“I feel like the team did well considering the conditions and the windy final round,” senior co-captain Marlowe Boukis said. “This is most definitely a confidence builder and the kind of momentum we wanted to see running up into our Ivy championship. This was the first time we had seen this many Ivies in a while, and this event was a great way to size up the competition.”
The Tigers were led by junior Michelle Grilli, who posted a score of +8 for the tournament and finished second in the individual competition. Senior co-captain Susannah Aboff was on pace for a top-three finish after registering the lowest single-round score for the Tigers on the weekend with a 1-over-par 73 on Friday, but she finished tied for seventh after recording a round of 82 on Saturday. Still, Aboff finished her weekend with an exclamation point, a downhill 20-foot putt for a birdie.
And Princeton put together a solid performance in team competition. The Orange and Black finished ahead of Harvard, the tournament runner-up and the reigning Ivy League champion, by six strokes and denied the Crimson its sixth straight first-place tournament finish in the 2008-09 season.
“I most definitely think that this victory will translate into Ivies,” Aboff said. “This weekend was a great warmup for us, as we faced the majority of our competition at Ivies and truly saw how well we can perform against them. I think everyone is both excited and ready to take on the rest of the Ivy League.”
This is the perfect time for the Tigers to hit their groove and find confidence in their game, as they look to reclaim the Ivy League title after a four-year championship drought. The strength of the Tigers’ performance last weekend has also translated into a relaxed, good-humored atmosphere about the team, sophomore Kate Scarpetta explained: “I nearly killed myself with a 4-iron I hit yesterday. An errant tee shot left me in the woods where I had to punch out. Me, being the genius that I am, bit off more than I could chew, and I hit a rather large oak tree square in the trunk.”
“The ball ricocheted back at me and I had to pull a ‘Matrix’-like move to avoid getting hit,” Scarpetta added. “Had I failed to dodge it, I would have gotten a penalty as well as a mark on my forehead.”
If Princeton keeps up the strong consistent performance it has demonstrated over the past few tournaments, it won’t have to dodge any bullets during the Ivy League tournament. At the Roar-EE Invitational, the Tigers have demonstrated the potential to win against Ivy competition. Dartmouth, the only Ivy League team that did not send its women’s golf team to the invitational, has not put up impressive results at the Ivy League Championship over the past few seasons: The Big Green has finished sixth out of the seven teams in the league tournament in the last two years and finished seventh in the two years prior.
Princeton, on the other hand, has been knocking on the championship door for the past few seasons. The Tigers finished third in 2008, second in 2007 and third in 2006 after taking the championship in each of the two previous seasons.
The Tigers will look to bring back the Ivy League Championship at the Atlantic City Country Club after three rounds of golf next weekend.
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