2014-15 LSU Men's Golf Media Guide by LSU Athletics

2013 • NCAA Final Four • 2014

NCAA Championships – Prairie Dunes Country Club – Hutchinson, Kansas

Tigers Make Historic Run to NCAA Final Four The Tigers competed at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships for the fourth time in five seasons after tying for fourth place at the NCAA Columbia Regional hosted by the University of Missouri. They then earned the No. 3 seed in the match-play tournament for the national championship by tying for second place in 54 holes of medal play at the NCAA Championships with a team score of 4-under par 836. LSU defeated the No. 6-seeded UCLA Bruins by a score of 4-1 in the national quarterfinals before falling to the eventual NCAA Champion Alabama Crimson Tide in the semifinal round to wrap up their best NCAA finish in nearly 50 years. The Tigers tied for third place nationally for their best NCAA Championship finish since earning third place in 1967 and their first top-10 finish since capturing eighth place in 1989.

Table of Contents ONLY ONE LSU

REVIEW

2 Quick Facts 3 Why LSU? 4 University Club 5 Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility 6 Practice Facilities 8 University Club Layout 14 Cox Communications Academic Center 16 LSU Greats 18 Prominent LSU Alumni 20 LSU President/Chancellor 21 Director of Athletics

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PREVIEW 22 Season Preview 24 Tournament Information 26 David Toms Intercollegiate Preview 27 SEC Opponents

THE TEAM

Season Review 2014 NCAA Semifinalists 2013-14 Final Statistics & Results 2013-14 Round-by-Round Results 2013-14 Tournament Summaries 2013-14 SEC Recap

HISTORY 49 Tigers on Tour 51 Tigers in Major Championships 52 2012 U.S. Open Championship 53 2013 Masters Tournament 54 LSU at the SEC Championships 55 LSU at the NCAA Championships 56 John Peterson: NCAA Champion 58 Record Book 60 All-Time Tournament Wins 61 Home Tournament History 62 All-Time Honors 64 Letterwinners

28 Head Coach Chuck Winstead 30 Assistant Coach Garrett Runion 31 Stewart Jolly 32 Myles Lewis 33 Ben Taylor 34 Zach Wright 35 Rhyne Jones 36 Brandon Pierce 37 Eric Ricard 38 Blake Caldwell 39 Television Roster

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LSU

INTRO

Quick Facts

University Location: Baton Rouge, La. Founded: 1860 Enrollment: 29,865 Nickname: Tigers or Fighting Tigers Home Course: The University Club (Par 72) Mascot: Mike VI (Live Bengal Tiger) Colors: Purple and Gold Conference: Southeastern Affiliation: NCAA Division I President: Dr. F. King Alexander Faculty Representative: Dr. Bill DeMastes

Athletic Department Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics: Sr. Associate AD: Sr. Associate AD/Business Operations: Sr. Associate AD/Student Services & SWA: Sr. Associate AD/Compliance & Planning: Sr. Associate AD/Facilities & Grounds: Sr. Associate AD/Internal Affairs & Development: Associate AD/Ticket Manager: Associate AD/Facilities & Project Development: Assistant AD/Marketing: Assistant AD/Fiscal Operations:

Joe Alleva Verge Ausberry Mark Ewing Miriam Segar Bo Bahnsen Ronnie Haliburton Eddie Nunez Brian Broussard Emmitt David Matt Shanklin Neal Lamonica

Men’s Golf Staff Head Coach: Chuck Winstead Alma Mater: LSU, 1991 Year at LSU: 10th Assistant Coach: Garrett Runion Alma Mater: LSU, 2008 Year at LSU: Third

2014-15 Men’s Golf Schedule SEPTEMBER 5-7 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic 14-16 Golfweek Conference Challenge

Rocky Face, Ga. Burlington, Iowa

The Farm GC Spring Hollow GC

OCTOBER 4-5 David Toms Intercollegiate 17-19 U.S. Collegiate Championship

Baton Rouge, La. Alpharetta, Ga.

University Club The GC of Georgia

FEBRUARY 16-18 The Prestige at PGA West

La Quinta, Calif.

PGA West

MARCH 1-3 Querencia Cabo Collegiate 15-16 Talis Park Challenge 25-26 Floridian Invitational

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Querencia GC Naples, Fla. Talis Park GC Palm City, Fla. Floridian GC

APRIL 4-5 Aggie Invitational 17-19 SEC Men’s Golf Championships

College Station, Texas Traditions Club St. Simons Island, Ga. Sea Island GC

MAY 14-16 NCAA Regionals

Site TBA

Course TBA

JUNE 29-3 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships

Sarasota, Fla.

Concession GC

Support Staff

Team Information 2013-14 Record: 117-41-3 (NCAA Final Four) 2013-14 SEC Finish: 2nd Postseason: T3rd - NCAA Semifinals (Match Play) Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 6/4 Top Returnees: Stewart Jolly (Sr.), Myles Lewis (Sr.), Ben Taylor (Sr.), Zach Wright (Jr.) Top Newcomers: Blake Caldwell (Fr.), Rhyne Jones (So.) Inaugural Season: 1932 Tournament Titles: 120 NCAA Championships: 4 SEC Championships: 15

Will Stafford Sports Information

Katie o’brien Administrative Assistant

Sports Information Sr. Associate AD/Sports Information Director: Senior Associate SID: Senior Associate SID: Associate SID: Associate SID: Associate SID: Associate SID: Director of Publications: Graphic Design Coordinators: Publications Student Assistants: Photographer: Men’s Golf Contact: Administrative Specialist:

Michael Bonnette Kent Lowe Bill Franques Matt Dunaway Bill Martin Will Stafford Jake Terry Krystal Bennett Faircloth Hannah Brinks, Stephanie Lyles Mallory Bourgeois, Lizzie McCulla Steve Franz Will Stafford Pam LeBlanc

Contact Information (area code 225) Sports Information: 578-8226 Sports Information Fax: 578-1861 Will Stafford’s Cell: 436-4389 Will Stafford’s E-mail: wstaff2@lsu.edu Men’s Golf Office: 578-1280 LSU Athletic Department: 578-0628 Ticket Office: 578-2184 Website: www.LSUsports.net

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jon michelini Athletic Trainer

matt dahlke Academic Counselor

eric donoval Strength & Conditioning Coach

Media Information The 2014-15 LSU Men’s Golf Media Guide was written to provide members of the media with statistics and information needed to adequately cover the LSU Men’s Golf team. For further information on the team and the scheduling of interviews with head coach Chuck Winstead, assistant coach Garrett Runion or any of the student-athletes, please contact Will Stafford in the LSU Sports Information Department at (225) 578-8226.

MAILING ADDRESS

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LSU Sports Information LSU Box 25095 Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Athletic Administration Building, Fifth Floor North Stadium Drive Baton Rouge, LA 70894

Credits Editor: Will Stafford Design and Layout: Lizzie McCulla Covers: Hannah Brinks Photography: Michael Bonnette Steve Franz Chris Parent Printer: Multi Ad

Why LSU?

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David Toms 2001 PGA Champion 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 a player and to have an awesome experience as a student-athlete. I was able to do both while playing for a great coach in Chuck Winstead and a great program he has continued to build at LSU. It really helped me get to where I am today. After graduating, I bought a house in Baton Rouge and have always enjoyed my time here.”

“I’ve bled purple and gold from Day One. I grew up an LSU fan in Baton Rouge, my parents went there and I had always wanted to go to school there. I had that opportunity when it came down to deciding where I wanted to continue my career. It’s the best University on the planet, and I’m proud to call it my home.”

“I chose LSU because I wanted to be a part of something great. I thought Coach Winstead had built one of the premier college golf programs, and I wanted to play for him. LSU was the place for me, and Coach Winstead was the coach to help me reach my full potential and continue to succeed in the future. I’ll always be grateful for what he and LSU have done for me in my career.”

John Peterson

Andrew Loupe

Stewart Jolly

PGA TOUR 2011 NCAA Champion

PGA TOUR 2-time NCAA All-American

2014 First-Team All-SEC 2014 NCAA All-American

Did You Know? • I n 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.” • L SU 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. • L SU was named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. • L SU earned the prestigious Carnegie Community Engagement and Outreach

classification in 2008, one of 68 public institutions nationally with this elective classification based on community engagement. • L SU is one of only a handful of universities in the nation having land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant status. • L SU currently ranks among the Top 30 public universities in total research awards. The University’s total federal

funding, from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Homeland Security has increased 86 percent or more than $90 million over the last five years. • Newsweek magazine named LSU the “Most Diverse” school in the nation in the Sept. 3, 2003, issue. The enrollment consists of 24 percent minority students.

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University Club

University club

For more than a decade, the LSU men’s and women’s golf teams have called University Club home. The course received the honor of being ranked the 13thbest home for college golf in the country, according to a survey published in the September 2005 issue of Golf Digest. The evaluation by Golf Digest ranked the Top 15 home courses in college golf, and included such criteria as shot values, resistance to scoring, course layout and design, memorability and conditioning. After undergoing extensive renovations in 2010, the home of LSU’s nationallyranked men’s and women’s programs features a newly-designed par-72 layout that will serve as an impressive showpiece for generations to come.

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The course at the University Club was redesigned under the guidance of LSU 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 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 University Club’s development was having a premier course that would provide a place for TAF members to play, as well as a home for the men’s and women’s golf teams at LSU. The course opened for members on Oct. 22, 1998. The swimming and tennis facility adjacent to the course opened in the summer of 2000. The surrounding housing development continues to grow as homes continue to spring up, adding to the beauty of the area surrounding the golf course. The Tiger Athletic Foundation is a private, non-profit corporation that serves as the fund-raising and development arm of the LSU athletics department. Each year, the TAF underwrites scholarship and academics awards, as well as capital development projects for LSU athletics.

Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility

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Bilyeu Golf

practice facilitY On April 15, 2011, the former LSU Golf House was renamed the Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility in honor of Mary and Woody Bilyeu following their generous donation toward the redesign of the new University Club and practice facility. Donations raised by the Tiger Athletic Foundation allowed for extensive renovations to the University Club and practice facility in 2010, creating a more challenging venue for collegiate golfers while attracting championship level events to the University Club. The NCAA subsequently awarded the University Club the honor of serving as one of six host sites for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Regionals. The Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility first opened in the fall of 2002 to rave reviews from players, coaches and members of the athletic administration alike. This

$850,000 facility funded by TAF functions primarily as a golf-learning center for the LSU men’s and women’s teams where student-athletes are able to improve their skills at one of the nation’s best practice facilities. The Bilyeu Practice Facility features a lavish meeting room, office space for both the men’s and women’s coaching staffs and an area devoted to equipment repair and storage. It also includes locker rooms, an indoor driving range with two hitting bays and a stateof-the-art learning center which can utilize the latest technology and video analysis to benefit each player’s development in a classroom setting. Outside the facility is a practice tee box that measures 100 yards in length, a brand new wedge game area built in 2007 and a 10,000-square-foot putting and pitching green surrounded by practice bunkers where

players are able to practice in a spacious environment. Chuck Winstead, who is the head coach of the men’s golf team and a Top 100 Teacher according to Golf Magazine, believes that having such a facility is essential in the development of his players and is evidence that LSU is committed to running a first-class program. “The facility offers our student-athletes an environment second to none to excel and reach their potential,” Winstead said. “The combination of state-ofthe-art technology to work on their game combined with our indoor putting area to fine-tune their stroke enables our players to maximize their ability. We are able to utilize the tools we have to get the best out of each player and teach them in a comfortable setting.”

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Practice Facilities

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TrackMan

Practice facilities

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

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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, clubhead speed, ball speed and much more.

An inside view of the luxorious meeting and conference room.

Wedge Game

Putting Green

Tee Box

The practice facilities at the Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility feature a wedge game area with three target greens, each measuring 2,000 square feet. Players can fine-tune their wedge game by hitting shots from all lies and angles up to 120 yards as the greens are guarded by rough and five bunkers. The project, designed by LSU alumni David Toms, Jim Lipe and Chuck Winstead, was completed in the summer of 2007.

In addition to building a new wedge game area, recent renovations to the practice facilities at The Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility saw the completion of a brand new putting green measuring 10,000 square feet along with an existing putting green measuring 14,000 square feet that has been overseeded with bent grass. In all, the improvements to the practice facilities at the Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility are estimated at $150,000.

Members of the LSU men’s and women’s golf teams have the opportunity to practice in a spacious environment as the Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility features a large tee box measuring 100 yards in length.

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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University Club Hole-By-Hole

No. 3

In its original state, through the summer of 2009, the University Club played at just over 7,200 yards from its Tiger Tees and just over 6,000 yards for the early LSU Women’s Golf Classics. Now the course measures out at a hefty 7,700 yards from the Tiger Tees

and an impressive 6,602 yards from member tees. Here are some characteristics of the course and pictures of the holes (tees are listed in the following order: Tiger-ScratchMember-Senior-Ladies/Juniors).

Distances Tiger Tee – 3892-3808 – 7700 Scratch – 3648-3586 – 7234 Member -- 3377-3225 – 6602

No. 1 – Par 4 – 456-402-385-349-274

A championship tee lengthened the 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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Senior – 3043-2935 – 5978 Ladies/Juniors – 2660-2643 -- 5303

No. 1

Hole 4-5-6

No. 5

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. 9

Holes 7-8-9

No. 7

No. 7 – Par 4 – 471-457-431-401-349

The beginning of a tough stretch of 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. 8

Holes 10-11-12

No. 12

No. 11

No. 10

No. 10 – Par 4 – 484-444-402-354-327

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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Holes 13-14-15

No. 13

No. 14

No. 13 – Par 3 – 209-179-151-141-119

This has always been one of the best 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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Holes 16-17-18

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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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Academic Center TIGERS

Academic Center

Bo Campbell Auditorium

COX COMMUNICATIONS

The 1,000-seat auditorium is used through the year as a classroom and lecture hall. Each seat in the auditorium has space for a laptop and a modem hookup, providing each student unlimited learning opportunities. The auditorium also contains a movie-theatre-size screen to aid professors with lectures and classroom activities.

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Study Area Included in the 54,000 square feet of the Academic Center are individual study areas, as well as 14 private computer rooms for student-athletes to work one-on-one with tutors or by themselves.

Amenities 4 54,000 square feet of working space 4 136 computer workstations & 30 laptops 4 14 private computer rooms in a state-of-the-art computer lab 4 Additional study rooms and classrooms for private or group study 4 Electronic scheduling of tutoring sessions 4 A 1,000-seat auditorium for classes and lectures

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The Library The library provides a perfect setting for individual study, with a tutor or as a group.

Academic Center

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Computer Stations

The Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes is at the forefront of today’s educational technology. Since the spring of 2009, the academic center has upgraded more than 170 computers, including both PC and Mac.

A $15 million renovation to the Gym Armory in 2002 not only made it among the nation’s premier academic centers, but put it at the forefront. Improvements to the existing center give LSU student-athletes the best opportunity for success by providing access to the latest technology, as well as an array of expanded services.

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LSU GREATS

The following nine 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 and the No. 19 for Ben McDonald. Casanova, Macklin and McDonald joined the prestigious list in May 2009. Augustus became the first woman in LSU Athletics history to have her jersey retired in January 2010.

50 Bob Pettit

23 Pete Maravich

20 Billy Cannon

33 Shaquille O’Neal

15 Skip Bertman

40 Rudy Macklin

Pettit led LSU to its first NCAA Final Four in 1953 and he later became the first player in NBA history to exceed the 20,000-plus point barrier. Pettit is a member of the NBA Hall of Fame, and in 1997, he was named as one of the Top 50 players in NBA history.

Shaquille O’Neal was the first pick in the 1992 NBA Draft. He was named MVP of the league in 2000 and was a three-time NBA Finals MVP after leading the Los Angeles Lakers to three World Championships. At LSU, O’Neal averaged 21.6 points and 13.6 rebounds for his career, and in 1991, he was named the World’s Amateur Athlete of the Year as well as SEC Athlete of the Year and National Player of the Year. In 1997, he was named as one of the top 50 players in NBA history.

“Pistol Pete” Maravich still holds the NCAA record for career points with 3,667 and for career scoring average with 44.2 points a game. He was selected the National Player of the Year in 1970 after leading the Tigers to the NIT Final Four. He scored 50-plus points an amazing 28 times. He went on to a 10-year professional career and was selected as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players in 1997.

A legend in the college baseball ranks, Skip Bertman created a dynasty at LSU, guiding the Tigers to five national titles in a 10-year stretch from 1991-2000. He also coached the United States to a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and was an assistant on the gold medal-winning U.S. squad in Seoul, Korea, in 1988. Bertman retired from coaching following the 2001 season and served as LSU’s athletics director for seven years. Bertman was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

One of the true legends of college football in the South, Billy Cannon was the 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and helped the Tigers to the 1958 national title. Cannon’s most memorable performance came in 1959 against Ole Miss when No. 1 LSU trailed No. 3 Ole Miss, 3-0, in the fourth quarter. He fielded a punt, broke seven tackles and returned it 89 yards for a touchdown in a 7-3 victory. He went on to a successful 11-year professional career.

Rudy Macklin was a two-time basketball All-American selection during his Tiger career from 1976-81 during which time he became LSU’s all-time leading rebounder with 1,276 boards and the second-leading scorer in school history behind only the legendary Pete Maravich with 2,080 points. He led the Tigers to two Elite Eight appearances and the 1981 Final Four in Philadelphia. He still holds the school single-game rebound record with 32, a mark that may never be broken.

Tommy Casanova (left), Seimone Augustus (middle) and Rudy Macklin (right) were the last LSU greats to have their jerseys retired during the 2009-10 athletic year.

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About LSU Retired Jerseys The retirement of the jerseys of Casanova, 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.

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Tommy Casanova is the only three-time AllAmerican in the history of LSU football and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. During his Tiger career from 1969-71, Casanova personified versatility for his myriad of talents as he played offense, defense, returned punts and kickoffs. One of just two three-time All-SEC performers at LSU, he played six seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL while earning his medical degree.

19 Ben McDonald

Ben McDonald won the prestigious Golden Spikes Award in 1989, given annually to the nation’s most outstanding player, and is a member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. He led LSU to two College World Series appearances. In 1989, McDonald was named National Player of the Year by Baseball America, The Sporting News and Collegiate Baseball. He was selected by the Baltimore Orioles as the No. 1 pick in the major league draft in 1989 and went on to enjoy a 10-year major league career with the Orioles and the Milwaukee Brewers.

33 Seimone Augustus

Seimone Augustus is the only women’s basketball player in school history to earn State Farm Coaches Association All-America honors three times in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Augustus became LSU’s first NCAA National Player of the Year, claiming the honor twice in 2005 and 2006. A 2006 graduate of LSU, Augustus was the 2012 WNBA Finals MVP after winning a world title. She also led the United States to Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games.

World-Class Tigers

Ashleigh Clare-Kearney

Aaron Hill

Sylvia Fowles

Susan Jackson

Esther Jones

• In 2009, became first LSU gymnast to capture two individual national titles • 2009 NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist

• 2-time MLB All-Star (2009, ’12) • 2009 American League Comeback Player of the Year • 2-time Silver Slugger Award (2009, ’12)

•3 -time All-American •2 008, 2012 U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist • WNBA All-Star Game MVP

• 3 -time NCAA individual champion •2 009-10 SEC Female Athlete of the Year

•2 1-time track All-American • 1 992 Olympic Gold Medalist

Kimberlyn Duncan

Richard Thompson

David Toms

Rachele Fico

Patrick Peterson

• 2012 Bowerman Award winner • 7-time NCAA Champion • 14-time track All-American

• 8-time track All-American • 2012 Olympic Silver Medalist • 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist

• 2-time SEC Golfer of the Year •2 001 PGA Champion • 13-time PGA TOUR winner

•2 -time NFCA First-Team All-American •2 013 NPF Draft No. 1 pick

• 3-time NFL Pro Bowler (2011, ’12, ‘13) •2 -time NFL All-Pro (2011, ‘13) •N FL Record most punt return yards by a rookie in a season

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Lolo Jones 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 American-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 in Sochi, Russia.

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.

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Eduardo Aguirre, Jr.

Lod Cook

Named the first Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, Aguirre, Jr., was the U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 2005 until 2009.

Cook graduated from LSU with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1955 and then earned his Master’s degree in petro engineering in 1955. Cook served as CEO of ARCO for nine years.

Seimone Augustus

Carlos Roberto Flores

A two-time NCAA Women’s Basketball National Player of the Year, Augustus graduated from LSU in 2006. She is a two-time U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist and continues an All-Star pro career with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx. She was named WNBA Finals MVP in 2012 after winning a WNBA title.

The president of Honduras from 1998-2002, Flores helped the nation recover after Hurricane Mitch devastated the country in 1998. Flores is married to the former Mary Carol Flake, also an alumnae of LSU.

James Carville

Jim Flores

Carville received both a bachelor’s degree and law degree from LSU and gained fame in the 1990s as the chief campaign strategist for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Carville also penned a best-selling memoir titled “All’s Fair: Love, War and Running for President.”

Flores graduated with two bachelor’s of science degrees; one in corporate finance in 1981 and the second in petroleum land management in 1982. Flores serves as both chairman and CEO of Flores and Rucks, Inc., a publicly held independent oil and gas company.

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Dr. Larry O. Arthur - AIDS researcher Dr. Julian Bailes - expert in neurovascular disease. Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and Co-Director of the NorthShore Neurological Institute John Ed Bradley - Former Sports Illustrated writer and novelist. Former LSU football player Donna Brazile - Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee John Breaux - U.S. Senator (1987-2005) and U.S. Congressman (1972-86) from Louisiana Wil Calhoun - Executive Producer of television sitcom “Friends” Cassandra Chandler - One of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s highest ranking African-American women as special agent in charge of the Norfolk Field office “Lightning Joe” Lawton Collins - Chief of Staff for President Harry Truman Bill Conti - Oscar-winning composer who has written theme music for several well-known movies, including “Rocky” and its sequels Eric Arturo Delvalle - President of Panama (19851988) Dr. Alexander William “Alex” Dunlap - Current chief veterinarian for NASA who is responsible for all NASA policies related to animal health and welfare

Adrian Mitchell - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Crate & Barrel W. Vernon Jones - Senior Scientist for Suborbital Research, NASA headquarters Catherine D. “Kitty” Kimball - In 2009, was sworn in as first female to serve as chief justice of Louisiana’s highest court Delos “Kip” Knight - President of U.S. Retail Operations for H&R Block Harry J. Longwell – Former Executive Vice President and Director of Exxon Mobil Ray Marshall - Secretary of Labor under President Jimmy Carter James E. Maurin - Founding partner and CEO of Stirling Properties, a national real estate services firm Jake Lee Netterville - Former Managing Director of Postlethwaite and Netterville, the largest Louisianabased public accounting firm Edwin Newman - Former NBC News journalist and author Carolyn Bennett Patterson - Former senior editor, National Geographic J. Howard Rambin - Former CEO and Chairman of the Board, Texaco Rex Reed - Drama critic, syndicated columnist

A. Wright Elliott - Retired executive vice president, Chase Manhattan Bank

Maj. Gen. Thomas Rhame - Led 1st Infantry Division against Iraq during Persian Gulf War

Graves Erskine - U.S. Marine Corps General in WWII

Thomas O. Ryder - Chairman of the Board, The Reader’s Digest Association

Maxime A. Faget - Designed Mercury and Gemini spacecrafts Mary Carol Flake Flores - Former First Lady of Honduras Murphy “Mike” Foster, Jr. - Former governor of Louisiana (1996-2004) Kevin Griffin - Lead singer of the platinum-selling rock band “Better Than Ezra” Paul Groves - Award-winning tenor with the Metropolitian Opera Reinosuke Hara - Former president and CEO of Seiko Instruments Bill Harp - Television set decorator for series including “L.A. Law” and “The Carol Burnett Show” Pat Bodin - Former CIO of Exxon Mobil Walter Hitesman - Former president, Reader’s Digest Hubert Humphrey - U.S. vice president (1965-69)

LSU’s enrollment is more than 29,000 students, including more than 1,600 international students and nearly 5,000 graduate students.

Steve Scalise - U.S. House Majority whip Frances Seghers - Senior VP of Sony Entertainment European Community Affairs, which includes Sony Music, Sony Pictures and Sony Playstation Dolores Spikes - Former President of the Southern University System and the University of MarylandEastern Shore Ray Strother - Author, political consultant David Suarez - President and CEO of The Atlantic Company of America. Architect who restored the Washington Monument and the National Archives Building among others Olympia Vernon – Award-winning author and recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for her debut novel, Eden Rebecca Wells - Author of the novel and film “Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” Joanne Woodward - Academy Award-winning actress and wife of Paul Newman

Mike Papajohn The starting centerfielder on LSU’s inaugural College World Series team in 1986, Mike Papajohn today is a prominent actor in Hollywood. Papajohn was the only actor to star in four $150 million movies in the same calendar year doing so in 2009. The LSU alumnus has appeared in blockbuster films: Spiderman, Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and For the Love of the Game.

Dr. James Andrews Arguably, the world’s most renowned orthopedic surgeon for knee and shoulder injuries, Andrews is a 1963 graduate of LSU and a 1967 graduate of LSU Medical School. He has worked on numerous all-star athletes, including Michael Jordan, Drew Brees, Brett Favre and Albert Pujols. Andrews is also the founder of the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI).

Sylvia Fowles

John Havens

Fowles was a two-time WBCA first-team AllAmerican before going onto a pro career with the WNBA’s Chicago Sky where she is currently one of the league’s premier players. Most notably, Fowles was a member of U.S. Olympic Gold Medal teams in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012.

A 1978 LSU graduate in geology, Havens is president of Seismic Exchange (SEI) and vice-chairman of the Houston Astros. He is also owner of Cal-a-Vie Health Spa in San Diego that was voted the No. 1 destination spa by “Travel + Leisure” magazine in 2013.

David Steiner

Suzanne Perron

A 1982 LSU graduate, Steiner has served as the CEO of Waste Management since 2004. Under Steiner’s leadership, the Houston-based company was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere in 2008.

A 1991 LSU graduate, Perron is a rising star in the design world having worked with top designers Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera. Perron has designed dresses for Hollywood stars Jennifer Lopez, Mariska Hargitay and Holly Hunter, among others.

Mary L. Landrieu

Marty Sixkiller

Landrieu became the first woman from Louisiana selected to a full term in the United States Senate in 1996. In 2014, she was appointed chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Senior Technical Director for PDI/ DreamWorks’ movies “Antz,” “Shrek,” “Shrek 2,” “Shrek the Third,” “Madagascar” and “Over the Hedge.”

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LSU President/Chancellor Dr. F. King Alexander President/Chancellor, LSU

Dr. F. King Alexander was named the incoming president and chancellor of Louisiana State University, which has an annual budget of $3.4 billion and more than 54,000 students. He was appointed to the position by the LSU Board of Supervisors in March 2013 and assumed the position on July 1, 2013. Prior to being named the incoming president, Dr. Alexander was president of California State University, Long Beach (2006-2013), one of the nation’s largest public universities located in Southern California. During his more than seven-year tenure at California State University, Long Beach, Dr. Alexander was twice named the California State University Student Association (CSSA) “President of the Year,” which represents all 23 California State Universities and its more than 440,000 students. Prior to becoming president of California State University, Long Beach, Dr. Alexander was president of Murray State University in Kentucky (2001-2005) and was a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he was the director of the graduate higher education program. A Kentucky native who grew up in North Florida, Dr. Alexander received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in higher education administration with a focus on finance and educational policy analysis, and a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford, Oxford, England in comparative educational studies. As a teacher and administrator, Dr. Alexander has received many honors, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Alumni Achievement Award (2002) and has research

university faculty affiliations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Study of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) and Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). Alexander is an internationally-respected expert in higher education finance and public policy and frequently publishes in national journals and for organizations in this field. He has served as a reviewer, an editorial board member, and a university instructor and faculty member, teaching courses in higher education finance, law, history and current events. Dr. Alexander also has been asked to represent public higher education colleges and universities on numerous occasions to the United States Congress on issues of college affordability, student indebtedness, and institutional efficiency and effectiveness in efforts to address many of the growing challenges facing American higher education. Due to his national recognition and involvement on higher education issues, Dr. Alexander has served on numerous U.S. higher education and statewide organizational leadership boards where he remains very active. Dr. Alexander and his wife, Shenette, have three children: Kylie, Savannah and Madison.

