BATON ROUGE – Not only will four former Tigers be teeing it up on the PGA and Web.com tours this weekend, but three current and future LSU stars have made the trip to St. Simons Island, Georgia, to compete against many of the nation's top amateurs at the 2015 Jones Cup Invitational beginning Friday at Ocean Forest Golf Club.

BATON ROUGE – A busy weekend lies ahead for four former LSU Tigers as Andrew Loupe and David Toms are each set to tee off at the PGA TOUR's Waste Management Phoenix Open and Smylie Kaufman and Curtis Thompson will both compete at the Web.com Tour's Panama Claro Championship beginning with first rounds on Thursday morning.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – With the start of the NCAA's 2015 spring season still a month away, LSU sophomore Brandon Pierce kicked off his calendar year with an impressive performance at the prestigious New Year's Invitational while firing a 72-hole score of 7-under par 281 to finish one shot back as the runner-up last weekend at St. Petersburg Country Club.

BATON ROUGE – LSU's home course, The University Club, will again be the site of post-season NCAA golf for both the LSU men's and women's golf teams in 2016 and 2017.

BATON ROUGE – The LSU Men's Golf program has added immediate firepower to its 2015-16 lineup with the signing of the nation's No. 1-ranked recruit in Sam Burns (Shreveport, Louisiana) along with top-10 national recruit Nathan Jeansonne (Keithville, Louisiana) and top-20 national recruit Luis Gagne (Orlando, Florida) to National Letters of Intent as part of a heralded Class of 2015.