GREENVILLE, S.C. --  The Furman women's golf team will open the 2026-27 season Monday at the 22nd annual Cougar Classic at the par 71, 6,269 yard Yeamans Hall Club in Hanahan, S.C.

The 54-hole tournament features two rounds on Monday and will conclude with a final round on Tuesday.  In Monday's 8:50 a.m. shotgun start, the Paladins will tee off on No. 12 through No. 15 and will play in a group with Georgia and Rutgers.  The final round will begin with an 8:45 a.m. shotgun start on Tuesday.

The Paladin lineup for the Cougar Classic includes senior Audrey Ryu, sophomore Olivia Hasselbach, freshman Rebecca lee, junior Jenna Madden, and junior Eva Ringwald.

Furman will be joined in the 18-team field by host Charleston, Arkansas, Baylor, Boston College, Charlotte, Clemson, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Miami (FL), Mississippi, N.C. State, Rutgers, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin.

Live tournament scoring of the Cougar Classic will be available via Scoreboard by clippd at https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/245089/scoring/team.

After guiding the Paladins to the 2026 Southern Conference Championship and an NCAA Chapel Hill Regional berth, Furman head coach Jeff Hull was selected by his peers as the SoCon Coach of the Year.  Ryu was voted SoCon Female Athlete of the Year and Edna Hartness Furman Female Athlete of the Year for the second-straight year, marking the fifth-consecutive year and sixth time in the last seven years that a Paladin women's golfer has claimed the two awards.  

The 2026 SoCon Women's Golfer of the Year, Ryu repeated as SoCon individual medalist and finished the season as the highest ranked player in the league.  She led the Paladins with a 72.73 stroke average over 33 rounds and earned her third-straight all-conference scroll.

Furman returns all seven players from last year's squad, including Hasselbach, the 2026 SoCon Freshman of the Year.  Both Hasselbach and Ringwald were voted to the All-SoCon team, while Hasselbach and Ava Hanneman were named to the SoCon All-Freshman team.