Cullowhee, N.C. – After posting a school-record, 54-hole score in its last event, the Western Carolina women's golf team returns to action Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 25-26, at the Terrier Intercollegiate, hosted by Southern Conference foe Wofford at the par-72, 6,056-yard Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg, S.C.
The three-round, 54-hole tournament opens with 36 holes of continuous play on Monday with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start and concludes Tuesday with 18 holes that begin with tee times at 9:00 a.m. Live scoring through GolfStat is available
online through a link at CatamountSports.com.
In addition to the host Terriers and Catamounts, SoCon schools Samford and The Citadel are also in competition. Rounding out the 17-team field is Appalachian State, Central Michigan, Eastern Kentucky, Gardner-Webb, Lipscomb, Longwood, North Alabama, Presbyterian, USC Beaufort, USC Upstate, UNC Asheville, Tennessee Tech, and Winthrop.
WCU carded rounds of 294, 294, and 284 – the latter ranking as the second-best single-round in program history – shooting 872 as a team at the Buccaneer Classic to shatter the program's three-round team score. The previous program benchmark was set in 202 at the John Kirk/Lady Panther Intercollegiate hosted by Georgia State and later matched at the 2015 Southern Conference Championship.
Senior
Madison Isaacson leads the Catamount scoring five after finishing tied for 12th at the Buccaneer Classic, posting her career-low 54-hole score at 216 that included a career-low round of 70. The Greensboro, N.C., native enters the week ranked tied for 10th in the SoCon in scoring average at 73.33.
Junior
Victoria Ladd flanks Isaacson with freshman
Elizabeth Lohbauer – who enters the week ranked 12th in scoring average in the SoCon – and classmate
Kaitlyn Wingnean and redshirt freshman
Kayleigh Baker rounding out WCU's scoring five in that order. Each of WCU's golfers carded a career-low round at the Buccaneer Classic
Paired with golfers from Central Michigan and Gardner-Webb, WCU's scoring five hits the course between the fourth and sixth holes on Monday morning for the first of two rounds.
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