Dr. Bill Demastes Faculty Athletics Representative Dr. Bill Demastes, a professor of English at LSU, is in his third year as Faculty Athletics Representative. Dr. Demastes earned his Ph.D. in English in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Field of Study of Drama as Genre and a speciailization in 20th-Century American and British Drama. He earned his masters in English in June 1979 from the Univeristy of Georgia in Athens, where he specialized in 19th-Century American Literature. At LSU, he served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and

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Sciences from 2001-2004 and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of English from 1999-2001 and 2010-11. He has also served as Associate Chair of the Department of English (1998-99), Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program (1996-2004) and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English (1992-94; 2006-06). He was honored with the LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award in 2000 and in 2002 won the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award. He was named in 2009 an LSU Rainmaker which is given to the top 100 LSU Faculty. In 2010 and 2013, he received the Tiger Athletic Association Undergraduate Teaching Award University College, and in the summer of 2011, he was named the Harry Ransom Summer Fellowship recipient by the University of Texas.

Vice Chancellor & Director of Athletics Joe Alleva

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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 seventh 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. Alleva’s role at LSU was further expanded in August 2009 when vice chancellor was added to his title by the LSU Board of Supervisors. It is the first time in school history that the director of athletics has also held a vice chancellor position. Alleva is currently serving a five-year term on the prestigious NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee, enhancing his reputation as one of the most respected athletic administrators in the country. Alleva has been appointed to numerous national committees throughout his career, including the Football Bowl Certification Committee, the NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet and several Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference committees. Upon his arrival at LSU, Alleva unveiled a strategic master plan for the LSU athletics program -- “LSU: Thru and True” -- to ensure the advancement and future of LSU Athletics as an exemplary enterprise. The central mission of the plan is to create an environment for studentathletes to reach their ultimate potential, prepare them to be champions in life and to set out goals and values for the entire athletics program. Living up to Alleva’s mantra of “competition, classroom, community,” LSU student-athletes in 2013-14 logged more than 4,732 hours in community service work across 21 sports through LSU’s “Geaux Givers” program. And a total of 88 proud Tigers received their degrees from the university during LSU commencement ceremonies in December and May. LSU’s overall graduation success rate for all student-athletes has grown from 69 percent in 2008 to 81 percent in 2013. With a strong commitment to academics, Alleva ensures that the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes is a first-class facility that provides student-athletes the resources necessary for success in the classroom and personal development. And with an emphasis on community service and outreach programs, the implementation under Alleva’s direction of the “Geaux Givers” fosters a relationship between the local community and LSU studentathletes, who regularly participate in philanthropic events. Alleva has bolstered the athletic department’s L-Club program to reach out and connect with former student-athletes, and he has supervised the thriving “Project Graduation” program in which many former student-athletes have returned to LSU to earn their degrees. Alleva’s tenure has been distinguished by a number of significant athletic achievements, including four-straight 10-win seasons by the football team, a

baseball national championship and two College World Series berths, two consecutive women’s basketball Sweet 16 appearances, three gymnastics Super Six berths, a softball College World Series appearance and 15 NCAA Top 5 finishes indoors and outdoors by the men’s and women’s track and field teams. LSU under Alleva’s leadership claimed the 2009 baseball College World Series title, and the Tigers have earned 30 individual NCAA championships in the sports of men and women’s track and field, gymnastics, men’s golf and women’s golf. LSU has captured 12 Southeastern Conference team championships, including the 2011 football crown, and the Tigers have won 80 individual SEC titles during Alleva’s term. The Tigers in 2011-12 finished fourth in both the men’s and women’s Capital One Cup competition that identifies athletic excellence. LSU was one of only two schools in the country – and the only one in the SEC -- to rank in the top four in both categories. LSU’s prominence was evident again in the final 2013-14 Learfield Sports Director’s Cup standings that recognize the nation’s best athletic programs, as the Tigers finished in the Top 25 for the ninth consecutive year. LSU was the only school in the SEC to post a 10 win-season (10-3) in football, a 20-win season (20-14) in men’s basketball and a 40-win season (46-16-1) in baseball. The 2013 LSU football team recorded its seventh 10-win season in nine years and defeated Iowa in the Outback Bowl, the men’s basketball team earned 20 victories for the first time since 2009 and the baseball team won its fifth SEC Tournament title in seven years and was an NCAA Tournament National Seed for the third-straight season. The Lady Tiger basketball team earned his second consecutive Sweet 16 berth, and LSU gymnastics, led by National Coach of the Year D-D Breaux, enjoyed the finest season in its illustrious history,

finishing No. 3 in the nation. The LSU men’s golf team recorded its highest national finish since 1967 as the Tigers placed third at the NCAA Championships. The men’s track and field team placed fourth and the women’s team sixth at the NCAA Outdoor meet. The softball, volleyball, swimming and diving, women’s tennis and women’s golf teams each participated in NCAA postseason competition. The year was also highlighted by the inaugural season of the sand volleyball program, which gives more LSU female studentathletes the opportunity to compete at the intercollegiate level. Alleva’s vision will keep LSU among the nation’s leaders in athletic facilities. In the fall of 2014, LSU opens the expansion of the South End Zone of Tiger Stadium -- a project that adds premium seating, general public seating and two state-of-theart video boards -- continuing an effort to augment one of the most iconic venues in all of college sports. Since 2010, Alleva has directed an aggressive campaign to preserve and enhance the appearance of Tiger Stadium that has included the installation new windows, lighting systems, gating systems, and championship plazas. Under Alleva’s direction, LSU’s world-renowned track and field program in 2010 received a new running surface in Bernie Moore Stadium, and extensive renovations to the Maddox Field House in the spring of 2014 give the Tigers a firstclass indoor track and field venue. Alleva directed a major renovation to the University Club golf course that was completed in September 2010 and allows the LSU men’s and women’s golf teams to compete on one of the most challenging courses in the country. An overhaul of the LSU soccer facility was completed in the fall of 2011, converting the venue into fan-friendly venue that has attracted record-breaking crowds. Future plans include a new gymnastics practice facility, a new tennis complex featuring indoor

and outdoor courts and a modern Nutrition Center for Student-Athletes, a facility that will house full-time chefs and nutritionists and provide the best dietary selections for all Fighting Tiger competitors. Alleva is an innovator with bold ideas that benefit not only LSU but all of Greater Baton Rouge. He has been instrumental in the planning of the Bayou Country Superfest, a three-day country music concert and festival held in Tiger Stadium each spring. The event attracts more than 100,000 visitors to the LSU campus and makes a tremendous economic impact upon the local community. Alleva became director of athletics at Duke in 1998 and his impressive tenure there propelled the university into the ranks of America’s top all-around collegiate programs. Among his outstanding list of accomplishments includes the greatest 10-year period in Duke Athletics, winning more ACC and NCAA championships than in any other decade in school history. Alleva, whose hometown is Suffern, New York, majored in Finance at Lehigh University and received his bachelor’s degree in 1975. While at Lehigh, Alleva was the quarterback of the football team and team captain in 1974. Alleva also played on the Lehigh baseball team. He served as a graduate assistant football coach and earned an MBA in 1976. While at Duke, Alleva played a key role in Durham’s community sports scene. He started Little League Baseball in Durham over 20 years ago, and also began the American Legion baseball program. He is a member of the North Carolina American Legion Hall of Fame, Suffern High School Hall of Fame and the Rockland County Hall of Fame. Alleva and his wife, Annie, have three children, J.D., Jeff, and Jenny, and one granddaughter.

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENDERS Tigers Look to Build on NCAA Final Four in 2014-15 The LSU Tigers announced their arrival as a national championship contender to the rest of the country during a historic 2013-14 season in which they advanced to the NCAA Semifinals of match play at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships that were held at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, back in June. With a lineup led by the All-American trio of Stewart Jolly, Ben Taylor and Curtis Thompson, as well as senior stalwart Smylie Kaufman and sophomore standout Zach Wright, the Tigers made a run into the NCAA Final Four to earn their best NCAA finish in nearly 50 years. After tying for second place in the 30-team field with their 54-hole score of 4-under par 836 to earn the No. 3 seed in match play, the Tigers defeated the No. 6-seeded UCLA Bruins by a score of 4-1 in the national quarterfinals before going out by the same score to the eventual NCAA Champion Alabama Crimson Tide in the semifinals while falling one match short of an appearance in the national title match. While officially tying for third place at the NCAA Championships to wrap up the 2013-14 season, the Tigers earned their first top-10 finish nationally in 25 years since tying for eighth place for the 1988-89 season and their best NCAA finish in 47 years since earning a third place in the 1966-67 season. It was a season that saw three Tigers earn All-America honors for only the second time in the program’s history as Jolly was honored as a Third-Team All-American and Thompson was

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selected as an Honorable Mention All-American by both PING and Golfweek, while Taylor joined Thompson following the NCAA Championships as a PING Honorable Mention All-American. With Jolly, Taylor and Wright returning to the team after leading the Tigers into the NCAA Final Four a season ago, it came as no surprise when LSU earned a Top 10 national ranking in the preseason for the second-straight season. They were tabbed as the No. 9-ranked team in the country in the Golf Coaches Association of America Preseason Top 25 released prior to the 2014 fall season. Both Jolly and Taylor also return to the lineup as two of the Top 40 players in college golf from a season ago as Jolly was the No. 29-ranked player in the country by Golfweek and Taylor was selected the No. 34-ranked player nationally by Golfstat following the NCAA Championships. While also earning First-Team All-SEC honors for his performance, Jolly enjoyed a career season with the Tigers in 2013-14 as he posted a career-low scoring average of 71.50 strokes per round with a team-best three top-five and five top-10 finishes on the campaign. He even captured his second collegiate title with a win at the Golfweek Conference Challenge during the 2013 fall season. Taylor was impressive in his debut season with the Tigers while recording a 72.00 stroke average to rank third on the team along with a pair of top-10 finishes, including a tie for sixth place at 4-under par 206 as the top Tiger in the

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field at the NCAA Championships. Wright also enjoyed his best season as a Tiger, posting a career-low 73.57 scoring average with a pair of top-10 finishes to his credit as one of the team’s top performers in his own right a year ago. Also making their return to the team this year are senior Myles Lewis and sophomores Eric Ricard and Brandon Pierce, while the Tigers also welcome a pair of incoming recruits in Louisiana prep standout Blake Caldwell and University of Nevada transfer Rhyne Jones for the 2014-15 campaign. With a Top 10 national ranking already to their credit to start the season, the Tigers have fired out of the blocks with back-to-back victories at the Golfweek Conference Challenge and David Toms Intercollegiate after tying for sixth place at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic in their opener to the fall season. LSU has taken home team titles with winning scores of 15-under par 849 at the Golfweek Conference Challenge held Sept. 14-16 at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa, before defending their home turf with a 27-over par 891 at the David Toms Intercollegiate held Oct. 4-5 at the University Club in Baton Rouge. Jolly has already shown the form of a FirstTeam All-American during the 2014 fall season as he followed a third-place finish at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic with a successful defense of his individual title at the Golfweek Conference Challenge, posting identical tournament scores of 9-under par 207 in each of his

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first two events of his senior season. Taylor is also off to a flying start to his senior season with the Tigers after winning his first career title at the David Toms Intercollegiate with a final score of 2-under par 214 as the only player to break par in the event. In the wake of their fourth victory in six seasons at the David Toms Intercollegiate, the Tigers are set to wrap up their fall season with their debut appearance at the United States Collegiate Championships that will be held Oct. 17-19 at The Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta. The 2014 United States Collegiate Championship will certainly be one of the jewels during the collegiate season as the Tigers will square off against four top-10, nine top-25 and 13 top50 teams in the Golfweek rankings heading into the event. The Tigers will compete in five tournaments during the 2015 spring season as they prepare for the championship season. They will make return trips to The Prestige at PGA West (Feb. 16-18) in La Quinta, California, and the Querencia Cabo Collegiate (March 1-3) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, before an appearance at the Talis Park Challenge (March 15-16) in Naples, Florida, for the first time. LSU will then return to the Valspar Invitational at Floridian (March 23-24) in Palm City, Florida, before defending their crown at the Aggie Invitational (April 4-5) in Bryan, Texas, to finish up the regular season. The Tigers took home their only team championship of the 2013-14 season with an appearance at the Aggie Invitational as they shared honors with host Texas A&M. The SEC Men’s Golf Championships return

Ben Taylor

to St. Simons Island, Georgia, for the 15thstraight season as the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club will play host to the event for the 13th time during that span. This year’s SEC Championships will be held April 17-19 to kick off the championship season. The Tigers lit up the Seaside Course in April 2014 with a school-record round of 17-under par 263 for a final 54-hole score of 18-under par 822 to finish as the SEC runners-up during the 2013-14 year. They came up just one spot shy of claiming their 16th SEC team championship in the program’s history by finishing runner-up to defending champion Alabama in the final team standings. Teams will qualify for a spot in the 30-team field at the NCAA Championships through one of six NCAA Regional tournaments being held across the country from May 14-16. Up to 13 teams will be selected to compete in each regional tournament with the top-five teams earning a spot in the field for this year’s NCAA

Championships being held at Concession Golf Club in Sarasota, Florida. South Florida will play host to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships at Concession Golf Club from May 29-June 3. In its current format, the NCAA individual champion will be determined in 54 holes of medal play with the top eight teams from a field of 30 teams earning a place for a seeded match-play tournament to crown this season’s national champion. The team with the lowest score in three rounds of competition will play the team with the eighth-lowest score, the second-place team will play the seventh-place team and so on in single-elimination match play until a champion is crowned. The idea is that the newly-established format is a more attractive option for television as The Golf Channel featured live coverage of the NCAA Championships last spring that saw the Tigers make their historic run to the NCAA Final Four.

2014-15 LSU Men’s Golf Roster Name

Ht.

Cl.

Exp.

Blake Caldwell

5-9

Fr.

Hometown (Previous School) Ponchatoula, La. (Ponchatoula HS)

Stewart Jolly

5-9

Sr.

Birmingham, Ala. (Mountain Brook HS) Blowing Rock, N.C. (Christ School/Nevada)

Rhyne Jones

5-9

So.

Myles Lewis

6-0

Sr.

New Orleans, La. (Jesuit HS)

Brandon Pierce

5-9

So.

Covington, La. (St. Paul’s HS)

Eric Ricard

6-1

So.

Shreveport, La. (Loyola College Prep)

Ben Taylor

6-0

Sr.

Leatherhead, England (Millfield School/Nova Southeastern)

Zach Wright

6-0

Jr.

Phoenix, Ariz. (Pinnacle HS)

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Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Date: Sept. 5-7, 2014 Host: The Farm Golf Club Location: Rocky Face, Georgia Course: The Farm Golf Club Par: 72 Yardage: 7,012 Last Year’s Team Champion: Georgia Tech (850) Last Year’s Medalists: Ollie Schniederjans, Georgia Tech, and Bailey Patrick, North Carolina (207) Field: Alabama, Auburn, Chattanooga, Clemson, Florida, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State, LSU, Middle Tennessee State, North Carolina, North Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wake Forest LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: 3rd SID Contact: Ross Newton SID E-mail: newton@optilink.us SID Office: (706) 226-9171 SID Cell Phone: (706) 218-0263

Golfweek Conference Challenge Date: Sept. 14-16, 2014 Host: Iowa Location: Burlington, Iowa Course: Spirit Hollow Golf Course Par: 72 Yardage: 7,222 Last Year’s Team Champion: Oklahoma (857) Last Year’s Medalists: Stewart Jolly, LSU, and Scott Vincent, Virginia Tech (210) Field: Arizona, Ball State, Central Arkansas, Chattanooga, Florida Gulf Coast, Houston, Iowa, Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, LSU, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas State, Virginia Tech, Winthrop LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: 5th SID Contact: Sam Stych SID E-mail: samuel-stych@uiowa.edu SID Phone: (319) 335-9411 SID FAX: (319) 335-9417

David Toms Intercollegiate Date: Oct. 4-5, 2014 Host: LSU Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Course: The University Club Par: 72 Yardage: 7,663 Last Year’s Team Champion: Southeastern Louisiana (860) Last Year’s Medalist: Grady Brame, Southeastern Louisiana (209) Field: Central Arkansas, Iowa State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, LSU, Mercer, North Texas, Rice, South Alabama, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, Winthrop LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: 7th SID Contact: Will Stafford SID E-mail: wstaff2@lsu.edu SID Phone: (225) 578-7947 SID FAX: (225) 578-1861

United State Collegiate Championship Date: Oct. 17-19, 2014 Host: Georgia Tech Location: Alpharetta, Georgia Course: The Golf Club of Georgia Par: 72

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Yardage: 7,017 Last Year’s Team Champion: Oklahoma State (849) Last Year’s Medalist: Ollie Schniederjans, Georgia Tech (206) Field: Auburn, Clemson, East Tennessee State, Georgia Tech, Iowa, Kent State, LSU, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Texas, Texas A&M, UCLA, Virginia, Wake Forest, Washington LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: Did Not Compete SID Contact: Mike Stamus SID E-mail: mstamus@athletics.gatech.edu SID Phone: (404) 894-5445 SID FAX: (404) 894-1248

The Prestige at PGA West Date: Feb. 16-18, 2015 Co-Hosts: Stanford & UC-Davis Location: La Quinta, California Course: PGA West - Greg Norman Course Par: 71 Yardage: 7,200 Last Year’s Team Champion: Stanford (831) Last Year’s Medalist: Patrick Rodgers, Stanford (204) Field: Arizona State, Gonzaga, LSU, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Pepperdine, San Diego State, Southern California, Stanford, Texas Tech, UC-Davis, UCLA, University of Stirling, Washington LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: 4th SID Contact: Alan George SID E-mail: alan.george@stanford.edu SID Phone: (574) 340-3977 SID FAX: (650) 725-8642

Querencia Cabo Collegiate Date: March 1-3, 2015 Co-Hosts: Arkansas & Houston Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Course: Querencia Golf Club Par: 72 Yardage: 7,070 Last Year’s Team Champion: Houston (863) Last Year’s Medalist: Roman Robledo, Houston (209) Field: Arkansas, Baylor, Florida State, Houston, Kentucky, Lamar, LSU, Ole Miss, Rice, South Florida, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Washington LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: 8th SID Contact: Patrick Pierson SID E-mail: pspierso@uark.edu SID Phone: (479) 575-2752 SID FAX: (479) 575-7481

Talis Park Challenge Date: March 15-16, 2015 Host: Ball State Location: Naples, Florida Course: Talis Park Golf Club Par: 72 Yardage: 7,000 Last Year’s Team Champion: Vanderbilt (871) Last Year’s Medalist: Marco Iten, Austin Peay (215) Field: Akron, Ball State, Eastern Michigan, Florida Gulf Coast, Indiana, LSU, Miami (OH), Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Toledo, Vanderbilt, Wichita State, Xavier LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: Did Not Compete

Tournament Information SID Contact: Joe Hernandez SID E-mail: jhernand@bsu.edu SID Phone: (765) 285-8242 SID FAX: (765) 285-8929

Valspar Invitational at Floridian Date: March 25-26, 2015 Co-Hosts: Arkansas & Lamar Location: Palm City, Florida Course: Floridian Golf Club Par: 72 Yardage: 6,916 Last Year’s Team Champion: Georgia Tech (837) Last Year’s Medalist: Ollie Schniederjans, Georgia Tech (201) Field: Arkansas, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Houston, Illinois, Kent State, Lamar, LSU, Memphis, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, UCLA LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: 4th SID Contact: Patrick Pierson SID E-mail: pspierso@uark.edu SID Phone: (479) 575-2752 SID FAX: (479) 575-7428

Aggie Invitational Date: April 4-5, 2015 Host: Texas A&M Location: Bryan, Texas Course: The Traditions Club Par: 72 Yardage: 7,146 Last Year’s Team Co-Champions: LSU & Texas A&M (899) Last Year’s Medalist: Brandon Hagy, California (212) Field: Arkansas, California, Kent State, LSU, Michigan, New Mexico State, North Texas, Oklahoma, Princeton, Texas A&M, Texas-San Antonio, Texas Tech LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: T-1st SID Contact: Adam Quisenberry SID E-mail: aquisenberry@athletics.tamu.edu SID Phone: (979) 862-5453 SID FAX: (979) 845-6825

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NCAA Regionals Date: May 14-16, 2015 LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: T-4th at NCAA Columbia Regional Regional Host: Ball State (The Sagamore Club, Noblesville, Ind.) Regional Host: North Carolina (Finley Golf Course, Chapel Hill, N.C.) Regional Host: San Diego (The Farms Golf Club, San Diego, Calif.) Regional Host: Texas Tech (The Rawls Course, Lubbock, Texas) Regional Host: Washington (Gold Mountain Golf Club, Bremerton, Wash.) Regional Host: Yale (The Course at Yale, New Haven, Conn.) 2014 Auburn Regional Champion: Alabama (853) 2014 Auburn Regional Medalist: Marco Iten, Austin Peay (208) 2014 Columbia Regional Champion: Oklahoma State (831) 2014 Columbia Regional Medalist: Emilio Cuartero, Missouri (205) 2014 Eugene Regional Champion: Stanford (853) 2014 Eugene Regional Medalist: Patrick Rodgers, Stanford (204) 2014 Raleigh Regional Champion: Georgia Tech (825) 2014 Raleigh Regional Medalist: Jonathan Sanders, Washington (203) 2014 San Antonio Regional Champion: Georgia (853) 2014 San Antonio Regional Medalist: Julien Brun, TCU (206) 2014 Sugar Grove Regional Champion: Illinois (880) 2014 Sugar Grove Regional Medalist: Brian Campbell, Illinois (211)

NCAA Men’s Golf Championships Date: May 29-June 3, 2015 LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: T-3rd (NCAA Semifinals) Host: South Florida Location: Sarasota, Florida Course: Concession Golf Club 2014 NCAA Champion: Alabama 2014 NCAA Medalist: Cameron Wilson, Stanford (204) Field: The top five teams from each NCAA Regional advance SID Contact: Donnie Wagner SID Phone: (317) 917-6813 SID FAX: (317) 917-6826

SEC Men’s Golf Championships Date: April 17-19, 2015 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: Alabama (806) Last Year’s Medalist: Bobby Wyatt, Alabama (192) Field: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt LSU’s 2013-14 Finish: 2nd SID Contact: Charles Bloom SID E-mail: cbloom@sec.org SID Phone: (205) 458-3010 SID FAX: (205) 458-3030

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David Toms Intercollegiate Preview

David Toms Intercollegitate Oct. 4-5, 2014 – University Club – Baton Rouge, La. Par 72 – 7,663 yards

The Tigers will play host to the David Toms Intercollegiate for the sixth time during the 2014 fall season as the sixth-annual event will be held on Oct. 4-5 at the University Club in Baton Rouge. Before moving to the University Club in 2013, the Tigers also played host to the event at the Country Club of Louisiana in Baton Rouge in 2009 and 2010 and Southern Trace Country Club in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2011. The tournament’s namesake is the greatest golfer in the history of the LSU Men’s Golf program as David Toms has enjoyed one of the most successful professional careers in PGA TOUR history in the wake of a brilliant collegiate career at LSU in the late 1980s. The Tigers captured the team title in each of the first two seasons of the David Toms Intercollegiate held at the Country Club of Louisiana, before taking home a fourth-place finish in the thirdannual event held at Southern Trace Country Club in 2011. They returned to the winner’s podium in 2013 while winning their third team title in four years at the event, before taking seventh place at the University Club a year ago. The University Club serves as the true home course of the LSU men’s and women’s golf programs as the Tigers are ready to compete at the venue for the one and only time during the the 2014-15 season. They qualified for the NCAA Championships two seasons ago when playing host to the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional at the University Club in May 2013, marking the first time in the history of the LSU men’s golf program that the Tigers played host to an NCAA postseason event. The David Toms Intercollegiate is named in honor of the most prolific performer in the storied history of the LSU men’s golf program. In his four seasons at LSU from 1985-89, Toms won three All-America honors, including back-to-back first-team selections in 1988 and 1989. He also took three First-Team All-SEC selections while also being named SEC Player of the Year in 1988 and 1989. Toms has since enjoyed a stellar PGA TOUR career with 13 wins to his credit, including a major championship victory at the 2001 PGA Championship at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Duluth, Ga. Toms is ranked No. 8 on the PGA TOUR’s all-time list for career earnings while taking home more than $40 million in his professional career. He was recently selected to his fourth U.S. Presidents Cup team and the recipient of the Payne Stewart Award during the 2011 PGA TOUR season season.

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David Toms Intercollegiate History

Team Champions

Year Team Score 2009 LSU 844 (-8) 2010 LSU 848 (-16) 2011 Oklahoma 862 (-2) 2012 LSU 897 (+33) 2013 Southeastern Louisiana 860 (-4)

Individual Champions

Year Player Score 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Jade Scott, Rice Austin Gutgsell, LSU Andrew Noto, UL-Lafayette Andrew Presley, LSU Grady Brame, Southeastern Louisiana

204 (-9) 206 (-10) 208 (-8) 220 (+4) 209 (-7)

Austin Gutgsell

SEC Opponents ALABAMA Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Enrollment: 33,602 Colors: Crimson and White Nickname: Crimson Tide Home Course: Capstone Club Men’s Golf SID Contact: Aaron Jordan Office Phone: (205) 348-6084 Office Fax: (205) 348-8841 E-mail address: ajordan@ia.ua.edu Website: www.rolltide.com Head Coach (Season): Jay Seawell (13th) Alma Mater (Year): South Carolina (1988) 2014 SEC Championships: 1st 2014 NCAA Auburn Regional: 1st 2014 NCAA Championships: NCAA Champion Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 4/3 Top Returnees: Tom Lovelady, Robby Shelton Key Losses: Trey Mullinax, Cory Whitsett, Bobby Wyatt Top Newcomers: Jonathan Hardee, Tyler Hitcher, Steven Setterstrom

ARKANSAS Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas Enrollment: 23,199 Colors: Cardinal and White Nickname: Razorbacks Home Course: Pinnacle Country Club Men’s Golf SID Contact: Patrick Pierson Office Phone: (479) 575-2752 Office Fax: (479) 575-7428 E-mail address: pspierso@uark.edu Website: www.arkansasrazorbacks.com Head Coach (Season): Brad McMakin (9th) Alma Mater (Year): Oklahoma (1991) 2014 SEC Championships: T-6th 2014 NCAA Columbia Regional: 2nd 2014 NCAA Championships: T-18th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 4/3 Top Returnees: Nicolas Echavarria, Kolton Crawford, Taylor Moore Key Losses: Sebastian Cappelen, Josh Eure, William Meason Top Newcomers: Alvaro Ortiz, Emil Soegaard

AUBURN Location: Auburn, Alabama Enrollment: 25,469 Colors: Burnt Orange and Navy Blue Nickname: Tigers Home Course: Multiple Courses Men’s Golf SID Contact: Chuck Gallina Office Phone: (334) 844-9800 Office Fax: (334) 844-9806 E-mail address: gallica@auburn.edu Website: www.auburntigers.com Head Coach (Season): Nick Clinard (6th) Alma Mater: Wake Forest (1995) 2014 SEC Championships: 3rd 2014 NCAA Auburn Regional: 3rd 2014 NCAA Championships: 23rd Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 6/2 Top Returnees: Matt Gilchrest, Michael Johnson, Will Long, Jake Mondy Key Loss: Niclas Carlsson Top Newcomers: Matthew Perrine, Ben Schlottman

FLORIDA Location: Gainesville, Florida Enrollment: 49,785 Colors: Orange and Blue Nickname: Gators Home Course: Mark Bostick Golf Course Men’s Golf SID Contact: Emily Padgett Office Phone: (352) 375-4683 ext. 6130 Office Fax: (352) 375-4809 E-mail address: EmilyP@gators.ufl.edu Website: www.gatorzone.com Head Coach (Season): JC Deacon (1st) Alma Mater (Year): Nevada-Las Vegas (1975) 2014 SEC Championships: T-12th 2014 NCAA Regional: DNQ 2014 NCAA Championships: DNQ Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 7/3 Top Returnees: Eric Banks, Ryan Orr, J.D. Tomlinson, Thomas Stewart Key Loss: Bill Anderson Top Newcomers: Ryan Celano, Ramsey Touchberry

GEORGIA Location: Athens, Georgia Enrollment: 34,536 Colors: Red and Black Nickname: Bulldogs Home Course: University of Georgia Golf Club Men’s Golf SID Contact: Steven Colquitt Office Phone: (706) 542-1621 Office Fax: (706) 542-9339

E-mail address: scolquitt@sports.uga.edu Website: www.georgiadogs.com Head Coach (Season): Chris Haack (19th) Alma Mater (Year): Mellen (1986) 2014 SEC Championships: 4th 2014 NCAA San Antonio Regional: 1st 2014 NCAA Championships: T-11th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 7/3 Top Returnees: Lee McCoy, Nicholas Reach, Greyson Sigg Key Losses: Joey Garber, Keith Mitchell Top Newcomers: Matthew Beringer, Zach Healy, Jack Larkin, Jr.

