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NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships 5 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS 16 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS MEN’S2017 GOLF 3 NCAA INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS LSU 57 ALL-AMERICAN SELECTIONS NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships May 26-31, 2017 • Sugar Grove, Ill. • Rich Harvest Farms Golf Club • Live Scoring: http://www.golfstat.com Golf Channel Live Coverage: Monday, May 29 (3-8 p.m. CT); Tuesday, May 30 (9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. CT, 3-8 p.m. CT); Wednesday, May 31 (12-8 p.m. CT) 2016-17 Schedule NEXT UP SEPTEMBER Red-Hot LSU Tigers Ready for NCAA Championships 9-11 at Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Rocky Face, Ga. The No. 6-ranked LSU Tigers arrive at Rich Harvest Farms Golf Club in Sugar Grove, Illinois, this week with momentum on The Farm Golf Club their side after defending their home turf and winning their first ever NCAA Regional title at the 2017 NCAA Baton Rouge 23-25 at Maui Jim Intercollegiate Scottsdale, Ariz. Regional held May 15-17 at the University Club. LSU set a single-season school record with its sixth tournament title of the Mirabel Golf Club 2016-17 season to earn its fourth-straight NCAA Championship appearance and seventh in the last eight years since 2010. OCTOBER 8-9 David Toms Intercollegiate Baton Rouge, La. • LSU has been the most successful program at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships over the last three years The University Club as the Tigers join Illinois as the only two teams in the country to qualify for the Match Play Eight to decide the national 21-23 at The Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Alpharetta, Ga. championship in each of the last three seasons since 2014. The Tigers were crowned national champions for the fifth The Golf Club of Georgia time in team history in 2015 between a semifinals appearance in 2014 and quarterfinals appearance a year ago. Illinois NOVEMBER 4-6 at Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii owns two semifinals appearances in 2015 and 2016 and one quarterfinals appearance in 2014 during that time. Ka’anapali Golf Club FEBRUARY • LSU’s win in the 2015 NCAA Championship Match ended a drought of exactly 60 years since its last national title as the 20-22 at The Prestige at PGA West La Quinta, Calif. Tigers were also crowned NCAA Champions in 1940, 1942, 1947 and 1955. PGA West - Greg Norman Course 27-28 at Louisiana Classics Lafayette, La. • By picking up their school record sixth tournament championship of the 2016-17 at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional on Oakbourne Country Club May 17, the Tigers broke their previous best of five wins in a season from 1959-60 and 2014-15. LSU’s others wins in the MARCH 2016-17 season include the Maui Jim Intercollegiate and David Toms Intercollegiate in the fall and The Prestige at PGA 11-12 at General Hackler Championship Myrtle Beach, S.C. West, Aggie Invitational and Tiger Classic in the spring. Dunes Golf Club STORYLINES 19-21 at Valspar Collegiate Invitational Palm City, Fla. Floridian Golf Club • LSU is making its 38th appearance • Three LSU Tigers have also been • Pierce and Ricard are the two APRIL all-time at the NCAA Division crowned the NCAA Individual remaining members of LSU’s 2015 1-2 at Aggie Invitational Bryan, Texas I Men’s Golf Championships, Champion over the years as current national championship team still Traditions Golf Club including its fifth-straight since PGA TOUR professional John in the lineup as both are set to 13 Tiger Classic Baton Rouge, La. 2013. The Tigers are appearing for Peterson became the last to do so make their third-straight NCAA The University Club the seventh time in the 12 seasons in his senior season in 2011. LSU’s Championships appearance for 21-24 at SEC Championships St. Simons Island, Ga. under head coach Chuck Winstead. other NCAA Individual Champion the Tigers this week. Both were Sea Island Golf Club - Seaside Course are Fred Haas, Jr. (1937) and Earl unbeaten in match play with MAY • LSU ranks No. 7 among programs Stewart (1941). matching 2-0-1 records to help the 15-17 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional Baton Rouge, La. nationally with its five national Tigers take home the national title The University Club championships all-time, trailing • The Tigers will tee off with their two seasons ago. Both dropped 26-31 at NCAA Championships Sugar Grove, Ill. only Yale (21), Houston (16), same starting lineup for the their respecrive quarterfinal match Rich Harvest Farms Golf Club Princeton (12), Oklahoma State seventh-straight tournament as to Oregon a year ago. (10), Stanford (8) and Harvard (6) seniors Brandon Pierce and Eric WHO TO CONTACT on the all-time NCAA wins list. The Ricard, sophomores Sam Burns and • Burns and Gagne both return after Associate Director and Men’s Golf Contact Tigers also lead all SEC teams as Luis Gagne and freshman Philip making their first NCAA appearance Will Stafford Florida follows with four NCAA wins. Barbaree are in action again. as freshman a year ago. Email: [email protected] BREAKDOWN Office: 225-578-7947 Cell: 225-436-4389 2016-17 Season Capsule NCAA Championship History Ranking No. 6 (Golfstat Top 25) Appearances 38 LSU Athletic Communications Mailing Address Last Event NCAA Baton Rouge Regional NCAA Titles 5 (1940, 1942, 1947, 1955, 2015) LSU Box 25095, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Regional Finish 1st of 14 (866, +2) NCAA Top 10s 22 Total Wins 6 Match Play Eight 3 (2014, 2015, 2016) CONNECT TO LSU MEN’S GOLF Appearances Facebook.com/LSUMensGolf Instagram.com/lsumensgolfteam Twitter.com/LSUMensGolf LSUsports.net/mensgolf LSUsports.net/connect NATIONAL RANKINGS LSU MEN’S GOLF NOTEBOOK GOLFWEEK TOP 25 - MAY 17, 2017 RANK TEAM RATING Tigers Win First NCAA Regional Title in Team History 1. Southern California 69.38 • Those attending the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional held May 15-17 were treated to the very best of college golf as the 2. LSU 69.38 tournament featured each of the last two NCAA Champions as No. 1 seed LSU (2015) and No. 2 seed Oregon (2016) 3. Vanderbilt 69.41 headlined a field of 14 teams. No. 3 seed Virginia and No. 4 seed and 2017 ACC Champion Duke were also in the field. 4. Oklahoma State 69.44 • LSU defended its home course at the University Club with an eight-shot victory over Duke as the Tigers posted a 5. Baylor 69.49 winning 54-hole score of 2-over par 866, including a 12-under 276 in the opening round, to capture their first ever NCAA 6. Illinois 69.65 Regional championship. 7. Stanford 69.69 • With the win, the Tigers earned their fifth-straight NCAA Championship appearance and their seventh in eight seasons. 8. Florida 69.71 9. Oregon 69.88 Burns Tees Off at NCAA Championships as Nation’s No. 1 Player 10. Texas 69.98 • After winning the individual title at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional by a single shot over Oregon’s Wyndham Clark, 11. Wake Forest 70.03 LSU sophomore Sam Burns will tee off at the NCAA Championships as Golfstat’s No. 1-ranked player in the country as 12. Kent State 70.05 he leads the team at Rich Harvest Farms Golf Club. Burns has now been crowned a tournament champion four times in 13. Clemson 70.08 2016-17 as he also won titles at the David Toms Intercollegiate and Sun Bowl Western Refining College All-America Golf 14. Oklahoma 70.13 Classic in the fall the Louisiana Classics earlier this spring. • Burns is in the midst of a historic sophomore season at LSU with a team-leading scoring average on 69.77 strokes per 15. Texas Tech 70.31 round through his 14 tournament appearances. He has finished in the Top 10 of the final leaderboard in each of those 14 16. UNLV 70.41 tournaments this season while scoring a cumulative 66-under par in 39 rounds played in 2016-17. 17. Texas A&M 70.43 • If there is an award to be won in college golf this season, Burns is a candidate. Already a semifinalist for the Ben Hogan 18. Duke 70.44 Award and Jack Nicklaus Division I National Player of the Year Award and watch list member for the Haskins Award, 19. Virginia 70.47 Burns was named the SEC Player of the Year and a First-Team All-SEC in the first rollout of postseason awards on May 3. 20. Auburn 70.57 • Burns is the fifth Tiger in program history to be recognized as the SEC Player of the Year for men’s golf, and the first in 21. Ole Miss 70.58 26 years since former All-American Perry Moss received the award in 1991. LSU’s other SEC Players of the Year include 22. Georgia Tech 70.66 John Salamone in 1979, Rob McNamara in 1987 and David Toms in back-to-back seasons in 1988 and 1989. 23. Arizona State 70.70 24. Florida State 70.73 Gagne Earns Second-Team All-SEC Honors 25. Northwestern 70.84 • Sophomore Luis Gagne earned All-SEC recognition for the first time in his collegiate career when he was announced as a Second-Team All-SEC performer in a vote of the league’s head coaches earlier this month. With Sam Burns also earning GOLFSTAT TOP 25 - MAY 17, 2017 first-team honors, it marked the sixth time in seven years and eighth time in 10 seasons in which two or more LSU RANK TEAM WINS Tigers have received all-conference recognition for their performance.
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