BATON ROUGE – LSU golfer Andrew Loupe certainly played like a consensus All-American all season long in leading the Tigers to their most successful campaign on the links in more than a decade, and he was honored yet again for his performance with a selection to the Golfweek All-America Team.
A junior from Baton Rouge, Loupe received honorable mention All-America honors from Golfweek as he has also been named a PING Honorable Mention All-American for the 2009-10 season.
He led the Tigers to a 24th-place finish this week at this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships, marking LSU’s first appearance in the event since the 1997 season. With its performance, LSU was the second-highest finishing team in the SEC at the NCAA Championships.
Loupe proved to be a leader on the course for the Tigers in 2009-10 as he wrapped up the year as the team leader with a career-low 72.0 scoring average to go along with six Top 10s and eight Top 20s.
Loupe, who ranks No. 44 in the latest Golfweek ranking of the Top 100 college golfers in the nation, won First-Team All-SEC honors for the first time in his career after guiding the Tigers to a fifth-place finish at the 2010 SEC Men’s Golf Championships. He tied for fourth place on the leader board with a 3-under 208 at the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Ga.
Not only that, but Loupe followed his performance at the SEC Championships with another Top 10 finish at the NCAA Central Regional held at The Warren Course in South Bend, Ind., as he led the Tigers to the NCAA Championships by tying for sixth place on the leaderboard with a 2-under 208.
The former Episcopal High School star finished in the top 10 of the leaderboard in five of 10 tournaments since the start of the spring season, including his first career individual victory at the Louisiana Classics in March with a season-low and career-low tournament score of 8-under 208.