Men’s and women’s golf look toward successful spring season

In their first events of the spring season, both the men’s and women’s golf teams impressed. The men’s golf team traveled to Athens Country Club in Georgia to compete in the Southern Intercollegiate, while the women’s team travelled to Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head Island, S.C., to compete in the Low Country Intercollegiate.

The men’s golf team finished seventh out of 14 teams with a score of +27. They were some way off from first place University of Georgia, which finished under par with a score of -1, an impressive 13 shots ahead of second place Georgia State University.

A total of eight Tigers competed in the tournament, with five underclassmen making up the starting lineup, all of whom were extremely impressive in the tournament. Most impressive was the freshman duo of Michael Davis and Marc Hedrick who led the way for the Tigers, combining to shoot only three shots over par for the whole tournament. Davis ended up in 10th place and Hedrick in 12th for the tournament. Sophomores Quinn Prchal and Alex Dombrowski finished in 30th and 70th places, respectively, with scores of +7 and +17.

The women’s team was faultless in its performance in South Carolina, sweeping all of the individual and team titles. The team finished in first place, with a score of +42, tying with Wofford College and ending three shots ahead of SCAD Savannah. However, the Tigers won their tiebreaker, with their fifth golfer freshman Tenley Shield’s second-round score besting that of Wofford’s fifth golfer by four shots. This was the Tigers’ second team title of the season.

Sophomore Jordan Lippetz was fantastic throughout the tournament, finishing with a score of +2 and tying with Sofia Molinaro of SCAD Savannah. Lippetz finished the first round with a score of 73 to place her in first place overall, and a second round score of 73 was enough to secure her first individual title of her Princeton career. Lippetz and Molinaro easily distanced the rest of the field, with third place Lauren Dunbar from Wofford finishing with a score of +6.

The rest of the team’s four golfers finished in the top 35, with sophomore Hana Ku finishing in 10th place with a score of +11 and junior Alexandra Wong finishing in 20th with a score of +15. Freshman duo Caroline Araskog and Shield finished in 29th and 33rd places, respectively, with scores of +17 and +19.

With great starts to their spring seasons, the two teams will travel in different directions for their next games. The men’s team will fly to California to compete at The Goodwin on Stanford Golf Course in Palo Alto this weekend, in a three-day competition from Thursday to Saturday. The women’s team will stay nearer to home as it faces off in the Pirate Invitational in Bedminster, N.J., at the Trump National Golf Club next weekend.