KENTUCKY Location: Lexington, Kentucky Enrollment: 29,410 Colors: Blue and White Nickname: Wildcats Home Course: University Club of Kentucky Men’s Golf SID Contact: Deb Moore Office Phone: (859) 257-3838 Office Fax: (859) 323-4310 E-mail address: deb.moore@uky.edu Website: www.ukathletics.com Head Coach (Season): Brian Craig (14th) Alma Mater (Year): Florida (1992) 2014 SEC Championships: 8th 2014 NCAA Raleigh Regional: 4th 2014 NCAA Championships: T-18th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 7/3 Top Returnees: Will Bishop, David Snyder Key Losses: Cody Martin, Stephen Powers, Ben Stow Top Newcomers: Christian DiMarco, Tyler McDaniel, Fred Allen Meyer

MISSISSIPPI STATE Location: Starkville, Mississippi Enrollment: 20,365 Colors: Maroon and White Nickname: Bulldogs Home Course: Old Waverly GC, MSU Golf Course Men’s Golf SID Contact: Brock Turnipseed Office Phone: (662) 325-7556 Office Fax: (662) 325-2563 E-mail address: bturnipseed@athletics.msstate.edu Website: www.mstateathletics.com Head Coach (Season): Clay Homan (12th) Alma Mater (Year): Mississippi State (1995) 2014 SEC Championships: T-9th 2014 NCAA Sugar Grove Regional: 12th 2014 NCAA Championships: DNQ Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 6/4 Top Returnees: Fletcher Johnson, Jackson Dick, Ben Wood Key Losses: Axel Boasson, Barrett Edens, Chad Ramey, Joe Sakulpolphaisan Top Newcomers: Ross Bell, Taylor Bibbs, Austin Rose

MISSOURI Location: Columbia, Missouri Enrollment: 34,658 Colors: Gold and Black Nickname: Tigers Home Course: Multiple Courses Men’s Golf SID Contact: Dave Reiter Office Phone: (573) 884-2437 Office Fax: (573) 882-4720 E-mail address: reiterd@missouri.edu Website: www.mutigers.com Head Coach (Season): Mark Leroux (11th) Alma Mater (Year): SUNY-Cortland (1989) 2014 SEC Championships: T-6th 2014 NCAA Columbia Regional: 3rd 2014 NCAA Championships: 20th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 4/3 Top Returnees: Jacob Fair, Wilson Sundvold, Euan Walker, Ryan Zech Key Losses: Emilio Cuartero, Hunter Kraus Top Newcomers: Hayden Buckley, Jim Siegfried

OLE MISS Location: Oxford, Mississippi Enrollment: 22,286 Colors: Cardinal Red and Navy Blue Nickname: Rebels Home Course: University of Mississippi Golf Course Men’s Golf SID Contact: Daniel Snowden Office Phone: (662) 915-7509 Office Fax: (662) 915-7006 E-mail address: desnowde@olemiss.edu Website: www.olemisssports.com Head Coach (Season): Chris Malloy (1st) Alma Mater (Year): Ole Miss (2001) 2014 SEC Championships: 14th 2014 NCAA Regionals: DNQ 2014 NCAA Championships: DNQ Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 8/1 Top Returnees: Forrest Gamble, Noah West, Ben Wolcott

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Key Losses: Tom Brown, Joe Lewis, Blake Morris Top Newcomer: Josh Seiple

SOUTH CAROLINA Location: Columbia, South Carolina Enrollment: 31,964 Colors: Garnet and Black Nickname: Gamecocks Home Course: The University Club Men’s Golf SID Contact: Justin Holt Office Phone: (803) 777-7872 Office Fax: (803) 777-2967 E-mail address: jnholt@mailbox.sc.edu Website: www.gamecocksonline.com Head Coach (Season): Bill McDonald (8th) Alma Mater (Year): Georgia Tech (1989) 2014 SEC Championships: 5th 2014 NCAA Eugene Regional: 5th 2014 NCAA Championships: 9th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 6/2 Top Returnees: Ben Dietrich, Will Murphy, Matt NeSmith, Will Starke, Caleb Sturgeon, Blaine Woodruff Key Losses: Alan King, Caulder Moore Top Newcomers: Alex Handy, Keenan Huskey

TENNESSEE Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Enrollment: 27,171 Colors: Orange and White Nickname: Volunteers Home Course: Multiple Courses Men’s Golf SID Contact: Ethan Starr Office Phone: (865) 974-1212 Office Fax: (865) 974-1269 E-mail address: estarr1@vols.utk.edu Website: www.UTsports.com Head Coach (Season): Jim Kelson (16th) Alma Mater (Year): Alabama (1987) 2014 SEC Championships: T-12th 2014 NCAA Eugene Regional: 11th 2014 NCAA Championships: DNQ Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 8/3 Top Returnees: Danny Keddie, Chad Merzbacher, Jack Smith Key Losses: Oliver Goss, Brandon Rodgers Top Newcomers: Jordan Gumberg, Lorenzo Scalise

TEXAS A&M Location: College Station, Texas Enrollment: 58,809 Colors: Maroon and White Nickname: Aggies Home Course: The Traditions Club Men’s Golf SID Contact: Adam Quisenberry Office Phone: (979) 862-5453 Office Fax: (979) 845-6825 E-mail address: aquisenberry@athletics.tamu.edu Website: www.aggieathletics.com Head Coach (Season): J.T. Higgins (14th) Alma Mater (Year): Eastern Oregon State College (1989) 2014 SEC Championships: T-9th 2014 NCAA Raleigh Regional: 3rd 2014 NCAA Championships: 29th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 4/2 Top Returnees: Adria Arnaus, Ben Crancer, Andrew Lister, Greg Yates Key Losses: Tyler Dunlap, Jade Scott, Johannes Veerman Top Newcomers: Connor Black, Cameron Champ, Peter Thorseth

VANDERBILT Location: Nashville, Tennessee Enrollment: 6,875 Colors: Black and Gold Nickname: Commodores Home Course: The Legends Club of Tennessee Men’s Golf SID Contact: Andy Boggs Office Phone: (615) 322-4121 Office Fax: (615) 343-7064 E-mail address: andy.boggs@vanderbilt.edu Website: www.vucommodores.com Head Coach (Season): Scott Limbaugh (3rd) Alma Mater (Year): Huntingdon College (2003) 2014 SEC Championships: 11th 2014 NCAA San Antonio Regional: 3rd 2014 NCAA Championships: T-16th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 10/2 Top Returnees: Ben Fogler, Carson Jacobs, Matthias Schwab, Hunter Stewart Key Losses: Charlie Ewing, Mills Rendell Top Newcomer: Theo Humphrey

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CHUCK WINSTEAD HEAD Coach TENTH Season

Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher The members of the LSU Men’s Golf team making the trip to Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, for the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships could have never imagined how those five days would see the Tigers reclaim their rightful place among the nation’s elite as national championship contenders with a historic run to the NCAA Final Four of match play. It was a season for the ages in the history of the LSU program as the Tigers earned their best finish nationally in nearly half a century while returning to the NCAA Championships for the second year in a row and the fourth time in five seasons under the direction of head coach Chuck Winstead. With a trio of junior All-Americans in Stewart Jolly, Ben Taylor and Curtis Thompson; a senior stalwart in Smylie Kaufman and a sophomore standout in Zach Wright leading the way, the Tigers ended the 2013-14 season in a tie for third place nationally for the program’s best NCAA finish since finishing in third place in 1967 and first top-10 finish since earning eighth place in 1989. It was their first appearance in the eight-team match play tournament for the national title since the NCAA adopted such a format six seasons ago prior to the 2008-09 campaign. The Tigers fired a team score of 4-under par 836 in 54 holes of medal play to tie for second place among the 30 teams in the field at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships to earn the No. 3 seed in the match play quarterfinals. That’s when the Tigers defeated the No. 6-seeded UCLA Bruins by a 4-1 margin before falling to the No. 2-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide in the NCAA Semifinals. With their performance, Jolly (29), Thompson (39), Kaufman (62) and Taylor (77) each ended the campaign ranked among the Top 100 collegiate players nationally in the final Golfweek rankings of 2013-14. Jolly was even called into international duty for the first time in his career as he competed with Team USA at the 2014 Palmer Cup held this summer at Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey, England. LSU’s postseason run was sparked by its first victory of 2013-14 at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational in the team’s regular-season finale in April. The Tigers followed by firing their school-record score of 18-under par 822 in a runnerup finish at the SEC Championships before tying for fourth place in the NCAA Columbia (Mo.) Regional to earn a return

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trip to the NCAA Championships. The Tigers nearly added to their 15 SEC team championships all-time with their best finish at the conference tournament since last finishing as runners-up in 1989. There is no doubting that LSU Men’s Golf has returned to the pinnacle of college golf in nine seasons under Winstead’s direction, and the Tigers now have positioned themselves to contend for SEC and NCAA championships for years to come with his leadership. Winstead enters his 10th season guiding a program that has claimed four NCAA titles and 15 SEC titles during its history. It is a proud program that has also produced three NCAA medalists and 18 SEC medalists since its inaugural season. During his nine seasons leading the Tigers, Winstead has produced 10 All-America selections, seven All-SEC performers earning 12 all-conference honors, four SEC All-Freshman Team members and a pair of Academic AllAmericans as the leader of one of the nation’s storied programs. Winstead’s players have also excelled individually while winning such prestigious amateur tournaments as the Jones Cup. In addition, 19 different Tigers have combined for 27 appearances at the United States Amateur Championship during Winstead’s tenure. Two Tigers have advanced as far as the Sweet 16 round of match play at the U.S. Amateur with former All-American John Peterson advancing in 2011 and All-SEC performer Andrew Presley advancing in 2012. With the Tigers claiming the team title at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational in their regular-season finale last April, Winstead eclipsed Britt Harrison as the winningest coach in program history while amassing 17 tournament championships in nine years at the helm. Harrison guided the Tigers to 16 wins in his 11 seasons in Baton Rouge from 1988-98. Winstead has also coached eight Tigers to 12 medalist honors since his first season as head coach in 2005-06. LSU has become a staple in NCAA postseason play while earning an NCAA Regional berth in seven-straight seasons and competing at the NCAA Championships in four of the past five seasons in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014. The Tigers’ ascension to the top of college golf was punctuated at the 2011 NCAA Championships when

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Peterson claimed LSU’s first national championship in 70 years with his winning performance at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Oklahoma. That’s when the three-time AllAmerican and emerging PGA TOUR standout fired a 5-under par 211 in three rounds of stroke play to win the national title and join former Tiger champions Fred Haas, Jr. (1937) and Earl Stewart (1941). Peterson is off to a strong start to his professional career that includes a tie for fourth place in his major championship debut at the 2012 United States Open Championship held at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, and making the cut in his Masters debut in 2013.

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With Winstead’s coaching, Peterson and former LSU teammate Andrew Loupe competed as fully-exempt members of the PGA TOUR during the 2013-14 season after earning their tour cards during the inaugural Web.com Tour Finals in September 2013. Peterson actually claimed the money title as the top performer in the first Web.com Tour Finals, while Loupe also earned one of 25 PGA TOUR cards that were handed out during the event. A Ruston, Louisiana, native and member of the LSU men’s golf program from 1989-91, Winstead believes the foundation of any successful program is built on attracting the best high school athletes the sport has to offer each recruiting season. Loupe and Peterson were the stars of Winstead’s early recruiting classes and certainly proved to be the tandem sparking LSU’s return to national prominence. Peterson wrapped up his collegiate career as the 2011 NCAA Champion while winning three All-America honors and two First-Team All-SEC honors from 2007-11. Loupe was a star in his own right as a two-time All-American and two-time FirstTeam All-SEC performer as part of the same graduating class. Winstead’s reputation as one of the top golf teachers in the country has been reflected in LSU’s performance on the course over the past eight seasons as the team’s scoring average has dropped dramatically since his first season as head coach in 2005-06. After averaging 295.6 shots per round as a team during his inaugural season, the Tigers lowered their scoring average each season at 296.7 in 2006-07, 293.6 in 2007-08, 293.4 in 2008-09, 290.6 in 2009-10 and 290.5 in 2010-11. LSU’s team average was an even more impressive 287.3 in 2013-14 while advancing to the NCAA Final Four. His instructional skills have been recognized by many of the leading golf publications nationally during his career, including the honor of being named a Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor in America since 2005 with the likes of Butch Harmon, Peter Kostis, Jim Flick and former Tiger AllAmerican and LSU Hall of Fame inductee Eddie Merrins. Golf Digest has also recognized Winstead’s instructional prowess as one of the nation’s top golf teachers. He has even been featured on The Golf Channel and frequently appears in such publications as Golf Magazine and Golf Tips Magazine, for which he serves as the Senior Instruction Editor.

While the Tigers have excelled on the course, LSU’s student-athletes have also achieved great success in the classroom with a total of 52 selections to the SEC Academic Honor Roll during Winstead’s tenure as head coach. In 2011, two Tigers were chosen as Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars as standouts Austin Gutgsell and Sang Yi were recognized for their academic performance. In support of this effort, Winstead provided the vision and oversight for a multi-million dollar renovation project to The University Club golf course and LSU’s Bilyeu Golf Practice Facility in 2010. The course is now recognized as one of the best in the region and has was selected to play host to the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional held in May 2013. Winstead’s credentials include a five-year association with Jack Nicklaus’ Golden Bear Golf, Inc., in North Palm Beach, Florida, where he served as the Director of Instruction for Golden Bear Golf among other

“LSU Golf has a great and storied history on a national level, and there is no doubt that the foundation has been laid for us to enjoy that kind of success once again. It’s a very exciting time to be an LSU Tiger.” Chuck Winstead

responsibilities. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Winstead served as part of the senior management team developing, managing and initiating the launch of Jack Nicklaus Golf Academies worldwide. Winstead has been linked with The University Club since 2000, where he has served as the Director of Instruction and owner of the Chuck Winstead Golf Academy. Winstead was named a Director of Instruction at English Turn Golf & Country Club in New Orleans from 1998-2000. In addition, he was a head instructor for the Bob Toski Learning Center in Sunrise, Fla., from 1993-95. After graduating from LSU in 1991, Winstead embarked on a career as a professional golfer with a stint on the South American tour before launching his teaching career. He and his wife, Jennifer, are the proud parents of two sons – Trey, 16, and David, 13 – and are active members of

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GARRETT RUNION ASSISTANT Coach Third Season

2012 Dave Williams Award 2012 Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year 2012 Eaton Golf Pride South Region Coach of the Year

The 2013-14 season was one for the ages in the history of the LSU Men’s Golf program as the Tigers returned to their rightful place among the nation’s elite with their run to the NCAA Final Four of match play at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. The Tigers proved themselves as national championship contenders in those five days at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, as they knocked off the No. 6-seeded UCLA Bruins in the national quarterfinals before falling in the semifinals to the eventual national champion Alabama Crimson Tide in their debut appearance in the eight-team match play tournament for the NCAA title. With a trio of junior All-Americans in Stewart Jolly, Ben Taylor and Curtis Thompson; a senior stalwart in Smylie Kaufman and a sophomore standout in Zach Wright leading the way, the Tigers fired a team score of 4-under par 836 in 54 holes of medal play to tie for second place among the 30 teams in the NCAA field while earning the No. 3 seed in match play. The Tigers wrapped up their 2013-14 season in a tie for third place nationally for the program’s best NCAA finish since claiming a third place in 1967 and first top-10 finish since earning eighth place in 1989 in the senior season of the great David Toms. It marked LSU’s fourth trip to the NCAA Championship in five seasons as they have now earned a spot in the tournament a total of 35 times in the program’s storied history. LSU’s postseason run was sparked by its first victory of 2013-14 at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational in the team’s regular-season finale in April. The Tigers followed by firing their schoolrecord score of 18-under par 822 in a runner-up finish at the SEC Championships before tying for fourth place in the NCAA Columbia (Mo.) Regional to earn a return trip to the NCAA Championships. Instrumental in LSU’s return to national prominence has been former LSU Tiger standout Garrett Runion, who enters his third season back with the program as a member of head coach Chuck Winstead’s staff after returning to his

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alma-mater prior to the 2012-13 season. Winstead announced on June 22, 2012, that Runion would return to LSU as an assistant coach for the program after he guided the Sharks of Nova Southeastern University to the NCAA Division II national championship in his one and only season as head coach in 2011-12. Runion’s first season back in Baton Rouge proved to be another strong campaign for the Tigers as they again qualified for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. LSU tied for 23rd place at the NCAA Championship held at Atlanta’s Capital City Club to highlight a season that also saw the squad claim team titles in back-to-back events at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate and David Toms Intercollegiate in the fall season of 2012. The Tigers have also been rewarded for their outstanding performance on the course, led by Thompson’s breakthrough sophomore season in 2012-13 as an Honorable Mention All-American and First-Team All-SEC performer for the first time in his career. Andrew Presley was also named a Second-Team All-SEC performer for the second-straight season. Thompson earned a repeat selection as an Honorable Mention All-American and SecondTeam All-SEC performer as a junior a year ago as three Tigers were recognized as All-Americans following the team’s historic 2013-14 campaign. Jolly picked up Third-Team All-America honors along with a First-Team All-SEC selection, while Taylor joined Thompson as an Honorable Mention All-American following the NCAA Championships. Runion has returned to his alma mater following a 2011-12 season in which he led Nova Southeastern to the NCAA Division II title with a dominating 5-0 win over Chico State University in the national title match held May 19, 2012, at Cardinal Club Golf Course in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Their run to the national championship highlighted a historic season for the Nova Southeastern Sharks as they also won the Sunshine State Conference championship during the 2012 spring season. Runion was recognized as the recipient of the Dave Williams Award as the NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year, as well as earning Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year and Eaton Golf Pride South

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Region Coach of the Year awards for the 2011-12 season. Runion actually served two seasons at Nova Southeastern as the team also captured the SCC title during a strong 2010-11 campaign in which he served as the program’s assistant head coach. Runion displayed his recruiting prowess in his two seasons at Nova Southeastern as he was solely responsible in attracting the elite players in the NCAA Division II ranks to the Fort Lauderdale campus. That included the No. 1 player in the NCAA Division II ranks in Taylor as the Jack Nicklaus Award winner and the Golf Coaches’ Association of America NCAA Division I Collegiate Player of the Year in 2012. Taylor has since followed Runion to LSU as the England international competes as a senior with the Tigers during the 2014-15 season. Nova Southeastern also featured the top freshman in NCAA Division II as Oscar Lengden earned the 2012 Phil Mickelson Award recognizing the nation’s Most Outstanding Freshman. A native of Orlando, Florida, Runion was a two-year letterwinner during his collegiate career with the Tigers as he called Baton Rouge home in four seasons from 2003-08. A fourtime member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and three-time SEC Community Service Team selection, Runion graduated from LSU in the May 2008 with his Bachelor of Arts & Science degree in general studies.

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JOLLY

5-9 • Senior • 3L Birmingham, Ala. Mountain Brook HS JOLLY’s Quick Facts Rounds of par or better: 45 Low Round: 66 (-5) at Valspar Invitational at Floridian (March 24, 2014) Low Tournament: 203 (-10) at Valspar Invitational at Floridian (March 24-25, 2014) Top 10 Finishes: 10 Top 20 Finishes: 18 Best Finish: T-1st,twice, last at Golfweek Conference Challenge (Sept. 15-17, 2013)

JOLLY’s Career Totals Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average 2011-12 9 25 1,842 73.68 2012-13 13 38 2,795 73.55 2013-14 12 36 2,574 71.50 Totals 34 99 7,211 72.84

2014 Palmer Cup 2014 Golfweek Third-Team All-American 2014 PING Third-Team All-American 2014 First-Team All-SEC 2014 PING All-Southeast Region 2014 Golfweek Conference Challenge Champion 2014 U.S. Amateur Qualifier 2013 U.S. Amateur Qualifier 2012 U.S. Amateur Qualifier 2012 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate Champion JUNIOR SEASON (2013-14) Earned All-America honors for the first time in his career with third-team selections by both PING and Golfweek following the season … Honored as a FirstTeam All-SEC and PING All-Southeast Region selection for his effort … Also named the Louisiana Collegiate Player of the Year and a First-Team All-Louisiana performer by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association following the season … Ended the season as the No. 29-ranked player nationally by Golfweek and the No. 30-ranked player by Golfstat in their final individual ranking … Led the Tigers with a 71.50 scoring average while appearing in each of the team’s 12 tournaments on the season … Led the Tigers with three top-five and five top-10 finishes in his 12 tournament starts on the season … 26 of his 36 rounds played for the season were even or under par … Crowned the co-champion of the Golfweek Conference Challenge held at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa, during the 2013 fall season … Was the second tournament title of his collegiate career after firing a 6-under par 210 in 54 holes at the 2013 Golfweek Conference Challenge … Opened his junior season by firing a 5-under 211 for a third-place finish at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic at The Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Georgia … Fired a career-low tournament score of 10-under par 203 in a second-place finish at the Valspar Invitational at Floridian held during the 2014 spring season, including a career-low 5-under par 66 in the opening round … Tied for sixth place at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate with a score of 2-over 215 and finished in eighth place at the Louisiana Classics with a score of 3-under 213 in a pair of events during the spring season … Tied for 21st place on the final leaderboard at both the SEC Championships with a score of even-par 210 and the NCAA Columbia Regional with a score of 2-under 214 to help lead the Tigers to their fourth NCAA Championships appearance in five seasons … Tied for 55th place in 54 holes of stroke play at the NCAA Championships while posting a score of 4-over par 214 at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, including a 2-under 68 in the second round … Also teed off at the David Toms Intercollegiate (t25) and Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (t18) during the fall season and The Prestige at PGA West (t16) and Aggie Invitational (t30) in the spring season … Reputation as one of the elite players in the collegiate ranks was solidified with his selection to Team USA competing at the 2014 Palmer Cup held June 26-28 at Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey, England … Earned an exemption to compete at the 114th United States Amateur Championship held at the Atlanta Athletic Club on the strength of his No. 19 world ranking in the World Amateur Golf

Rankings following his appearance at the Palmer Cup … Earned his third varsity letter.

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2012-13) Finished the season as the No. 97-ranked player in the country in the final Golfweek Individual Player Rankings … Named a Second-Team All-Louisiana performer by the LSWA following the collegiate season … Was LSU’s third-leading scorer with a scoring average of 73.55 strokes per round in 38 rounds played on the season … Played 13 rounds at par or better … Earned two top-five, four top-10 and seven top-20 finishes in his 13 tournament starts on the year … Won his first collegiate title as the co-champion of the 2012 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate held at Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama … Posted a season-low tournament score of 6-under par 210, including a seasonal-best score of 3-under 69 in the second round to share medalist honors with Thompson at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate … Tied for fifth place in LSU’s spring opener at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate with a score of 1-over 217 in 54 holes, including a 1-under 71 in the second round … Fired a tournament score of even-par 216 to tie for seventh place on the leaderboard at the Louisiana Classics held during the spring season at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette … Earned his first top-10 finish of the year at LSU’s David Toms Intercollegiate by carding a 10-over 226 in 54 holes in the event held at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Also cracked LSU’s lineup at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional held at the University Club, where he tied for 14th place at 6-over 222 for the tournament … Tied for 60th place in the final standings in his first career appearance at the NCAA Championships held at Capital City Club in Atlanta, Georgia … Posted a 54-hole score of 3-over par 213, including an even-par 70 in the second round, at the NCAA Championships … Opened the 2012 fall season by firing 2-under 214 to tie for 11th place at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic … Also earned a top-20 finish at the Argent Financial Classic by tying for 14th place with a score of 5-over 221 … Tied for 43rd place at the SEC Championships with a score of 13-over 223 … Also cracked the lineup at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (t22), Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (t40) and John Hayt Invitational (t50) … Also qualified for the United States Amateur Championship for the second-straight season … Qualified for the first round of match play at the 113th U.S. Amateur Championship at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, after tying for ninth place in 36 holes of stroke play with a score of 1-under par 139 … Earned his second varsity letter.

FRESHMAN SEASON (2011-12) Made nine tournament appearances for the Tigers during his true freshman season in 2011-12 … Ranked fourth on the team with a 73.68 scoring average in his 25 rounds played on the campaign … Carded six rounds at par or better … Earned three top-20 finishes in his eight appearances in 54-hole events as a true freshman … Tied for 14th place while playing as an individual at the David Toms Intercollegiate while carding a season-low tournament score of 3-over par 219 at Southern Trace Country Club in Shreveport, Louisiana … Tied for 19th place at the Squire Creek Invitational after posting a 54-hole score of 5-over

par 221 in the event held at Squire Creek Country Club in Choudrant, Louisiana … Wrapped up the 2011 fall season by tying for 20th place on the leaderboard at the prestigious Isleworth Collegiate Invitational … Recorded his score of 6-over par 222 at Isleworth Golf & Country Club in Windermere, Florida, to help lead the Tigers to a runner-up finish in one of the strongest fields of the season … Earned a spot in LSU’s postseason lineup at both the SEC Championships and NCAA Palo Alto Regional … Tied for 39th place in his debut at the SEC Championships after carding a 9-over 219 … Wrapped up the season by tying for 51st place at the NCAA Palo Alto Regional while posting a 7-over 217 in three rounds at the Stanford Golf Course … Helped the Tigers take home a trio of team titles as a member of the lineup at the Louisiana Classics (March 5-6), Argent Financial Classic (March 11-13) and LSU National Invitational (March 31-April 1) during the spring season … Tied for 32nd place at the Louisiana Classics with a score of 3-over 219 at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette … Finished in 28th place at the Argent Financial Classic with a score of 6-over 222 at Squire Creek Country Club … Tied for 21st place at the LSU National Invitational with a score of 7-over par 223 for three rounds at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Followed the collegiate season by making his debut at the United States Amateur Championship … Tied for 100th place in stroke play qualifying at the 112th U.S. Amateur Championship held at Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado … Earned his first varsity letter.

PRIOR TO LSU The top recruit in the state of Alabama and one of the elite recruits in the country for the Class of 2011 … A product of Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham, Alabama … Named a 2010 American Junior Golf Association Rolex Junior Honorable Mention All-American … Signed with LSU as the No. 1-ranked recruit in Alabama for the 2011 recruiting season according to the Golfweek Junior Rankings … A nationally-ranked recruit who signed with LSU as one of the nation’s Top 30 prep recruits for 2011 in the Golfweek Junior Rankings (16), Polo Junior Golf Rankings (28) and National Junior Golf Scoreboard (29) … Also ranked among the Top 50 junior golfers in the country in the Golfweek Junior Rankings (29), Polo Junior Golf Rankings (44) and National Junior Golf Scoreboard (45) … An active member of the AJGA during his prep career … Earned three top-10 finishes in the AJGA … Also a star on the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour … Earned three wins with six top-five and eight top-10 finishes in the SJGT … Boasted a scoring average of 71.8 in his SJGT events … Captured medalist honors at the 2010 SJGT Vestavia Junior Classic after his score of 10-under par 134 helped earn him Golfweek Junior Player of the Week honors … Crowned the 2009 Press Thornton Future Masters Champion while firing scores of 65, 71 and 72 at Dothan Country Club in Dothan, Alabama … Also finished in a tie for 13th place at the 2009 Orange Bowl International Golf Championship.

PERSONAL Full name is Stewart Ralph Jolly … Born on April 9, 1993 … Parents are Ralph and Connie Jolly … Has one older sister named Sarah … Plays right-handed … Majoring in general business.

