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2023-24 Catamount Men's Golf Roster

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Magnus Pedersen

  • Position Player
  • Class Fifth Year
  • Hometown Moss, Norway
  • High School Hoppern Skole

Biography

2023-24 (Fifth Year): Was a part of the Catamount scoring five in all 11 of the team’s seasonal events … Led WCU with a seasonal scoring average of 72.07 through 29 total rounds, ranked 14th overall in the Southern Conference … Carded 28 of his 29 seasonal rounds in the 70s or better including eight rounds shot in the 60s … Paced the squad in scoring in four events on the year … Finished inside the individual Top 25 in six events … Led WCU at the season-opening Golfweek Fall Challenge, posting the third-best individual 54-hole score in program history at 201 (66-67-68), posting a career-best third-place finish in earning the first SoCon Men’s Golfer of the Week honor of the season, second of his career … His season-opening round of 66 was his career-low 18-hole score … Finished tied for 20th at the home JT Poston Invitational with a three-round score of 211, and placed in a tie for 19th at Wisconsin’s Badger Invitational … Finished tied for 10th at the Elon Phoenix Invitational with a three-round score of 207 … Posted his best finish of the spring semester at the opening Border Olympics, shooting 213 to finish in a tie for 21st ... Named to the Spring 2024 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2023-24 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2022-23 (Senior): Competed in all 11 of the team’s seasonal events as a part of the scoring five … Posted a season scoring average of 74.91 over 32 rounds with 27 carded in the 70s including a season-low round of 69 over the final 18 holes of the 2022 JT Poston Invitational … Finished tied for 16th for a season-best finish at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate to lead the Catamount scoring five to a ninth-place finish … A combined 11 of his rounds were shot at 72-or-lower on the season including five in the spring semester ... Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2021-22 (Junior): One of just two golfers to compete in all 12 of the team’s seasonal events on the year as a member of the scoring five, finishing fifth on the squad with a stroke average of 74.65 … A combined 31 of his 34 rounds on the year were carded in the 70s-or-better including three shot in the 60s … His trio of 68 scores was carded in the first four rounds of the Fall 2021 season … Posted a career-best finish with a sixth-place showing at the season-opening EKU Intercollegiate, matching the best 54-hole score of his career at 208 (68-72-68) … Finished tied for 22nd for a second-consecutive year at the SoCon Men’s Golf Championship.

2020-21 (Sophomore): Played in all nine seasonal events, finishing the year tied for second in scoring average at 74.27, tied for 20th in the Southern Conference … Carded 24 rounds in the 70s or better including twice shooting a season-low round of 69 – in the third round of the UNCW Seahawk Intercollegiate and again in the first round of the Wofford Invitational … Led the Catamounts in scoring once, posting in a career-best eighth-place tie to pace the squad at the Seahawk Intercollegiate … Earned Southern Conference Men’s Golfer of the Week accolades following his career-best finish … Turned in four, top-15 finishes with a pair of top 10s, tied for the second-most on the squad  ... Named to the 2020-21 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and was named Academic All-Southern Conference ... In August before his junior season, posted rounds of 70-71-70-74 (-2) to finish tied for 10th at the Norwegian National Championship. 

2019-20 (Freshman*): Competed in all seven of the team’s tournaments as a member of the scoring five … Finished the year ranked second on the team in overall scoring average at 73.90 over 21 total rounds – 21st overall in the SoCon and the seventh-best among the freshman class … His 73.90 stroke average is the 18th-best single-season in program history … 20 of his 21 rounds were shot in the 70s-or-better with a pair of rounds carded in the 60s … Made his collegiate debut at the season-opening Crusader Collegiate … Turned in his career-low round of 67 at the J.T. Poston Invitational at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley, adding a round of 69 as a part of his career-low 54-hole event score of 208 – tied for the 15th-lowest three-round score in program history … Posted a career-best tied for 12th-place finish at the Pinetree Intercollegiate ... Named to the 2019-20 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll … *Season shortened because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of spring sports in mid-March ... Seeded 31st overall as an amateur in the Norweigian Match Play Championship during the summer of 2020, finished fourth while playing amonst many of the best golfers in Norway.

Prior to Western Carolina: Has been very active among the junior and amateur golf circuits in Scandinavia including Norway, Sweden, and Denmark since 2017 … Ranked first in Order of Merit for the Srixon Junior Elite Tour … Posted a third-place finish in the Norwegian Junior Championship and had a fifth-place showing at the Norwegian National Championship.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Freshman

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  • 2020-21Sophomore

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  • 2021-22Junior

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  • 2022-23Senior

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  • 2023-24Fifth Year

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