The Cornell men’s golf team finished the first two rounds of the Princeton Invitational with a combined score of 597 (+29), placing them in 11th out of 13 teams as of April 11. The tournament is being held at Springdale Golf Club, with the final round scheduled for Sunday.
The event matters for Cornell as it provides an opportunity to compete against other collegiate teams and assess individual and team progress midway through the season.
Cornell opened with a team score of 305 (+21) before improving by thirteen strokes in round two, posting a score of 292 (+8). Tyler Debusschere led Cornell’s efforts, shooting rounds of 75 and then a one-under-par 70, moving him up sixteen spots on the leaderboard to tie for twelfth place individually at three over par. Weston Warden and Adithya Venkataraghavan are both tied for twenty-eighth after recording totals of six over par across their two rounds.
Other notable performances included Shep Davis, who improved from an opening-round score of eighty-two to shoot seventy-four on Saturday, tying him for fifty-seventh place. Viktor Stollinger shot seventy-six in his second round and sits tied for seventy-first overall. Competing individually, TJ Betlow recovered from an initial eighty-two to post a seventy-two in round two, tying him for fifty-fourth place.
Princeton and Harvard currently share the lead atop the team standings with scores of five hundred seventy-two each. The tournament will conclude Sunday as all teams complete their final eighteen holes at Springdale Golf Club.