Round-by-Round with JOLLY 2013-14 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 72-68-71 – 211 (3) Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 72-69-69 – 210 (t1) David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 75-70-78 – 223 (t25) Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 72-76-70 – 218 (t18) The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 70-71-71 – 212 (t16) Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 71-71-73 – 215 (t6) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 74-71-68 – 213 (8) Valspar Invitational at Floridian (Palm City, Fla.) 66-67-70 – 203 (2) Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 77-72-82 – 231 (t30) SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 72-70-68 – 210 (t21) NCAA Columbia Regional (Columbia, Mo.) 72-72-70 – 214 (t21) NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Hutchinson, Kan.) 74-68-72 – 214 (t55)

2012-13 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 72-71-71 – 214 (t11) Shoal Creek Intercollegiate (Birmingham, Ala.) 70-69-71 – 210 (t1) David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 74-77-75 – 226 (t9) Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 75-78-74 – 227 (t40) Mobile Bay Intercollegiate (Mobile, Ala.) 74-71-72 – 217 (t5) John Hayt Invitational (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 78-73 – 151 (t50) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 71-75-70 – 216 (t7) Argent Financial Classic (Choudrant, La.) 76-72-73 – 221 (t14) Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (Awendaw, S.C.) 78-71-75 – 224 (t22) Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 84-74-73 – 231 (t60) SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 74-73-76 – 223 (t43) NCAA Baton Rouge Regional (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-73-73 – 222 (t14) NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Atlanta, Ga.) 72-70-71 – 213 (t60)

2011-12 LSU vs. Centenary (Shreveport, La.) 80 (10) Squire Creek Invitational (Choudrant, La.) 72-77-72 – 221 (t19) David Toms Intercollegiate (Shreveport, La.) 72-76-71 – 219 (t14) Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 79-69-74 – 222 (t20) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 74-73-72 – 219 (t32) Argent Financial Classic (Choudrant, La.) 74-73-75 – 222 (28) LSU National Invitational (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-73-74 – 223 (t21) SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 74-72-73 – 219 (t39) NCAA Palo Alto Regional (Palo Alto, Calif.) 72-71-74 – 217 (t51)

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LEWIS 6-0 • Senior • 3L New Orleans, La. Jesuit HS LEWIS’ Quick Facts Rounds of par or better: Low Round: Low Tournament: Top 10 Finishes: Top 20 Finishes: Best Finish:

14 66 (-6) at Louisiana Classics (March 11, 2014) 206 (-10) at Louisiana Classics (March 10-11, 2014) 3 8 1st at Louisiana Classics (March 10-11, 2014)

LEWIS’ Career Totals Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average 2011-12 6 16 1,205 75.31 2012-13 11 32 2,395 74.84 2013-14 4 12 883 73.58 Totals 21 60 4,483 74.72

2014 Louisiana Classics Champion 2013 U.S. Amateur Qualifier JUNIOR SEASON (2013-14) Won his first career tournament title with a threestroke victory at the Louisiana Classics held at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette during the 2014 spring season … Fired a career-low tournament score of 10-under par 206 while playing as an individual at Oakbourne Country Club, smashing his previous careerbest 54-hole score by eight shots … Victory included rounds of 3-under par 69 in the first round, 1-under par 71 in the second round and a career-low 6-under par 66 in the final round … Played in four events during his junior season, including two appearances in LSU’s five-man starting lineup … Cracked the lineup in LSU’s only tournament victory of the season at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational in their regular-season finale to the 2014 spring season … Tied for 45th place at the Aggie Invitational with a final score of 20-over par 236, including a 1-over 73 in the second round … Finished in a tie for 35th place in the lineup at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational at Isleworth Golf & Country Club in Windermere, Florida, posting a 54-hole tournament score of 5-over par 221 … Appearance at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational included a 1-under 71 in the final round … Tied for 15th place at the David Toms Intercollegiate held at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Carded a score of 4-over par 220 in 54 holes while competing as an individual at the David Toms Intercollegiate, including a 2-under 70 in the final round … Posted a career-low scoring average of 73.58 stroke per round in his 12 rounds played on the season … Smashed his previous career-low scoring average of 74.84 from his sophomore season by more than one stroke … Five of his 12 rounds were at par or better … Followed the collegiate season by earning a secondplace finish at the 2014 Louisiana Golf Association Amateur Championship held at La Triomphe Golf & Country Club in Brossard, Louisiana … Fired rounds of 4-under 68, 4-under 68, 5-under 67 and 1-under 71 for a 72-hole score of 14-under par 274 to finish runner-up on the final leaderboard at the Louisiana Amateur … Earned his third varsity letter.

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2012-13) Nearly doubled his appearances as a sophomore with 11 tournament starts for the Tigers in 2012-13 … Finished the season with a scoring average of 74.84 strokes per round in 32 rounds played on the season … Cut his scoring average by nearly a half stroke per round while playing twice the number of competitive rounds from his freshman season … Carded six rounds at par or better on the year … Earned one top-five

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finish, one top-10 finish and four top-20 finishes in his 11 tournament appearances on the campaign … Opened his season by tying for fifth place with a career-low 54-hole score of 2-under par 214 at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate held at Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama … Recorded a season-low round of 4-under par 68 in the second round at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate … Marked his first career top-five and top-10 finish by tying for fifth place at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate … Finished in 16th place at LSU’s David Toms Intercollegiate with a tournament score of 14-over par 230 in three rounds at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Tied for 18th place at the Argent Financial Classic with a score of 6-over par 222 at Squire Creek Country Club in Choudrant, Louisiana … Tied for 20th place at the John Hayt Invitational with a 36-hole score of 2-over par 146 in the rain-shortened event held at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida … Helped the Tigers earn their third trip to the NCAA Championships in four seasons by tying for 24th place at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional … Posted his tournament score of 9-over par 225 to tie for 24th place in his first career NCAA Regional appearance … Tied for 63rd place at the SEC Men’s Golf Championships with a score of 19-over 229 … Also saw action at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (t58) during the fall season and Mobile Bay Intercollegiate (t22), Aggie Invitational (t27), Louisiana Classics (t41) and Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (t43) during the spring season … Followed the collegiate season by earning a top-10 finish at the 94th Louisiana Golf Association Amateur Championship held at Southern Trace Country Club … Finished in ninth place on the final leaderboard for the event with a 54-hole score of 1-over par 217 … Followed the collegiate season with his debut at the United States Amateur Championship … Competed in stroke play qualifying at the 113th U.S. Amateur Championship held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts … Honored for his efforts in the classroom as a member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll … Earned his second varsity letter.

FRESHMAN SEASON (2011-12) Played in six tournaments as a true freshman with the Tigers during the 2011-12 campaign … Recorded a 75.31 scoring average in his 16 rounds on the season … Carded three rounds at par or better … Fired a seasonlow 54-hole score of 1-over par 217 to tie for 15th place on the final leaderboard at the Argent Financial Classic held at Squire Creek Invitational in Choudrant, Louisiana … Carded a season-low score of 2-under par 70 in the second round at the Squire Creek Invitational … Earned his first career top-20 finish at the Squire Creek Invitational … Matched his season-low round

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with a 2-under par 70 in the final round at the LSU National Invitational to tie for 21st place with a score of 7-over 223 … Fired a 1-under par 71 in his collegiate debut at the LSU vs. Centenary stroke play match for the third-best round of the event … Cracked LSU’s five-man starting lineup for the first time at the Jack Nicklaus Invitational, where he finished in 44th place with a score of 16-over par 232 in the event held at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio … Also saw action at the David Toms Intercollegiate during the fall season and the Louisiana Classics during the spring season … Earned his first varsity letter.

PRIOR TO LSU The No. 1-ranked junior golfer in Louisiana by all major junior golf publications … Joined the LSU program following an outstanding prep career at Jesuit High School in New Orleans … Signed with LSU as a Top 50 recruit in the country for the Class of 2011 in both the Polo Junior Golf Rankings (45) and National Junior Golf Scoreboard (50) … Was also the No. 53-ranked recruit nationally for the 2011 signing class in the Golfweek Junior Rankings … Also ranked among the Top 100 junior golfers nationally regardless of class in the Polo Junior Golf Rankings (76), National Junior Golf Scoreboard (80) and Golfweek Junior Rankings (89) … An accomplished member of the American Junior Golf Association during his prep career … Was a member of the 2008 AJGA Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy Junior All-Star Team … A two-time tournament champion as a member of the AJGA, including his victory at the 2010 AJGA Elbit Systems of America Junior Championship held at Southern Oaks Golf Club in Fort Worth, Texas … Also won the 2008 AJGA Junior All-Star Championship … Also earned five top-10 finishes and eight top-20 finishes as a member of the AJGA … Picked up a top-10 finish at the 2010 Southern Junior Championship held at Squire Creek Country Club … Finished in a tie for ninth place on the leaderboard with a 54-hole score of 5-over par 221 … Qualified for the 64-player match play competition at the 2009 United States Junior Amateur Championship held at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey … Was a three-time LHSAA Class 5A individual state champion while competing for Jesuit High School … Posted an impressive 70.3 scoring average in his three wins at the Class 5A state tournament in 2008, 2009 and 2010 … Named a two-time New Orleans Metro Player of the Year by the Times-Picayune … Helped lead Jesuit High School to back-to-back Class 5A state championships in in 2010 and 2011 … Was a two-time Louisiana Junior Amateur Championship runner-up in 2007 and 2010.

PERSONAL Full name is Myles Corrigan Lewis … Born on Nov. 9, 1992 … Parents are Sidney and Charlotte Lewis … Has two sisters, Erica and Meg … Mother is an LSU graduate … Sister, Meg, is currently an LSU student … Plays right-handed … Majoring in business management.

Round-by-Round with Lewis 2013-14 David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-74-70 – 220 (t15) Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 73-77-71 – 221 (t35) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 69-71-66 – 206 (1) Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 79-73-84 – 236 (t45)

2012-13 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate (Birmingham, Ala.) 74-68-72 – 214 (t5) David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 77-78-75 – 230 (16) Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 74-81-77 – 232 (t58) Mobile Bay Intercollegiate (Mobile, Ala.) 74-73-74 – 221 (t22) John Hayt Invitational (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 72-74 – 146 (t20) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 80-72-74 – 226 (t41) Argent Financial Classic (Choudrant, La.) 74-72-76 – 222 (t18) Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (Awendaw, S.C.) 78-75-76 – 229 (t43) Aggie Invitational (College Station, Texas) 72-75-74 – 221 (t27) SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 77-77-75 – 229 (t63) NCAA Baton Rouge Regional (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-75-74 – 225 (t24)

2011-12 LSU vs. Centenary (Shreveport, La.) 71 (3) Jack Nicklaus Invitational (Dublin, Ohio) 76-75-81 – 232 (44) David Toms Intercollegiate (Shreveport, La.) 77-75-79 – 231 (t48) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 74-78-79 – 231 (t79) Argent Financial Classic (Choudrant, La.) 74-70-73 – 217 (t15)

BEN

TAYLOR 6-0 • Senior • 1L Leatherhead, England Nova Southeastern University

Taylor’s Quick Facts Rounds of par or better: 12 Low Round: 67 (-5) at NCAA Columbia Regional (May 17, 2014) Low Tournament: 206 (-4) at NCAA Championships (May 24-26, 2014) Top 10 Finishes: 2 Top 20 Finishes: 5 Best Finish: T-6th at NCAA Championships (May 24-26, 2014)

Taylor’s Career Totals Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average 2013-14 8 24 1,728 72.00 Totals 8 24 1,728 72.00

2014 PING Honorable Mention All-American 2013 Palmer Cup European Team Member 2013 NCAA Division II First-Team All-American 2013 Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year 2013 U.S. Amateur Qualifier 2012 Jack Nicklaus Division II Collegiate Player of the Year 2012 NCAA Division II First-Team All-American 2012 Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year 2012 Sunshine State Conference Champion JUNIOR SEASON (2013-14)

Earned All-America honors in his first season with the Tigers as he was named a PING Honorable Mention All-American following the season … The No. 34-ranked collegiate player nationally by Golfstat and the No. 77-ranked collegiate player nationally by Golfweek for his performance in 2013-14 … Ended an outstanding debut season with the Tigers by leading the team into the matchplay tournament for the national championship at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships held at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas … Was the top Tiger in stroke play at the NCAA Championships as he fired a 54-hole score of 4-under par 206 to tie for sixth place in the field of 150 players at the NCAA Championships to help the Tigers qualify for match play for the first time in program history … Followed a round of 1-over 71 in the first round with a 3-under 67 in the second round and 2-under 68 in the third round for a three-round score of 4-under 206 in a top-10 finish at the NCAA Championships … Defeated UCLA’s Anton Arboleda by a 4&3 margin in the NCAA quarterfinals to help lead the Tigers into the NCAA semifinals of match play with a 4-1 team victory over the Bruins … Earned two top-10 finishes on the season, including a tie for seventh place in LSU’s spring season opener at The Prestige at PGA West in La Quinta, California … Fired a 4-under par 209 for 54 holes at The Prestige at PGA West, including a season-low score of 5-under 67 in the final round … Matched his season-low round with a 5-under 67 in the final round at the NCAA Columbia Regional to tie for 26th place in the event with a final score of even-par 216 … Tied for 13th place in his debut at the SEC Championships with a final score of 2-under 208 at the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia … Carded a team-low 3-under 67 in helping LSU fire a school-record round of 17-under par 263 in the final round at the SEC Championships … Helped the Tigers win their one and only team title of the 2013-14 season at the Aggie Invitational in their regular-season finale … Tied for 16th place on the final leaderboard at the Aggie Invitational with a score of 9-over 225 at Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas … Saw his first action with the Tigers at the David Toms Intercollegiate held at the University Club in Baton Rouge during the 2013 fall season, tying for 45th place with a 54-hole score of 13-over par 229 … Also competed at the Louisiana Classics (t17) and Valspar Invitational at Floridian (t36) during the 2014 spring season … Ended his debut season as LSU’s thirdleading scorer with a 72.00 scoring average in eight tournament starts on the year … 12 of his 24 rounds were at par or better in his inaugural season with the program … Honored by the Louisiana

Sports Writers Association as the Louisiana Collegiate Newcomer of the Year and a First-Team All-Louisiana performer for 2013-14 … Earned his first varsity letter.

Round-by-Round with Taylor

PRIOR TO LSU

2013-14

Established himself as one of the premier amateur golfers worldwide in his two seasons at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida … Earned the right to compete with the 10-man European team at the 2013 Palmer Cup, an annual Ryder Cup-style collegiate competition featuring the top players from the United States and Europe … Joined the European team in the 2013 Palmer Cup held at Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware … Also competed internationally during the summer of 2012 … Helped guide England to the 2012 European Challenge team championship … Also helped lead Europe to the 2012 Sir Michael Bonallack Trophy team title over the team from the Asia and Pacific region … Earned a spot on the Great Britain and Ireland squad that competed against Europe for the St. Andrews Trophy in 2012 … A leader of the premier men’s golf program in the NCAA Division II ranks during his two seasons at Nova Southeastern University … Was a two-time NCAA Division II First-Team AllAmerican in 2012 and 2013 … Led the Sharks with identical scoring averages of 70.94 as a freshman in 2011-12 and sophomore in 2012-13 … Guided Nova Southeastern to the NCAA Division II national championship during his freshman season as the Sharks blanked Chico State with a 5-0 win in the national championship match at the Cardinal Club Golf Course in in Simpsonville, Kentucky … Won the NCAA Division II individual bronze medal as the thirdplace finisher in stroke play at the 2012 NCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championships … Honored for his performance as a freshman in 2011-12 as the Jack Nicklaus Award winner as the NCAA Division II Collegiate Player of the Year … A catalyst in the Sharks claiming the Sunshine State Conference team championship in 2012-13 … Won back-to-back SSC Player of the Year honors in 2012 and 2013 … Crowned the SSC individual champion during his freshman season in 2012 … Captured the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional individual championship during his sophomore season in 2013 … Won a total of five individual tournament titles in his two seasons at Nova Southeastern University … Won back-to-back titles at the Otter Invitational hosted by Cal State Monterey in the fall of 2011 and 2012 … Also captured the individual crown at the Barry Buccaneer Invitational hosted by Barry University in the spring of 2013 … Earned an impressive 16 top-five finishes and 19 top-10 finishes in his 23 tournament starts in his two seasons at Nova Southeastern University … Won bronze medals with thirdplace finishes in a pair of elite amateur championships in 2012 at the Jones Cup held in St. Simons Island, Georgia, and the Turkish Amateur Championship with a 72-hole score of 7-under par 281 … Played at the 113th United States Amateur Championship held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massacusetts, in August 2013 prior to his arrival in Baton Rouge … Tied for 88th place in a field of more than 300 players in stroke play qualifying at the 2013 U.S. Amateur Championship with a 36-hole score of 6-over par 146.

David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 78-79-72 – 229 (t45) The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 74-68-67 – 209 (t7) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 72-71-75 – 218 (t17) Valspar Invitational at Floridian (Palm City, Fla.) 73-69-75 – 217 (t36) Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas) 72-74-79 – 225 (t16) SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 72-69-67 – 208 (t13) NCAA Columbia Regional (Columbia, Mo.) 74-75-67 – 216 (t26) NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Hutchinson, Kan.) 71-67-68 – 206 (t6)

PERSONAL

Born in Epsom, England … Son of Phil and Susanne Taylor … Has one sister, Katie … Favorite sports team is Arsenal Football Club … Majoring in sport administration with a concentration in sport commerce.

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ZACH

WRIGHT 6-0 • Junior • 2L Phoenix, Ariz. Pinnacle High School WRIGHT’S Quick Facts Rounds of par or better: Low Round: Low Tournament: Top 10 Finishes: Top 20 Finishes: Best Finish:

19 66 (-6) at Louisiana Classics (March 4, 2013) 206 (-10) at Louisiana Classics (March 4-5, 2013) 4 6 1st at Louisiana Classics (March 4-5, 2013)

WRIGHT’S Career Totals Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average 2012-13 12 35 2,603 74.37 2013-14 10 30 2,207 73.57 Totals 22 65 4,810 74.00

2014 U.S. Amateur Qualifier 2013 Louisiana Classics Champion 2012 U.S. Amateur Qualifier SOPHOMORE SEASON (2013-14) Led the Tigers into the NCAA semifinals of match play at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships to cap a historic 2013-14 season for the program … The only Tiger to win both of his matches in the match-play tournament for the national championship with a 2&1 victory over UCLA’s Matt Pinizzotto in the NCAA quarterfinals and a 1-up victory over Alabama’s Cory Whitsett in the NCAA semifinals … Led the Tigers to a tie for third place as a team at the NCAA Championships to capture the team’s best national finish since a third-place finish in 1967 … Tied for 105th place in stroke play at the NCAA Championships held at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, with a 54-hole score of 9-over par 219, including rounds of 2-over 72, 3-over 73 and 4-over 74 … Played in 10 tournaments with the Tigers during his sophomore season … Ended the season with a career-best 73.57 scoring average in 30 rounds played on the season … Slashed his scoring average by nearly one full stroke from his average as a freshman … 11 of his 30 rounds were at par or better … Earned a pair of top-10 finishes on the campaign … Tied for ninth place at the Louisiana Classics held during the 2014 spring season at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette … Posted a season-low tournament score of 2-under par 214 at the Louisiana Classics to earn his best finish of the year … Tied for 10th place at the David Toms Intercollegiate while playing as an individual in the event held at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Ended the David Toms Intercollegiate with a final score of 2-over par 218, including a 3-under 69 in the second round … Tied for 36th place at the SEC Championships with a score of 5-over par 215, including a season-low round of 5-under 65 in the final round … Tied for 23rd place at the NCAA Columbia Regional with a score of 1-under par 215 in the event held at The Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia, Missouri, to help the Tigers earn their second-straight appearance at the NCAA Championships and their fourth trip to nationals in five seasons … Also cracked LSU’s lineup at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (t48) and Golfweek Conference Challenge (t63) in the fall season and The Prestige at PGA West (t43), Querencia Cabo Collegiate (t34) and Valspar Invitational at Floridian (69) during the spring season … Followed the collegiate season by qualifying for the 114th United States Amateur Championships held at the Atlanta Athletic Club … Marked the second time in his career to compete during the U.S. Amateur … Earned his second varsity letter.

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FRESHMAN SEASON (2012-13) Made 12 tournament appearances for the Tigers during his freshman season in 2012-13 … Made 10 tournament starts as a member of LSU’s five-man lineup … Was the team’s fourth-leading scorer with a 74.37 scoring average in 35 rounds played on the year … Carded eight rounds at par or better … Earned one top-five, two top-10 and four top-20 finishes in his 12 tournament starts on the season … Crowned the individual champion at the Louisiana Classics tournament held at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette … Fired a career-low score of 7-under par 209 to take the title at the Louisiana Classics while playing as an individual … Shot a career-low score of 6-under 66 in the first round, followed by scores of even-par 72 in the second round and 1-under par 71 in the third round to win medalist honors … Opening score of 6-under 66 in the first round of the Louisiana Classics was the lowest on the squad for the 201213 season … Followed his victory at the Louisiana Classics by tying for eighth place at the Argent Financial Classic with a score of 3-over par 219 … Finished in 12th place on the leaderboard at the David Toms Intercollegiate with a score of 11-over 227 in the event held at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Also claimed a top-20 finish by tying for 16th place at the South Alabama Individual Tournament with a score of 11-over 153 in two rounds … Helped lead the Tigers to their third NCAA Championships appearance in four seasons … Made his NCAA Championships debut at the Capital City Club in Atlanta, Georgia … Tied for 69th place at the NCAA Championships with a score 4-over par 214 at Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course, including a 2-under par 68 in the first round … Made the only hole-in-one of the NCAA Championships at the par-three 15th hole at the Crabapple Course to highlight a first-round score of 2-under 68 … Tied for 28th place at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional with a score of 10-over 226 in the event held at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Tied for 36th place in his debut at the SEC Championships, finishing the event with a 54-hole score of 12-over 222 … Also saw action at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (t31), Shoal Creek Intercollegiate (t36) and Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (t66) during the fall season and the Aggie Invitational (t32) and Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (t33) during the spring season … Honored with a strong season with a Second-Team All-Louisiana selection by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association ... Earned his first varsity letter.

PRIOR TO LSU Signed with LSU as the No. 1-ranked recruit in the state of Arizona and one of the elite prospects in the country for the Class of 2012 … Ranked among the Top 10 recruits in the country for the Class of 2012 as the No. 8-ranked prospect nationwide in the Polo Junior Golf Rankings at the time of his signing with

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LSU … Was also ranked No. 12 by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and No. 17 by Golfweek in the Class of 2012 … Ranked No. 11 in the Polo Junior Golf Rankings, No. 16 by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and No. 26 in the Golfweek junior rankings regardless of high school classification when he signed at LSU … Competed at the United States Amateur Championship for the first time in his career in the 112th edition of the event held at Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado … Advanced to the Sweet 16 in match play at the 2010 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship held at Egypt Valley Country Club in Ada, Michigan … Earned a spot in match play by tying for 20th place in the stroke play at the 2010 U.S. Junior Amateur with a 36-hole score of 2-under par 142 … Followed with an appearance in the stroke play field at the 2011 U.S. Junior Amateur held at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton, Washington … A decorated member of the American Junior Golf Association while earning a Rolex Junior First-Team All-American selection in 2011 … Also chosen as a Rolex Junior Honorable Mention All-American in 2010 … Won his first career AJGA tournament title at the 2011 Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic hosted by Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona … Fired rounds of 1-over 72, 1-under 70 and 4-under 67 to win the title at the AJGA’s Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic in 2011 … Earned three additional top-10 finishes in AJGA events in 2011, including third place at the PING Phoenix Junior, fourth place at the Junior PGA Championship and a tie for seventh place at the HP Boys Championship at Carlton Woods … Posted four top-10 finishes in AJGA events in 2010, including a tie for seventh place at the PING Phoenix Junior, a tie for eighth place at the Under Armour/Vicky Hurst Championship, ninth place at The PING Invitational and a tie for 10th place at the Las Vegas Junior Open presented by The Pacemaker … Earned two Top 10s during the 2009 season with a tie for fourth place at the Junior All-Star at Lake Havasu and a tie for sixth place at the Las Vegas Junior Open presented by The Pacemaker … Captured the Arizona Division I state title on during the 2011 fall season with a tournament record 15-under par 125 fired at the state tournament held at Dell Urich Golf Course in Tucson … Fired rounds of 8-under 62 and 7-under 63 at the par-70 layout to win the state crown by five shots.

PERSONAL Full name is Zachary Ray Wright … Born on Nov. 8, 1993 … Parents are Don and Alecia Wright … Has an older sister named Ashley … Maintained a 3.75 cumulative grade-point average at Pinnacle High School … Was a member of the Honor Roll and Principal’s List throughout his prep career … Plays right handed … Majoring in sport administration with a concentration in sport commerce.

Round-by-Round with wright 2013-14 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 77-79-70 – 226 (t48) Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 83-77-71 – 231 (t63) David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-69-73 – 218 (t10) The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 74-71-73 – 218 (t43) Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 77-73-74 – 224 (t34) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 70-72-72 – 214 (t9) Valspar Invitational at Floridian (Palm City, Fla.) 78-71-78 – 227 (69) SEC Men’s Golf Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 76-74-65 – 215 (t36) NCAA Columbia Regional (Columbia, Mo.) 73-72-70 – 214 (t23) NCAA Men’s Golf Championships (Hutchinson, Kan.) 72-73-74 – 219 (t105)

2012-13 Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic (Rocky Face, Ga.) 72-74-76 – 222 (t31) Shoal Creek Intercollegiate (Birmingham, Ala.) 77-76-74 – 227 (t36) David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-74-77 – 227 (12) Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 79-80-76 – 235 (t66) South Alabama Individual Tournament (Mobile, Ala.) 80-73 – 153 (t16) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 66-72-71 – 209 (1) Argent Financial Classic (Choudrant, La.) 76-72-71 – 219 (t8) Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (Awendaw, S.C.) 80-70-77 – 227 (t33) Aggie Invitational (College Station, Texas) 74-74-74 – 222 (t32) SEC Championships (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 75-71-76 – 222 (t36) NCAA Baton Rouge Regional (Baton Rouge, La.) 76-75-75 – 226 (t28)

RHYNE

JONES

5-9 • sophomore • TR Blowing Rock, N.C. Christ School/Nevada

PRIOR TO LSU The top performer for the University of Nevada Wolf Pack during his true freshman season at the collegiate level in 2013-14 … Ended his rookie campaign as the team’s leading scorer with a 73.37 scoring average in 12 tournament starts on the season … Earned a pair of top-five individual finishes to highlight his freshman season … Was named the Mountain West Conference Golfer of the Week after firing a 36-hole score of 4-under par 140 and tying for fourth place on the leaderboard at the John Burns Intercollegiate held at Wailua Golf Club in Lihue, Hawaii … Also tied for third place at the Fresno State Classic with a score of 2-over par 218 in three rounds played at San Joaquin Country Club in Fresno, California … Fired his lowest 54-hole tournament score at the SCVB Pacific Invitational, where he tied for 19th place at even-par 213, including a season-low 4-under 67 in the second round … Tied for 27th place at the 2014 Mountain West Conference Championships … Attended Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, during his prep career … Led his high school team to a pair of North Carolina state championships in 2010 and 2012 … Individually, finished in third place in 2010 and fourth place in 2012 at the state tournament while earning all-state honors in both seasons … Was a three-time all-conference performer during his high school career from 201012 … A standout performer in junior golf nationally during his prep career as a member of the American Junior Golf Association … Winner of the 2011 AJGA Preseason at Chateau Elan in Braselton, Georgia … Winner of the 2011 International Junior Masters held in East Aurora, New York … Earned a 13th-place finish at the 2012 Junior PGA Championship held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana … Was twice an alternate for the United States Junior Amateur Championship in 2010 and 2012.

PERSONAL Full name is Rhyne McLeod Jones ... Born on Sept. 20, 1994 ... Parents are Jonathan and Debbie Jones … Has an older sister, Darcy … Most memorable sports moment was holing out for eagle at the 2012 Junior PGA Championship in front of the Golf Channel cameras and making ESPN’s SportsCenter Top 10 Plays of the Day ... Plays right-handed ... Plans to pursue a degree in mass communication at LSU.

