Dartmouth Enters Final Round Tied for Fourth at Ivy Championship

Saturday, April 20

Egg Harbor, N.J. (Hidden Creek CC)

12:20 PM

Dartmouth College

Second Round Ivy

Jason Liu competing at Irish Golf Invitational

Sophomore catpain Jason Liu

Photo by: Tim Cowie

Dartmouth Enters Final Round Tied for Fourth at Ivy Championship

4/20/2019 5:44:00 PM | Men's Golf

Second Round Results

Sophomore Jason Liu led the Big Green with a 2-over 73 on Saturday

By: Rick Bender

EGG HARBOR, N.J. — The Dartmouth men's golf team maintained its position at the Ivy League Championship on Saturday, wrapping up the second round tied for fourth at 29-over par (597). All five Big Green golfers shot between 2- and 4-over par, led by sophomore Jason Liu who carded a 73 (+2).

Princeton remained in the lead with a 584 (+16), though Yale shaved six strokes off the Tigers' lead to close within two at 18-over. Columbia matched the Bulldogs with a 6-over 290 for the low round of the day to move four strokes ahead of Dartmouth in third place, and Penn shot a 292 (+8) today to pull even with the Big Green. Harvard is one stroke behind Dartmouth in sixth, Cornell dropped four spots on the board into seventh at 32-over, and Brown rounds out the eight-team field at 60-over.

Liu played the front nine at even par with a birdie on the 390-yard, par-4 fifth hole and bogey on the next. Another birdie on the 462-yard, par-4 12th had him at 1-under through 14 holes, but a double on 15 and a bogey on 17 left him at 2-over on the day and 7-over (149) for the tournament, good for 15th place.

Senior John Lazor rebounded from a rough opening day to shoot a solid 3-over 74 with birdies on the 8th and 17th holes. But Dartmouth's leader after two rounds is sophomore Sam Ohno, though he fell back four spots into a tie for ninth with a 72-75—147 (+5). He sank a pair of birdies on the front nine but also had a pair of double bogeys shortly after each one.

The Turner brothers, freshman Mark and sophomore James, both carded a 4-over 75 today as well. Mark Turner, tied for 16th with a 150 (+8), had two bogeys and a birdie on both the front and back nine, while James Turner closed with a birdie on 17 before ending his day with a double to fall back into a tie for 21st at 10-over par.

Ohno is just four strokes off the pace as Yale's James Nicholas shot a 2-under 69 today to take over the lead with a 143 (+1). His teammate, Paul Stankey, is one stroke back with four others — three from Princeton and another from Penn — two back at 3-over par.

The final round will begin at 8 a.m. Sunday morning on the 7,003-yard, par-71 course.

Notes: Ohno has 27 pars over his two rounds, more than any other golfer, and Dartmouth has 115 as a team, seven more than any other team in the field … the four teams between fourth and seventh are separated by just three strokes.