Coming into this weekend's Ivy League Championship at Metedeconk National Golf Course, the men's golf team had struggled to maintain a consistent level of play. Low scores by certain players would almost always be countered by high scores from others. Throughout the course of the three-day Ivy tournament, Princeton nevertheless proved itself to be the steadiest of all the squads — capturing the league crown for the first time in five years.
Leading the charge for the Tigers was freshman Nat Hoopes, who captured the individual Ivy title with a three-round score of 219 (71-71-77). Hoopes — who finished two strokes ahead of Penn's Chad Perman — helped Princeton to a tournament-low score of 289 in the second round and pushed the Tigers into the lead going into Sunday's final round. Princeton then held on to claim the top spot by recording the lowest final-day score of any school — 302. The championship was the men's 14th Ivy League title.
Hoopes' effort earned him first-team All-Ivy honors — a reward also shared by senior Judd Pritchard and sophomore James Milam, who finished third and fifth, respectively. Princeton was the only school with three first-team selections.
The success of Hoopes and the men's golf team should not overshadow some other spectacular individual performances this past week. Junior Andrew Hanson's 6 for 6 hitting effort for baseball versus Columbia this past weekend also deserves recognition, as does the perfect game thrown by softball's Brie Galicinao against league rival Cornell.
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