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BRANDON

PIERCE

5-9 • Sophomore • 1L COVINGTON, LA. ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL Pierce’S Quick Facts Rounds of par or better: Low Round: Low Tournament: Top 10 Finishes: Top 20 Finishes: Best Finish:

3 70 (-2) at Louisiana Classics (March 10, 2014) 214 (-2) at Louisiana Classics (March 10-11, 2014) 1 1 T-9th at Louisiana Classics (March 10-11, 2014)

Pierce’S Career Totals Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average 2013-14 3 9 665 73.89 Totals 3 9 665 73.89

FRESHMAN SEASON (2013-14) Played in three tournaments as a true freshman in 2013-14 … Earned his first collegiate top-10 finish by tying for ninth place on the final leaderboard at the Louisiana Classics held at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette from March 10-11 during the 2014 spring season … Fired a season-low and career-low tournament score of 2-under par 214 while playing as an individual at the Louisiana Classics, including a season-low round of 2-under par 70 in the first round of the tournament … Made his collegiate debut at the Golfweek Conference Challenge held at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa, from Sept. 15-17 during the 2013 fall season … Tied for 34th place with a 54-hole score of 6-over par 222 in his first collegiate event … Earned a spot in LSU’s five-man starting lineup at the David Toms Intercollegiate held at the University Club in Baton Rouge … Tied for 45th place at the David Toms Intercollegiate with a score of 13-over par 229 for 54 holes … Ended his freshman season with a 73.89 scoring average for his three tournament appearances … Three of his nine competitive rounds were at par or better … Earned his first varsity letter.

PRIOR TO LSU Emerged as one of the nation’s elite prep prospects with his performance during the 2012 season … Honored as a Rolex Junior Second-Team All-American by the American Junior Golf Association in 2012 … Signed with LSU as the No. 10-ranked prep recruit nationally for the Class of 2013 in the prestigious Polo Junior Golf Rankings … Also ranked No. 25 nationally by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and No. 60 in the country by Golfweek among high school seniors … Ranked No. 15 in the Polo Junior Golf Rankings and No. 46 in the National Junior Golf Scoreboard regardless of high school classification when signing his National Letter of Intent with the Tigers … Solidified his position among the nation’s premier recruits by tying for third place on the leaderboard at the 2012 AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions held at the Crabapple Course at Capital City Club in Alpharetta, Georgia … Fired rounds of 2-over 72, 4-under 66, 1-under 69 and 1-under 69 to tie for third place at the 2012 Rolex Tournament of Champions with his 72-hole score of 4-under par 276 … Earned five top-10 finishes in AJGA events during his breakout 2012 season … Tied for second place at the 2012 AJGA Junior at Steelwood presented by AT&T at Steelwood Country Club in Loxley, Alabama, with a 54-hole score of 2-under 214 … Posted a 4-under 212 to tie for fourth place at the 2012 AJGA Genesis Shootout presented by the Valero Texas Open at Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas … Saw action at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where he tied for fifth place on the leaderboard at The Junior PLAYERS Championship presented by TaylorMade-adidas Golf … Fired a 54-hole score of even-par 216 to tie for fifth place in one of the AJGA’s major tournaments of the 2012 season … Also tied for seventh place at the 2012 Exide Technologies Junior Open presented by Mizuno … Earned the right to represent the West squad at the AJGA’s Wyndham Cup held at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Florida, on the strength of his performance in 2012 … Has earned a total of eight Top 10s in AJGA sponsored events during his prep career … Won an AJGA title for the first time at the 2010 Sean O’Hair Junior All-Star Championship with a career-low AJGA tournament score of 10-under par 206 at The Rawls Course in Lubbock, Texas … Fired an 8-under 64 that included a double-eagle in his final round to win the AJGA Sean O’Hair Junior All-Star Championship back in 2010 … Cracked the Top 10 of the final leaderboard at the 62nd Future Masters while firing a 2-over 218 at Dothan Country Club in Dothan, Alabama, in 2011 … Finished runner-up at the 2010 U.S. Kids Teen World Championship held at Pinehurst No. 2 in Pinehurst, North Carolina … Carded rounds of 1-under 71, 1-over 73 and 2-under 70 for a 54-hole score of 2-under 214 to finish in second place at Pinehurst No. 2 … Earned his first career Class 5A all-state selection while competing for St. Paul’s School in 2012 … Earned back-to-back All-District 7-5A selections in 2011 and 2012.

PERSONAL Full name is Brandon Chavgney Pierce … Born on Aug. 18, 1994 … Parents are Chavgney and Rebecca Pierce … Has one younger sister, Brittany … Father played basketball at LSU … Mother played college volleyball … Maintained a 4.31 cumulative gradepoint average on a 4.0 scale during his prep career at St. Paul’s School in Covington … Was an HP Scholastic Junior All-America Team selection in 2011 and 2012 … An active member of his community as the founder of Brandon’s Birdies … Has helped raise more than $50,000 for local children’s charities in the New Orleans area since 2009 while leading Brandon’s Birdies … Served at St. Paul’s School as a Eucharist minister … Also participated with the math team at St. Paul’s … Selected Charter’s Community Hero in Covington in November 2012 … Honored by the United States Golf Association and the AJGA as the 2012 recipient of the prestigious USGA-AJGA Presidents’ Leadership Award … Plays right handed ... Majoring in sport administration with a concentration in sport commerce.

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Round-by-Round with Pierce 2013-14 Golfweek Conference Challenge (Burlington, Iowa) 76-73-73 – 222 (t34) David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 79-71-79 – 229 (t45) Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.) 70-73-71 – 214 (t9)

ERIC

RICARD 6-1 • Sophomore • 1l LOYOLA COLLEGE PREP SHREVEPORT, LA. Ricard’S Quick Facts Rounds of par or better: 1 Low Round: 71 (-1) at Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 20, 2013) Low Tournament: 222 (+6) at Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 20-22, 2013) Top 10 Finishes: None Top 20 Finishes: None Best Finish: T-35th at David Toms Intercollegiate (Oct. 5-6, 2013)

Ricard’S Career Totals Year Tourn. Rounds Strokes Average 2013-14 4 12 905 75.42 Totals 4 12 905 75.42

2013 Louisiana Amateur Champion Round-by-Round with Ricard 2013-14 David Toms Intercollegiate (Baton Rouge, La.) 77-73-76 – 226 (t35) Isleworth Collegiate Invitational (Windermere, Fla.) 71-74-77 – 222 (t38) The Prestige at PGA West (La Quinta, Calif.) 79-73-74 – 226 (63) Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) 76-81-74 – 231 (t55)

FRESHMAN SEASON (2013-14) Made four tournament appearances in his debut season with the Tigers in 2013-14 … Ended his true freshman season with a 75.42 scoring average in 12 rounds played on the year … Made his collegiate debut at the David Toms Intercollegiate held at the University Club in Baton Rouge during the 2013 fall season … Tied for 35th place with a 54-hole score of 10-over par 226 while playing as an individual in his debut event … Followed by earning a spot in LSU’s five-man starting lineup in the team’s fall finale at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational … Fired a season-low and career-low round of 1-under par 71 in the first round at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational before tying for 38th place in the event with a final score of 6-over par 222 … Played in two spring tournaments with the Tigers as a member of the team’s five-man lineup … Finished in 63rd place at The Prestige at PGA West after posting a tournament score of 13-over par 226 in LSU’s spring season opener … Tied for 55th place at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with a score of 18-over par 231 for 54 holes in his final appearance of the year … Earned his first varsity letter with the Tigers.

PRIOR TO LSU One of the nation’s premier prep prospects to sign a National Letter of Intent in the Class of 2013 … Signed with the Tigers as the No. 15-ranked recruit in the country for the Class of 2013 by Golfweek … Also ranked No. 21 by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and No. 35 in the Polo Junior Golf Rankings in his graduating class … Ranked No. 30 by Golfweek, No. 37 by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and No. 77 by the Polo Junior Golf Rankings regardless of classification at the time of his signing … Captured the 2013 Louisiana Golf Association Amateur Championship following his senior season at Loyola Prep College … Fired a 54-hole score of 9-under par 207 to claim a three-shot victory at the 94th LGA Amateur Championship held at Southern Trace Country Club in his hometown of Shreveport … Honored as a 2011 Rolex Junior Honorable Mention All-American by the American Junior Golf Association … Solidified his reputation as one of the elite junior golfers in the country with a run to the Sweet 16 in match play at the 2012 United States Junior Amateur Championship held at The Golf Club of New England in Stratham, New Hampshire … Tied for 15th place in stroke play with a 36-hole score of 3-over par 147 at the U.S. Junior Amateur to earn a spot in match play … Won his sectional qualifier for the 2012 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship in Kansas City … A two-time tournament champion as a member of the AJGA … Won his first AJGA crown with a record-setting performance at the 2011 Elbit Systems of America Championship at Hidden Creek Golf Course in Fort Worth, Texas … Set the course and tournament record in winning medalist honors at the 2011 Elbit Systems of America Championship with a score of 8-under 63 in the opening round and 11-under 202 for the tournament … Fired his lowest competitive round of 63 in the first round … Added a 6-under 65 in the final round for the victory … Won the 2012 AJGA David Toms Foundation Junior Championship held at Southern Trace Country Club … Fired a 7-under par 209 for a six-shot victory … Earned four career top-10 finishes in AJGA sponsored events during an outstanding prep career … Finished runner-up at the 2011 AJGA Genesis Shootout presented by the Valero Texas Open … Added a seventh-place finish at the 2012 AJGA Goodman Networks Junior at Traditions … Finished in 11th place at the 2011 Jones Cup Junior Invitational held at the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia … Earned an eighth-place finish at the 2011 Southern Junior Invitational … Captured back-to-back Class 3A regional and state championships in 2011 and 2012 as a leader of the squad at Loyola College Prep … Fired rounds of 5-under 67 and 4-under 68 to claim the 2012 Louisiana Class 3A state title as a junior with a 36-hole score of 9-under par 135 at Beaver Creek Golf Club in Zachary … Won the Class 3A state crown as a sophomore in 2011 with a two-round total of 3-under 142 … Guided Loyola College Prep to two-straight Class 3A team titles with his performance … Medalist at the 2012 Louisiana Champions Invitational with his tournament and amateur course record of 7-under 65 at Tamahka Trails Golf Club in Marksville.

PERSONAL Full name is Eric Nicholas Ricard … Born on Sept. 27, 1994 … Parents are Frank and Leah Ricard … Has one older sister, Lauren … Father played tennis at Louisiana College during his collegiate career … Posted a 3.52 cumulative grade-point average at Loyola College Prep … Plays right-handed … Majoring in general business.

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BLAKE

CALDWELL 5-9 • Freshman • HS Ponchatoula, LA. Ponchatoula High SCHOOL

PRIOR TO LSU The No. 1-ranked prep recruit in the state of Louisiana for the Class of 2014 … Was the top-ranked junior golfer in the state during his senior season at Ponchatoula High School by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard … Helped lead Ponchatoula High School to the Louisiana Class 5A state championship for the first time in school history in 2011 … Runner-up in the regional and state championships in Class 5A during his sophomore season in 2012 … Followed with a junior season in 2013 in which he won a district title before repeating his runner-up finish at the regional championship and earning sixth place at the Class 5A state championship … Wrapped up his prep career at Ponchatoula High School as a senior in 2014 by tying for third place at regionals and tying for fourth place at the state championship … Active in junior golf nationally as a member of the American Junior Golf Association and Arrowhead Junior Tour … Honored as an AJGA HP Junior All-American Honor Roll member following his junior season in 2013 … Fired a 54-hole score of 1-over par to tie for second place on the final leaderboard at the 2013 AJGA at The Bluffs held in St. Francisville, Louisiana … A winner of three Arrowhead Junior Tour events during the 2013 season with a combined score of 11-under par in his three victories … Honored as the 2013 Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour Player of the Year for his performance … Was a two-time member of the Louisiana Junior Cup Team in 2011 and 2012 … Won the clinching match to secure the Louisiana Junior Cup for the East team in 2012 … Awarded the inaugural Frank Mackel Scholarship by the Kelly Gibson Foundation for his outstanding academic and community service achievement throughout his career for Ponchatoula High School.

PERSONAL Full name is Joseph Blake Caldwell … Born on Oct. 12, 1995 … Parents are Bill, Jr., and Andre Caldwell … Has three brothers, Bill III, David and Justin … Mother and father both played golf at LSU during their collegiate careers … Was an honor student during his prep career as he graduated Magna Cum Laude at Ponchatoula High School … Plans to major in business at LSU.

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Television Roster

Players

Blake Caldwell

Stewart Jolly

Rhyne Jones

Myles Lewis

5-9 – Freshman Ponchatoula, La. Ponchatoula HS

5-9 – Senior Birmingham, Ala. Mountain Brook HS

5-9 – Sophomore Blowing Rock, N.C. Christ School/Nevada

6-0 – Senior New Orleans, La. Jesuit HS

Brandon Pierce

Eric Ricard

Ben Taylor

Zach Wright

5-9 – Sophomore Covington, La. St. Paul’s School

6-1 – Sophomore Shreveport, La. Loyola College Prep

6-0 – Senior Leatherhead, England Millfield School/Nova Southeastern

6-0 – Junior Phoenix, Ariz. Pinnacle HS

Garrett Runion

Chuck Winstead

Assistant Coach Third Season

Head Coach 10th Season

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Season Review

2014 Aggie Invitational Champions

History! Tigers Storm to NCAA Final Four The LSU Tigers made history with their appearance at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships as they stormed to the national semifinals of match play while seeing their 2013-14 season come to an end with a berth in the NCAA Final Four. After firing a team score of 4-under par 836 in 54 holes of medal play, the Tigers tied for second place among the 30 teams in qualifying to earn a No. 3 seed in match play in the event held at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. It marked the first time for the Tigers to earn a spot in match play in the six seasons of the current format used to determine the national champion adopted by the NCAA for the 2008-09 campaign. The Tigers then defeated No. 6-seeded UCLA by a score of 4-1 in the national quarterfinals before falling to the No. 2-seeded and eventual national champion Alabama by the same scoreline in the NCAA Semifinals.

Tigers defeat UCLA Bruins in NCAA Quarterfinals LSU’s run to the NCAA Final Four featured a dominant 4-1 victory over the No. 6-seeded UCLA Bruins in the national quarterfinals of match play. Senior stalwart Smylie Kaufman, junior All-Americans Ben Taylor and Curtis Thompson and sophomore standout Zach Wright each put the Tigers on the scoreboard with wins in their respective matches as LSU cruised into the NCAA Semifinals to face the defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide. Taylor scored the largest margin of victory with a 4&3 win over UCLA standout Anton Arboleda, while Wright edged Matt Pinizzotto by a 2&1 score, Kaufman defeated Jonathan Garrick by a 2-up margin and Thompson outlasted Preson Valder by a 1-up margin in the NCAA Quarterfinals.

Tigers Earn Best NCAA Finish in Nearly 50 Years While falling to Alabama in the national semifinals of match play at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship, the Tigers officially tied for third place nationally for the 2013-14 season to earn their best finish at the NCAA Championships in nearly five decades when they last earned a third-place finish in the event held at Shawnee Golf Club in Delaware, Pennsylvania, back in 1967. It also marked the program’s first top-10 finish at the NCAA Championships since David Toms’ senior season in 1989 when LSU ended in a tie for eighth place on the national leaderboard.

Taylor Leads Tigers with NCAA Top 10 finish An LSU Tiger finished among the Top 10 on the final NCAA Championship leaderboard for the third time in five seasons when Ben Taylor tied for sixth place nationally to cap an All-American debut season

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with the Tigers in 2013-14. After opening the championship with a score of 1-over par 71 in the first round, Taylor fired rounds of 3-under 67 in the second round and 2-under 68 in the final round for a teamlow score of 4-under par 206 in 54 holes of medal play. The England international finished just two shots back of Stanford’s Cameron Wilson in the race for the NCAA individual championship. Taylor joined national champion John Peterson as LSU’s recent top-10 finishers at the NCAA Championships as Peterson also tied for sixth place as a junior in 2010 before capturing the national championship himself as a senior in 2011.

Trios Earn All-America Honors in 2013-14 Taylor capitalized on his performance at the NCAA Championships with an Honorable Mention All-American selection by PING in the wake of the 2014 postseason. Two other Tigers were also recognized as All-Americans for their outstanding performance in 2013-14 as Stewart Jolly was honored as a Third-Team All-American by both PING and Golfweek to earn his first such honor, while Curtis Thompson was a repeat selection as a Golfweek Honorable Mention All-American for the second-straight season. It marked the first time since 1988 and only the second time in the program’s storied history that three LSU Tigers were selected as All-Americans for a single season. The last trio to do so were Greg Lesher, Fredrik Lindgren and David Toms during the 1987-88 season.

LSU Qualifies for ncaa championships Sparked by a furious finish to the final round at the NCAA Columbia Regional, the 14th-ranked and No. 3-seeded LSU Tigers earned a berth into the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in five seasons by tying for fourth place in the final team standings in the regional tournament held at The Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia, Missouri. The five Tigers in the lineup combined to shoot 18-under par on the back nine while carding 15 birdies, one eagle and just one bogey down the stretch to propel themselves into the Top 5 of the final team standings. They fired their second-lowest team score of the 2013-14 season at 14-under par 274 to finish the event for a fourth-place tie with Iowa State at 15-under par 849 for the championship. Smylie Kaufman was the top Tiger in the field as he had a 54-hole score of 7-under par 209 to tie for sixth place individually.

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Myles Lewis 2014 Louisiana Classics Champion

Tigers, Kaufman Strike SEC Silver The Tigers enjoyed their best performance at the SEC Championships in a generation when they scored the silver medal as the runners-up at the 2014 Southeastern Conference Men’s Golf Championships held at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia. Led by individual runner-up Smylie Kaufman, LSU lit up the Seaside Course with a school-record round with a 17-under par 263 in the final round to finish with a 54-hole score of 18-under par 822 to follow only the No. 1-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the final team standings. The Tigers earned their best team finish at the SEC Championships in 25 years when they last finished runner-up in 1989. Kaufman led the way by firing a career-low round of 6-under par 64 in the final round for a career-low tournament score of 11-under par 199 to finish runner-up in the final individual standings to Alabama’s Bobby Wyatt.

Jolly, Thompson Earn All-SEC Honors in 2013-14 After earning his first career All-SEC honor with a first-team selection as a sophomore in 2013, Curtis Thompson followed by earning a second-team all-conference selection as a junior in 2014. Joining Thompson on the All-SEC teams was junior standout Stewart Jolly as the Birmingham, Alabama, native was recognized by the league’s head coaches as a First-Team All-SEC performer as LSU’s No. 1 player for 2013-14. It marked the sixth-straight season in which an LSU golfer has earned First-Team All-SEC recognition on the golf course. Jolly and Thompson also joined Smylie Kaufman in earning PING All-Southeast Region selections in the spring of 2014.

Tigers Take Team Title at Aggie Invitational The LSU Tigers saved their best for last as they captured their first team championship of the 2013-14 season in their regular-season finale with an impressive victory at the 2014 Aggie Invitational held at The Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas, after posting a winning score of 35-over par 899. The Tigers were crowned the tournament co-champions as they matched the tournament host Texas A&M Aggies to finish four shots clear of the rest of the field. Two Tigers cracked the Top 10 of the final individual leaderboard with Curtis Thompson tying for eighth place at 7-over par 223 and Smylie Kaufman tying for 10th place at 8-over par 224.

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Smylie Kaufman 2014 SEC Silver Medalist

to a runner-up finish to Illinois by six shots in the final team standings with a school-record tournament score of 19-under par 845 during the event. The Tigers have made a habit of recording record scores at Oakbourne Country Club in recent years after winning the Louisiana Classics title with a previous team record of 17-under 847 in 2012. While playing as an individual, Lewis became the third-straight LSU Tiger and the fourth in five years to bring the Louisiana Classics crown back home to Baton Rouge as he followed scores of 3-under 69 and 1-under 71 with a career-low 6-under 66 in the final round.

Jolly Crowned Golfweek Challenge champion The stage was set for a dramatic finish in Tuesday’s final round at the fifth-annual Golfweek Conference Challenge as Stewart Jolly rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on his final hole at the par-three seventh to claim a share of the individual championship with Virginia Tech’s Scott Vincent in the event held at Spirit Hollow Golf Course in Burlington, Iowa. It marked the second time in his collegiate career for Jolly to share a tournament title after also finishing as the co-medalist with teammate Curtis Thompson at the 2012 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate during the 2012 fall season. He even matched his career-best tournament score of 6-under par 210 that he first set in sharing the title with Thompson at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate.

Jolly Competes for Team USA at Palmer Cup LSU’s All-American Stewart Jolly earned the right to represent the United States on the international stage for the first time in his golf career when he was one of 10 selections to Team USA that competed at the 2014 Palmer Cup during the summer following the collegiate season. The Palmer Cup is an annual Ryder Cup-style tournament featuring the top American and top European golfers competing at the collegiate level each season. The 2014 edition was played over three days from June 26-28 at Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey, England, as the Europeans reclaimed the cup by an 18.5-11.5 margin on the final scoring table. The United States teed off as the defending champion after taking the 2013 title by a 20.5-9.5 margin at Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware.

Lewis Wins First Career Title in Lafayette Junior Myles Lewis fired a bogey-free and career-low round of 6-under par 66 in the final round to claim medalist honors with a winning score of 10-under par 206 at the 29th-annual Louisiana Classic held at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette. His performance helped lead the Tigers

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LSU Tigers: 2014 NCAA Semifinalists

Tigers Compete for National Championship in Match Play The LSU Tigers gave themselves an opportunity to win their first national championship in nearly 60 years after firing a team score of 4-under par 836 in 54 holes of medal play at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships while earning the No. 3 seed in the eight-team match-play tournament for the title in the event held May 23-28 at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. It marked the first time in six seasons of the current format that the Tigers qualified for the eight-team, single-elimination tournament for the national championship dating back to NCAA’s adoption of match play since the 2008-09 season. Sparked by final rounds of 2-under par 70 by junior Ben Taylor and 1-under par 69 by senior Smylie Kaufman, the Tigers capped their third round of stroke-play qualifying with a team score of 1-under par 279 to finish as the runners-up to the No. 3-ranked Stanford Cardinal and in a tie for second place with the No. 1-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide among the 30 teams in medal play. 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 top-10 team finish at the NCAA Championships in 25 years, sandwiching scores of 1-under 279 in the first and third rounds around a 2-under 278 in the second round for a 54-hole score of 4-under par 836. The Tigers last cracked the Top 10 of the final team standings at the NCAA Championships in 1989 when they tied for eighth place nationally. It was the 20th time in the program’s history that the Tigers took home a top-10 team finish at the NCAA Championships, including four national titles claimed in 1940, 1942, 1947 and 1955. Their performance set up a quarterfinal match with No. 21-ranked UCLA as the Bruins nabbed the No. 6 seed thanks to an unbelievable display of putting on their back nine to finish off a round of 1-over 281 in the final round for a score 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 54 holes. No. 2 seed Alabama battled No. 7 seed SMU, and No. 4 seed Oklahoma 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 841. “Our guys are excited. They have worked hard this year, and are excited for the opportunity to play for a national championship,” LSU head coach Chuck Winstead said of his team’s qualification. “The reality of the NCAA Championships is that it is two tournaments here. We played very well in stroke play to put ourselves in this position, and now we’ll go to match play with the mindset to win. The teams we’ve brought here in the past few years have all had it in them to get to this point, but I’m so proud of these guys for believing in themselves and taking that next step up.

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“These guys are developing into a very good team. We’ll keep playing the type of golf we’ve been working toward, and see if we can’t get a little bit better every day. We’re looking forward to it.” After opening the championship with a 1-over 71, Taylor caught fire to finish as the top Tiger in the individual competition as he played his final 36 holes at 5-under par with scores of 3-under 67 and 2-under 68 to tie for sixth place on the final leaderboard at 4-under par 206 for the championship. It was the third time in five years for an LSU Tiger to crack the Top 10 of the final NCAA standing after three-time All-American John Peterson tied for sixth place as a junior in 2010 before being crowned the NCAA Champion as a senior in 2011. Taylor played a nearly flawless final round with three birdies and one bogey on his scorecard. After opening with six-straight pars, he reeled off three birdies over a four-hole stretch around the turn at the par-five seventh, par-four eighth and par-three 10th holes before making his lone bogey of the day at the par-four 13th hole to cap his afternoon with a team-leading 2-under par 68. It was an outstanding individual finish in the NCAA Championship

2014 NCAA Championships

Final Top 10 TEAM Leaderboard

1. Stanford T2. LSU T2. Alabama 4. Oklahoma State 5. Georgia Tech 6. UCLA T7. SMU T7. Illinois 9. South Carolina 10. Houston

281-267-279 – 827 -13 279-278-279 – 836 -4 274-278-284 – 836 -4 277-279-284 – 840 E 277-282-282 – 841 +1 279-284-281 – 844 +4 275-285-285 – 845 +5 285-280-280 – 845 +5 272-292-282 – 846 +6 284-285-279 – 848 +8

2014 NCAA Championships

Final Top 10 INDIVIDUAL Leaderboard

1. Cameron Wilson, Stanford 2. Ollie Schniederjans, Ga. Tech T3. David Boote, Stanford T3. James Ross, Houston T3. Robby Shelton, Alabama T6. Ben Taylor, LSU T6. Denny McCarthy, Virginia T6. Seth Reeves, Ga. Tech T9. Brian Campbell, Illinois T9. Sebastian Cappelen, Ark. T9. Lorens Chan, UCLA T9. Bryson Dechambeau, SMU T9. Toni Hakula, Texas T9. Ryan Zech, Missouri

71-63-70 – 204 -6 71-65-68 – 204 -6 73-67-65 – 205 -5 70-69-66 – 205 -5 72-65-68 – 205 -5 71-67-68 – 206 -4 65-71-70 – 206 -4 66-72-68 – 206 -4 70-74-63 – 207 -3 68-71-68 – 207 -3 70-70-67 – 207 -3 69-69-69 – 207 -3 72-68-67 – 209 -3 70-69-68 – 207 -3

LSU Tigers: 2014 NCAA Semifinalists

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Tigers Make Historic Run to NCAA Final Four debut for the junior from Leatherhead, Surrey, England, as Taylor joined the program in the summer of 2013 as a two-time NCAA Division II All-American. Kaufman and junior Curtis Thompson also broke par for 54 holes to lead the Tigers into match play as they tied one another for 19th place on the leaderboard at 1-under par 209 for the championship. Kaufman trailed Taylor by just one shot in the final round with his 1-under par 69 that featured an eagle at No. 7 and a birdie at the par-four 14th hole along with bogeys at the par-four ninth and par-four 16th holes. Thompson carded three birdies and three bogeys in the last round to take home his best career NCAA finish with an even-par 70 in Monday’s final round. Junior First-Team All-SEC and All-American standout Stewart Jolly added a 2-over 72 toward LSU’s team score in the final round as he finished off the individual competition in a tie for 55th place at 4-over 214 for the championship. Sophomore Zach Wright rounded out the lineup in a tie for 105th place at 9-over 219 that featured a 4-over 74 on the day. Stanford’s Cameron Wilson was crowned the 2014 NCAA Champion after defeating Georgia Tech standout Ollie Schniederjans in a three-hole, suddendeath playoff after the two All-Americans tied one another with matching 54-hole scores of 6-under par 204 in medal play. After earning the No. 3 seed in 54 holes of medal play, the Tigers made history in advancing to the NCAA Final Four of match play after scoring a decisive 4-1 victory over the No. 6-seeded UCLA Bruins in their quarterfinal match to set up an SEC showdown with No. 2 seed and defending national champion Alabama in the semifinal round at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. Kaufman, Taylor, Thompson and Wright each put the Tigers on the scoreboard with wins in their respective matches as LSU cruised to the NCAA Semifinals to face the Crimson Tide with just one match separating them from a chance to play for their fifth national championship in the program’s history. Kaufman clinched the win for the Tigers with his 2-up victory over UCLA’s Jonathan Garrick in Match 3. In what proved to be a tight match throughout, neither led by more than one hole until Kaufman’s par at the par-four ninth hole that sealed his 2-up victory and gave the Tigers a clinching 3-1 advantage in the match with only Wright still on the course. Kaufman took the lead for good in his match with an eagle 3 at the parfive seventh hole to take a 1-up lead with just two holes to play. He finished his round at No. 9 after teeing off from the back nine to start the day. Taylor, the team’s top performer in stroke play qualifying, scored the first point for the Tigers in the quarterfinal as he stormed to a 4&3 victory over Bruin standout Anton Arboleda as they played only 15 holes in their match. Taylor was actually 2-down to Arboleda through 3 holes after teeing off from the back nine, but quickly squared the match with pars at the par-four 13th and par-three 15th holes. After grabbing a lead for the first time with a par at the par-four third hole, Taylor sealed the match by a score of 4&3 as he won four-straight holes at Nos. 3-6 to put the Tigers on the scoreboard. The Bruins won their only point for the match when Loren Chan drew UCLA 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. The match came down to the final hole after they played 17 holes at all square. A par by Thompson and a double bogey by Valder on No. 9 gave the point to the Tigers for a crucial 2-1 advantage. After Kaufman clinched the quarterfinal victory for the Tigers, Wright polished off the win with his 2&1 victory over Matt Pinizzotto in Match 5. Wright found himself 2-down after just three holes, but bounced back for a 1-up lead at the turn with a birdie at the par-four 14th, a par at the par-three 15th and a birdie at the par-four 18th hole. Wright and Pinizzotto traded holes at No. 1 and No. 2, before Wright made birdie at No. 7 and par at No. 8 to finish his 2&1 victory in the match. Alabama, which also scored a 3-2 win in its quarterfinal match against No. 7 seed SMU, featured in the national championship match in each of the previous two seasons. The Crimson Tide won the program’s first national championship in 2013 with a 4-1 victory over Illinois in the national championship match after finishing as the NCAA runner-up to Texas in 2012. It’s a national semifinal that also featured the top two teams from the SEC Championship earlier in April 2014 when Alabama won its third-straight conference crown with the Tigers finishing as the SEC runners-up for the 2013-14 season. LSU and Alabama squared off on live television as Golf Channel broadcast both national semifinal matches on May 27, 2014, that also featured No. 1 seed Stanford against No. 4 seed Oklahoma State. The SEC rivals finished 54 holes of stroke play qualifying in a tie for second place in the team standings as both LSU and Alabama fired teams scores of 4-under par 836 in three rounds to earn their spot in the matchplay competition. They had certainly matched one another shot-for-shot through five days of action at Prairie Dunes Country Club after advancing to the NCAA Final Four. LSU’s historic 2013-14 season came to an end for the Tigers as they went down by a 4-1 score to Alabama in the NCAA Semifinals. Wright was the lone Tiger to win his semifinal match as he scored a 1-up victory over Alabama’s senior All-American Cory Whitsett to put the Tigers on the scoreboard after the Crimson Tide had already clinched their spot in the national championship match. Alabama advanced to battle No. 4 seed Oklahoma State in the title match to wrap up the 2013-14 collegiate season, defeating the Cowboys by a 4-1 score to win its second-straight national championship. With their run to the NCAA Final Four, the Tigers earned their best team finish at the NCAA Championships since earning a third-place national finish in 1967, while they also finished among the nation’s top-10 teams for the first time in 25 years when they tied for eighth place in the event in David Toms’ senior season in 1989. Their performance capped an outstanding postseason run that featured a victory at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational in their regular-season finale before finishing as the SEC runners-up at the SEC Championships and tying for fourth place at the NCAA Columbia (Mo.) Regional in 2014.

