Montana State University
GCU Invitational
Cats to Soak Up Sun at GCU Invitational in Phoenix
2/24/2025 11:50:00 AM | Women's Golf
Bobcats hit the Valley of the Sun for second tournament of the spring, returning to site of big moments for Becca Tschetter and Scarlet Weidig
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State golf heads to the Valley of the Sun this week, competing at the GCU Invitational in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Bobcats will play 36 holes at GCU Golf Course on Tuesday, with a final 18-hole round to wrap up the tournament on Wednesday.
Shotgun starts begin at 8 a.m. both days. Live scoring is available on GolfGenius.
Weather projects to be beautiful in Phoenix, with nothing but sun and temperatures in the upper 80s.
"I'm excited for the GCU Invitational for a few things," head coach Brittany Basye said. "We are getting back outside on real grass and competing. We have Becca in our lineup this year, and this course has been her home course for four years before she became a Bobcat. Scarlet has won this event the last couple of years, so good memories for her. We will take advantage of the time we get outside to work on short game shots and putting on real greens. Getting our feel back is important to our success and bringing it all together this spring. Each time we get to be outside is an opportunity for us to improve and gain confidence."
The 13-team field includes GCU, Northern Arizona, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UTEP, Northern Colorado, Northern Illinois, Idaho, Houston Christian, Murray State, and CSU Bakersfield, and Findlay.
Montana State will roll out a lineup of Becca Tschetter, Lauren Greeny, Scarlet Weidig, Maddie Montoya, and Hannah Boraas. Eva Heinz will also compete as an individual.
The tournament will mark a homecoming of sorts for Tschetter, who donned purple for the Lopes for four years before transferring to MSU this summer.
Tschetter, the 2024 WAC runner-up, will look to utilize her familiarity with the same GCU home course that the Cats will take on beginning Tuesday.
Perhaps nearly as comfortable at the course is Bobcat standout Scarlet Weidig, who shot a school-record 205 last February at this tournament to finish runner-up individually. The native of Belen Heredia, Costa Rica, carded a pair of school-record-tying 18-hole rounds of 67 on the same day as part of a memorable 36-hole stretch, finishing with a one-under par 71 in the final round.
Weidig helped lead the charge, but the Bobcats as a team smashed the school record by 15 strokes for a 54-hole tournament, shooting a 10-under par 854 as a squad.
Two years ago, Weidig medaled at the same GCU Invitational by tying for the lead and going to a three-person playoff, shooting an 8-under-par 208 for what at the time was the second-best tournament in program history and currently ranks as the third-best.
Two of the three best 54-hole tournament scores in program history have come from Weidig at the GCU Golf Course, which this week will be measured at 6,510 yards for the first two rounds at 6,426 yards for the third and final round.
"It's time to go compete and put together a good team score," Basye said.
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