Bobcat Golf Releases 2024-2025 Schedule
8/5/2024 8:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
MSU enters fall with high expectations after bringing back all seven competitors from last year's record-breaking group
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State women's golf will participate in four fall tournaments and five spring tournaments leading up to the 2025 Big Sky Championship next year, head coach Brittany Basye announced on Monday.
"Expectations are high with this group coming back and returning all seven players," Basye said. "I know they've been playing a lot of golf this summer and they as well are ready to start back up with collegiate competition. This group is setting the pace for the future of Bobcat Golf and now they want to leave a high bar for future players to reach. They are talented, fun, and competitive."
The Bobcats will play in ten tournaments across seven states in 2024-2025, beginning with the Kelsey Chugg Invitational in Eden, Utah, on September 16-17.
Two years ago, the Cats opened their season at the Kelsey Chugg Invitational in style, placing second as a team while being led by Scarlet Weidig's first career individual tournament win.
"Obviously going back to Weber State's event is exciting as we had some great rounds happen for us there," Basye said. "Scarlet's win, Greeny's first collegiate round of 67, and that was the start of something special for the team we had put together and Bobcat Golf. A different culture was being created and it started at that event with those players."
This season, the opener hosted by Weber State kicks off a furious fall that features four tournaments in five weeks, continuing with stops in Idaho, Iowa, and Oregon.
The Cats will participate in the Eagle Invitational on September 22-23, hosted by Eastern Washington in Worley, Idaho. From there, they'll head to the Diane Thomason Invite hosted by the University of Iowa in Iowa City on September 30-October 1.
After a weekend off, MSU wraps up their fall slate in the Rose City at the Portland State Invitational on October 14-15.
"What stands out most about this schedule will be the new events by adding Iowa, a Big Ten opponent and Portland State hosting at Columbia Edgewater Country Club, which is an amazing golf course," Basye said.
In the spring, Montana State returns to the tee box for Mountain Classic Match Play on February 10-12, the fourth year in a row the Cats will participate in the eight-team match play tournament co-hosted by Boise State and Wyoming at The Classic Club in Palm Desert, California.
The Cats then head down to the Grand Canyon State on February 24-26 for the familiar GCU Invitational in Phoenix.
A pair of exciting tournaments will pave the way leading into the Cats' home tournament and the conference championships, as they travel to compete in the SUU Pizza Hut Lady Thunderbird in St. George, Utah, from March 7-9, and the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational in Maui, Hawaii, on March 24-26.
After the visit to Hawaii, Montana State will host their annual tournament, the Bobcat Desert Classic, at Golf Club of Estrella on April 7-9 in Goodyear, Arizona.
It all leads up to the 2025 Big Sky Championship, held for the second consecutive year at The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, Arizona.
Montana State finished second in 2023 at the conference tournament, and placed fourth this past April—their two-best finishes since 2005.
Scarlet Weidig tied for sixth individually to earn a spot on the All-Tournament Team, and returns in 2024-25 to help headline a group that brings back everyone from a squad that helped re-write the program record book in 2023-2024.
Montana State broke records last year for low 54-hole team score (854), low 18-hole team score (276), and low individual 54-hole score (Scarlet Weidig, 205). Heading into her third season with the program, Weidig owns four individual victories, second in program history only to Jen McGregor (5, 1993-97).
The Bobcats carded the five best 54-hole tournament scores in program history, an incredible feat, and had six of the best seven 18-hole round scores in program history.
The program-low record for individual 18-hole round of 67 was matched on five occasions, with Weidig accomplishing it three times and Greeny doing it twice herself.
"We want to be better prepared this year for each tournament we compete in," Basye said. "It's a new season--we always like to keep looking forward and not back. I am anxious to see how they respond to a new season, a couple new challenging events and continue to keep growing individually here at Montana State."
Along with Weidig and Greeny, the Cats bring back junior Maddie Montoya, sophomore Eva Heinz, and sophomore Hannah Boraas, who all started in the lineup at the Big Sky Championship in April, along with senior Jordan Briggs and sophomore Belle Brezovski.
In 2023-24, Montana State finished with four of the top eight individual scoring averages in program history: Weidig (1st, 73.83), Greeny (2nd, 74.10), Heinz (6th, 75.40), and Montoya (8th, 75.89). The Cats also broke their own record from only a year prior for 4-player team scoring average with a mark of 297.10, eclipsing the previous season's average of 302.51.
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