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2013-14 Final Statistics & Results

Zach Wright was the only Tiger to win both of his matches as LSU advanced to the Final Four at the NCAA Championships.

2013-14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS PLAYER

TOURNAMENTS

ROUNDS STROKES AVERAGE

LOW ROUND

RDS PAR OR BETTER

TOP 10s

TOP 20s

Stewart Jolly Curtis Thompson Ben Taylor Smylie Kaufman Zach Wright Myles Lewis Brandon Pierce Andrew Presley Landon Lyons Eric Ricard

12 12 8 10 10 4 3 3 2 4

36 36 24 30 30 12 9 9 6 12

66 67 67 64 65 66 70 67 71 71

26 19 12 14 11 5 3 2 2 1

5 3 2 5 2 1 1 1 0 0

7 7 5 6 2 2 1 1 1 0

2,574 2,584 1,728 2,166 2,207 883 665 670 447 905

71.50 71.78 72.00 72.20 73.57 73.58 73.89 74.44 74.50 75.42

2013-14 TOURNAMENT RESULTS DATE

Sept. 6-8 Sept. 15-17 Oct. 5-6 Oct. 20-22 Feb. 17-19 March 2-4 March 10-11 March 24-25 April 4-5 April 25-27 May 15-17 May 23-28

TOURNAMENT

Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Champion: Georgia Tech Golfweek Conference Challenge Champion: Oklahoma David Toms Intercollegiate Champion: Southeastern Louisiana Isleworth Collegiate Invitational Champion: Alabama The Prestige at PGA West Champion: Stanford Querencia Cabo Collegiate Champion: Houston Louisiana Classics Champion: Illinois Valspar Invitational at Floridian Champion: Georgia Tech Aggie Invitational Co-Champions: LSU & Texas A&M SEC Men’s Golf Championships Champion: Alabama NCAA Columbia Regional Champion: Oklahoma State NCAA Men’s Golf Championships Champion: Alabama

LSU FINISH

* - Defeated UCLA, 4-1; Lost to Alabama, 4-1 in Match Play.

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LSU SCORE

3rd (14) 297-287-280 -- 864 E Host: The Farm Golf Club Course: The Farm Golf Club 5th (15) 300-288-284 -- 872 +8 Host: Iowa Course: Spirit Hollow Golf Course 7th (12) 301-288-305 -- 894 +30 Host: LSU Course: University Club 10th (15) 288-300-296 -- 884 +20 Host: Central Florida & Texas Tech Course: Isleworth Golf & Country Club 4th (12) 286-281-279 -- 846 -6 Host: UC-Davis Course: PGA West (Greg Norman Course) 8th (14) 297-293-293 -- 883 +31 Host: SMU Course: Querencia Golf Club 2nd (12) 280-282-283 -- 845 -19 Host: Louisiana-Lafayette Course: Oakbourne Country Club 4th (15) 278-278-291 -- 847 -5 Host: Arkansas & Lamar Course: Floridian Golf Club T-1st (12) 298-293-308 -- 899 +35 Host: Texas A&M Course: Traditions Golf Club 2nd (14) 284-275-263 -- 822 -18 Host: SEC Course: Sea Island Golf Club T-4th (14) 289-286-274 -- 849 -15 Host: Missouri Course: The Club at Old Hawthorne T-3rd (30) 279-278-279 -- 836 -4* Host: Wichita State Course: Prairie Dunes Golf Club

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2013-14 Round-by-Round Results

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ben taylor David Toms Intercollegiate The Prestige at PGA West Louisiana Classics Valspar Invitational at Floridian Aggie Invitational SEC Championships NCAA Columbia Regional NCAA Championships

78-79-72 -- 229 (t45) 74-68-67 -- 209 (t7) 72-71-75 -- 218 (t17) 73-69-75 -- 217 (t36) 72-74-79 -- 225 (t16) 72-69-67 -- 208 (t13) 74-75-67 -- 216 (t26) 71-67-68 -- 206 (t6)

curtis thompson

Stewart Jolly

stewart jolly Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Golfweek Conference Challenge David Toms Intercollegiate Isleworth Collegiate Invitational The Prestige at PGA West Querencia Cabo Collegiate Louisiana Classics Valspar Invitational at Floridian Aggie Invitational SEC Championships NCAA Columbia Regional NCAA Championships

72-68-71 -- 211 (3) 72-69-69 -- 210 (t1) 75-70-78 -- 223 (t25) 72-76-70 -- 218 (t18) 70-71-71 -- 212 (t16) 71-71-73 -- 215 (t6) 74-71-68 -- 213 (8) 66-67-70 -- 203 (2) 77-72-82 -- 231 (t30) 72-70-68 -- 210 (t21) 72-72-70 -- 214 (t21) 74-68-72 -- 214 (t55)

sMYlie kaufman Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Golfweek Conference Challenge David Toms Intercollegiate Querencia Cabo Collegiate Louisiana Classics Valspar Invitational at Floridian Aggie Invitational SEC Championships NCAA Columbia Regional NCAA Championships

74-73-67 -- 214 (t5) 77-76-74 -- 227 (56) 76-75-80 -- 231 (t51) 78-76-72 -- 226 (t42) 70-72-70 -- 212 (t6) 70-71-74 -- 215 (t30) 74-77-73 -- 224 (t10) 67-68-64 -- 199 (2) 72-67-70 -- 209 (t6) 68-72-69 -- 209 (t19)

Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Golfweek Conference Challenge David Toms Intercollegiate Isleworth Collegiate Invitational The Prestige at PGA West Querencia Cabo Collegiate Louisiana Classics Valspar Invitational at Floridian Aggie Invitational SEC Championships NCAA Columbia Regional NCAA Championships

75-72-72 -- 219 (t23) 75-70-71 -- 216 (t13) 72-72-76 -- 220 (t15) 72-74-78 -- 224 (t43) 68-71-68 -- 207 (t4) 73-73-76 -- 222 (t24) 68-68-73 -- 209 (t2) 69-72-72 -- 213 (t24) 75-74-74 -- 223 (t8) 73-68-67 -- 208 (t13) 72-75-67 -- 214 (t21) 68-71-70 -- 209 (t19)

ZACH WRIGHT Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Golfweek Conference Challenge David Toms Intercollegiate The Prestige at PGA West Querencia Cabo Collegiate Louisiana Classics Valspar Invitational at Floridian SEC Championships NCAA Columbia Regional NCAA Championships

77-79-70 -- 226 (t48) 83-77-71 -- 231 (t63) 76-69-73 -- 218 (t10) 74-71-73 -- 218 (t43) 77-73-74 -- 224 (t34) 70-72-72 -- 214 (t9) 78-71-78 -- 227 (69) 76-74-65 -- 215 (t36) 73-72-70 -- 215 (t23) 72-73-74 -- 219 (t105)

Overall Record: 117-41-3 (NCAA Final Four) Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Golfweek Conference Challenge David Toms Intercollegiate Isleworth Collegiate Invitational The Prestige at PGA West Querencia Cabo Collegiate Louisiana Classics Valspar Invitational at Floridian Aggie Invitational SEC Championships NCAA Columbia Regional NCAA Championships

297-287-280 -- 864 E 300-288-284 -- 872 +8 301-288-305 -- 894 +30 288-300-296 -- 884 +20 286-281-279 -- 846 -6 297-293-293 -- 883 +31 280-282-283 -- 845 -19 278-278-291 -- 847 -5 298-293-308 -- 899 +35 284-275-263 -- 822 -18 289-286-274 -- 849 -15 279-278-279 -- 836 -4

3rd of 14 5th of 15 7th of 12 10th of 15 4th of 12 8th of 14 2nd of 12 4th of 15 T-1st of 12 2nd of 14 T-4th of 13 T-3rd of 30

MYLES LEWIS David Toms Intercollegiate Isleworth Collegiate Invitational Louisiana Classics Aggie Invitational

76-74-70 -- 220 (t15) 73-77-71 -- 221 (t35) 69-71-66 -- 206 (1) 79-73-84 -- 236 (t45)

LANDON LYONS David Toms Intercollegiate Louisiana Classics

85-73-73 -- 231 (t51) 71-72-73 -- 216 (t13)

brandon pierce Golfweek Conference Challenge David Toms Intercollegiate Louisiana Classics

76-73-73 -- 222 (t34) 79-71-79 -- 229 (t45) 70-73-71 -- 214 (t9)

ANDREW PRESLEY Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic David Toms Intercollegiate Isleworth Collegiate Invitational

76-74-73 -- 223 (t37) 67-79-69 -- 215 (t3) 76-76-80 -- 232 (t66)

eric ricard David Toms Intercollegiate Isleworth Collegiate Invitational The Prestige at PGA West Querencia Cabo Collegiate

77-73-76 -- 226 (t35) 71-74-77 -- 222 (t38) 79-73-74 -- 226 (63) 76-81-74 -- 231 (t55)

Smylie Kaufman

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2013-14 Tournament Summaries

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Sept. 6-8, 2013 Rocky Face, Georgia The Farm Golf Club (Par 72) Stewart Jolly kicked off what proved to be an All-American junior campaign in 2013-14 by taking home a third-place individual finish at the 25th-annual Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic, firing a 54-hole score of 5-under par 211 that included a 4-under 68 in the second round. Tiger senior Smylie Kaufman also cracked the Top 5 in his season opener by tying for fifth place individually with a three-round score of 2-under par 214 to lead the Tigers to a strong third-place team finish in the event. The Tigers wrapped up a return trip to the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic by posting strong team score of 8-under 280 in the final round for third place in one of the premier collegiate events of the 2013 fall season.

Oct. 20-22, 2014 Windermere, Florida Isleworth Golf & Country Club (Par 72) LSU wrapped up its 2013 fall season with a return trip to Windermere, Florida, to compete in one of the premier events of the fall season at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational held over three rounds at Isleworth Golf & Country Club. After opening with a round of even-par 288, the Tigers posted a 12-over 300 in the second round and 8-over 296 in the third round for a 54-hole score of 20-over par 884 to take 10th place overall. Alabama ran away with the team title by 12 shots over runner-up Central Florida with a winning score of 26-under par 838. Stewart Jolly was the lone Tiger to crack the Top 20 of the final leaderboard as he again led the team with a total score of 2-over par 218 to tie for 18th place on the leaderboard.

Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Georgia Tech Georgia LSU Clemson North Carolina

280-289-281 -- 850 -14 291-282-283 -- 856 -8 297-287-280 -- 864 E 294-285-286 -- 865 +1 290-288-296 -- 874 +10

golfweek conference challenge Sept. 15-17, 2013 Burlington, Iowa Spirit Hollow Golf Club (Par 72) Stewart Jolly followed an impressive third-place finish in his 2013-14 season opener at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic by tying for the top spot on the leaderboard at the Golfweek Conference Challenge after following an even-par 72 in the first round with back-to-back scores of 3-under par 69 in the second and third rounds for a winning 54-hole score of 6-under par 210 in the event. Jolly shared medalist honors with Virginia Tech’s Scott Vincent to win his second career individual championship as an LSU Tiger. He was also the 2012 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate co-champion to kick off his sophomore season. Jolly’s performance helped lead the Tigers to a fifth-place finish in the final team standings at the Golfweek Conference Challenge as they posted a 54-hole team score of 8-over par 872, including a 4-under 284 in the final round. Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Oklahoma Virginia Tech Houston New Mexico LSU

290-278-289 -- 857 -7 292-291-278 -- 861 -3 289-292-285 -- 866 +2 290-292-285 -- 867 +3 300-288-284 -- 872 +8

david toms intercollegiate Oct. 5-6, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana University Club (Par 72) The Tigers teed off at the fifth-annual David Toms Intercollegiate as the defending team champions of the event, but slipped to a seventh-place finish in the 12-team field in the event held at the University Club in Baton Rouge. The home side posted a team score of 30-over par 894 over three rounds, including a team-best of even-par 288 in the second round of the competition. Junior All-American Curtis Thompson was the top Tiger in their starting five while tying for 15th place on the final leaderboard with his score of 4-over par 220, including back-to-back even-par 72s in the first and second rounds. Two Tigers cracked the Top 10 of the leaderboard while playing as individuals as two-time All-SEC performer Andrew Presley tied for third place at 1-under 215 and sophomore Zach Wright tied for 10th place at 2-over 218. The Southeastern Louisiana Lions took home the team title with a winning score of 4-under par 860 carded during the event. Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7.

Southeastern Louisiana Iowa State Kennesaw State Louisiana-Lafayette Houston LSU

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281-289-290 -- 860 -4 300-292-284 -- 876 +12 298-292-290 -- 880 +16 293-291-297 -- 881 +17 288-299-295 -- 882 +18 301-288-305 -- 894 +30

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Alabama Central Florida California Florida State Illinois LSU

280-272-286 -- 838 -26 282-281-287 -- 850 -14 284-286-289 -- 859 -5 292-284-292 -- 868 +4 284-289-296 -- 869 +5 288-300-296 -- 884 +20

the prestige at pga west Feb. 17-19, 2014 La Quinta, California PGA West - Greg Norman Course (Par 71) Juniors Curtis Thompson and Ben Taylor each cracked the Top 10 of the final leaderboard in their 2014 spring season opener to lead the Tigers to a fourth-place finish in their debut appearance at The Prestige at PGA West held at the Greg Norman Course at PGA West. Thompson fired a season-low score of 6-under 207 that featured rounds of 3-under 68 in the first and third rounds and an even-par 71 in the second round to tie for fourth place in the final standings. Taylor followed his 3-over 74 in the opening round with a score of 3-under 68 in the second round and 4-under 67 in the final round to earn his first top-10 finish as an LSU Tiger with a final score of 4-under 209. Their performance helped the Tigers crack the Top 5 in fourth place in the 15-team field with their final score of 6-under 846 during the event. Stanford outlasted Pac-12 rival Washington by two shots for the team title with a score of 21-under par 831 for 54 holes. The UCLA Bruins followed well back in third place overall at 11-under 841. Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. T5. T5.

Stanford Washington UCLA LSU Arizona State Texas Tech

269-280-282 -- 831 -21 286-277-270 -- 833 -19 282-286-273 -- 841 -11 286-281-279 -- 846 -6 290-290-272 -- 852 E 292-282-278 -- 852 E

querencia cabo collegiate March 2-4, 2014 Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Querencia Golf Club (Par 71) The month of March saw the Tigers go international with a trip to the resort desitnation of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to compete at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate event held at Querencia Golf Club as they continued their 2014 spring season. As he had done throughout the season to that point, junior All-America hopeful Stewart Jolly led the way for the Tigers by earning his third top-10 finish of the campaign. Following back-to-back rounds of evenpar 71 in the first and second rounds, Jolly posted a 2-over 73 in the final round to tie for sixth place on the final leaderboard with his tournament score of 2-over par 215. Curtis Thompson followed by tying for 24th place overall at 9-over 22 for the tournament. The Tigers took home eighth place in the event after posting a final score of 31-over par 883. Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. T5. T5. 8.

Houston Alabama Baylor Kentucky SMU Vanderbilt LSU

288-285-290 -- 863 +11 294-284-286 -- 864 +12 296-281-293 -- 870 +18 298-287-287 -- 872 +20 288-298-289 -- 875 +23 296-290-289 -- 875 +23 297-293-293 -- 883 +31

2013-14 Tournament Summaries

Review

Louisiana classics

SEC Men’s Golf Championships

March 10-11, 2014 Lafayette, Louisiana Oakbourne Country Club (Par 72) The Tigers earned their best finish to date in the 2013-14 season with their annual trip to nearby Lafayette, Louisiana, as they fired their lowest team score in at least 30 years with a 54-hole score of 19-under par 845. The Tigers opened at 8-under 280 in the first round and followed with rounds of 6-under 282 in the second round and 5-under 283 in the third round to finish six shots off the pace set by defending champion Illinois as the Fighting Illini retained their crown with a winning score of 25-under par 839. Four of the five Tigers in the lineup all cracked the Top 10 of the leaderboard as Curtis Thompson tied for second place at 7-under 209, Smylie Kaufman tied for sixth place at 4-under 212, Stewart Jolly finished in eighth place at 3-under 213 and Zach Wright tied for ninth place at 2-under 212. Junior Myles Lewis won his first career collegiate title while playing as an individual during the event as he fired a career-low tournament score of 10-under par 206 that featured rounds of 3-under 69, 1-under 71 and 6-under 66. The Tigers had made a habit of recording record scores at Oakbourne Country Club in recent years after winning their last team title at the Louisiana Classics crown with a previous team-record score of 17-under par 847 in 2012. LSU’s final score of 19-under 845 to cap the 29th-annual event was the lowest by a Tiger team since at least the 1984-85 season.

April 25-27, 2014 St. Simons Island, Georgia Sea Island Golf Club (Par 70) The LSU Tigers lit up the par-70 Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club in the final round with a school-record round of 17-under par 263 to catapult themselves into second place in the final team standings at the 2014 SEC Men’s Golf Championships for their best team finish in the event in 25 years. With senior Smylie Kaufman leading the way once again with a brilliant 6-under par 64, the Tigers smashed their previous school-record round in relation to par by four shots with a 17-under par 263 on Sunday and a 54-hole tournament score of 18-under par 822 to follow only the No. 1-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide across the finish line. The Tigers earned their best team finish at the SEC Championships since they last finished runner-up in LSU great David Toms’ senior year in 1989, while they came up short in winning their first SEC title since 1987. LSU’s 18-under par 822 is the lowest non-winning score for 54 holes in the 75-year history of the SEC Men’s Golf Championships. Kaufman led the way for the Tigers from start to finish at the 2014 SEC Men’s Golf Championships as he followed rounds of 3-under 67 and 2-under 68 with the lowest score with his LSU career at 6-under 64 in the final round for a career-low tournament score of 11-under 199 to finish as the SEC silver medalist in his SEC Championships debut.

Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Illinois LSU Louisiana-Lafayette Louisiana Tech New Mexico State

279-270-290 -- 839 -25 280-282-283 -- 845 -19 281-286-301 -- 868 +4 294-279-299 -- 872 +8 296-289-294 -- 879 +15

valspar invitational at floridian March 24-25, 2014 Palm City, Florida Floridian Golf Club (Par 71) Stewart Jolly continued his All-America form with a trip to Palm City, Florida, where the Tigers comepted at the Valspar Invitational at Floridian as he fired a career-low tournament score of 10-under par 203 to take home a runner-up finish in the final individual standings for his fourth Top 10 for his junior campaign. Jolly was brilliant once again, firing scores of 5-under 66, 4-under 67 and 1-under 71 to lead the Tigers into the Top 5 of the final team standings. The Tigers broke par at 5-under 847 for the championship to take home a fourth-place team finish. Georgia Tech took the team title by eight shots over Oklahoma State with its winning score of 15-under par 837. Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. T5. T5.

Georgia Tech Oklahoma State Texas A&M LSU Arkansas SMU

274-280-283 -- 837 -15 273-281-291 -- 845 -7 277-285-284 -- 846 -6 278-278-291 -- 847 -5 283-286-279 -- 848 -4 275-282-291 -- 848 -4

aggie invitational April 5-6, 2014 College Station, Texas Traditions Club (Par 72) The 25th-ranked LSU Tigers certainly saved their best for last as they captured their first team championship of the 2013-14 season in their regular-season finale with an impressive victory at the 2014 Aggie Invitational held at The Traditions Club after posting a winning score of 35-over par 899 after the final round. The Tigers were crowned the tournament co-champions as they matched the 16th-ranked and tournament host Texas A&M Aggies with a winning score of 35-over 899 to finish four shots clear of the rest of the field. Two Tigers cracked the Top 10 of the final leaderboard as junior All-American Curtis Thompson tied for eighth place and senior Smylie Kaufman tied for 10th place overall while setting the pace. Team Results

T1. T1. 3. T4. T4.

LSU Texas A&M Texas Tech California Oklahoma State

298-293-308 -- 899 +35 297-295-307 -- 899 +35 302-295-306 -- 903 +39 302-302-302 -- 906 +42 300-298-308 -- 906 +42

Team Results

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Alabama LSU Auburn Georgia South Carolina

272-266-268 -- 806 -34 284-275-263 -- 822 -18 274-281-274 -- 829 -11 277-284-272 -- 833 -7 277-278-283 -- 838 -2

NCAA COLUMBIA regional May 15-17, 2014 Columbia, Missouri The Club at Old Hawthorne (Par 72) Sparked by a furious finish to the final round at the NCAA Columbia Regional, the 14th-ranked and No. 3-seeded LSU Tigers earned a berth into the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in five seasons by tying for fourth place in the final team standings in the regional tournament held at The Club at Old Hawthorne. The five Tigers in LSU’s lineup combined to shoot 18-under par on the back nine while carding 15 birdies, one eagle and just one bogey down the stretch to propel themselves into the Top 5 in the standings. They fired their second-lowest team score of the 2013-14 season with a 14-under par 274 to finish the event in a tie for fourth place with No. 9-seeded Iowa State with matching 54-hole scores of 15-under par 849. The Tigers were among five teams advancing from the 14-team field at the NCAA Columbia Regional into the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. Senior Smylie Kaufman was the top Tiger for the second-straight event as he tied for sixth place at 7-under par 209 for the regional. Team Results

1. 2. 3. T4. T4.

Oklahoma State Arkansas Missouri LSU Iowa State

272-287-272 -- 831 -33 289-270-277 -- 836 -28 281-280-276 -- 837 -27 289-286-274 -- 849 -15 293-286-270 -- 849 -15

NCAA men’s golf championships May 23-28, 2014 Hutchinson, Kansas Prairie Dunes Country Club (Par 70) The Tigers made history with a run to the NCAA Semifinals of match play as they officially ended the collegiate season by tying for third place at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships with a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the eventual national champion Alabama Crimson Tide in the NCAA Final Four. The Tigers earned their first top-10 team finish at the NCAA Championships for the first time in 25 years since they tied for eighth place in 1989 and their best finish in the evevnt in 47 years since earning a thirdplace national finish in 1967. LSU qualified for the match play tournament for the national championship for the first time in the six years of the current stroke play and match play format. They advanced to the Final Four following a decisive 4-1 victory over the UCLA Bruins in the national quarterfinals. LSU actually tied for second place in 54 holes of stroke play qualifying with a score of 4-under par 836. Junior Ben Taylor was the top Tiger in medal play as he fired a 4-under 206 in three rounds to cap an All-American season.

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2013-14 SEC Recap

Review

2014 All-sec team First Team Bobby Wyatt, Alabama (SEC Medalist) Robby Shelton, Alabama Joey Garber, Georgia Stewart Jolly, LSU Trey Mullinax, Alabama Sebastian Cappelen, Arkansas Michael Cromie, Georgia *Cory Whitsett, Alabama *Chad Ramey, Mississippi State

Second Team

SEC Coach of the Year

Emilio Cuartero, Missouri Curtis Thompson, LSU Greg Yates, Texas A&M Matt Gilchrest, Auburn

Jay Seawell, Alabama

SEC Player of the Year Robby Shelton, Alabama

All-Freshman Team Matthias Schwab, Vanderbilt Robby Shelton, Alabama Matt Gilchrest, Auburn Greyson Sigg, Georgia Euan Walker, Missouri

Niclas Carlsson, Auburn Matt NeSmith, South Carolina Lee McCoy, Georgia Ben Crancer, Texas A&M

SEC Freshmen of the Year Robby Shelton, Alabama

SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Cory Whitsett, Alabama

the southeastern conference setting the standard for intercollegiate athletics in golf

Throughout the rich history of the Southeastern Conference the league has provided a strong tradition of excellence on the links with its men’s golf programs, and the 2013-14 season was no different as 10 of the SEC’s 14 programs made an appearance at the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships held at Prairie Dune Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. Alabama proved to be the class of the SEC and NCAA again in 2014 while winning its second-straight national championship with a 4-1 victory over Oklahoma State in the national championship match. It marked the fourth-straight season that an SEC appeared in the national championship match since 2011. The LSU Tigers enjoyed a breakthrough season with a run to the NCAA Final Four of match play as they fell to the Crimson Tide by a 4-1 margin in the national semifinals.

men’s golf notes 8 12 SEC teams finished the season ranked in the final Golfweek Top 25 with a total of 31 individuals ranked in the final Golfweek Top 100 in 2014.

NCAA team titles and seven NCAA individual champions all-time.

While Alabama and LSU each appeared in match play and advanced to the NCAA Final Four, South Carolina just missed a spot in match play while finishing in ninth-place overall in team stroke-play qualifying. Also competing at the NCAA Championships were Georgia (T-11th), Vanderbilt (T-16th), Arkansas (T-18th), Kentucky (T-18th), Missouri (20th), Auburn (23rd) and Texas A&M (29th). Alabama freshman Robby Shelton capped an AllAmerican rookie season by tying for third place at 5-under par 205 as the top SEC finisher at the NCAA Championships, followed by LSU’s Ben Taylor in a tie for sixth place at 4-under par 206. The conference has captured 12 NCAA team titles in its history with four belonging to both LSU and Florida. In addition, seven SEC golfers have won the individual title the NCAA Championships since 1985.

Top 10 team finishes at the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships since 1985.

Individuals have placed in the Top 10 of the leaderboard at the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships since 1985.

First-Team All-Americans since 1990.

