The Ivy League championship teed off at 8 a.m. form the par-72 Metedeconk National Golf Club where the Big Green turned in a decent first round. As a team, Dartmouth shot a combined 301 (+13) while the Crimson finished with a 292 (+4) at the 6,908-yard course. Cornell sits in third with a 305 (+17), while Yale and Princeton round out the top five.
Sophomore Ian Kelsey is currently tied for first with Harvard’s Greg Royston for the top individual with low scores of 72 through 18 holes. After bogeying the first hole, Kelsey settled in paring six of seven holes with a birdie on hole six. His success continued on the back nine with three more birdies contributing to the team’s 12 total birdies on the day.
After taking medalist honors last week at the Yale Invitational, freshman John Lazor is in a three-way tie for sixth after the Westwood, Massachusetts native shot a 74 (+2) in his first collegiate Ivy League Championship. Lazor had a decent day on the front nine with back-to-back birdies on holes three and four before he pared the final two holes on eight and nine.
Senior Charles Cai shot a 77 (+5) good for a six-way tie for 14th. Junior Scott Jaster is locked in a seven-way tie for 20th after shooting a 78 (+6) and junior Sean Fahey is tied for 31st after he shot an 82.
The second round of the 2016 Ivy League Men’s Golf Championship will take place tomorrow (today) at 8 a.m.
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