John Peterson is an All-American, but certainly not Superman.The junior LSU golfer finished with a 12-under par 204 last weekend at the Gary Koch Invitational, good enough for the best finish by an LSU golfer since 1985.But despite the historic weekend for Peterson, the LSU men’s golf team finished in eighth place.The Tigers hope to get a more balanced effort this weekend when the team travels Saturday to Macon, Ga., for the Brickyard Collegiate Championship.”We need a little bit better play from the back of our lineup,” said LSU men’s coach Chuck Winstead. “We need some guys to put the pieces together, and this weekend gives us another chance to work on that.”Junior Andrew Loupe was the only other Tiger in red numbers last weekend, firing a 1-under 215.Winstead said he needs the three remaining golfers in the lineup — junior Clayton Rotz and sophomores Sang Yi and Austin Gutgsell — to work out some kinks in their game.”We have some really talented guys who can play … but each of them have an area that has shown up that they’re not just quite at the level they need to be at,” he said.The Tigers won’t face nearly as stiff of competition as they have in their first two tournaments of the season, with only preseason No. 7 Georgia — who has won the Brickyard the last two years — No. 17 Georgia Tech and No. 21 Clemson, among the ranked foes in the field.LSU is set to tee off on the par-72, 7,128-yard course Saturday at 7:40 a.m. on the back nine with Georgia Tech and Michigan.A recurring theme will continue this weekend as the Tigers yet again travel to an unfamiliar golf course, something Winstead said was done intentionally. “I did it … to give our guys more experience on what it feels like to go to regional play in the spring,” he said.Winstead said he could have taken the easy road and scheduled tournaments on courses his team is used to seeing but wanted to give them a challenge.”We can afford to do that in the fall,” he said. “In the spring, we will play at a lot of the tournaments that we always tend to play, and guys have a little more familiarity with the golf courses.”LSU sent three players, seniors Brian Leveille and Brent Blaum and sophomore Josh Jones, to the Squire Creek Invitational on Monday, hosted by Louisiana Tech, to gain more experience for the remainder of the fall.Jones posted a team-low 5-over 221, good enough for 31st place.While the rest of the team has room for improvement, Winstead said he has been pleased with the play from his most accomplished golfers.”John and Andrew have played pretty well, and past that, we need a little better play,” he said.Peterson bounced back from an 8-over 224 on Sept. 28 in the season opener at the PING/Golfweek Invitational, with his 12-under at the Gary Koch Invitational.”John came into his own last spring as a collegiate player and carried that over into last weekend’s play,” Winstead said.Winstead said Peterson has spent time on his putting and gained a newly found confidence in his stroke.”When you match good putting with the way John strikes the golf ball, then obviously things are going to happen,” Winstead said.—–Contact Sean Isabella at [email protected]