Princeton University Athletics
Men's Golf to Face Army, Georgia in Tri-Match Sunday
September 22, 2011 | Men's Golf
Aronimink Golf Club, which has a PGA Championship and a U.S. Amateur Championship as well as being the most recent site of the AT&T National tournament among its credits, will host the Army, Georgia and Princeton men's golf teams for a tri-match at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Each team will field five players, each of whom will score against one player from each of the other two schools. Each player will have the possibility of winning two points for his team among the total of 15 matches. It is the second tri-match in which Princeton will have competed this fall after taking on Harvard and Yale on Long Island earlier this month.
Georgia was the national runner-up a year ago, advancing to the finals of the eight-team dual-match competition at the conclusion of stroke play. Augusta State got past the Bulldogs 3-2 in the NCAA final, and Georgia graduated three of the five who competed in that match. Georgia has two national titles to its credit, coming in 1999 and 2005. Princeton remains the school with the third-most NCAA titles all-time, with title No. 12 coming in 1940.
Though Princeton has never faced Georgia in a dual, the Tigers used to face Army on a fairly regular basis with the last meeting coming in 1982. Multi-team tournaments first comprised a majority of Princeton's schedule in 1987, signaling a trend that continued to grow.
The event is the third of six competitions for Princeton this fall.