Coming off a second-place finish at the Cornell Invitational, the men’s golf team will travel to Williamsburg, Va., this Saturday to participate in the Joe Agee Invitational. Hosted by the College of William & Mary, the tournament includes a variety of teams from the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
The event is the second to last of the Lions’ fall season, and will give the team a good opportunity to preserve its momentum as it prepares to defend the Ivy League crown next spring.
At last year’s tournament, the Lions finished sixth overall, one stroke behind George Mason. Despite the team’s poor showing, then-junior Clark Granum moved up 20 spots in the individual standings on the final day to tie for third. Then-sophomore Brendan Doyle tied for 15th.
This year’s squad appears poised for a better finish. While the fall of 2009 began slowly with 11th- and sixth-place showings, the Lions have performed at a consistently high level in 2010. The team took third at the Rutgers Invitational and finished second last weekend in Ithaca, behind the stellar play of freshman Jordan Lee, sophomore Michael Yiu, and Granum. Granum, whose electrifying final round last April sealed the Lions’ Ivy League victory, shot a four-under par 67 at Rutgers and Yiu notcahed a fifth-place finish at Cornell.
With a team largely composed of returning players, the Lions will feature several golfers who are familiar with the course after last year’s invitational.
The team gets back into the swing of things with tournament competition all day Saturday and Sunday.
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