Golf

This year, both the men's and women's golf teams were extremely successful,
with the culmination of their efforts being a first-place finish for the men
and second-place finish for the women at the Ivy League championships.

It was a tremendous weekend for both the Columbia men’s and women’s golf teams at Ivy League Championships. The men won the championship title for the second time in program history, and the women came in a close second, only ten strokes behind first-place finisher Harvard.

The Columbia men’s and women’s golf teams were in action this weekend at different venues, as the men traveled to New Jersey for the Princeton Invitational and the women were home to host the second annual Roar-ee Invitational.

The Columbia men’s and women’s golf teams have recently returned from their separate training trips and are ready to start their spring season. The women went to Hawaii where they competed in the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational in Kaneohe, finishing eighth out of 16 teams. The men’s team traveled to California, where it competed in two tournaments, the Diablo Grande at Drake University and the Western Intercollegiate in Santa Cruz.

During spring break, the men’s and women’s golf teams will begin their 2008 season. The men will open up in Patterson, Calif. at the Diablo Grande Invitational, and the women will begin their defense of their 2007 Ivy League championship with the three-day Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational, hosted by the University of Hawaii in Kane’ohe, Hawaii.

The Columbia men’s golf team will be heading to New Haven to compete in the Macdonald’s Cup, hosted by Ivy rival Yale. The site will be the 6749-yard Yale Golf Course, often considered one of the best collegiate venues in the nation. The tournament is named in honor of famed architect and USGA cofounder Charles B. Macdonald.

There was a good deal of late dramatics at the 2007 Hawks Invitational at The International Golf Club in Boston, Mass. Columbia, however, was nowhere near it.