2014 SEC RESULTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. T6. T6. 8. T9. T9. 11. T12. T12. 14.

Alabama LSU Auburn Georgia South Carolina Arkansas Missouri Kentucky Mississippi State Texas A&M Vanderbilt Florida Tennessee Ole Miss

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TOP 10 INDIVIDUALS 283-275-290 -- 848 +8 284-275-263 -- 822 -18 274-281-274 -- 829 -11 277-284-272 -- 833 -7 277-278-283 -- 838 -2 280-287-275 -- 842 +2 288-280-274 -- 842 +2 287-284-273 -- 844 +4 287-281-281 -- 849 +9 288-286-275 -- 849 +9 288-288-276 -- 852 +12 292-281-286 -- 859 +19 289-290-280 -- 859 +19 292-293-290 -- 875 +35

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1. 2. 3. 4. T5. T5. T5. T5. T9. T9.

Bobby Wyatt, Alabama Smylie Kaufman, LSU Robby Shelton, Alabama Chad Ramey, Mississippi State David Snyder, Kentucky Greg Yates, Texas A&M Niclas Carlsson, Auburn Will Murphy, South Carolina Emilio Cuartero, Missouri Cory Whitsett, Alabama

65-61-66 -- 192 -18 67-68-64 -- 199 -11 67-67-66 -- 200 -10 70-70-64 -- 204 -6 69-71-65 -- 205 -5 72-67-66 -- 205 -5 67-69-69 -- 205 -5 66-68-71 -- 205 -5 71-68-67 -- 206 -4 68-71-67 -- 206 -4

Tigers on the PGA TOUR

Review

David Toms

Turned Professional: 1989 Joined PGA TOUR: 1992 Best Finish: 1st (13 times) Career Earnings: $40,229,339

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. 8 in career PGA TOUR earnings with $40,313,294 as of Oct. 22, 2014.

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Tigers on the PGA TOUR

Andrew loupe Turned Professional: 2011 Joined PGA TOUR: 2013 Best Finish: T-4th (2014 Valero Texas Open) Career Earnings: $649,857

john peterson Turned Professional: 2011 Joined PGA TOUR: 2013 Best Finish: T-4th (2012 U.S. Open) Career Earnings: $1,194,089

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Tigers in Major Championships

HISTORY

LSU Tigers have enjoyed tremendous success in major championships over the years as five program alums have accounted for 20 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. Below are a listing of all top-10 finishes by LSU Tigers in major championships in the history of professional golf. The Masters Place Player Year T6 David Toms 1998 T8 David Toms 2003 9 David Toms 2007 The U.S. Open Place Player Year T5 Fred Haas, Jr. 1954 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 Place Player Year Quarterfinals Fred Haas, Jr. 1952 T4 Johnny Pott 1961 T8 Gardner Dickinson 1963 5 Gardner Dickinson 1965 1 David Toms 2001 T10 David Toms 2005 T4 David Toms 2011 7 David Toms 2013

Fred Haas, Jr.

Johnny Pott

Gardner Dickinson

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2012 U.S. Open Championship

LSU Greats Make History at 112th U.S. Open Two LSU Tigers finished among the Top 10 of the leaderboard in a major championship for the first time in program history when 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 June 14-17, 2012. After playing alongside one another in the second to last pairing in Saturday’s third round, Toms wrapped up the championship with a 2-under par 68 and Peterson carded an even-par 70 on Father’s Day to tie Jim Furyk, Padraig Harrington and Jason Dufner for fourth place overall. They finished just two shots off the pace as Webb Simpson was crowned the 2012 U.S. Open champion after having a 1-over par 281 to become the 14th different major champion in a run of 14-straight majors. With their performance, both Toms and Peterson earned an exemption into the field for the 2013 Masters Tournament and 2013 U.S. Open Championship. Toms earned his best career finish at the U.S. Open and took home 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. 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 NCAA champion, was the first to do so after tying for fifth place back 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. Johnny Pott also tied for ninth place in 1964. And while LSU Tigers have earned a total of 20 top-10 finishes in the history of major championship golf on the PGA TOUR, Toms and Peterson are the first to do so on the same weekend.

112th U.S. Open Leaderboard 1. Webb Simpson T2. Graeme McDowell T2. Michael Thompson T4. John Peterson T4. David Toms T4. Jason Dufner T4. Jim Furyk T4. Padraig Harrington 9. Ernie Els T10. Kevin Chappell T10. Retief Goosen T10. John Senden T10. Lee Westwood T10. Casey Wittenberg

281 +1 282 +2 282 +2 283 +3 283 +3 283 +3 283 +3 283 +3 284 +4 285 +5 285 +5 285 +5 285 +5 285 +5

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2013 Masters Tournament

HISTORY

toms, peterson enjoy memorable masters While carding six birdies on the day, including four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine, LSU alum and PGA TOUR great David Toms fired the lowest score in the field on the final day with a 5-under par 67 at Augusta National to tie for 13th place leaderboard at the 2013 Masters Tournament. Toms catapulted himself 25 spots up the leaderboard in the final round while matching PGA TOUR veteran Michael Thompson with the lowest score of the day among the 61 players in the field. Toms broke par for 72 holes at The Masters with a tournament score of 1-under par 287 to finish in a tie for 13th place overall along with Fred Couples, Ernie Els, Dustin Johnson and Nick Watney. After tying one another for first place with matching 72-hole scores of 9-under par 279, Australia’s Adam Scott defeated Argentina’s Angel Cabrera in a sudden-death playoff to win his first major championship and the honor of wearing the green jacket in 2013. Scott drained a 20-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to close out a 3-under 69 and force a playoff with Cabrera to decide the winner. Scott clinched the victory by holing a 12-footer for birdie on the second playoff hole – the par-four 10th hole – to win his first career major championship. The Australian came close a season ago when he earned second place at The Open Championship held at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. Toms dipped into red figures in Sunday’s round with back-toback birdies at the par-four seventh and par-five eighth holes before making the turn at 2-under par on his round. He then made threestraight birdies on the back nine on the par-five 13th, par-four 14th

and par-five 15th holes before he traded shots with a bogey at the par-three 16th hole and par-four 17th hole for a round of 5-under 67. It marked the fifth time in 15 career appearances at The Masters that Toms had finished among the Top 15 of the final leaderboard while tying for 13th place following the final round. Toms also tied for sixth place in 1998, tied for eighth place in 2003, finished in ninth place in 2007 and tied for 14th place in 2010 for his best finishes in one of the iconic events in golf. He has actually claimed 11 career top-10 finishes in major championships, including his victory at the 2001 PGA Championship for his one and only major victory on the PGA TOUR. While Toms made his 15th career appearance at The Masters, LSU’s 2011 NCAA Champion John Peterson finished in 60th place in his Masters debut with a score of 14-over 302 after making the cut. Peterson wrapped up the weekend by carding an 8-over 80 in the final round after posting rounds of 1-under 71 in the first round, 5-over 77 in the second round and 2-over 74 in the third round. He made the cut in each of his two major championship appearances as a professional as he earned the right to compete at The Masters after tying for fourth place at the 2012 U.S. Open Championship in his major championship debut in 2012. Toms and Peterson actually kicked off a memorable week at the 2013 Masters Tournament after playing with one another in their practice round on the Wednesday before the start of the tournament.

2013 Masters Leaderboard 1. Adam Scott 2. Angel Cabrera 3. Jason Day T4. Marc Leishman T4. Tiger Woods T6. Thorbjorn Olesen T6. Brandt Snedeker T8. Sergio Garcia T8. Matt Kuchar T8. Lee Westwood T11. Tim Clark T11. John Huh T13. David Toms T13. Fred Couples T13. Ernie Els T13. Dustin Johnson

279 -9 279 -9 281 -7 283 -5 283 -5 284 -4 284 -4 285 -3 285 -3 285 -3 286 -2 286 -2 287 -1 287 -1 287 -1 287 -1

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LSU at the SEC Championships

HISTORY YEAR

LSU FINISH (SCORE)

CHAMPION (SCORE)

MEDALIST (SCORE) SITE

1937 1st (614) LSU (614) Vincent D’Antoni, Tennessee 1938 1st (608) LSU (608) Henry Castillo, LSU 1939 1st (604) LSU (604) Sonny Swift, Georgia 1940 1st (601) LSU (601) Henry Castillo, LSU 1941 Georgia (616) Earl Stewart, LSU 1942 1st (597) LSU (597) Arnold Blum, Georgia 1943-45 No Tournaments- World War II 1946 1st (604) LSU (604) George Hamer, Georgia 1947 1st (633) LSU (633) Joe Moore, LSU 1948 1st (303) LSU (303) Albert Swann, Georgia Tech 1949 Georgia Tech (303) Hal Spears, Georgia 1950 Georgia (1200) John Owens, Kentucky 1951 Georgia (579) Griffin Moody, Georgia 1952 Georgia (591) Bobby Hill, Alabama 1953 1st (586) LSU (586) Eddie Merrins, LSU 1954 1st (576) LSU (576) Eddie Merrins, LSU 1955 Florida (575) Lester Kelly, Georgia 1956 Florida (591) Dave Ragan, Florida 1957 Georgia (590) Tom Aaron, Florida 1958 Georgia (593) Tom Aaron, Florida 1959 Georgia (583) Bob Moser, Georgia 1960 1st (573) LSU (573) Doug Essig, LSU/Cobby Ware, Georgia 1961 Georgia (570) Howell Fraser, LSU 1962 Georgia (1170) David Boyd, Georgia 1963 Georgia (589) Jim Gabrielsen, Georgia/Jack Oliver, Georgia 1964 Georgia (581) Bert Greene, Tennessee 1965 T3rd (596) Georgia (575) B.R. McLendon, LSU (282) 1966 1st (854) LSU (854) B.R. McLendon, LSU (210) 1967 1st (872) LSU (872) B.R. McLendon, LSU (212) 1968 9th (898) Florida (848) Steven Melnyk, Florida (204) 1969 3rd (1108) Georgia (1099) Vaughn Moise, LSU (212) 1970 2nd (1106) Georgia (1105) Tommy Valentine, Georgia (213) 1971 4th (1132) Georgia (1099) Jimmy McQuillian, Florida (215) 1972 5th (1159) Georiga (1117) Mickey Mabry, Tennessee (217) 1973 4th (1134) Florida (1099) Gary Koch, Florida (212) 1974 2nd (1128) Florida (1104) Gary Koch, Florida (214) 1975 2nd (1112) Florida (1101) Phil Hancock, Florida (214) 1976 3rd (1101) Auburn (1094) Phil Hancock, Florida (207) 1977 4th (1092) Georgia (1073) Sam Trahan, Florida (209) 1978 3rd (1164) Georgia (1142) Larry Rinker, Florida (222) 1979 5th (895) Alabama (876) Wayne DeFrancesco, LSU (212) 1980 6th (912) Tennessee (884) Rick Pearson, Florida (215) 1981 T3rd (887) Auburn (884) John Salamone, LSU (211) 1982 7th (904) Georgia (873) Randy Watkins, Ole Miss (211) 1983 6th (898) Georgia (881) Dave Peege, Ole Miss (213) 1984 2nd (885) Ole Miss (881) Emlyn Aubrey, LSU (213) 1985 6th (889) Florida (868) Peter Persons, Georgia (213) 1986 1st (871) LSU (871) Chip Sullivan, Ole Miss (210) 1987 1st (869) LSU (869) David Toms, LSU (205) 1988 2nd (872) Georgia (854) Lan Gooch, Ole Miss (209) 1989 2nd (890) Florida (874) Chris DiMarco, Florida (215) 1990 9th (896) Tennessee (866) Mike Sposa, Tennessee (210) 1991 5th (879) Florida (860) Jimmy Green, Auburn (205) 1992 4th (881) Florida (876) Brian Gay, Florida (211) 1993 4th (885) Florida (847) Guy Hill, Florida (206) 1994 7th (889) Florida (860) Brian Gay, Florida (213) 1995 7th (874) Arkansas (855) Bud Still, Arkansas (206) 1996 9th (883) Miss. State (859) Graham Davidson, Miss. State (205) 1997 3rd (889) Miss. State (879) Bryant MacKellar, Auburn (210) 1998 8th (588) Georgia (567) Eric Ecker, South Carolina (136) 1999 T6th (982) Florida (901) Camilo Bendetti, Florida (212) 2000 5th (882) Georgia (852) Roland Thatcher, Auburn (208) 2001 8th (887) Georgia (841) Bryant Odom, Georgia (207) 2002 T4th (874) Auburn (857) Camilo Benedetti, Florida (210) 2003 12th (917) Florida (856) Brett Stegmaier, Florida (203) 2004 8th (875) Georgia (843) Brendon Todd, Georgia (207) 2005 T6th (899) Kentucky (875) David Skinns, Tennessee (210) 2006 6th (868) Georgia (827) Brett Stegmaier, Florida (205) 2007 9th (892) Tennessee (869) Patton Kizzire, Auburn (211) 2008 T8th (888) Alabama (853) Michael Thompson, Alabama (208) 2009 T4th (872) Georgia (849) Billy Horschel, Florida (206) 2010 5th (856) Georgia (844) Russell Henley, Georgia (204) 2011 5th (865) Florida (848) Andres Echavarria, Florida (209) 2012 11th (877) Alabama (828) Justin Thomas, Alabama (203) 2013 11th (881) Alabama (848) Sebastian Cappelen, Arkansas (202) 2014 2nd (822) Alabama (806) Bobby Wyatt, Alabama (192)

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LSU’s SEC INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS Year Score Player Site

1937 146 1938 141 1939 140 1940 140 1941 142 1947 138 1953 286 1954 284 1960 283 1961 281 1965 282 1966 210 1967 212 1969 212 1979 212 1981 211 1984 213 1987 205

Fred Haas, Jr. Baton Rouge, La. Henry Castillo Baton Rouge, La. Henry Castillo Baton Rouge, La. Henry Castillo Baton Rouge, La. Earl Stewart Athens, Ga. Joe Moore Athens, Ga. Eddie Merrins Athens, Ga. Eddie Merrins Athens, Ga. Don Essig Athens, Ga. Howard Fraser Athens, Ga. B.R. McLendon Athens, Ga. B.R. McLendon Baton Rouge, La. B.R. McLendon Gainesville, Fla. Vaughn Moise Birmingham, Ala. Wayne DeFrancesco Augusta, Ga. John Salamone Augusta, Ga. Emlyn Aubrey Augusta, Ga. David Toms Florence, Ala.

LSU’s SEC TEAM CHAMPIONS Year Score coaches Site

1937 614 1938 608 1939 604 1940 601 1942 597 1946 604 1947 633 1948 303 1953 586 1954 576 1960 573 1966 854 1967 872 1986 871 1987 869

Maj. J. Perry Cole Maj. J. Perry Cole Maj. J. Perry Cole Maj. J. Perry Cole Maj. J. Perry Cole T.P. Heard T.P. Heard Mike Barbato Mike Barbato Mike Barbato Mike Barbato Harry Taylor Harry Taylor Buddy Alexander Buddy Alexander

Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Athens, Ga. Athens, Ga. Athens, Ga. Athens, Ga. Athens, Ga. Athens, Ga. Athens, Ga. Baton Rouge, La. Gainesville, Fla. Florence, Ala. Florence, Ala.

ALL-TIME SEC TEAM TITLES 1. Georgia 2. LSU 3. Florida 4. Alabama 5. Tennessee 6. Auburn Mississippi State 8. Arkansas Georgia Tech Kentucky Ole Miss

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Emlyn Aubrey • 1984 SEC Champion

LSU at the NCAA Championships

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LSU’s Top 10 NCAA Team Finishes Year

Finish Score

Champion (Score) Site

1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1946 1947 1948 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1966 1967 1984 1985 1986 1989 2014

5th T-1st 2nd T-1st 3rd 5th 1st 2nd 7th 3rd 4th 1st 9th T-8th 3rd T-6th T-9th 10th T-8th T-3rd

Stanford (612) LSU, Princeton (601) Stanford (580) LSU, Princeton (590) Yale (614) Stanford (619) LSU (606) San Jose State (579) North Texas State (573) Stanford (578) SMU (572) LSU (574) Houston (601) Houston (582) Houston (585) Houston (1145) Houston (1172) Wake Forest (1156) Oklahoma (1139) Alabama (def. Oklahoma State, 4-1)

617 601 599 590 621 629 606 588 602 581 582 574 613 607 591 1162 1196 1175 1173 836

Wakonda CC, Des Moines, Iowa Edwanok CC, Manchester, Vt. The Scarlet Course, Columbus, Ohio South Bend CC, South Bend, Ind. Olympia Field C.C. Springdale CC, Princeton, N.J. University of Michigan Course, Ann Arbor, Mich. Stanford University Golf Course, Palo Alto, Calif. Purdue University Course, West Lafayette, Ind. Broadmoor GC, Colorado Springs, Colo. Braeburn CC, Houston, Texas Holston Hills CC, Knoxville, Tenn. The Scarlet Course, Columbus, Ohio Stanford University Golf Course, Palo Alto, Calif. Shawnee GC, Delaware, Pa. Bear Creek Golf World, Houston, Texas Grenelefe GC, Haines City, Fla. Bermuda Run CC, Winston Salem, N.C. Oaktree Country Club, Edmond, Okla. Prairie Dunes Country Club, Hutchinson, Kan.

LSU’S Top 25 NCAA Individual Finishes (Since 1985)

LSU’S Team NCAA Championship Results (Since 1985)

Year

Player

Finish Score

1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 2010 2011 2014

Rob McNamara Emlyn Aubrey Rob McNamara David Toms Greg Lesher Fredrik Lindgren Fredrik Lindgren Perry Moss Scott Sterling John Peterson John Peterson Ben Taylor Smylie Kaufman Curtis Thompson

T-10th T-3rd 16th 5th T-16th T-19th T-17th T-4th T-18th T-6th 1st T-6th T-19th T-19th

Year finish Score Site

291 287 293 288 293 294 289 212 218 211 211 206 209 209

1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1994 1997 2010 2011 2013 2014

10th T-14th T-20th T-8th 30th 22nd T-17th 22nd 18th 24th 21st T-23rd T-3rd

1175 Winston-Salem, N.C. 1200 Columbus, Ohio 907 Thousand Oaks, Calif. 1173 Edmond, Okla. 1228 New Haven, Conn. 588 Albuquerque, N.M. 597 Lexington, Ky. 591 McKinney, Texas 590 Lake Forest, Ill. 883 Chattanooga, Tenn. 905 Stillwater, Okla. 854 Atlanta, Ga. 836 (NCAA Semifinalists) Hutchinson, Kan.

LSU’s NCAA Individual Champions LSU’s NCAA Team Champions

Year Player Site

Year Score Coach Site

1937 1941 2011

1940 1942 1947 1955

601 590 606 574

Maj. J. Perry Cole Maj. J. Perry Cole T.P. Heard Mike Barbato

Ekwanok CC, Manchester, Vt. South Bend CC, South Bend, Ind. Univ. of Michigan Course, Ann Arbor, Mich. Holston Hills CC, Knoxville, Tenn.

Fred Haas, Jr. • 1937 NCAA Champion

1940 National Champions

Fred Haas, Jr. Earl Stewart John Peterson

Oakmont CC, Oakmont, Pa. The Scarlet Course, Columbus, Ohio Karsten Creek GC, Stillwater, Okla.

Earl Stewart • 1941 NCAA Champion

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John Peterson: 2011 NCAA Champion

A member of the LSU men’s golf program was crowned individual medalist at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships for the first time in 70 years as senior All-American John Peterson put an exclamation point onto the end of a heralded career on June 2, 2011, with a national championship after firing a 54-hole score of 5-under par 211 at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Oklahoma. After firing a competitive course record 7-under 65 in the second round, Peterson finished with an even-par 72 in the final round for a dramatic one-shot victory over UCLA’s Patrick Cantlay. Peterson joined LSU greats Fred Haas, Jr. (1937) and Earl Stewart (1941) as an NCAA champion as he was the team’s top NCAA finisher since Perry Moss tied for fourth place in 1991.

The LSU golf program actually made history with Peterson’s victory as it became the first school during the history of the NCAA Championships to sweep the men’s and women’s individual crowns in the same season. Lady Tiger freshman Austin Ernst took home the NCAA women’s crown nearly two weeks before in the event hosted by Texas A&M at The Traditions Golf Club in College Station. “This is an unbelievable feeling. I can’t really describe it. It hasn’t sunk in for me yet,” Peterson said after his victory. “I’m probably most excited about getting to walk out to the 50-yard line in Tiger Stadium one night next year at a football game. If they let me do that, I want to walk out there in front of 90,000 people with Chuck (Winstead) and Shane (Warren) and these guys who’ve helped me.

LSU’s John Peterson

Claims National Crown in Finale

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“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 right now.”

John Peterson: 2011 NCAA Champion

Despite teeing off at 8:10 a.m. CDT as part of the very first wave of the day with a one-stroke lead for the first 36 holes, the final round proved to be anything but a smooth ride to the finish for Peterson as his national title hopes appeared dashed after turning with a 4-over 40 on his front nine. As the only championship contender on the course in the morning round, Peterson then found himself in a tie for 10th place as he headed to the back nine with a score of 1-under for the championship. But as he had done throughout his collegiate career, Peterson stormed back to retake the lead thanks to his near perfect back nine in which he carded four birdies with no bogeys for a 4-under par 32. After crawling back to 3-under par with birdies at the par-three 11th hole and par-five 14th hole, Peterson went out in style in his final round as an LSU Tiger with back-to-back birdies at the par-four 17th and par-five 18th holes. On the 17th hole, Peterson fired a 4-iron into the wind from 180 yards to within seven feet of the cup as he finished with a birdie. He then followed by hitting his second shot on the par-five 18th hole over the green with the ball coming to rest in the long rough. But he then took a full-swing flop shot that rolled five feet past the hole for yet another birdie opportunity. Peterson’s putt circled all 360 degrees of the cup before falling for a birdie, eliciting an emotional fist pump from the Tiger senior as he regained the overall lead. All Peterson could do at that point was just sit and wait as the rest of those trailing him on the leaderboard prepared to begin their rounds. It would be another six hours before Peterson learned his fate with Cantlay rolling his eagle putt wide right of the cup on the 54th and final hole of medal play. Peterson was actually on the driving range warming up for a potential playoff with Cantlay when he heard the news that the putt was missed and he had finally won his national

championship. A playoff for the NCAA title would have been a fitting end to Peterson’s senior season after competing in three already that spring. Peterson defeated teen phenom Jordan Speith to take home the Jones Cup before the start of the collegiate spring season in February 2011. He also dropped a pair of playoffs to Florida standout Andres Echavarria for the SEC individual title and teammate Andrew Loupe for a spot in the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic leading up to NCAA postseason play. “I knew he (Patrick Cantlay) was going to make that putt and we would be going to a playoff. That is how this season has been for me this year,” Peterson said. “It’s funny how that seems to happen to me this year in the biggest tournaments. It was a great feeling when he missed his putt.” By winning the 2011 NCAA individual crown, Peterson capped one of the most prolific careers for an LSU Tiger as he became the fifth threetime All-American in program history, joining a list with the likes of Eddie Merrins (1952-54), B.R. McLendon (1965-67), Rob McNamara (1984-87) and David Toms (1986-89). Peterson led the way for the No. 9-ranked and No. 10-seeded Tigers throughout the week as LSU earned a 21st-place finish in the final team standings with a 54-hole team score of 41-over par 905. The Tigers improved upon their 24th-place finish at the NCAA Championships the season before with their top finish in the tournament since an 18th-finish in 1997. Junior Sang Yi carded his lowest score of the tournament in the final round with a 2-under par 70. Yi posted a total of four birdies to go along with just two bogeys to climb into a tie for 88th place in the final standings with a 54-hole score of 13-over 229. The Tigers also counted scores of 9-over par 81 by senior Ken Looper and 10-over par 82 by junior Austin Gutgsell as part of its team score of 17-over 305 in the final round. Looper wrapped up

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in a tie for 125th place at 21-over 237 on the week, while Gutgsell followed one shot back in 128th place at 22-over 238. Senior All-American Andrew Loupe shot an 18-over 90 in the final round to finish the event in a tie for 141st place overall in the event. Loupe still earned All-America honors as one of the nation’s top players of 2011. “We didn’t drive the ball straight enough this week to be successful as a team on this golf course,” said LSU head coach Chuck Winstead. “But you can’t take away from what this group has done for LSU Golf. I love these guys and wish this week would have gone better for them as a group. They’ve done things for their time here to restore this program to where it should be. I’m proud of each and every one of them.” Peterson also talked about his fellow seniors and the recognition they helped bring back to one of the most storied programs in all of college golf during their four years together. “It makes me extremely glad that I came to LSU,” Peterson said. “When I was coming out of high school, I was a pretty good player, but I wasn’t a great player by any means. We weren’t even that good when we got here four years ago. Andrew and I and the rest of this senior class have really pushed ourselves toward this point. It’s been an unbelievable time for us and we know this program is only going to get better.”

2011 NCAA championships Final Medal Play Leaderboard 1. John Peterson, LSU 2. Patrick Cantlay, UCLA T3. Lion Kim, Michigan T3. Cameron Peck, Texas A&M T3. Patrick Reed, Augusta State T3. J.J. Spaun, San Diego State T3. Peter Uihlein, Oklahoma State T8. Michael Weaver, California T8. Michael White, Georgia Tech T10. Todd Baek, San Diego State T10. Austin Cook, Arkansas

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74-65-72 – 211 -5 72-69-71 – 212 -4 72-70-73 – 215 -1 68-74-73 – 215 -1 69-75-71 – 215 -1 69-75-71 – 215 -1 73-69-73 – 215 -1 71-71-74 – 216 E 67-73-76 – 216 E 72-72-73 – 217 +1 70-74-73 – 217 +1

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HISTORY

Top Career Stroke Averages (since 1982)

Top 20 Stroke Averages (since 1982)

1. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Player

Alan Morgan (1999-2001) John Peterson (2007-11) Curtis Thompson (2011-14) Heath West (2002-05) Stewart Jolly (2011-present) David Toms (1985-89) Fredrik Lindgren (1987-89) Andrew Loupe (2007-11) Chris Wells (2004-07) Rob McNamara (1983-87) Brian Bateman (1993-96) Sang Yi (2008-12) John Humphries (1999-2003) Andrew Presley (2010-14) Greg Lesher (1986-90) P.J. Smith (1995-97) Perry Moss (1987-91) Scott Sterling (1990-94) Emlyn Aubrey (1982-86) Smylie Kaufman (2010-14)

avg. rds.

72.17 72.58 72.81 72.81 72.84 72.93 73.00 73.01 73.16 73.20 73.22 73.28 73.31 73.33 73.36 73.51 73.65 73.91 73.92 73.96

75 146 102 132 99 160 76 143 99 143 143 138 141 105 141 130 119 139 130 81

Yearly Stroke Avg. Leaders (since 1985)

Player Rds. Avg. Year

David Toms Stewart Jolly John Peterson Alan Morgan Sang Yi Scott Sterling Curtis Thompson Craig Webb Ben Taylor Andrew Loupe Emlyn Aubrey Smylie Kaufman Greg Lesher John Peterson John Humphries Heath West Fredrik Lindgren John Peterson Andrew Loupe Andrew Presley

43 36 39 39 34 35 36 35 24 38 40 30 43 38 38 34 37 33 39 34

71.27 71.50 71.53 71.54 71.56 71.60 71.78 71.91 72.00 72.00 72.00 72.20 72.23 72.29 72.32 72.35 72.43 72.48 72.49 72.50

year player

1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

1989 2014 2011 2001 2012 1993 2014 1993 2014 2010 1986 2014 1988 2010 2003 2002 1989 2009 2011 2012

* - minimum 70 rounds

Career Top-10 Finishes (since 1982) Player

1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 14. 18.

David Toms (1985-89) Rob McNamara (1983-87) Emlyn Aubrey (1982-86) John Peterson (2007-11) Brian Bateman (1993-96) Andrew Loupe (2007-11) Greg Lesher (1986-90) Sang Yi (2008-12) Jeremy Wilkinson (1996-99) P.J. Smith (1995-97) Andrew Presley (2010-14) John Humphries (1999-2003) Bob Friend (1982-86) Stewart Jolly (2011-present) Scott Sterling (1990-94) Rett Crowder (1988-92) Fredrik Lindgren (1987-89) Curtis Thompson (2011-14) Chris Wells (2004-07) Heath West (2002-05) Alan Morgan (1999-2001)

No.

