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Post date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 10:09am

For Brandon Newton, few introductions will be required when he begins his collegiate golf career at Louisiana Tech University. He has known the Bulldogs’ head coach (Jeff Parks) a long time and he’s played the program’s home course (Choudrant’s Squire Creek) more times than he can remember. So for Newton, joining the Western Athletic Conference team provides a perfect fit to continue an outstanding career that was recently capped off by yet another individual and team championship at the high school level. Newton and his Cedar Creek High School teammates went a perfect four-for-four in...

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