The men's golf team, seeded No. 26 out of 27 teams in the upcoming NCAA Regionals, is looking to use its underdog status to slip ahead of its opponents and prove skeptics wrong about its ability to compete at a national level. As they head to Stanford, Calif. from May 19-21, the Tigers are coming off a strong season in which they finished in the top eight in seven of their eight tournaments, capping things off with a first-place finish at the Ivy League Championships on April 17.
Senior Creighton Page and junior Jason Gerken finished first and second respectively at Ivies and are hoping to lead the Tigers into a successful Regionals weekend. The Tigers hope to perform well enough to become one of 10 teams that will move on to compete in the championship finals in Owing Mills, Md., June 1-4.
Page has been the primary leader in fostering a winning team atmosphere. With a fall scoring average of 76.36 and his first-place finish at the Ivies, he looks to be among the Tiger favorites at Regionals. Gerken, who led Princeton with a 72.73 scoring average this fall, is looking to post some more low numbers in the weeks to come.
The Tigers are led by head coach Will Green, who will continue to play a crucial role in guiding them as they prepare for the tournament.
"Coach Green is a constant motivator for our team," Gerken said. "He is at his best when we are preparing for a tournament, always attentive to the parts of our game that need work and to the parts that will be essential for whichever course we are playing."
Team unity has also been important for Princeton this year.
"Our team gets along great," Page said. "We hang out together off the golf course, and everyone enjoys each other. The team atmosphere here is something that our recruits like and something that made me want to come here."
Gerken says the most important thing the Tigers will need to work on to prepare for the Stanford course is their wedge play. Since the course is shorter and simpler than a lot of the courses they have played in the past, getting the ball close enough to the hole to make a lot of birdies will prove crucial. The players will be perfecting their wedges, chips and putts in the next week and a half in order to prepare.
The Tigers are making their second consecutive NCAA appearance and their fifth in six years.
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