Montana State University
Big Sky Conference Championships
Big Sky Women's Golf Championship Tees Off Monday
4/14/2024 9:56:00 PM | Women's Golf
Bobcats aim to build on record-breaking season, looking to follow up last year's runner-up finish
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. -- With the regular season in the rearview mirror and the postseason stage set, the Montana State golf team begins their chase for a second conference championship in program history this week, teeing off the 2024 Big Sky Women's Golf Championship from The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, Arizona.
The first round of 18 holes begins with freshman Hannah Boraas teeing off at 9:00 a.m. PT/10:00 a.m. MT on Monday morning, with Scarlet Weidig rounding out the Cats' group with a 9:40 a.m. PT/10:40 a.m. MT tee time.
The Wigwam Blue course is a Par 71, listed at 5,948 yards.
"I think some keys this week will be hitting the greens in the correct location, being creative, keeping good attitudes—hitting golf shots and making our putts," head coach Brittany Basye said. "We're going to have to be patient with our putting and be patient with how the golf course plays, because it's not super long, but you have to be hitting the middle of the greens."
The 54-hole championship tournament includes all ten Big Sky teams, with reigning champion Sacramento State entering the week as the favorite to repeat.
Montana State finished second at last season's conference championships, their highest finish since winning the tournament in 1995.
The Bobcats will have three of their five scorers from last year's Big Sky Championships, with Scarlet Weidig, Lauren Greeny, and Maddie Montoya joined this year by freshmen Eva Heinz and Hannah Boraas.
In the only tournament this year that saw all ten Big Sky squads compete, Montana State placed third as a team, with Scarlet Weidig winning the individual title (-9). Maddie Montoya tied for 12th (-1).
"We've had some good warmup these last few days—this is what we work on all year to get to this golf tournament, and they just need to go out and play as well as they know they can," Basye said. "If all five of them are getting off the tee box, we're hitting our green shots to the spots that we've picked and studied--we just have to go in and trust our putting."
Weidig and Greeny own six of the nine program-low rounds of 67 in school history, and have established themselves as two of the best MSU golfers ever. Both freshmen that the Cats will start on Monday, Boraas and Heinz, have shot rounds of 68 in their debut seasons.
Montana State has broken records this year for low 54-hole team score (854), low 18-hole team score (276), and low individual 54-hole score (Scarlet Weidig, 205), while In just her second season with the program, Weidig owns four individual victories, second in program history only to Jen McGregor (5, 1993-97).
Montana State has had 26 individual rounds below 70 in program history, with 15 of those rounds coming this year.
Live scoring throughout the tournament will be carried through Golfstat.
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