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Women's Golf Announces Spring Slate
January 17, 2016 | Women's Golf
The Princeton women's golf team is set to compete in three spring tournaments before the Ivy League Championships on the final weekend of April.
The Tigers are coming off a fall campaign that saw the team finish in the top two in three of its four events and win its fall finale, the Lehigh Invitational. In the other of those four events, the Yale Invitational, the team set a 54-hole program record with a score of 894 to finish fifth in the 16-team field. Individually, junior Hana Ku won the Lehigh tournament by a stroke over rookie teammate Amber Wang, two of Princeton's nine top-10 individual finishes across the four fall events.
The spring will start for the Tigers at the Pinehurst Resort for the Spring Training Intercollegiate March 18-19 on the facility's No. 8 course. Pinehurst, famous for its No. 2 course that hosted both the U.S. Open and the U.S. Women's Open in 2014, will host Princeton, Columbia, Harvard and local Sandhills Community College for the event.
Princeton will then head to the Georgetown Hoya Invitational at the Members Club at Four Streams in Beallsville, Md., April 4-5. The Tigers have competed in the event seven times since 2003 but not since 2011.
A new event for the Tigers, the Brown Bear Match Play, will follow April 16-17 at the Carnegie Abbey Club in Portsmouth, R.I., in the team's finale before the Ivy League Championships, which will take place April 22-24 at Stanwich Golf Club in Greenwich, Conn. It will be the Ivy event's first appearance in the Nutmeg State a year after the tournament ventured out of New York and New Jersey for the first time, at Saucon Valley in Pennsylvania. Princeton had a first-team All-Ivy League finish from senior Alex Wong and second-team All-Ivy finishes from junior Jordan Lippetz and Ku at the 2015 Ivy tournament.