This Week in Michigan Men's Golf: Louisiana Classics

» Michigan travels to Lafayette, La., to play in the 37th Louisiana Classics at Oakbourne Country Club.
» U-M is wrapping up a three-event schedule in just over a two-week period.
» Last year, the Wolverines had a 12th-place finish (893) at the Louisiana Classics.
» Will Anderson continues to lead U-M with a 72.48 scoring average with eight sub-par rounds.

THIS WEEK
Mon-Tue., March 14-15 -- at Louisiana Classics (Lafayette, La.)
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Next on the Tee: Louisiana Classics

After a successful spring break week training and competing, the University of Michigan men's golf team heads back out on the road to Lafayette, La., to play in the 37th annual Louisiana Classics hosted by Louisiana, Monday and Tuesday (March 14-15). The two-day, 54-hole competition will be played at Oakbourne Country Club. Scoring will be five players, count the four lowest scores. The course is scheduled to be set up as a par 72 at 6,898 yards.

The Louisiana Classics Field

There will be 16 teams competing at the Louisiana Classics:Houston (68), Illinois State, Kansas State (79), Lipscomb, Little Rock (44), LSU (34), Louisiana, Louisiana Tech, Michigan, Ole Miss (17), Mississippi State (48), North Texas, Rice, Sam Houston State (63), Texas A&M (23) and UTSA (76).

The Louisiana Classics Schedule

Saturday, March 12 -- Travel Day
Sunday, March 13 -- Practice Round
Monday, March 14 -- First Round (18), 8 a.m. CST (shotgun start)
Monday, March 14 -- Second Round (18), continuous play after completion of first round
Tuesday, March 15 -- Final Round (18), 7:30 a.m. CST (tee times off Nos. 1 and 10)

The Louisiana Classics Lineup

Michigan will travel a five-member starting group to the Louisiana Classics. Graduate student Brendan O'Reilly and freshman Hunter Thomson head up the squad, with freshman Bavake Sihota, sophomore Will Anderson and freshman Yuqi Liu rounding out U-M's five.

Last Year at the Louisiana Classics

In its third event back after the fall season with canceled due to COVID-19, Michigan posted a 12th-place finish at the 2021 Louisiana Classics with an 893 total (295-295-303) at Oakbourne Country Club. Charlie Pilon (75-71-74) paced the Wolverines, tying for 31st. » Recap

Wolverine Bites

• U-M has posted four top-five finishes this season, including a rally to win the Desert Mountain Collegiate (March 5-6) its last time out. The Wolverines opened the season with a third-place showing at the Island Resort Intercollegiate and followed with a runner-up finish at the Macdonald Cup, where Will Anderson earned his first collegiate win. The Maize and Blue added a tie for fifth at the Rich Harvest Farms Intercollegiate after tallying a season-best 857 (-7) team total.

• Michigan's win at the Desert Mountain Collegiate gave the Wolverines their first team title in five years and first under head coach Zach Barlow. The last win for the Maize and Blue was at Desert Mountain in 2017 (March 4-5). U-M, which has hosted the Desert Mountain Collegiate seven times, has two team titles (2017, '22) and three runner-up finishes (2015, '16, '18).

• What a successful spring break for Brendan O'Reilly, who led U-M for the first time at the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate (tie-21st) and followed with a tie for 11th at the Desert Mountain Collegiate. He opened his trip with a 215 (-1) that included a season-low 70 (-2) in the second round at Reflection Bay. He followed with a 218 tally at the Outlaw Course with a 71 (-1) in the opening round. During the trip he posted two sub-par tallies and two at even par in six rounds. He is now averaging 73.30 per round this season, which is third on the team.

• Will Anderson has finished as the top Wolverine in seven of his 13 career tournaments. He leads the team with a 72.48 scoring average and is tied for the team lead with eight sub-par rounds, including a career-low 66 (-4) at the Macdonald Cup (first round). He leads U-M with a 217.43 54-hole average, nearly two shots better than any other Wolverine.

• Hunter Thomson continues to shine in his first season in Ann Arbor. He posted his second runner-up finish at the Desert Mountain Collegiate after recording his fourth sub-par 54-hole total this season. Averaging 73.05 per round -- second on U-M -- he is tied for the team lead with eight sub-par rounds. He recorded a career-low 66 (-4) in the second round of the Macdonald Cup, which led to a career-low 207 (-3) 54-hole total.

• Patrick Sullivan continues to be a steady force in his final season, posting a career-best 73.48 average, which is just under two strokes better than his prior best of 75.33 last season. He has three top-25 individual finishes in seven starts. He has highlighted this season with a career-low 213 (-3) at the Rich Harvest Farms Intercollegiate, and his seven sub-par tallies in 2021-22 top his total for his first three seasons combined (5).

• After winning his first collegiate title, Will Anderson was named the Big Ten Golfer of the Week on Sept. 29. Carding a career-low 204 (-6), Anderson led from start to finish to win Yale's Macdonald Cup and lowered his career-best 54-hole total by 12 shots.

• After finishing as the runner-up in 2019, Patrick Sullivan used a 2-and-1 victory over Eastern Michigan's Tyler Rayman to win the 110th Michigan Amateur Championship at Cascade Hills Country Club last summer. Sullivan became the 16th Wolverine to hoist the Staghorn Trophy and is the first U-M golfer to win since Andrew Chapman's title run in 2013. U-M now has 26 overall titles in the state amateur's history.

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