Montana State University
Wyoming Cowgirl Classic
Bobcat Golf Begins Final Stretch With Wyoming Cowgirl Classic
4/2/2024 2:26:00 PM | Women's Golf
Montana State begins stretch of three tournaments in two weeks with two-day tournament at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes in Maricopa, Arizona
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- The Montana State golf team begins the most critical stretch of their season this week, traveling to compete in the Wyoming Cowgirl Classic on Wednesday and Thursday at Ak-Shin Southern Dunes Golf Course in Maricopa, Arizona.
The Cats are starting a run of nine rounds in 15 days across three tournaments, heading across Arizona from Maricopa to Goodyear to host the Bobcat Desert Classic from April 8-10 and ending with the Big Sky Conference Championships in Litchfield Park on April 15-17.
The Wyoming Cowgirl Classic, hosted by the University of Wyoming at Ak-Shin Southern Dunes, will feature 36 holes on Wednesday with a final 18-hole round on Thursday.
Action will begin with a shotgun start at 7:30 a.m. MT each day, with live scoring available on Golfstat.
"We've had a couple good weeks of practice, obviously being inside so we've been working on short game, hitting off tight lies—which is something we're going to need at Ak-Chin," head coach Brittany Basye said. "Their greens are mounded, so if the ball rolls off the green you're going to have to have a tight lie shot. And then just working on consistency with our golf swings—if we're missing it, figuring out how we're missing it and how to get it back in play."
The Bobcats will be one of 21 teams competing at the tournament, alongside Wyoming, Boise State, Cal State Fullerton, Fresno State, Long Beach State, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Portland State, Sacramento State, San Diego State, Santa Clara, Southern Utah, UC Riverside, Hawaii, UTEP, Cal State Bakersfield, and Cal State Northridge.
"I think overall we just had a good practice," Basye said. "Sun is shining and they're ready to get out. We didn't finish on a great note a couple weeks ago, so they're ready to come back and regain themselves a little bit. Now is the time for us to be ready to go—we don't have any more excuses of not being outside—from now until conference, we've got to be ready to go."
Ak-Chin Southern Dunes is one of the premier golf courses on the Cats' calendar every spring. The par-72 course is marked for 6,191 yards.
"What I'm looking for from each golfer is to get to where they know they can score," Basye said. "We played awesome at GCU, came home and had great practices, then went to NAU and didn't play awesome. We have to find the point that when the wheels start coming off, how do we get those wheels back on immediately. We're coming down to conference, and it could be a one or two-shot swing. We're not looking backwards, we're always looking ahead."
Scarlet Weidig leads the Bobcats in scoring average at 73.85, and has nine rounds at or under par across seven tournaments. The junior from Belen Heredia, Costa Rica, has tied the school record for low round (67) on three occasions this year, is the school record holder for low 54-hole tournament score, and is second in program history in career wins (4).
Six of the nine rounds of 67 in program history have been accomplished this year by Weidig and sophomore Lauren Greeny.
Greeny, a native of Pullman, Washington, is second on the team in scoring average at 74.09.
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