Championships Loom for Men's Golf

Although the winter season ended barely a month ago, spring sports are already beginning to crown their champions, continuing this weekend with the Ivy League Championship for men’s golf.

The tournament is entirely up for grabs. Over the course of the spring, the Ivies have battled one another, and the results have been scrambled from week to week. For its own part, Harvard has shown consistent play, earning top-three finishes in each of its contests this month, but has yet to claim a tournament title.

The Crimson squad is led by sophomore Mark Pollak, whose scoring average this spring of 74.1 is best on the team, as well as sophomore Tony Grillo and senior Greg Shuman, both of whom have averaged 74.7 strokes per round this season.

Captain Danny Mayer and junior Louis Amira round out a top five that believes it can compete for the Ivy title.

Elsewhere in the Ancient Eight, Yale figures to be a contender. The Bulldogs pulled out two-straight wins at the beginning of April before stumbling to fifth this past weekend at the Caves Valley Invitational. Penn and Princeton also are expected to compete for the top spot, as both teams dominated the Caves Valley field last weekend, with the Quakers ultimately prevailing by five strokes.

The Ivy League Championship will take place over three days at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J. The prestigious par-72 course played host to the 2005 PGA Championship at which Phil Mickelson won his second major, and it was awarded the PGA Championship for 2016.