Williamson Wins Medalist Honors at Ivy Championship

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Williamson Wins Medalist Honors at Ivy Championship

4/24/2011 9:25:00 PM | Men's Golf

By: Dartmouth

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Junior Peter Williamson (Hanover, N.H.) narrowly escaped Galloway National Golf Course with medalist honors at the Ivy League Men's Golf Championship on Sunday, but his 10-over 223 was just enough to hold off the field for his second title in three years. He is just the seventh Ivy League golfer to win multiple titles, and first since Princeton's Steve Dana won consecutive titles in 1993-94.

Williamson held the lead after both the first and second rounds, and by shooting one-under over the front nine today during the final round, was in prime position to win the title. But a bogey at 10 and double bogeys on 13 and 15 dropped him into third place behind Penn's Scott Williams and Yale's Tom McCarthy, the latter of which made a strong charge up the leaderboard at four-under par on the day after a birdie on 10 and an eagle on 11.

“I really thought I lost it around 13 or 14 today with a couple of bogeys and Tom [McCarthy] playing amazingly,” Williamson said. “I didn't think I had the number today, the course is tough down the stretch, but I thought playoff at best.”

But just as Williamson had his struggles down the stretch, so did Williams and McCarthy. Like Williamson, Williams found trouble on 13 and 15, taking a triple on 13 and a double on 15 to fall out of contention. McCarthy, on the other hand, bogeyed three of the final six holes to fall a single stroke behind Williamson.

Williamson, who earned first-team All-Ivy honors for the third straight year, was named the Ivy League Player of the Year for the second time in his career. Also earning All-Ivy recognition for the Big Green was sophomore Andrew Jankowski (Elkins, N.H.), who earned a spot on the second team by tying for 11th place with a 20-over 233.

Sophomore James Pleat (Nashua, N.H.) matched Williamson's five-over 76 on Sunday as the Big Green's low round of the day, finishing the championship with a 243 (+30) to tie for 28th place along with senior Davis Mullany (Great Barrington, Mass.). Junior Teddy Overton (Paradise Valley, Ariz.) had his best round of the tournament over the final 18 holes with an eight-over 79 to wrap up the Big Green group in 38th with a 254 (+41).

Yale ran away with the team title by 20 strokes ahead of three-time defending champion, Columbia, with a three-round total of 908 (+56). The Bulldogs entered the day one stroke behind Penn but came up with the best round of the tournament by far with a four-over 288 today. The Quakers fell back to third place, while Dartmouth climbed back up to fourth with a 940 (+88).

With the team title in hand, Yale earned the league's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Championship. The Bulldogs will compete at one of six regional sites on May 19-21.

Ivy League Championship Galloway National Golf Course • Par 71 • 6,606
Place	School	1st	2nd	3rd	Total
1.	Yale	306	314	288	908
2.	Columbia	319	307	302	928
3.	Penn	308	311	312	931
4.	Dartmouth	314	315	311	940
5.	Princeton	310	316	315	941
6.	Harvard	324	310	311	945
7.	Brown	318	316	318	952
8.	Cornell	330	317	314	961

Top 12 Individuals
Place	Player, School	1st	2nd	3rd	Total
1.	Peter Williamson, Dart	69	78	76	223
2.	Tom McCarthy, Yale	75	79	70	224
3.	Brendan Doyle, Col	74	75	77	226
4.	Jeff Hatten, Yale	76	78	73	227
	Brad Kushner, Yale	77	77	73	227
	Scott Williams, Penn	74	74	79	227
7.	Michael Amato, Brown	74	78	76	228
	Clark Granum, Col	80	76	72	228
9.	Sam Bernstein, Yale	78	80	72	230
10.	Colin St. Maxens, Penn	80	77	72	231
11.	Andrew Jankowski, Dart	76	76	81	233
	Mark Pollak, Harv	79	75	79	233