Trojans Open 2021-22 Season at Jim Rivers Intercollegiate

2021 JIM RIVERS INTERCOLLEGIATE
Dates	Saturday, Sept. 12 - Tuesday, Sept. 14
Format	18 holes each day
Times	7:30 a.m. tee times Sunday and Monday; 8 a.m. tee times Tuesday
Location	Choudrant, La.
Course	Squire Creek Country Club
Teams (21)	Little Rock, Abilene Christian, Central Arkansas, Francis Marion, High Point, Houston, Lamar, Louisiana, Louisiana Tech (host), LSU, Middle Tennessee, Nicholls, Rice, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Troy, ULM, UT Arlington, UT Chattanooga, UT San Antonio, Western Kentucky
Scoring	GolfStat.com

Opening Tee
Little Rock opens its 2021-22 season in a familiar place, returning to Choudrant, Louisiana for the 2021 Jim Rivers Intercollegiate Sunday, September 12 through Tuesday, September 14.
 
Tournament Information
The 2021 Jim Rivers Intercollegiate, hosted by Louisiana Tech, will be held Sunday, September 12 through Tuesday, September 14 at Squire Creek Golf Club – a par-72, 7,070 yard course in Choudrant, Louisiana. The 54-hole event will be played over the course of three days with tee times starting at 7:30 a.m. on both Sunday and Monday and 8 a.m. on Tuesday. Live scoring of the event is available through GolfStat.com.
 
Tournament Field
Little Rock will be among a challenging 21-team field competing in northern Louisiana and is one of six Sun Belt schools among the competitors, joined by Louisiana, South Alabama, Troy, ULM and UT Arlington. The field will consist of seven teams that finished the 2020-21 season ranked among the GolfStat Top-100 as the Trojans' number 43 ranking puts them as the number two ranked team behind LSU (No. 32). Houston (No. 61), UT San Antonio (No. 62), ULM (No. 86), Middle Tennessee (No. 90) and Louisiana (No. 99) join the Trojans among the top-100 competitiors.
 
Trojan Lineup
Head coach Jake Harrington will use a mix of veterans and newcomers in the first tournament of the year with sophomores Magnus Lomholt and Nico Horder and senior Marcel Rauch joined by freshman Archie Smith and transfer Jansen Smith. Lomholt is the top returning golfer this weekend for the Trojans, boasting a 74.37 average last season, with Horder posting a 74.90 and Rauch at 75.86. Sophomore Ryan McNelis will compete as an individual for Little Rock as well.
 
Trojans at the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate
This year's event marks the second-straight year the Trojans will compete at the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate, finishing sixth last year with a 2-over 866 and paced by Anton Albers tying for seventh overall at 2-under 214. Lomholt is the top returning finisher at Squire Creek for Little Rock, tying for 18th last year with a 2-over 218.
 
Looking For a Repeat
Little Rock opens its season looking for a repeat of the dream season it put together in 2020-21. The Trojans finished the year with five top-five team finishes, including winning the 2020 Little Rock Invitational in record-setting fashion and placing second in both stroke play and match play at the Sun Belt Championship at Mystic Creek. Little Rock then used an incredible final hole at the NCAA Stillwater Regional to place fifth and qualify for the 2021 NCAA Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona for the first time in program history.
 
Challenging Slate
Little Rock once again has a challenging schedule in 2021-22, comprised of 11 events that will have the Trojans competing in eight different states, as well as a pair of host events both in Little Rock and the Bahamas. The Trojans have elevated their status in recent years, earning invites to events hosted by Louisiana Tech, SMU, Michigan, Stanford and Mississippi State, and will serve as the host school at the Little Rock White Sand Invtational in Nassau, Bahamas at the end of October.
 
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