNBA Finals MVP after seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL while He was selected by the Baltimore Orioles as the No. 1 winning a world title. She also led the United States earning his medical degree. pick in the major league draft in 1989 and went on to to Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 enjoy a 10-year major league career with the Orioles London Games. and the Milwaukee Brewers.

WORLD CLASS TIGERS

SYLVIA FOWLES SUSAN JACKSON KIMBERLYN DUNCAN • Three-time All-American •  Three-time NCAA individual champion • 2012 Bowerman Award winner • 2008, 2012 U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist • 2009-10 SEC Female Athlete of the • Seven-time NCAA Champion • WNBA Finals MVP (2015) Year • 14-time track All-American 36 EDDY FURNISS Eddy Furniss enjoyed one of the best four-season stretches (1995-98) in college baseball history. Furniss is still the Southeastern Conference all- time leader in hits (352), home runs (80), RBI (308), doubles (87) and total bases (689). He was selected in the fourth round of the 1998 Major League Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates and played five seasons in the minor leagues before retiring to concentrate on a career in medicine.

RICHARD THOMPSON DAVID TOMS PATRICK PETERSON • Eight-time track All-American • Two-time SEC Golfer of the Year • Five-time NFL Pro Bowler (2011, ’12, • 2012 Olympic Silver medalist • 2001 PGA Champion ‘13, ‘14, ‘15) • 2008 Olympic Silver medalist • 13-time PGA Tour winner • Three-time NFL All-Pro (2011, ‘13, ‘15) • NFL Record most punt return yards by a rookie in a season

2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 77 LSU LOLO JONES Prominent LSU Alumni A three-time national champion hurdler at LSU, Lolo Jones continues to take the sporting world by storm. Jones became an inspirational figure as a two- time World Indoor Champion and the world record holder in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.72. She competed in both the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympic Games and became the first LSU athlete to ever grace the cover of Time Magazine in July 2012. A 2005 graduate of LSU, Jones is now a two-sport star. She was named to the U.S. National Bobsled Team that went on to claim gold at the 2013 FIBT World Championships and compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

SHAQUILLE O’NEAL A four-time NBA champion and 15-time All-Star, Shaquille O’Neal was one of the most dominant centers in NBA history. He announced his retirement from the NBA in June 2010 after a brilliant Hall of Fame career and has since become a television analyst on TNT. One of the most quotable figures on the planet, O’Neal earned his bachelor’s degree from LSU in December 2000. In 2011, he penned his own biography, “Shaq Uncut, My Story,” and then received his doctorate degree from Florida’s Barry University in May 2012. PROMINENT LSU ALUMNI

EDUARDO AGUIRRE, JR. LOD COOK Named the first Director of U.S. Citizenship and Cook graduated from LSU with a bachelor’s Immigration Services (USCIS) for the Department degree in mathematics in 1955 and then earned of Homeland Security in 2003, Aguirre, Jr., was his Master’s degree in petro engineering in 1955. the U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 2005 until Cook served as CEO of ARCO for nine years. 2009.

SEIMONE AUGUSTUS CARLOS ROBERTO FLORES A two-time NCAA Women’s Basketball National The president of Honduras from 1998-2002, Player of the Year, Augustus graduated from Flores helped the nation recover after Hurricane LSU in 2006. She is a two-time U.S. Olympic gold Mitch devastated the country in 1998. Flores is medalist and continues an All-Star pro career married to the former Mary Carol Flake, also an with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx. She was named alumnus of LSU. WNBA Finals MVP in 2012 after winning a WNBA title. She was selected to the 2016 U.S. Olympic team.

JIM FLORES JAMES CARVILLE Carville received both a bachelor’s degree and Flores graduated with two bachelor’s of science law degree from LSU and gained fame in the degrees; one in corporate finance in 1981 and 1990s as the chief campaign strategist for Bill the second in petroleum land management Clinton and Al Gore. Carville also penned a best- in 1982. Flores serves as both chairman and selling memoir titled “All’s Fair: Love, War and CEO of Flores and Rucks, Inc., a publicly held Running for President.” independent oil and gas company.

