JACKSONVILLE – The Jacksonville State men's golf coach Michael Brice has announced the Gamecocks' schedule for 2023-24, their first season as a member of Conference USA.
 
In what will be Brice's first full season at the helm, the Gamecocks will play 10 regular season tournaments before the Conference USA Championship in April. The Gamecocks will play five tournaments in the fall and then five in the spring before the league tournament.
 
"This is a great schedule for our first season as a member of Conference USA," Brice said. "We will be challenged against some great competition and will get to play some great golf courses We have five really good tournaments to get us started in the fall and five more in the spring that we think will prepare us for our first CUSA Tournament."
 
Jax State will open its fall season at the GolfWeek Fall Challenge in Pawley's Island, S.C., on Sept. 10-12, a tournament in which the Gamecocks' women's team will also be competing. A familiar event, it will be the 12^thtime they have played in it, including winning the 2022 version. Jax State also has four second-place and two third-place finishes in the tournament all-time.
 
The Gamecocks will play close to home in UAB's G-Mac Invitational on Sept. 25-26 at Limestone Springs in Oneonta, Ala., before playing three events in October. They will play in Arkansas State's Bubba Barnett Intercollegiate on Oct. 2-3 and the USF Invitational on Oct. 9-10 before closing the fall in Paradise Island, Bahamas at the White Sands Bahamas Tournament.
 
The spring will get started early at the World Golf Village Collegiate in St. Augustine, Fla., on February 19-10 before Jax State plays two events in the month of March. It will travel to Daytona Beach, Fla., for the Daytona Beach Intercollegiate on March 4-5 and will then return closer to home for Auburn's Tiger Invitational on March 11-12.
 
The season will wind down in April, starting with GolfWeek's Any Given Tuesday on April 1-3, followed by Appalachian State's Irish Creek Intercollegiate on April 8-9. The CSA Championship will be played April 22-25 at a site that has yet to be determined.
 
The Gamecocks will be led by senior Erik Jansson, who returns for his final season after a 2022-23 campaign that saw him post one of the best seasons in program history en route to earning an at-large berth into the NCAA Regionals as an individual.