Men's Golf to Host Tiger Classic Thursday

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Will Stafford (@WillStaffordLSU)Associate SID



BATON ROUGE – The No. 4-ranked LSU Tigers will prepare for the SEC Championships next week by playing host to the one-day, 36-hole Tiger Classic on Thursday as they welcome the likes of No. 18 Texas A&M, No. 27 Arkansas, Centenary, McNeese State, New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana to the University Club.
Each of the seven teams will tee off at 8 a.m. CT with a shotgun start as they will play two rounds at The University Club with a second round in the afternoon following the opening round in the morning. The Tigers are set to play alongside Arkansas and Texas A&M as they tee off from holes Nos. 1 and 16-18.
The Tigers are playing host to their second tournament at The University Club this season after they won the team title at the eighth-annual David Toms Intercollegiate during the fall season in October.
Thursday’s event will also give fans a preview of what’s to come at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional next month as the Tigers are also set to play host to regional competition for the first time since the 2013 season. The NCAA Baton Rouge Regional is scheduled to run May 15-17 with the top-five teams in the field earning a trip to the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships.
LSU in the National Rankings
The Tigers are ranked as high as No. 4 nationally in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index released Thursday in the wake of their fourth team championship of the season at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational held April 1-2 at Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Texas. LSU has also been crowned champion at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in the fall and The Prestige at PGA West to open the spring season.
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