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Big Sky Women's Golf Championship
Bobcats Set for Big Sky Women’s Golf Championship This Week
4/12/2025 1:50:00 PM | Women's Golf
Montana State tees off three-day conference tournament on Monday morning in Arizona
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Playing their best golf of the year, the Montana State golf team heads to the tee box Monday for the 2025 Big Sky Women's Golf Championship as the conference tournament returns to The Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park, Arizona, for the second straight year.
The three-day, 54-hole stroke-play tournament kicks off Monday morning and continues through Wednesday.
The Cats will have the first tee time in the first round on Monday, pairing with Weber State and getting underway at 6:30 a.m. PT/7:30 a.m. MT.
First round tee sheets can be viewed here, with the championship program available here.
Live scoring will be carried through Scoreboard online and on the Scoreboard app.
The Bobcats are looking to carry momentum from their best regular season in program history towards a high finish at the conference championship tournament after taking second in 2023 and fourth in 2024.
"The championship is finally here and it's go time," head coach Brittany Basye said. "We are excited, focused and ready to play our best golf yet."
The Cats will roll out a lineup of junior Lauren Greeny, graduate student Becca Tschetter, redshirt senior Scarlet Weidig, junior Maddie Montoya, and sophomore Hannah Boraas, with sophomore Eva Heinz on hand as an alternate.
"We need to play with focus, grit and confidence," Basye said. "They have all played Wigwam--the course is tricky but getable. We need to be dialed in on controlling our irons, getting the ball off the tee in a favorable position and dropping some putts."
Ranked No. 137 in NCAA Division I according to Scoreboard's metrics, Montana State is the No. 3-ranked squad in the ten-team field behind the favorite Sacramento State (No. 52) and Northern Arizona (No. 90). Weber State, the champion of last week's Bobcat Desert Classic, is the fourth-ranked team in the Big Sky at No. 142.
Sacramento State has won four of the last five years, including each of the last two seasons.
"There's always the championship emotions, so we will need to control those and just go play our games," Basye said. "If they each take care of their own games like I know they can, the team score will take care of itself. We're excited for some great competition."
The Cats are led by reigning Big Sky Golfer of the Week Lauren Greeny, who collected her third individual tournament win of the season last week at the Bobcat Desert Classic in Goodyear, Arizona.
The native of Pullman, Washington, erased a three-stroke deficit over the final round before winning the trophy in a dramatic playoff after carding an 8-under-par 208 (67-73-78), the third-best tournament score in program history.
In eight tournaments this year, Greeny has finished in the top-20 six times, with five top-10's and three tournament wins—a mark that ties teammate Scarlet Weidig (2022-23) for the most by a Bobcat in a single season.
Greeny's current season stroke average of 72.86 would currently be the best in program history by a full stroke ahead of the year Scarlet Weidig put together last season (73.83).
The junior finished t-4th at the Big Sky Championship in 2023 and t-13th in 2024.
Weidig, a redshirt senior from Belen Heredia, Costa Rica, finished t-6th last season to lead Montana State on the way to thier fourth-place team finish.
The two-time All-Big Sky selection in 2023 and 2024 has four top-20 finishes this year with a stroke average of 75.09.
Tschetter, a graduate student from Minot, North Dakota, has impressed in her first season as a Bobcat after four years at Grand Canyon University, carrying a stroke average of 73.77 into Litchfield Park.
The 2024 WAC individual runner-up has four top-ten finishes in five tournaments this year, including a tournament win at the Diane Thomason Invite in Iowa this past fall.
Last week at their home tournament at Golf Club of Estrella, the Cats finished tied for second as a team at the Bobcat Desert Classic, shooting an even-par 864 for the second-best tournament score in program history.
Three of the top-six 54-hole team tournament scores in program history have come this season, with four of the top-13 18-hole team round scores in program history also coming this year alone.
In eight stroke-play tournaments this year, the Cats have recorded a top-four team finish on six occasions.
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