SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – No. 16 Florida State plays in the inaugural Ivy Intercollegiate Monday and Tuesday at the famed Baltusrol Golf Club. The two-day event features 36 holes of stroke play on Monday, followed by a unique match play competition on Tuesday, featuring six schools from the ACC and six from the Ivy League.
Six Ivy League schools and six ACC schools will take part in the tournament, with Clemson, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, NC State and Notre Dame representing the ACC while Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale flying the flag for the Ivy League, On Monday, the 12 teams will compete in a two-round (36 hole) stroke-play tournament. Following play on Day One of the event, a team champion and an individual medalist will be crowned.
Match play begins Tuesday, where players from the ACC will take on one players from the Ivy League. Each individual match will be determined by how the players finish in Monday’s stroke play. The top ACC finisher will take on the top Ivy finisher, the second-best ACC finisher will take on the second-best Ivy finisher with a total of 30 matches played. With 30 points up for grabs (each match counts one point), the conference with the most points will be declared the winner.
On Sunday before the competition begins, the USGA will host an Ivy Intercollegiate Women’s Networking Forum at the USGA Museum & Library. The inaugural Ivy Intercollegiate Women’s Networking Forum invites women across generations to unite in their passion for golf and their recognized success in business. Professional attendees will be connected with talented undergraduate student-athletes from the Ivy League and Atlantic Coast Conferences. The intention of the Ivy Intercollegiate Women’s Networking Forum is to encourage personal networking and recruiting conversations for all participants. Sponsorship for the event is from companies who believe in developing and enhancing the roles of women in business, and who desire to form early bonds with top female student-athletes.
A group of five panelists will be at the Networking Forum. The panelists include:
– Anne Madden, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Honeywell
– Shannon Boyle, Vice President, Morgan Stanley
– Stephanie Wei, Co-Founder and CP of Marketing & Communications, Sportsbox AI
– Abby Mann, Player Development & Teaching Professional at Aronimink Golf Club, PGA Member
– Gabrielle Herzig (Panel Host), Contributing Editor…
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