ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell men's golf concludes the 2025-26 season at the Ivy League Championships at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield N.J. April 24-26.
 
THE COURSE
The Baltusrol Golf Club is a private 36-hole golf club in Springfield, New Jersey, United States, about twenty miles west of New York City. It was founded 131 years ago in 1895 by Louis Keller. In 1985, Baltusrol became the first club to have hosted both the U.S. Open and Women's U.S. Open on two different courses.
 
The Ivy Championship will be played on the lower course, designed and built by A.W. Tillinghast between 1918 and 1922.
 
THE FIELD
The conference championship features seven Ivy League members, including top-ranked Princeton (#95). The Tigers captured the 2025 Ivy League Title, while the 2024 Champion, Yale, comes into the weekend ranked #160. Harvard is the only other top-150 program in the conference at #129.
 
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The league championship will be stroke play played over 54-holes over three days (April 24-26) under the play five, count four format.
 
BIG RED LINEUP
Tyler Debusschere
Shep Davis
Wes Warden
Adithya Venkataraghavan
TJ Betlow
Javier Benerofe (alternate)
 
THE SEASON SO FAR
Junior Tyler Debusschere has paced Cornell men's golf through eight events, carrying the team's lowest scoring average at 74.81 across 21 rounds. Debusschere owns the squad's best 54-hole score of the season, a 214 (+1) at the Columbia Autumn Invite, and posted the team's lone under-par tournament finish with a two-under 142 at the Matthews Auto Collegiate Invite.
 
Freshman Shep Davis has made an immediate impact in his first collegiate season, recording a team-best tie for eighth at the Red Bandana Invitational and averaging 75.14 through 21 rounds. Fellow freshmen Adithya Venkataraghavan (75.30) and Javier Benerofe (75.25) have also contributed.
 
As a team, the Big Red posted a season-best 869 at the Columbia Autumn Invite in Lake Placid, N.Y., and most recently finished tied for ninth at the Roar-EE Invitational in Kingston, N.Y., where four Cornell players carded 147 over 36 holes.
 
Sophomore Tyler Betlow fired a season-low 70 in the second round of the Roar-EE to highlight the spring stretch.