RUSTON – The Louisiana Tech golf team makes the two hour drive to Texarkana, Arkansas where they will compete in the 2023 Conference USA Men's Golf Championship.
 
EVENT INFORMATION
Date/Time: Monday-Thursday (April 24-27)
Location: Texarkana Country Club (Texarkana, Arkansas)
Stroke Play: 3 rounds/54 holes (18 holes Monday-Wednesday)
Match Play: Top 4 teams (Thursday)
Teams: 10
Stats: GolfStat.com
 
ABOUT LOUISIANA TECH
LA Tech heads into the C-USA Championship as the No. 4 seed after finishing the regular season with the fourth highest ranking in the league.
 
The Bulldogs have had three weeks of preparation having last played in the Mossy Oak Collegiate where they finished 16th as a team.  Prior to that, LA Tech had posted three top-10 finishes in three of the previous four events.
 
James Swash continues to anchor the 'Dogs with a stroke average of 73.48.  He enters the postseason as the sixth-ranked golfer in C-USA, hoping to rekindle last season's performance at the championship where he finished tied for seventh as an individual (shot the lowest round of any player with a 66).
 
Thomas Henson, who has the second-best stroke average on the team with a 74.10 and has four top-20 finishes, is ranked 13th in the conference.  Henson has played in all 10 events this season, as has Lake Juban who is ranked 25th in the league and has a stroke average of 74.67.
 
Rounding out the lineup is Hunter Battles who will compete in his ninth event and has a stroke average of 75.25 and Will Patrick who is back in the field having not played since the Border Olympics in early February.
 
THE PAIRINGS (Round 1)
Middle Tennessee/Charlotte
North Texas/Louisiana Tech
UTEP/UTSA
Florida Atlantic/UAB
Rice/WKU
 
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