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Dr. Larry O. Arthur - AIDS researcher Mary Carol Flake Flores - Former first Edwin Newman - Former NBC News lady of Honduras journalist and author Dr. Julian Bailes - expert in neurovascular disease. Chairman of the Murphy “Mike” Foster, Jr. - Former Carolyn Bennett Patterson - Former Department of Neurosurgery an Co-Director governor of Louisiana (1996-2004) senior editor, National Geographic of the NorthShore Neurological Institute Kevin Griffin - Lead singer of the J. Howard Rambin - Former CEO and John Ed Bradley - Former Sports platinum-selling rock band “Better Chairman of the Board, Texaco Illustrated writer and novelist. Former LSU Than Ezra” football player Rex Reed - Drama critic, syndicated Paul Groves - Award-winning tenor with columnist Donna Brazile - Vice Chairwoman of the the Metropolitian Opera Democratic National Committee Maj. Gen. Thomas Rhame - Led 1st Reinosuke Hara - Former president and CEO of Seiko Instruments Infantry Division against Iraq during John Breaux - U.S. Senator (1987-2005) Persian Gulf War and U.S. Congressman (1972-86) from Bill Harp - Television set decorator for Louisiana series including “L.A. Law” and “The Carol Thomas O. Ryder - Chairman of the Burnett Show” Board, The Reader’s Digest Association Wil Calhoun - Executive Producer of television sitcom “Friends” Pat Bodin - Former CIO of Exxon Mobil Steve Scalise - U.S. House Majority whip MIKE PAPAJOHN Cassandra Chandler - One of the Federal Walter Hitesman - Former president, Frances Seghers - Senior VP of Sony The starting centerfielder on LSU’s inaugural College World Bureau of Investigation’s highest ranking Reader’s Digest Entertainment European Community African-American women as special agent Affairs, which includes Sony Music, Sony Series team in 1986, Mike Papajohn today is a prominent actor in charge of the Norfolk Field office Hubert Humphrey - U.S. vice president Pictures and Sony Playstation in Hollywood. Papajohn was the only actor to star in four $150 (1965-69) million movies in the same calendar year, doing so in 2009. The “Lightning Joe” Lawton Collins - Chief Dolores Spikes - Former President of LSU alumnus has appeared in blockbuster films: Spiderman, of Staff for President Harry Truman Adrian Mitchell - Chief Financial Officer the Southern University System and the Terminator Salvation, For the Love of the Game and most and Chief Operating Officer of Crate University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Bill Conti - Oscar-winning composer & Barrel recently in Jurassic World. who has written theme music for several Bernette Joshua Johnson - Louisiana well-known movies, including “Rocky” W. Vernon Jones - Senior Scientist for Supreme Court Chief Justice; one of the and its sequels Suborbital Research, NASA headquarters first African-American women to attend LSU law school DR. JAMES ANDREWS Eric Arturo Delvalle - President of Catherine D. “Kitty” Kimball - In 2009, Arguably, the world’s most Panama (1985-1988) was sworn in as first female to serve as David Suarez - President and CEO of The renowned orthopedic chief justice of Louisiana’s highest court Atlantic Company of America. Architect surgeon for knee and Dr. Alexander William “Alex” Dunlap - who restored the Washington Monument Current chief veterinarian for NASA who is Delos “Kip” Knight - President of U.S. and the National Archives Building shoulder injuries, Andrews responsible for all NASA policies related to Retail Operations for H&R Block among others is a 1963 graduate of LSU animal health and welfare and a 1967 graduate of Harry J. Longwell – Former Executive Olympia Vernon – Award-winning author LSU Medical School. He A. Wright Elliott - Retired executive vice Vice President and Director of Exxon Mobil and recipient of an American Academy president, Chase Manhattan Bank of Arts and Letters Award for her debut has worked on numerous Ray Marshall - Secretary of Labor under novel, Eden all-star athletes, including Dr. John Elstrott - Chairman, Whole President Jimmy Carter Michael Jordan, Drew Brees, Foods Market Rebecca Wells - Author of the novel Brett Favre and Albert James E. Maurin - Founding partner and and film “Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Graves Erskine - U.S. Marine Corps CEO of Stirling Properties, a national real Sisterhood” Pujols. Andrews is also the General in WWII estate services firm founder of the American Roger W. Jenkins - President and CEO of Sports Medicine Institute Maxime A. Faget - Designed Mercury and Jake Lee Netterville - Former Managing Murphy Oil Corporation (ASMI). Gemini spacecrafts Director of Postlethwaite & Netterville, the largest Louisiana-based public accounting firm

