SAN ANTONIO – The Southeastern Louisiana University golf team opens the spring portion of its 2011-12 schedule on Monday when it competes in the UTSA Oak Hills Invitational at Oak Hills Country Club.
Action begins in the 54-hole tournament on Monday with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. The 15 teams entered in the two-day event will play 36 holes on Monday before playing the final 18 holes beginning Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. Live statistics, courtesy of GolfStat.com, will be available at www.LionSports.net.
Southeastern, which is playing the first of six spring events before the Southland Conference Championships in April, look to build off a solid end to the fall campaign that saw the Lions earn a pair of top three finishes. The Lions finished third overall at the Louisiana Tech/Squire Creek Invitational before concluding the fall with a second-place finish at the Santa Clara Cabo Intercollegiate.
Joining Southeastern and host UTSA on the par-71, 6,675-yard course are Baylor, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Oklahoma, Rice, Texas State, defending champion Texas Tech, Tulsa and Wichita State.
Junior
Philipp Westermann will lead Southeastern's five-man lineup after posting a 72.42 scoring average in four events during the fall. Westermann will be joined in the lineup by returning letterwinners
Rhys West, who averaged 72.75 in the fall, and sophomore
Daniel Zuluaga (73.92).
Rounding out the lineup for Southeastern are freshmen
Baptiste Courtachon, who will make his debut, and Hammond native
Grady Brame, who competed in all four events in the fall and averaged 76.00 per round.