29 22 20 19 19 18 16 15 14 13 12 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9

Best Team Rounds (since 1985) score

-17 -14 -13 -12 -11 -11 -11 -11 -11 -11 -11 -10 -10 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8

263 274 275 276 277 277 273 277 277 277 281 278 278 279 279 275 279 279 279 279 279 283 280 280 280 280 280 280

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tournament

SEC Championships, 2014, 3rd rd. NCAA Columbia Regional, 2014, 3rd rd. Gary Koch Invitational, 2009, 1st rd. David Toms Intercollegiate, 2010, 2nd rd. Schenkel Invitational, 2011, 2nd rd. Louisiana Classics, 2010, 2nd rd. David Toms Intercollegiate, 2009, 2nd rd. SEC Championships, 2009, 3rd rd. CCLA Intercollegiate, 2000, 2nd rd. Chris Schenkel Invitational, 1986, 2nd rd. Tar Heel Invitational, 1986, 2nd rd. University Club Intercollegiate, 2004, 2nd rd. Billy Hitchcock Invitational, 1992, 2nd rd. LSU National Invitational, 2012, 3rd rd. Louisiana Classics, 2012, 2nd rd. Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, 2009, 2nd rd. Bank of America Intercollegiate, 2008, 2nd rd. LSU Spring Invitational, 2002, 1st rd. CCLA Intercollegiate, 2001, 2nd rd. Gary Koch Invitational, 2000, 3rd rd. Henry Homberg Invitational, 1987, 1st rd. Tar Heel Invitational, 1986, 2nd rd. Louisiana Classics, 2014, 1st rd. Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic, 2013, 3rd rd. Mercedes-Benz Collegiate, 1998, 1st rd. ReliaStar Collegiate, 1997, 2nd rd. Henry Homberg Invitational, 1987, 2nd rd LSU National Invitational, 1985, 2nd rd.

Career Top-20 Finishes (since 1985) Player

1. 2. 4. 5. 7. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. 18. 19. 20.

David Toms (1985-89) Andrew Loupe (2007-11) P.J. Smith (1995-97) Brian Bateman (1993-96) John Peterson (2007-11) Greg Lesher (1986-90) Sang Yi (2008-12) Heath West (2002-05) Scott Sterling (1990-94) Curtis Thompson (2011-14) Rett Crowder (1989-92) Perry Moss (1987-91) Andrew Presley (2010-13) Stewart Jolly (2011-present) John Humphries (1999-2003) Alan Morgan (1999-2001) Jeremy Wilkinson (1996-99) Fredrik Lindgren (1987-89) Chris Wells (2004-07) Craig Webb (1989-93)

No.

37 29 29 28 27 27 25 25 23 21 20 20 19 18 18 18 18 17 15 13

Rob McNamara Emlyn Aubrey Rob McNamara David Toms David Toms Perry Moss Perry Moss Rett Crowder Scott Sterling Scott Sterling Brian Bateman Brian Bateman P.J. Smith P.J. Smith Jeremy Wilkinson Alan Morgan Nathan Goulding Heath West John Humphries Heath West Chris Wells Andrew Lanahan Chris Wells Andrew Loupe John Peterson Andrew Loupe John Peterson Sang Yi Curtis Thompson Stewart Jolly

avg. RDS.

73.32 72.00 73.38 72.61 71.27 72.81 72.64 73.57 71.60 73.54 73.25 72.84 72.67 73.08 73.21 72.86 72.77 72.35 72.31 72.80 72.83 73.37 73.00 74.06 72.48 72.00 71.53 71.56 73.00 71.50

40 40 37 39 43 32 42 40 35 35 35 38 37 37 32 36 27 34 38 35 36 27 30 33 33 38 39 34 38 36

Career Tournament wins (since 1982) Player

1. 2. 3. 6.

No.

David Toms (1985-89) Rob McNamara (1983-87) Stewart Jolly (2011-present) Andrew Presley (2010-13) Austin Gutgsell (2008-12) John Peterson (2007-11) Alan Morgan (1999-2001) Perry Moss (1987-91) Zach Wright (2012-present) Myles Lewis (2011-present) Curtis Thompson (2011-14) Andrew Loupe (2007-11) Beck Troutman (2004-08) John Humphries (1999-2003) Brian Bateman (1992-96) Scott Sterling (1990-94) Greg Lesher (1986-90) Tommie Mudd (1983-87) Emlyn Aubrey (1982-86)

6 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Best Team Tournament Scores (since 1985)

Best Ind. Tournament Scores (since 1985)

score

score Player

-19 -18 -17 -16 -16 -15 -15 -15 -13 -13 -12 -12 -11 -11 -11 -9 -9 -9 -8 -8 -8 -7 -7 -7 -6 -5 -5

845 822 847 848 848 849 849 849 851 851 852 852 853 853 853 843 855 855 844 856 856 845 857 857 846 847 859

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Louisiana Classics, 2014 SEC Championships, 2014 Louisiana Classics, 2012 David Toms Intercollegiate, 2010 University Club Intercollegiate, 2004 NCAA Columbia Regional, 2014 Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate, 1994 Chris Schenkel Invitational, 1986 LSU Spring Invitational, 2004 Tournament of Champions, 2000 Chris Schenkel Invitational, 1989 Henry Homberg Invitational, 1987 LSU National Invitational, 2012 Squire Creek Invitational, 2008 LSU National Invitational, 1990 Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate, 2006 Mercedes-Benz Collegiate, 2001 Country Club of Jackson Invitational, 1987 David Toms Intercollegiate, 2009 Bank of America Intercollegiate, 2008 CCLA Intercollegiate, 2000 Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, 2010 CCLA Intercollegiate, 2003 Henry Homberg Invitational, 1986 The Prestige at PGA West, 2014 Valspar Invitational at Floridian, 2014 Tournament of Champions, 1995

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204 John Peterson (Gary Koch Invite, 2009) 199 Smylie Kaufman (SEC Championships, 2014) 205 Perry Moss (LSU National Invite, 1990) 205 David Toms (SEC Championships, 1987) 203 Stewart Jolly (Valspar Invitational at Floridian, 2014) 206 Myles Lewis (Louisiana Classics, 2014) 206 Andrew Presley (Louisiana Classics, 2012) 206 Austin Gutgsell (David Toms Intercollegiate, 2010) 206 Chris Wells (UC Intercollegiate, 2004) 206 Alan Morgan (CCLA Intercollegiate, 2000) 206 David Toms (Golf Digest Collegiate, 1988) 207 Austin Gutgsell (LSU National Invitational, 2012) 207 Greg Lesher (LSU National Invite, 1989) 208 Andrew Presley (Argent Financial Classic, 2013) 208 Andrew Loupe (Louisiana Classics, 2010) 205 John Peterson (David Toms Intercollegiate, 2009) 205 John Peterson (Hootie at Bulls Bay, 2009) 205 Chris Wells (Jerry Pate Intercollegiate, 2006) 208 Alan Morgan (ASU Invitational, 2001) 208 Greg Lesher (Chris Schenkel Invite, 1988) 208 David Toms (Jerry Pate Intercollegiate, 1988) 208 Emlyn Aubrey (Chris Schenkel Invite, 1986) 209 Smylie Kaufman (NCAA Columbia Regional, 2014) 209 Curtis Thompson (Louisiana Classics, 2014) 209 Zach Wright (Louisiana Classics, 2013) 203 Sang Yi (NCAA Palo Alto Regional, 2012) 209 Sang Yi (Louisiana Classics, 2012) 209 Jeremy Wilkinson (Southeastern Invite, 2000) 209 Scott Sterling (Southeastern Invite, 1994) 209 David Toms (Sun Bowl Invitational, 1989) 209 Rob McNamara (Chris Schenkel Invite, 1986)

Record Book

Greg Lesher

HISTORY

Scott Sterling

LSU’s Individual Medalists (since 1985) year player

tournament

score

1985 1985 1987 1987 1987 1987 1988 1989 1989 1989 1989 1991 1994 1996 2001 2001 2003 2005 2009 2010 2010 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014

University of New Orleans Invitational Country Club of Jackson Invitational LSU National Invitational Miami-Doral Park National Invitational Country Club of Jackson Invitational SEC Championships Jerry Pate Intercollegiate Golf Digest Collegiate Invitational Florida Southern-Imperial Lakes Classic Gator Invitational LSU National Invitational LSU National Invitational Southeastern Intercollegiate PING-Tulsa Invitational Tennessee Tournament of Champions Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate LSU Spring Invitational LSU Spring Invitational John Hayt Invitational David Toms Intercollegiate Louisiana Classics NCAA Championships LSU National Invitational Louisiana Classics Shoal Creek Intercollegiate Shoal Creek Intercollegiate David Toms Intercollegiate Louisiana Classics Golfweek Conference Challenge Louisiana Classics

139 207 212 213 210 205 208 206 205 204 207 205 209 216 209 206 211 211 214 206 208 211 207 206 210 210 220 209 210 206

Rob McNamara Rob McNamara David Toms Rob McNamara Tommie Mudd David Toms David Toms David Toms David Toms David Toms Greg Lesher Perry Moss Scott Sterling Brian Bateman Alan Morgan Alan Morgan John Humphries Beck Troutman John Peterson Austin Gutgsell Andrew Loupe John Peterson Austin Gutgsell Andrew Presley Stewart Jolly Curtis Thompson Andrew Presley Zach Wright Stewart Jolly Myles Lewis

Beck Troutman

Low Rounds (since 1985) Player Class Score

Tommie Mudd Greg Lesher Austin Gutgsell Smylie Kaufman John Peterson Clayton Rotz Andrew Loupe Garrett Runion Jeremy Wilkinson Scott Sterling Perry Moss Perry Moss Rett Crowder Perry Moss David Toms Zach Wright Sang Yi Clayton Rotz John Peterson Andrew Loupe John Peterson

So. Jr. Sr. So. Sr. So. Fr. So. Fr. So. Sr. Jr. So. So. So. Fr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Jr.

Par Tournament DATE Site

63 72 64 70 65 72 65 72 65 72 65 72 65 70 65 71 65 72 65 72 65 72 65 70 65 65 72 65 72 66 72 66 70 66 72 66 71 66 71 66 71

LSU Invitational Gator Invitional LSU National Invitational Argent Financial Classic NCAA Championships SEC Championships Gator Invitational Mason Rudolph Intercollegiate Tennessee Tournament of Champions Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic Southern Intercollegiate Gator Invitational Taylor Made/Doral Park Florida Southern Invitational SEC Championships Louisiana Classics NCAA Palo Alto Regional Gopher Invitational David Toms Intercollegiate David Toms Intercollegiate David Toms Intercollegiate

1985 Sherwood Forest Country Club - Baton Rouge, La. 2/10/89 University Course - Gainesville, Fla. 4/1/12 The University Club - Baton Rouge, La. 3/11/12 Squire Creek Country Club - Choudrant, La. 6/1/11 Karsten Creek Golf Club - Stillwater, Okla. 4/19/09 Frederica Golf Club - St. Simons Island, Ga. 2/9/08 Mark Bostic Golf Course - Gainesville, Fla. 9/27/04 Vanderbilt Legends Club - Nashville, Tenn. 9/30/97 Holston Hills Country Club - Knoxville, Tenn. 9/21/91 The Farm Golf Club - Rocky Face, Ga. 11/11/90 Athens Country Club - Athens, Ga. 2/11/90 University Course - Gainesville, Fla. 2/24/90 Doral Park Country Club - Miami, Fla. 3/3-5/89 Imperial Lakes Country Club - Lakeland, Fla. 5/17/87 Turtle Point Yacht Club - Florence, Ala. 3/4/13 Oakbourne Country Club - Lafayette, La. 5/17/12 Stanford Golf Course - Palo Alto, Calif. 9/13/10 Spring Hill Golf Club - Wayzata, Minn. 10/27/09 Country Club of Louisiana - Baton Rouge, La. 10/27/09 Country Club of Louisiana - Baton Rouge, La. 10/26/09 Country Club of Louisiana - Baton Rouge, La.

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HISTORY

1987 SEC Champions 1935-36 Southern Intercollegiate

1955-56 All-America (Team Match)

1936-37 SEC Championships Southern Intercollegiate

1958-59 All-America (Two Ball)

2005 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate

1959-60 All-America (Team Match) All-America (Best Ball) Southern Intercollegiate SEC Championships All-America (Two Ball)

1937-38 SEC Championships Southern Intercollegiate 1938-39 SEC Championships

1960-61 LSU Invitational

1939-40 SEC Championships Southern Intercollegiate NCAA Championships 1941-42 SEC Championships Southern Intercollegiate NCAA Championships 1945-46 SEC Championships 1946-47 SEC Championships NCAA Championships

1973-74 Louisiana Intercollegiate Jim Corbett Classic

1987-88 Gator Invitational Jerry Pate Invitational

1974-75 LSU Invitational Centenary Classic Jim Corbett Classic

1988-89 LSU National Invitational Florida Southern Invitational Golf Digest Collegiate Invitational Chris Schenkel Invitational

2004-05 LSU Spring Invitational

1990-91 Taylor Made Doral Park Intercollegiate

2008-09 Gopher Invitational John Hayt Invitational Reunion Intercollegiate

1976-77 Seminole Classic Jim Corbett Classic

1964-65 Buckhaults Invitational

1977-78 Louisiana Intercollegiate

1965-66 LSU Invitational Southern Intercollegiate SEC Championships

1978-79 Southern Mississippi Invitational Broadwater Beach Invitational

1966-67 B.O. Van Hook Invitational L.R. Goldman Invitational SEC Championships

1948-49 Gulf Coast Invitational

1967-68 B.O. Van Hook Invitational

1949-50 Gulf Coast Invitational

1968-69 B.O. Van Hook Invitational

1952-53 SEC Championships

1969-70 LSU Invitational Tulane Invitational Louisiana Intercollegiate

1980-81 Seminole Classic New Orleans Invitational 1983-84 Yale Fall Intercollegiate Morton Braswell Intercollegiate Louisiana Intercollegiate Orange Lake Intercollegiate 1984-85 USM-Laurel C.C. Invitational UNO Invitational 1985-86 USM-Laurel C.C. Invitational Gator Invitational Country Club of Jackson Invitational SEC Championships

1970-71 McNeese Invitational

1954-55 NCAA Championships

1986-87 Country Club of Jackson Invitational SEC Championships

1963-64 Buckhaults Invitational

1947-48 SEC Championships Southern Intercollegiate

1953-54 Southern Intercollegiate SEC Championships

1972-73 Louisiana Intercollegiate Port Malabar Invitational Jim Corbett Classic

1975-76 LSU-Tulane Invitational Florida Invitational

1961-62 LSU Invitational

1971-72 Jim Corbett Classic

2009 John Hayt Invitational 2002-03 LSU Spring Invitational 2003-04 Baylor Invitational Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate LSU Spring Invitational

1991-92 Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate

2005-06 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate

2009-10 David Toms Intercollegiate Louisiana Classics Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate

1993-94 Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate Southeastern Intercollegiate Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate

2010-11 Gopher Invitational David Toms Intercollegiate Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate LSU National Invitational

1994-95 Louisiana Classic All-American Intercollegiate

2011-12 Louisiana Classics Argent Financial Classic LSU National Invitational

1995-1996 Reliastar Classic Ping-Tulsa Invitational Blue-Gray Intercollegiate

2012-13 Shoal Creek Intercollegiate David Toms Intercollegiate

1998-99 The Bridges All-American 2000-01 Tennessee Tournament of Champions Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate LSU Spring Invitational

2013-14 Aggie Invitational

2001-02 Gator Invitational LSU Spring Invitational

LSU’s Winningest Coaches Coach Years Tournament Titles

Coach Years Tournament Titles

Chuck Winstead

Maj. J. Perry Cole

Buddy Alexander

Britt Harrison

Bill Brogden

Harry Taylor

Mike Barbato

Greg Jones

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Home Tournament History

HISTORY

1961-1992, 2011-12

1993-2003

Year Team Champion (Score) Individual Champion (Score)

1961

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

Buddy Short, Southwestern La. (138)

1995

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

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

Jim McLean, Houston (282)

2003 LSU (851)

Michael Thompson, Tulane (207)

LSU National Invitational LSU (591) Memphis State (579)

Houston (1,439)

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)

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

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)

Georgia (881) Georgia (857)

Mark Tinder, Oral Roberts (204)

1980 Houston (854)

Oklahoma (870)

Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate

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

Andrew Noto, Louisiana-Lafayette (208)

Oklahoma (862)

2012 LSU (897)

Andrew Presley, LSU (220)

2013

Grady Brame, Southeastern La. (209)

Southeastern La. (860)

David Toms

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All-Time Honors

All-America Selections Year Golfer Selection

1937 1941 1943 1948 1952 1953 1954 1955 1962 1965 1966 1967 1969 1970 1973 1974 1975 1979 1980 1981 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1994 1996 1997 2001 2003 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Fred Haas, Jr. Earl Stewart Sonny Ellis Gardner Dickinson Eddie Merrins Eddie Merrins Eddie Merrins Johnny Pott Howell Fraser B.R. McLendon B.R. McLendon B.R. McLendon Randy Wolff Vaughn Moise Jimmy Wittenberg Dick Clark Stan Lee Stan Lee Wayne DeFrancesco John Salamone John Salamone Emlyn Aubrey Fred Dupre Rob McNamara Emlyn Aubrey Rob McNamara Rob McNamara David Toms Greg Lesher Fredrik Lindgren David Toms Greg Lesher David Toms Perry Moss Perry Moss Rett Crowder Scott Sterling Brian Bateman P.J. Smith Alan Morgan John Humphries John Peterson Andrew Loupe John Peterson Andrew Loupe John Peterson Sang Yi Curtis Thompson Stewart Jolly Ben Taylor Curtis Thompson

First Team First Team First Team First Team

First Team Second Team Honorable Mention Second Team First Team Honorable Mention Third Team Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Second Team Second Team First Team Honorable Mention Second Team Honorable Mention Third Team Honorable Mention Third Team Honorable Mention Second Team Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention First Team Second Team First Team Honorable Mention Second Team Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Third Team Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Second Team Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention First Team Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Third Team Honorable Mention Honorable Mention

Eddie Merrins

B.R. McLendon

David Toms

academic All-Americans Year Golfer

1989 1991 1995 1996 2011

Greg Lesher Fredrik Lindgren Rett Crowder Brian Bateman Chip McDonald Austin Gutgsell Sang Yi

Brian Bateman

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All-Time Honors

HISTORY

All-sec Selections Year Golfer Selection

1970 Tommy Evans Vaughn Moise Jimmy Wittenberg 1971 Mike Drury Jimmy Wittenberg 1972 Shelby Houston 1974 Dick Clark Stan Lee 1975 Jim Adams Louis Lee Stan Lee 1976 Frank Gusmus Louis Lee 1977 Steve Cromwell 1978 Louis Lee Gary Marlowe 1979 Wayne DeFrancesco John Salamone 1982 Dudley Bienvenu 1983 Emlyn Aubrey Fred DuPre 1984 Emlyn Aubrey Fred DuPre Rob McNamara 1985 Rob McNamara 1986 Emlyn Aubrey Rob McNamara David Toms 1987 Rob McNamara David Toms 1988 Greg Lesher David Toms

Second Team First Team First Team Second Team First Team First Team First Team First Team Second Team Second Team First Team Second Team Second Team First Team Second Team Second Team Freshman of the Year First Team First Team Player of the Year Second Team Second Team First Team First Team First Team Second Team Freshman of the Year First Team First Team First Team Freshman of the Year First Team Player of the Year First Team Second Team First Team Player of the Year

John Humphries

Chris Wells Year Golfer Selection

1989 Greg Lesher Fredrik Lindgren David Toms 1990 Greg Lesher Perry Moss 1991 Rett Crowder Perry Moss 1992 Rett Crowder 1993 Scott Sterling 1994 Brian Bateman Scott Sterling 1995 Brian Bateman 1996 Brian Bateman 1997 P.J. Smith 1998 P.J. Smith 1999 Jeremy Wilkinson 2000 Alan Morgan 2001 John Humphries Alan Morgan 2002 Nathan Goulding Heath West 2003 John Humphries 2004 Heath West 2005 Chris Wells 2007 Chris Wells 2008 Andrew Loupe John Peterson Clayton Rotz 2009 John Peterson Sang Yi 2010 Andrew Loupe 2011 Andrew Loupe John Peterson 2012 Andrew Presley Sang Yi 2013 Andrew Presley Curtis Thompson 2014 Stewart Jolly Curtis Thompson

First Team Second Team First Team Player of the Year Second Team Second Team Second Team First Team Player of the Year First Team Second Team Second Team First Team Second Team First Team First Team Second Team Second Team Second Team Second Team First Team Second Team Second Team First Team Second Team Second Team Second Team All-Freshman Team All-Freshman Team All-Freshman Team First Team All-Freshman Team First Team First Team First Team Second Team First Team Second Team First Team First Team Second Team

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Letterwinners

Adams, Jim (1973-74-75-76) Adams, Wright Jr. (1934-37) Aitchison, David (2003) Amerman, Wink (1999) Anthony, Richard (1966) Aubrey, Emlyn (1983-84-85-86) Aydlett, Brandon (2003-04-05)

Barsamian, Jarrod (2006-07-08-09) Bateman, Brian (1993-94-95) Beard, Tommy (1953-54-55-56) Beckers, Michael (2000) Biancalana, Roy (1980-81-82) Bienvenu, Dudley (1982) Bigham, Neil (1957) Blaum, Brent (2007) Bourgeois, Jason (1993-94) Byman, Pete (1980-81-82-83)

Caldwell, Bill (1972) Calhoun, Cecil (1953-54-55-56) Carmichael, Sam (1959-60-61) Castillo, Henry (1938-39-40) Castro, Franco (2011-12) Clark, Dick (1972-73-74-75) Clark, Frank (1950-51) Cole, Henry (1965-66-67) Collier, Jo (1971-72) Crowder, Rett (1989-90-91-92) Cuthbert, Tommy (1969)

Daigle, William (1968-69) Day, Jimmy (1966-67-68) DeBaus, Claude (1951) DeFrancesco, Wayne (1979-80) Dickinson, Gardner (1948) Dodson, Bill (1957) Doss, Jackie (1952) Downie, Michael (1964-65) Dressler, Billy (2000-01) Drury, Mike (1970-71-72) DuPre, Fred (1980-81-83-84)

Elkins, Tommy (1965-66) Ellis, Sonny (1948) Ervin, Tucker (2002-03) Essig, Don (1958-59-60) Evans, Tommy (1970)

Faulds, Thomas (1980) Ferrell, William (1962-63) Finkelstein, Maury (1962-63-64) Finney, Michael (1987-88-89) Fraser, Howell (1960-61-62) Friend, Bob (1983-84-85-86)

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Gatlin, Butch (1963-64) Gaudin, Russ (1962-63-64) Goodwin, Mark (1972) Goulding, Nathan (2001) Guido, Paul (1979) Gusmus, Frank (1974-75-76) Gutgsell, Austin (2010-11-12)

Haas, Fred (1935-36-37) Harrell, Bobby (1952) Harris, Billy (1979-80) Harris, Chad (1995) Hebert, Junius (1948) Henriksen, Steve (1977-78) Hitchcock, Brett (1998-99) Hoffman, Tico (1977-78-79) Holmes, Jim (1975-77) Hoover, Tom (1962-63) Horrell, Jason (2002-03-04) Houston, Shelby (1973-74-75) Huguet, Marty (1969) Humphries, Earl (1971-72-73) Humphries, Jason (1998-99-00) Humphries, John (2000-01-02-03)

Inman, Scott (1981-83-84)

Jolly, Stewart (2012-13-14) Jones, Josh (2009-10) Jordan, Mart (1950)

Kaufman, Jeff (1984) Kaufman, Smylie (2012-13-14) Keck, Mike (1966-67) Kendall, John (1993-94) Kennedy, Ian (1997-98) Killeen, Rob (1981)

LaBauve, Mike (1975) Lach, Bryant (2007-08) Lanahan, Andrew (2004-05-06) Lanier, William (1987-88-89) LaPonzina, Johnny (1967-68-69) Larson, Jason (1992) Lee, Chip (2001) Lee, Louis (1975-76-77-78) Lee, Stan (1974-75) Leoffler, Ed (1950) LeSage, Tony (1951) Lesher, Greg (1987-88-89-90) Leveille, Dave (1982-83) Lewis, Myles (2012-13-14) Lindgren, Fredrik (1988-89) Little, Judge (1991-92-93-94) Loe, Lamar (1952-54) Looper, Ken (2011) Lorio, Duane (1987) Loupe, Andrew (2008-09-10-11) Loupe, Chris (1998-99)

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Love, Sam (1958-59-60) Lyons, Eddie (1975-76) Lyons, Landon (2012-12-13-14)

Magee, Gary (1970) Mangum, James (1954-55-56) Manuel, Adam (1995-96-97-98) Marlowe, Gary (1979) Martin, Bill (1964) Mason, Greg (2004) McDonald, Chip (1995-96) McDonald, Maxwell (1968-69-70) McLendon, B.R. “Mac” (1965-66-67) McNamara, Rob (1984-85-86-87) Merrins, Eddie (1952-53-54) Miller, Bo (1994-95) Moise, Vaughn (1968-69-70) Morgan, Alan (2000-01) Morrow, Tommy (1952-53-54) Moss, Perry (1989-90-91) Mudd, Tommie (1984-85-86-87)

Nevils, Rich (1964-65) Noonan, Brian (2006-07-08) Nutt, Julio (1992-93-94)

O’Neill, Jack (1960-61) Osberg, Rick (1971)

Park, Don (1952) Peterson, John (2008-09-10-11) Pierce, Brandon (2014) Poerschke, Fred (1951) Points, D.A. (1996) Pollett, David (2003-04) Pott, Johnny (1953-54-55) Prather, Garrett (2000-01-02-04) Presley, Andrew (2011-12-13) Purnell, Andy (1987)

Raulerson, Charles (1985) Rheams, David (1955) Ricard, Eric (2014) Rickles, Jay (1971-72) Riemann, Jeff (2003-04-05) Rivers, Jack (1971-72) Ross, Eddie (1959-60-61) Rotz, Clayton (2008-09-10-11) Runion, Garrett (2004-05)

Salamone, John (1978-79-80-81) Sample, John (1959-61-62) Schmitt, Phil (1993-94-95) Schroeder, Mike (1972-73-75) Self, Neil (2002) Shaw, Jake (2004-05) Shaw, Robert (1973) Silman, Teddy (1970-71-72) Silvers, Mark (1965) Smith, Aaron (2003-04-05-06) Smith, P.J. (1995-96-97-98) Spencer, John (1958-59-60-61) Spiller, Lindsey (1975) Sterling, Scott (1991-92-93) Stewart, Earl (1940-41-42) Stewart, Travis (1999) Struthers, Brent (2005-06)

Taylor, Ben (2014) Taylor, Craig (2000-01) Thomas, Phil (1964) Thompson, Curtis (2012-13-14) Thornton, Pressly (1948) Timbrook Bud (1948-49-50) Todd, Ray (1959) Toms, David (1986-87-88-89) Torda, Jay (1975) Troutman, Beck (2005-06-07-08)

Vallillo, Michael (1998-99-2000)

Weaver, Bert (1952-53) Weaver, Bret (1978) Webb, Chris (1985) Webb, Craig (1990-91-92) Wells, Chris (2005-06-07) West, Heath (2002-03-04-05) Wienerwitz, Trae, (1997-98-99) Wilkinson, Jeremy (1997-98-99-2000) Willie, Jep (1969) Winstead, Chuck (1991) Wittenberg, Jimmy (1969-70-71) Wolff, Randy (1965-66-67) Wright, Zach (2013-14) Wulff, Tommy (1956-57-58)

Yerger, Dave (1986)

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2013 • LSU’s Award Winners • 2014 Stewart Jolly 2014 Palmer Cup 2014 Golfweek Third-Team All-American 2014 PING Third-Team All-American 2014 PING All-Southeast Region 2014 First-Team All-SEC 2014 Golfweek Conference Challenge Champion

Smylie Kaufman 2014 U.S. Open Qualifier 2014 PING All-Southeast Region 2014 SEC Championships Silver Medalist

Myles Lewis 2014 Louisiana Classics Champion

Ben Taylor 2014 PING Honorable Mention All-American 2014 NCAA Championships Top 10 Finisher (T-6th)

Curtis Thompson 2014 Golfweek Honorable Mention All-American 2014 PING Honorable Mention All-American 2014 Second-Team All-SEC

LSU TIGERS 2014 NCAA Semifinalists 2014 SEC Runners-Up 2014 Aggie Invitational Champions