SYLVIA FOWLES SUZANNE PERRON Fowles was a two-time WBCA first-team All- A 1991 LSU graduate, Perron is a rising star American before her pro career with the WNBA’s in the design world having worked with top Chicago Sky and Minnesota Lynx. She was named designers Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera. the WNBA Finals MVP in 2015. Fowles was a Perron has designed dresses for Hollywood member of U.S. Olympic Gold Medal teams in stars Jennifer Lopez, Mariska Hargitay and Holly 2008 Beijing and 2012 London, and was chosen Hunter, among others. again in 2016 to represent USA Basketball for the Rio Olympics. JOHN HAVENS MARTY SIXKILLER A 1978 LSU graduate in geology, Havens is Senior Technical Director for PDI/DreamWorks’ president of Seismic Exchange (SEI) and vice- movies “Antz,” “Shrek,” “Shrek 2,” “Shrek the chairman of the Houston Astros. He is also Third,” “Madagascar” and “Over the Hedge”. owner of Cal-a-Vie Health Spa in San Diego that was voted the No. 1 destination spa by “Travel + Leisure” magazine in 2013.

MARY L. LANDRIEU DAVID STEINER Landrieu became the first woman from A 1982 LSU graduate, Steiner has served as Louisiana selected to a full term in the United the CEO of Waste Management since 2004. States Senate in 1996. In 2014 she was Under Steiner’s leadership, the Houston-based appointed chair of the Senate Energy and company was named one of the World’s Most Natural Resources Committee. Ethical Companies by Ethisphere in 2008.

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ABOVE: The 2015 LSU Athletic Hall of Fame induction class was joined on stage by the HOF members who attended the ceremony. RIGHT: In 2015, LSU Vice Chancellor/Athletics Director Joe Alleva presents Ebert Van Buren with his Hall of Fame plaque. Van buren played football from 1948-50 and was a team captain.

LSU Athletics Hall of Fame The LSU Athletics Hall of Fame showcases the finest student-athletes and coaches to Nominations wear the Purple and Gold. To be eligible for the LSU Hall of Fame in the Athlete category, an Nominations for the LSU individual must have earned a college degree and gained national distinction through superlative Athletics Hall of Fame are performance. Hall of Fame candidates must also have established a personal reputation for accepted each fall. Nomination character and citizenship. forms may be obtained To be eligible in the Coach/Administrator category, the individual must have made by calling (225) 578-3600, or significant contributions to LSU Athletics and gained national distinction through exceptional may be downloaded at accomplishments in his or her field of expertise while establishing an image that reflects LSUsports.net/nominations. favorably upon the University. The LSU Athletics Hall of Fame presently includes 136 members, which includes the latest Class of 2015: gymnast April Burkholder; hurdler Kim Carson; javelin thrower and Olympian Laverne Eve; Olympic gold medalist in women’s basketball Sylvia Fowles; swimmer Todd Torres; football NFL All-Pro Ebert Van Buren; athletic trainer Mike Chambers, for whom LSU’s live mascot “Mike” The Tiger is named; and trainer Herman Lang, who worked with three generations of LSU athletes. The next class to the Hall will be inducted in 2017.

