Cullowhee, N.C. – Western Carolina men's golf opens its season this week, traveling to coastal South Carolina for the Golfweek Fall Challenge, hosted by one of the preeminent voices of collegiate golf at the par-72, 6,988-yard True Blue Golf Club in Pawley's Island, S.C. The three-day, 54-hole event opens on Sunday and continues through Tuesday with 18 holes slated for each day.
Live scoring for each round is available online through GolfStat, also linked on the men's golf schedule page at CatamountSports.com.
In addition to the Catamounts, the 13-team field includes fellow Southern Conference foe Mercer, as well as golfers from Austin Peay State, Ball State, Central Arkansas, East Texas A&M, Georgia Southern, Loyola-Chicago, Nevada, North Alabama, Presbyterian, USC Upstate, and future SoCon member, Tennessee Tech.
The Catamounts finished third in their last trip to the Golfweek Fall Challenge back in the fall of 2023, led by program alum Magnus Pedersen, who finished on the podium in a tie for third to lead a WCU trio inside the Top 10.
WCU posted a school-record, 54-hole score of 822 over the three-day event that included a single-round team-low of 266 in the second round.
Western Carolina sent six men's golfers to the season-opening event, with redshirt senior
Josh Lendach competing unattached as an individual. Through preseason qualifying, Catamount newcomer, redshirt sophomore Charlotte transfer
Tyler Jones, leads the squad into its first event of the season. Originally from Jacksonville, N.C., Jones is flanked by senior
Ivan Ninkovic, who paced the team in scoring a season ago, and freshman
Charlie Coe (Morrisville, N.C. / Green Hope HS) as the No. 3.
Rounding out the Catamount scoring five are junior returners
Andrew Korytoski and
Jace Butcher, who, like Ninkovic, were a part of the 2023 squad that fared well at the season-opening event.
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