Jay Mendell Season 2025-26
Updated on May 24, 2025
GCAA PING All-Southeast Region, 2025
SEC Community Service Team, 2025
All-SEC Freshman Team, 2024
LSWA First-Team All-Louisiana, 2024
SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll,2024
LSU CAREER STATS:
Low (Single Round): 65
— Ka’anapali Classic (November 4, 2024, 3rd round)
Low (Single Round to Par): -6
— Ka’anapali Classic (November 4, 2024, 3rd round)
Low (54 Holes): 201
— SEC Championships (April 23-25, 2025)
Low (54 Holes to Par): -11
– Ka’anapali Classic (November 2-4, 2024)
Best Career Finish: 1
– Hal Williams Collegiate (February 12-13, 2024)
— Hootie at Bulls Bay (March 24-26, 2024)
No of Top 10 Finishes at LSU: 9
— SEC Championships (T3, April 23-25, 2025)
— Pauma Valley Invitational (T3, March 17-18, 2025)
— Ka’anapali Classic (T8, November 2-4, 2024)
— Blessings Collegiate Invitational (T8, September 30-October 2, 2024)
— Hootie at Bulls Bay (T1, March 24-26, 2024)
— Louisiana Classics (T7, March 11-12, 2024)
— Hal Williams Collegiate (1, February 12-13, 2024)
— Everett Buick GMC Classic (T3, October 16-17, 2023)
— Golfweek Collegiate Kickoff (T10, September 4-5, 2023)
No. of Even or Under Par Rounds (LSU): 45
No. of Stroke Play Rounds Played (LSU): 75
LSU Stroke Average: 71.75
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2024-25)
Named All-Southeast Region by the Golf Coaches Association of America after a year in which her stroke average dropped from 72.36 in 2024 to 71.08 in 2025 … In 36 rounds, averaged 71.08 strokes per round … 24 rounds under par … Two top five finishes … Finished third at the Pauma Valley Invitational in California, posting -7 206 (68-68-70) and finished T3 in the SEC Championships at 9-under 201 (66-65-70) … 13 rounds in the 60s … Ranked 67th in the NCAA Scoreboard rankings, up from 169 on March 12 … 45 rounds of par or under in two seasons and a two season, 75-stroke play round average of 71.75.
FRESHMAN SEASON (2023-24)
Appeared in all 13 tournaments for the Tigers … One of seven players named to the 2024 SEC All-Freshman Team … Five-time SEC Freshman of the Week in his first season at LSU … Among five players to be named First-Team All-Louisiana by the LSWA after a season that included a 72.36 scoring average over 39 rounds … Fired 21 rounds of par or better with a low round of a 67 at the Hal Williams Collegiate, a tournament that Mendell won with a 10-under 203 (67-68-68) … Mendell also finished the Hootie at Bulls Bay T1 with a 6-under 210 (71-68-71) to lead the Tigers to a tournament victory … Shot a 1-over 217 in the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional, coming back from an opening 76 to shoot 69-72 at the University Club to help send the Tigers back to the NCAA Championship … 10 rounds in the 60s.
PRIOR TO LSU
A native of Lafayette, Louisiana that attended Ascension Episcopal… Won the 2023 Louisiana individual state title after shooting a 12-under par, 132. It was the lowest score in any division in the past nine years… Placed eighth at the Junior Orange Bowl, second at the Pete & Alice Dye Junior tourney and seventh in the Southern Junior… was a qualifier and participant in the United States Junior Amateur Championship and the Western Junior event and in 2021 was a member of the winning twosome in the tournament named after a former LSU and current PGA star, the Sam Burns Junior Four-Ball…