Durand “Rudy” Macklin Billy Baggett Charles McClendon J. Paul Leslie, Sr. ADMINISTRATORS TRACK & FIELD Shaquille O’Neal George Bevan Anthony McFarland Jenny Lidback Jeff Boss, Equipment Nathan “Buddy” Blair Harry Rabenhorst James Britt Abe Mickal B.R. “Mac” McClendon Manager Sidney Bowman Bob Pettit Percy Brown Fred Miller Eddie Merrins Carl Maddox, Athletic Billy Brown Malcolm “Sparky” Wade Billy Cannon Doug Moreau Director Joseph T. Butler, Sr. Warren Capone Guy Nesom Harry Carpenter Tommy Casanova W.E. “Bill” Pitcher GYMNASTICS Kim Carson WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Brad Davis Ruffin G. Pleasant Jeanie Beadle-Staples ATHLETIC COUNCIL Oris “Arky” Erwin Seimone Augustus Wendell Davis Warren Rabb April Burkholder James F. Broussard Laverne Eve Dana “Pokey” Chatman Paul Dietzel Archie Ed Robertson Amy McClosky-McGinley Matt Gordy Sylvia Fowles Robert Dugas Johnny Robinson Sandra Smith-Whitmire Billy Hardin Sue Gunter Lawrence Dupont Charles “Pinky” Rohm Jennifer Wood ATHLETIC TRAINING Glenn “Slats” Hardin Marie Ferdinand-Harris Tom Dutton John J. Seip Dr. Marty Broussard D’Andre Hill Ronnie Estay Norman Stevens Mike Chambers Esther Jones Jesse Fatherree Marvin “Moose” Stewart SOFTBALL Herman Lang Suzette Lee BOXING Kevin Faulk Jerry Stovall Britni Sneed Robert Lowther Calvin Clary G.E. “Doc” Fenton Charles “Bo” Strange R. Delmon McNabb BASEBALL Heston Daniel Sid Fournet Jimmy Taylor SWIMMING & DIVING Bernie Moore Joe Bill Adcock Robert L. “Bobby” Newton C. Helm Gaynell Tinsley Ashley Culpepper-Gluck Al Moreau Kurt Ainsworth Freeman O.G. “Butch” Helveston Y.A. Tittle Richard “Rick” Meador Eric Reid Skip Bertman Henry Glaze Tommy Hodson Joe Tuminello Bob Percy Rob Smith Alvin Dark J.L. Golsan R.B. Howell Ebert Van Buren Todd Torres Lurline Struppeck Eddy Furniss Al Michael Clarence “Fatty” Ives Steve Van Buren Cheryl Taplin Lloyd Peever Wilbert Moss Bert Jones Abner Wimberly Jack Torrance Todd Walker William Snyder Parham Ken Kavanaugh, Sr. Roy “Moonie” Winston Edsel “Tad” Thrash TENNIS Schowonda Williams­ Kenny Konz Steve Faulk Tyler LaFauci Donnie Leaycraft MEN’S BASKETBALL GOLF Clyde Lindsey VOLLEYBALL Frank Brian FOOTBALL Henry Castillo Jerry Marchand Dani Reis Dale Brown Nacho Albergamo Gardner E. Dickinson, Jr. Charles Alexander Charlie Mason Joe Dean Kevin Mawae Fred Haas, Jr. 80 2016-17 MEN’S GOLF MEDIA GUIDE Social Media Directory LSU

Connect like never before to your favorite LSU Athletics teams, coaches and departments online and on your smartphone. LSU Athletics’ complete Social Media Directory including Facebook pages, Twitter and Instagram accounts are available at LSUsports.net/connect.

