The LSU women’s golf team will be in Wilmington, N.C., this weekend to compete in the Landfall Tradition at Landfall Country Club’s Pete Dye course for its final tournament of the fall semester.The Lady Tigers will play against a stacked field which includes defending NCAA champion and No. 1 Arizona State, No. 6 Southern California, No. 7 UCLA, No. 9 Denver, and Southeastern Conference rivals No. 5 Georgia and No. 10 Alabama. The tournament is hosted by North Carolina-Wilmington.The par 72, 6,325-yard course was designed by and named after the legendary course designer Pete Dye, whose most famous course is TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The course will also serve as the site of the 2010 NCAA Women’s Championship which will be held May 16-21.The Lady Tigers are competing less than a week after claiming an 11th-place finish in the Mercedes-Benz Intercollegiate.Junior Megan McChrystal and sophomore Tessa Teachman, LSU’s scoring leaders this season, missed the tournament with the flu. The two stars missing wasn’t as bad as it could have been for the Lady Tigers. Juniors Lindy LaBauve and Abby Oberthier filled in for LSU and each responded by posting 12-over par 228s, one shot off the team lead.Teachman is still not well enough to compete this weekend, but All-American McChrystal will return to boost the Lady Tiger lineup. McChrystal will be joined by LaBauve, Oberthier, junior Amalie Valle and freshman Mary Michael Maggio.”This is going to be a good test for us,” said LSU women’s coach Karen Bahnsen in a news release. “We will learn a lot about the course we plan to play on next May, and we hope to finish our fall portion of the season on a good note. We won’t have Tessa [Teachman] for this event, but that’s okay. We want her healthy and at her best for the spring.”MEN’S TEAM HOSTS DAVID TOMS INTERCOLLEGIATEThe LSU men’s golf team will host a tournament for the first time since October 2004 when it hosts the David Toms Intercollegiate, Monday Oct. 26 at the Country Club of Louisiana.The Tigers host a 14-team field which includes SEC rivals Auburn, Mississippi State and Ole Miss and in-state rivals Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana Tech.”This is my fifth year here and my first home event, so I’m looking forward to it,” said LSU men’s coach Chuck Winstead. “Hopefully, our guys will take advantage of playing on their own course.”Winstead said the real advantage of playing at home doesn’t lie only with knowledge of when to take a chance and knowing how the greens break.”If it is windy outside, if the conditions happen where the wind direction starts changing, that’s where the real advantage is.” Winstead said. “Our guys have played the course in every condition.”Winstead is counting on the continued solid contributions of juniors Andrew Loupe and John Peterson as well as the recent strong play of junior Clayton Rotz.Loupe and Peterson have finished every tournament for the Tigers this season as the team’s top two scorers  with the exception of last week’s Brickyard Collegiate Championship. At that tournament, Rotz fired an even-par 144 to beat Peterson and Loupe by two and three strokes, respectively. “It’s easy for me to point out Clayton Rotz,” said Winstead. “He’s really starting to find his game, he had the lowest score on the team for our last event.”—-Contact Luke Johnson at [email protected]