The men’s and women’s golf team will head to the Atlantic City Country Club this weekend for the Ivy League Championships. The men will be aiming to defend their title, while the women look to improve upon their second-place finish last season in the Ancient Eight.
The 54-hole tournament, which begins Friday, will feature three consecutive days of 18 holes of play. The championship will be played at the Atlantic City Country Club.
The men’s team, the defending champion, returns two stalwarts from last season’s squad. Sophomores Clark Granum and Austin Quinten led the Lions as freshmen last season, placing third and sixth, respectively, in the Ivy League Championships. Both were awarded all-Ivy distinctions last season, and Granum finished only four strokes off the individual leader—Penn’s Michael Blodgett—in last year’s tournament. The title was the Lions’ first since 1999 and just the second in the program’s history. They won by finishing nine strokes ahead of Yale.
The Light Blue will feature variety in its lineup, as it includes students in different grades. Seniors Chris Arkin and Philippe Fossaert will look to lead the Lions by example, as Arkin finished fifth individually as a freshman, earning all-Ivy honors at the time. Freshman Brendan Doyle will be playing in the Ivy Championships for the first time, but is coming off a great showing in the Boilermaker Invitational, where he was the top finisher. He has recorded four top-20 finishes this season and will look to carry that momentum into the weekend.
The women are coming off a third-place showing at the Roar-EE Invitational last weekend and will look to build on last season. The Lions are led by junior Stevy Loy, the third-ranked golfer in the Ivy League. Loy has five top-20 finishes this season, including a title at the UAB Beach Bash in the fall. She leads the team with a 77.6 stroke average and is coming off a strong performance in the Roar-EE Invitational, where she came from behind to place 20th. Senior Sara Ovadia finished seventh last weekend and shot the lowest score with a 75 on the final day. Ovadia won the individual Ivy title in 2007 and finished eighth last season.
The Lions have also gotten strong performances out of freshmen Lynda Kwon and Robin Lee, who are tied for second among all first-year golfers in the Ancient Eight.
The Ivy League Championships are set to begin on Friday, April 24 at the Atlantic City Country Club in New Jersey.
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