LSU will look for some home cooking as the No. 12 Tigers host the David Toms Intercollegiate at the University Club Golf Course.

The tournament will begin Saturday at 8:30 a.m. and finish Sunday. LSU coach Chuck Winstead said the Tigers have valuable insight on how to play their home course because they practice there.

“The home [course] advantage is different in golf than in most sports,” Winstead said. “It is not as much about the home crowd as it is about knowing the course and where to miss shots in order to be successful.”

Eight teams will travel to Baton Rouge to play in the tournament. The Tigers will compete against Southeastern Conference opponents Mississippi State and Ole Miss along with local schools like Louisiana-Lafayette, Lamar University and Louisiana Tech.

The Tigers are coming off a victory at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate, where they shot even-par over in three rounds at Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham, Ala., to win by five strokes.

“I thought we played pretty well at Shoal Creek,” Winstead said. “There was some parts [where we] struggled but the whole team played well in the end to finish strong.”

Sophomores Stewart Jolly and Curtis Thompson tied for the individual championship at Shoal Creek with a three-round scores of 6-under. Jolly also led the team at the season-opening Carpet Capital Collegiate in Georgia.

“This course is really tough, but knowing it gives us an advantage this weekend,” Jolly said. “I have had a really good start to the season and hopefully I will just keep getting better and better going forward.”

Since the tournament is being played at home, all nine Tigers will play this weekend.

The Lady Tigers play in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Ga., starting Friday.

The tournament will serve as this fall’s NCAA Fall Preview Tournament as the NCAA Championship tournament will be played on the same course in May. The tournament will run through Sunday.

“It is a really strong field and a very tough golf course,” LSU coach Karen Bahnsen said. “We just want to play well and learn the course for when we come back in May.”

Bahnsen said her lineup will be sophomore Madelene Sagstrom, junior Lindsay Gahm, senior Katrina Hegge, and freshmen Nadine Dreher and Elise Bradley.