BATON ROUGE – LSU junior golfer Taylor Riley was presented with the Tom Cousins Award at the annual Party on the Green at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia as part of the East Lake Cup that will begin on Monday for some of the nation’s top college golf teams.
The awards committee, which is overseen by representatives from Golf Channel, East Lake Foundation and East Lake Golf Club, name one male and one female recipient from a participating team in the East Lake Cup annually. The award is given to the student-athlete that best exemplifies the civic, community and philanthropic qualities of East Lake Foundation founder Tom Cousins.
Riley, a junior from San Diego, is the daughter of former LSU golfer Michelle Louviere Riley and her dad, Chris, was a PGA Tour winner and recently stepped down after many years as men’s golf coach at the University of San Diego…