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Tiger Classic – Live Scoring (Clippd)
Cullowhee, N.C. – Western Carolina women’s golf opens its 2025-26 schedule and the second season under head coach Anne Marie Covar on Monday, Aug. 25, at the one-day, 36-hole Tiger Classic, hosted by Clemson at the university’s par-72, 6,209-yard Walker Course.
Monday’s event begins at 8:30 a.m. with a shotgun start to open the 36-continuious holes of play. Live scoring of the event is available online through the Scoreboard app, powered by Clippd and available online at CatamountSports.com.
In addition to the Catamounts and host Clemson Tigers, the 11-team field includes golfers from Augusta, Campbell, Charlotte, Gardner-Webb, Holy Cross, UNC Asheville, USC Upstate, West Georgia, and Youngstown State. The field also includes a total of 16 individuals from the competing teams.
It is the second straight season that Western Carolina opens the schedule, traveling to Death Valley for the single-day tournament. WCU opened the Anne Marie Covar era of Catamount women’s golf at the same event in 2024, finishing 14th overall with sophomore Annalee Caveney pacing the squad in her collegiate debut.
“We are looking forward to getting our fall season started at the Clemson Invitational. It’s a quick start to the season, but a great event to get our feet wet just down the mountain,” said Covar. “We are returning two players from last year’s squad. Senior Sadler Miller, who was one of our top scorers last year, as well as sophomore Annalee Caveney who competed in every event as a freshman last season. Our newcomers EC, Elsa, and Emily are all coming in as transfers with successful college golf experience under their belts. I am looking forward to seeing them compete as Catamounts for the first time at the Walker Course this week. ”
Caveney is among two returning Catamounts who both played in last season’s opener. The second-year striker from Raleigh is joined by senior Sadler Miller, WCU’s leading returning scorer, who hails from Clayton, N.C. Miller has played in 55 career rounds in 19 total events during her time on the links.
Covar and the Catamounts welcomed three newcomers to the program this fall, each as a transfer student. EC Niebauer (High Point, N.C.) came to Cullowhee from Queens University in Charlotte after opening her career at Sewanee. She is joined by Catawba College sophomore transfer Emily Rosenschein (Concord, N.C.) and Icelandic-born second-year player Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir (Akranes, Iceland), who found her way to WCU from the University of North Alabama.
Two of the three newest players in Niebauer and Steinarsdôttir lead the Catamount scoring five into the season-opening event after preseason team qualifying. The duo is followed by returners Caveney and Miller as the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds, while Rosenschein rounds out the scoring five for the opening event.
Monday’s tournament opens a five-event fall for the Catamounts, and is the first of three events to be contested in South Carolina. WCU ventures to Statesboro, Ga., on Sept. 8-9 for The Southern, hosted by Georgia Southern at the Forest Heights Country Club in Statesboro, Ga.
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