NCAA Tallahassee Regional Begins Monday for Men’s Golf
Baton Rouge, La. – The LSU men’s golf team has made the trip to the Tallahassee, Florida, and will begin play on Monday at one of six regionals around the country with plans of advancing to the NCAA Championship. The NCAA Tallahassee Regional will be hosted at the Seminole Legacy Golf Club.
Baton Rouge, La. – The LSU men’s golf team has made the trip to the Tallahassee, Florida, and will begin play on Monday at one of six regionals around the country with plans of advancing to the NCAA Championship. The NCAA Tallahassee Regional will be hosted at the Seminole Legacy Golf Club.
LSU is the No. 4 seed in the regional that includes 14 teams. In order for LSU to advance, the Tigers will need to finish in the top five of the event. The tournament will be a 54 hole, stroke play tournament that is slated to have 18 holes played Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The course will play as a par 72 at 7,505 yards.
The Tigers are grouped with the No. 2 overall seed in the whole tournament, the host Florida State. No. 11 Georgia, No. 16 Liberty, Georgia Tech, Georgia Southern, TCU, Indiana, Kansas, USC, Ohio State, Davidson, Florida A&M, and Long Island University will round out the field of 14 teams. Once again, LSU will need to finish in the top five of stroke play at the Tallahassee Regional to advance to the NCAA Championship site in Arizona.
LSU’s starting lineup at the regional will feature Garrett Barber, Nicholas Arcement, Drew Doyle, Connor Gaunt, and Chris Woollam. None of the five have ever played at an NCAA Regional, but they are more than capable of playing solid golf and advancing on in the tournament.
Barber was named to the All-SEC Second Team on Friday and is averaging a career best 71.19 strokes per round this season to go along with two top 10 finishes. Most recently, Barber is coming off a tie for 12th at the SEC Championship. Gaunt was LSU’s top finisher at the SEC event as he placed tied for seventh with a total of 1-over 211; Gaunt owns a stroke average of 73.51 this season.
Arcement and Doyle, both true freshman, have played in every single tournament for LSU this spring. Doyle was LSU’s top finisher at the Old Waverly Collegiate with a 1-under 215 to tie for 16th. Arcement has been a consistent counting scorer for LSU as 22 of his 24 rounds played have counted towards LSU’s team score. Woollam will be teeing it up for the fourth time this season for LSU. He has a low round of 2-under 70 this season at the Tiger Invitational in mid March.
LSU will play its golf alongside Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern on Monday morning with a tee time of 8 a.m. CT off hole No. 10.