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Golf Teams Head to Ivy League Championship Tournaments This Weekend
April 19, 2016 | Men's Golf, Women's Golf
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One tournament each decides the Ivy League titles for the men's and women's golf teams, and those tournaments will take place this weekend when the men head to Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson, N.J. and the women go to Stanwich Golf Club in Greenwich, Conn.
Both tournaments will be three-round events with one round each day, Friday through Sunday. The men will tee off beginning at 10 a.m. Friday with the earliest tee times Saturday and Sunday set for 8:30 on the par-72, 6,859-yard course. The women will begin play at 10 a.m. Friday with 10 a.m. also the earliest tee times Saturday and Sunday on their par-73, 6,094-yard course. It will be the first event the women have played at Stanwich, and while this weekend will be the first time any of the current Tiger men have played an event at Metedeconk, the Ivy League Championship was held there annually from 2000-04, the first five years under coach Will Green, and Princeton won four of the five tournaments.
A year ago, both the men and the women played at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Pa., where the women finished fourth, just 13 strokes behind winner Harvard. Alex Wong earned first-team All-Ivy honors by tying four fourth, while Jordan Lippetz and Hana Ku were second-team All-Ivy honorees, tying for eighth and 11th. Princeton will add two rookies to its Ivy tournament roster from a year ago, with Amber Wang and Tiana Lau joining Wong, Ku and Lippetz.
The men finished second by a single stroke to Penn while Quinn Prchal won the individual title by three shots over Penn's Austin Powell. Prchal, Marc Hedrick and Michael Davis, with Hedrick and Davis tying for fifth, all earned first-team All-Ivy recognition. With that trio, plus Eric Mitchell and Alex Dombrowski, the Tigers will return all five players from last year's Ivy tournament.
Princeton's men won three tournaments in the fall, hosted by Navy, Cornell and Georgetown, and had a spring high finish of third last time out at the Princeton Invitational. The men have lined up against six of the other seven Ivy programs at least once between the fall and the spring, all except Columbia, and have finished in front of all except Harvard and Dartmouth at least once this season.
The women have also won three events between the fall and the spring, closing the fall with a victory at the Lehigh Invitational and winning their last two tournaments, the Georgetown Hoya Invitational earlier this month and the Brown Bear Match Play last weekend.
Live scoring links for both Ivy tournaments are available on this page.