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D'Amato Shoots 68 in Final Round at Ivy Meet
April 25, 2010 | Men's Golf
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- Freshman Bernie D'Amato shot a final-round 68 Sunday as the Princeton men's golf team finished seventh at the Ivy League Championship held on Baltusrol Golf Club's Lower Course.
For reference, the last time the U.S. Open was held at Baltursol in 1993, the low round was 66, shot by several players on a course that was just 50 yards longer than the 7,066-yard layout the Ivy players had this weekend. In 2005, when the PGA Championship was held at Baltusrol, runner-up Thomas Bjorn had the low round of 63 on a 7,392-yard course.
D'Amato's final round was the low round of the tournament until the end of the day, when Columbia's Clark Granum turned in a 67. Granum and Penn's Scott Williams finished tied atop the leaderboard at +4, and Williams defeated Granum on the first playoff hole for medalist honors.
Columbia won the team title over Yale by three shots, with Penn, Dartmouth, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton and Brown rounding out the team leaderboard. Among Tigers, behind D'Amato's +7 (77-72-68--217), which was good for a first-team All-Ivy finish in a fourth-place tie, Eric Salazar (76-78-76--230) tied for 20th at +20, Patrick Wasserman tied for 23rd at +23 (77-74-82--233), Chase Lovett-Woodsum (83-78-80--241) tied for 33rd at +31, and Jake Skinner (88-82-88--258) placed 38th at +48.
The Tigers are eligible to return all four scorers from the Ivy League Championship lineup, with Salazar as a junior and Lovett-Woodsum and Wasserman as sophomores alongside the rookie D'Amato.
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