NEW ORLEANS, La. | Jackson State men's golf returns to action this week, hitting the course for the first time since mid-November when it tees off at the 2026 Gulf Coast Collegiate hosted by the University of New Orleans at English Turn Golf and Country Club.

The tournament tees off at 8 a.m. on Monday.

The tournament features 15 teams including Belmont, Tennessee Tech, New Orleans, Murray State, Loyola-Chicago, SE Louisiana, Nicholls, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Augusta, St. John's, Central Arkansas, Bellarmine, Southern Indiana, and Jackson State. JD Berndt will go off at the 14th on Monday morning, paired with Luke Watson (Eastern Illinois) and Cole Wiese (Arkansas-Pine Bluff), while Edward Wallace will off at No. 15 with Ian Hollander (Eastern Illinois) and Thomas Lyaudet (Arkansas-Pine Bluff).

A pair of Tigers will begin the day at No. 16 including Ekam Singh when he tees off with Jack Roche (Eastern Illinois) and Juan Melida (Arkansas-Pine Bluff), and Trace Carpenter tees off with Reis Claybrooke (Eastern Illinois) and Timur Alalin (Arkansas-Pine Bluff). Meanwhile, Kaden Tibbetts will tee off with No. 17 and is paired with Jack Yewchuk (Eastern Illinois) and Jonathon Baumann (Arkansas-Pine Bluff).

Set among tranquil lagoons and graceful oaks, this Jack Nicklaus Signature Design - Par 72 Championship Course (7,297 yards) - offers a rewarding round for golfers of all levels. Each hole has its own rhythm and personality, shaped by sweeping fairways, sculpted mounds, and artful bunkering. Meandering waterways provide natural beauty and a sense of calm separation from the surrounding community. At its heart, the stately Southern-style clubhouse invites you to linger a little longer - where tradition, hospitality, and the spirit of New Orleans come together.

The course presents a unique challenge to golfers of all skill levels. Every hole has an individual personality including numerous bunkers, large waste bunkers, plentiful grass depressions and mounds which line the sculpted fairways. The property was designed with meandering lakes surrounding the golf course giving a separation from the community and a magnificent Plantation Style Clubhouse making your visit at English Turn an unparalleled experience. It was originally designed in 1988 for the New Orleans PGA Tour event, which was held at the facility until 2004 and in 2006 following Hurricane Katrina. The Inaugural event was the USF and G Classic in 1989 and the course proved to be a challenge for the PGA Tour with notoriously undulating greens, water in play on seventeen of the eighteen holes and the signature fifteenth Island Green. In Addition, the 18th Hole had been ranked the hardest hole on tour many times during the tournament tenure.

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