Men Open 2019-20 Campaign at Cornell Invitational

HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth men's golf team gets the 2019-20 season under way this weekend as it has the previous three years — playing in the Cornell Invitational at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course at Cornell University.

The Big Green are sending six golfers to Ithaca for the invitational, led by captain Jason Liu. The junior was an All-Ivy League Second Team performer last year by tying for seventh at the Ivy League Championship, and his 74.13 stroke average was the second best on the team.

Joining Liu at Cornell will be senior Riley Griffin, two other juniors in Sam Ohno and James Turner, and a pair of sophomores, Charles Petrie and Mark Turner, James' younger brother. The elder Turner will be playing as an individual while the other five will comprise the team score.

Rich Parker, the Bill Johnson Head Coach of Men's Golf, has perhaps his deepest returning team in his 15 years at the helm. Ohno tied Liu at the Ivy League Championship to join him on the all-conference second team, plus boasted the top stroke average for the Big Green at 74.04. James Turner, who played only 10 rounds at a 73.2 average last year after returning from an injury, is expected to be a big part of the lineup with Mark as well, who posted a solid 74.75 average as a rookie.

But Parker will need the other five members of the team to compete for a spot in the lineup to help push the team to greater heights. Petrie showed flashes of his ability as a rookie last year, senior Will Bednarz has twice played at the Ivy League Championship and Griffin will look to step up in his final campaign. Parker also has a pair of freshmen in Jason Chen and Eli Thrasher looking to make a name for themselves early in their careers.

Last year at the Cornell Invitational, the Big Green took second in the 15-team field, carding an 11-over 863, trailing only the champion, Yale, which isn't participating in this year's event. Liu led Dartmouth in a tie for 15th at 5-over, while Ohno (+6) and Bednarz (+7) weren't far off his pace.

The tournament, featuring 16 teams from 13 schools, is scheduled to be three rounds with the first two on Saturday beginning at 7:30 a.m. and the final round on Sunday morning at the 6,904-yard, par-71 course. Dartmouth will compete with four other Ivy League schools — Brown, Columbia, host Cornell and Penn — along with Binghamton, Bucknell, Canisius, Colgate, St. Bonaventure, St. Joseph's, Siena and Temple. Columbia, Cornell and Penn will all have two teams teeing it up.

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