ITHACA, N.Y. – The men's golf team will play host to the Cornell Invitational this weekend – but the event has a new home on this occasion, taking the Big Red and the nine other schools in the field to Watchung Valley Golf Club in Watchung, N.J.
 
The Big Red is coming off an idle weekend following its sixth-place finish at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial Invitational, which took place Sept. 4-5 at Colgate's Seven Oaks Golf Course in Hamilton. Junior Benjamin Choe was Cornell's top entrant, finishing in a tie for fifth place among 90 competitors in the field with a three-round score of even-par 216. It marked his best collegiate performance to date – as it did for classmate Josh Lundmark, who moved up to a tie for 15th after a final-round 73.
 
Cornell will join Binghamton, Colgate, Columbia, Lafayette, Penn, Princeton, Saint Joseph's, Siena and Temple at this year's Cornell Invitational. Colgate and Penn will be entering two teams apiece to bring the team total to 12, plus eight individuals – three from Cornell. The tournament will be a 36-hole, starting with noon tee times for Sunday's first round and 8 a.m. tee times for Monday's final round.
 
As Cornell did not have any intercollegiate competition during the 2020-21 season, the defending champion of this goes all the way back to 2019 – when Columbia eked out the title by one stroke over Bucknell and three strokes clear of the Big Red at our more traditional home of Robert Trent Jones Golf Course at Cornell University. There is no defending medalist, as Michael O'Brien of Saint Joseph's has since graduated.
 
Watchung Valley Golf Club was designed by classic golf course architect Seth Raynor, just to the south of the ridge line on Second Watchung Mountain and about 25 west-southwest of Manhattan. The event will feature live scoring through GolfStat.