TEAMS TWITTER Debbie Parris-Thymes (TF) @LSUCoachDebbie LSU Baseball @LSUBaseball Khadevis Robinson (TF/XC) @khadevis LSU Men’s Basketball @LSUBasketball Derrek Yush (TF) @LSUCoachYush LSU Women’s Basketball @LSUwbkb Fran Flory (VB) @LSUCoachFran LSU Beach Volleyball @LSUbeachVB Jill Lytle Wilson (VB) @JillLSUVB LSU Football @LSUfootball Ethan Pheister (VB) @Epheister LSU Men’s Golf @LSUMensGolf LSU Women’s Golf @LSUWomensGolf DEPARTMENTS LSU Gymnastics @LSUGym LSU Athletics @LSUsports LSU Soccer @LSUSoccer LSUpix.net @LSUpix LSU Softball @LSUSoftball LSUsports.net News Feed @LSUSportsNews LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive LSU Academic Center @LSUAcademicCtr LSU Men’s Tennis @LSUTennis LSU Athletic Training @LSUAthTraining LSU Women’s Tennis @LSUwten LSU Cheerleading @LSUCheer LSU Track & Field @LSUTrackField LSU Compliance @LSUCompliance LSU Volleyball @LSUVolleyball LSU Creative @LSUcreative LSU Event Management @LSUEM COACHES LSU Final Score @LSUfinalscore Les Miles (FB) @LSUCoachMiles LSU Football Equipment @LSUFBEquipment Dave Aranda (FB) @CoachDaveAranda LSU Football Video @LSU_FB_Video Cam Cameron (FB) @LSUCoachCam LSU Roar Corps @LSUroarcorps Dameyune Craig (FB) @CoachDCraig LSU Sports Properties @LSUSP Steve Ensminger (FB) @SteveEnsminger LSU Sports Nutrition @HealthyTigerLSU Jeff Grimes (FB) @CoachGrimey LSU Ticket Office @LSUtix Jabbar Juluke (FB) @CoachJuluke LSU Tiger Girls @LSUTigerGirls Ed Orgeron (FB) @Coach_EdOrgeron Mike The Tiger @LSUMikeTiger Bradley Dale Peveto (FB) @CoachPeveto Mike’s Kids Club @LSUMKC Corey Raymond (FB) @LSUCoachRaymond National L Club @LSULclub Nolan Cain (BSB) @ncain39 Tiger Athletic Foundation @LSUTAF Andy Cannizaro (BSB) @cannizaroll Tiger Stadium @LSUTigerStadium Johnny Jones (MBB) @LSUCoachJones Charlie Leonard (MBB) @LSUCoachL UNIVERSITY Brendan Suhr(MBB) @Brendansuhr Official University @LSU Nikki Fargas (WBB) @NikkiCaldwell President F. King Alexander @LSUprez Tasha Butts (WBB) @TashaButts University News @LSUnews Mickie DeMoss(WBB) @demossmickie Russell Brock (BVB) @RussLSUbeach ADMINISTRATION Garrett Runion (MG) @GRUN1 Michael Bonnette @LSUBonnette Karen Bahnsen (WG) @kbahnse Brian Broussard @BroussardBrian Alexis Rather (WG) @Alexis_Rather Emily Dixon @EmilyVDixon Jay Clark (GYM) @jayclark886 Jason Feirman @jfeirman Brian Lee (SOC) @LSUBrianLee Zach Kendrick @zkendrick Beth Torina (SB) @BethTorina Kent Lowe @LSUKent Howard Dobson (SB) @HWDobson Tommy Moffitt @TommyMoffitt Quinlan Duhon (SB) @LSUQuinlanDuhon Eddie Nunez @ENunez15 Lindsay Leftwich (SB) @LLefty18 Chris Parent (PIX) @ChrisJParent Dave Geyer (SD) @LSUCoachGeyer Jennifer Rodrigues @jrodtiger Jeana Kempe (SD) @jfooch11 Will Stafford @WillStaffordLSU Steve Mellor (SD) @StevMello Clyde Verdin @CVerdin34 Jeff Brown (MT) @LSUCoachJBrown Martin Stiegwardt (MT) @coachstiegwardt Julia S. Sell (WT) @LSUJuliaSell Michael Sell (WT) @_sellmichaell Dennis Shaver (TF) @LSUCoachShaver Bennie Brazell (TF) @LSUCoachBrazell Todd Lane (TF) @LSUToddLane

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