Western Carolina men’s golf slipped two positions in Tuesday’s final round of the Myrtle Beach Golf Trips Intercollegiate, coming home 12th with a three-day score of 888 in the 2024-25 season opener. Catamount newcomers Chase Cline and Callum Waugh led WCU as its top two finishers in their debut events for the Purple & Gold.
Cline, a freshman from Chapin, S.C., closed his first collegiate event with a 2-over par 74 to cap a three-day tally of 219 to finish in a team-best tie for 37th place. Cline carded 11 birdies over 54 holes, collecting four apiece in rounds two and three.
Waugh, who led the Catamounts through 36 holes, slid into a tie for 58th with a final-round score of 79 to cap his three-round score of 223. Junior Ivan Ninkovic advanced four spots on Tuesday with a final-round 1-over par 73 to finish tied for 63rd.
Cline, Ninkovic, and Waugh all finished with 11 birdies to lead the team.
Rounding out WCU’s scoring five were sophomore Jace Butcher in a tie for 69th at 226 and classmate Andrew Korytoski in a tie for 77th overall with a score of 231.
Playing unattached, senior Kiefer Bulau was down 11 total spots to finish the event in a tie for 56th with a three-day score of 222, his best career 54-hole score. The King City, Ontario, Canada native finished tied for second with 40 total pars in the season-opener.
Santa Clara led from start to finish, claiming a three-stroke victory over runner-up Campbell which overtook East Carolina on Tuesday. Santa Clara finished with a three-round score of 843, just ahead of Campbell (846) and ECU (850). Tournament host East Carolina finished fourth with a score of 852 with Elon rounding out the top five at 853.
Three golfers finished the tournament tied for the individual medalist honors as J.P. Odland of Santa Clara, Dylan Teeter of Texas El Paso, and Jack Wieler from Elon each posted three-round scores of 9-under par 207. Odland climbed two spots to atop the leaderboard with a final-round score of 69. Wieler opened the event with a tourney-low round of 66 on Sunday.
Western Carolina men’s golf returns to western North Carolina to host its first of two events in 2024-25 with the annual JT Poston Invitational. For the first time since 2007 – minus the COVID-altered 2020-21 season – this year’s fall tournament will be contested somewhere other than the traditional Country Club of Sapphire Valley.
This year’s three-day, 54-hole event is being held at the renovated, reconfigured, and redesigned Waynesville Inn and Golf Club in Waynesville, N.C. A combined 16 teams converge on the historic Donald Ross-designed course. This year’s event begins with a Collegiate-Am on Saturday, Sept. 14, followed by 18 holes of championship golf each day starting on Sunday. The tournament is open and free to the public Sunday through Tuesday.
12 – Western Carolina – 292 – 295 – 301 = 888
T37 – Chase Cline – 73-72-74 = 219 (+3)
T58 – Callum Waugh – 73-71-79 = 223 (+7)
T63 – Ivan Ninkovic – 72-79-73 = 224 (+8)
T69 – Jace Butcher – 74-76-76 = 226 (+10)
T77 – Andrew Korytoski – 77-76-78 = 231 (+15)
T56 – Kiefer Bulau – 73-74-75 = 222 (+6)
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