{"id":545686,"date":"2026-03-19T00:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545686\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:54:08","slug":"no-6-mens-golf-ties-for-third-at-pauma-valley-invitational-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545686\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 6 Men\u2019s Golf Ties for Third at Pauma Valley Invitational \u2013 LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAUMA VALLEY Calif. \u2013 The No. 6 LSU Men\u2019s Golf team closed the Pauma Valley Invitational with a T3 finish and a 13-under-839 week. The tournament was held at the par-71, 7,311-yard Pauma Valley Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiger\u2019s top finisher was junior Jay Mendell, continuing his great form this season. Mendell closed with a three-under 68 on Wednesday, giving himself a T4 finish on the leaderboard and a seven-under week (65, 73, 68). The T4 finish is his third top-10 finish of the season and his fourth time closing a tournament under par. The Lafayette native finished with a tournament leading 2.75 average on par-three holes and 18 total birdies.<\/p>\n<p>After an average start on Monday, freshman Dan Hayes found his usual form once again and closed at T12 on the individual leaderboard. Hayes had a stellar day on Wednesday with a scorching five-under 66. This is the third top-15 finish of Hayes\u2019 freshman season and his first of the spring.<\/p>\n<p>The lone other Tiger this week to go under par while dealing with some powerful wind was Matty Dodd-Berry competing as an individual. The Englishman closed the week at T22 with a one-under performance. Wednesday he went one-over 72 after a 68 on Monday and 72 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the LSU lineup closed over par with Noah McWilliams in T34, Alfons Bondesson in T41 and Arni Sveinsson in T65.<\/p>\n<p>THE TIGERS<br \/>T4. Jay Mendell, -7 (65, 73, 68)<br \/>T12. Dan Hayes, -4 (73, 70, 66)<br \/>T22. Matty Dodd-Berry (IND), -1 (68, 72, 72)<br \/>T34. Noah McWilliams, +1 (73, 67, 74)<br \/>T41. Alfson Bondesson, +2 (72, 70, 73)<br \/>T65. Arni Sveinsonn, +6 (77, 72, 70)<\/p>\n<p>TEAM LEADERBOARD<br \/>T1. No. 15 Tennessee, -16 (273, 284, 279)<br \/>T1. No. 20 Georgia Tech, -16 (280, 278, 278)<br \/>T3. No. 6 LSU, -13 (283, 279, 277)<br \/>T3. No. 3 Florida, -13 (285, 274, 280)<br \/>5. No. 7 Oklahoma State, -8 (279, 285, 280)<br \/>T6. No. 2 Virginia, -6 (287, 285, 274)<br \/>T6. No. 9 Illinois, -6 (287, 277, 282)<br \/>8. SMU, -5 (281, 285, 281)<br \/>9. No. 13 Ole Miss, +1 (276, 289, 288)<br \/>10. No. 10 Texas Tech, +3 (283, 285, 287)<br \/>11. ETSU, +5 (292, 287, 278)<br \/>12. San Diego State, +8 (285, 291, 284)<br \/>13. San Diego, +10 (284, 286, 292)<br \/>T14. Toledo, +13 (290, 287, 288)<br \/>T14. Loyola Marymount, +13 (293, 278, 294)<br \/>16. Colorado State, +31 (293, 297, 293)<\/p>\n<p>Follow Us<br \/>Stay up to date with all things LSU men\u2019s golf by following us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lsumensgolf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lsumensgolf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LSUMensGolf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAUMA VALLEY Calif. \u2013 The No. 6 LSU Men\u2019s Golf team closed the Pauma Valley Invitational with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,43753,622,43754,701,6385,12558,4463,5924,8732,82],"class_list":["post-545686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-geaux-tigers","tag-golf","tag-homepage-feature-headline","tag-latest-news","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-men-s-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}