Cornell University Athletics

Year-By-Year Results

All-Time Letter Winners

Year	W	L	T	EIGA/Ivy League	Coach
1910	-	-	-	--	--
1911	-	-	-	--	--
1912	2	2	0	--	--
1913	1	4	0	--	--
1914	1	1	1	--	--
1915	0	1	1	--	--
1916	-	-	-	--	--
1917	-	-	-	--	No team
1918	-	-	-	--	No team
1919	-	-	-	--	--
1920	-	-	-	--	--
1921	-	-	-	--	4 matches, no scores
1922	-	-	-	--	--
1923	-	-	-	--	--
1924	-	-	-	--	--
1925	-	-	-	--	--
1926	-	-	-	--	--
1927	-	-	-	--	--
1928	-	-	-	--	--
1929	-	-	-	--	--
1930	-	-	-	--	--
1931	-	-	-	--	--
1932	-	-	-	--	--
1933	-	-	-	--	--
1934	-	-	-	--	No golf, George Hall
1935	-	-	-	--	No golf, George Hall
1936	-	-	-	--	No golf, George Hall
1937	7	6	1	2-3, 3rd	George Hall
1938	7	3	1	--	George Hall
1939	2	9	0	--	George Hall
1940	4	6	2	3rd	George Hall
1941	2	8	0	--	George Hall
1942	6	5	0	2nd	George Hall
1943	0	2	0	--	George Hall
1944	1	1	0	--	George Hall
1945	-	-	-	--	George Hall
1946	4	0	0	1st	George Hall
1947	7	3	0	--	George Hall
1948	5	3	0	--	George Hall
1949	6	5	0	--	George Hall
1950	8	3	0	4th	George Hall
1951	8	4	1	11th	George Hall
1952	5	5	0	11th	George Hall
1953	6	2	0	DNQ	George Hall
1954	6	4	0	t-5th	George Hall
1955	3	3	0	--	George Hall
1956	4	3	1	DNQ	George Hall
1957	5	2	0	2nd in Ivy @EIGA	George Hall
1958	5	1	0	3rd in Ivy @EIGA	George Hall
1959	3	4	0	10th	George Hall
1960	3	3	0	10th	George Hall
1961	4	3	0	6th	George Hall
1962	3	4	0	5th	George Hall
1963	5	2	0	4th	George Hall
1964	3	3	0	8th	George Hall
1965	5	2	0	5th	George Hall
1966	5	2	0	T-3rd/2nd in Ivy	George Hall
1967	5	2	0	7th	George Hall
1968	5	3	0	9th	George Hall
1969	5	1	0	5th	George Hall
1970	3	2	1	14th	George Hall
1971	6	2	1	14th	George Hall
1972	7	3	0	5th	George Hall
1973	5	5	0	12th	Jim Fenner
1974	5	3	0	12th	Jim Fenner
1975	5	3	0	17th/6th in Ivy	Jim Fenner
1976	3	3	0	t-10th/6th in Ivy	Jim Fenner
1977	6	2	0	t-8th	Jim Fenner
1978	3	3	0	6th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1979	0	0	0	DNC	Jim Fenner
1980	0	0	0	2nd Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1981	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1982	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1983	0	0	0	6th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1984	0	0	0	5th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1985	0	0	0	6th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1986	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1987	0	2	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1988	0	0	0	6th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1989	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Jim Fenner
1990	0	0	0	6th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1991	0	1	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1992	0	0	0	4th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1993	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1994	1	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1995	0	1	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1996	0	1	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1997	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1998	0	1	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
1999	0	1	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Dick Costello
2000	0	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2001	0	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2002	0	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2003	0	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2004	1	2	0	6th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2005	0	1	0	2nd Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2006	0	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2007	0	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2008	0	0	0	t-5th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2009	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2010	0	2	0	6th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2011	0	0	0	8th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2012	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2013	0	0	0	T-7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2014	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2015	0	0	0	7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2016	0	0	0	4th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2017				2nd Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2018				4th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2019				7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2020	No championships due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	No season due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022				7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
2023				7th Ivy Champs.	Matt Baughan
Totals	196	153	10

Except for the World War I years, Cornell has had a golf team in competition against other colleges since 1910. For many years it was a pick-up team, paying its own expenses and making its own team rules as it went. George Hall became the University's first director of the golf program in 1934.

The first nine holes on the University Golf Course, designed by Robert Trent Jones '30, opened April 15, 1941; another nine holes opened in 1954. Cornell's first intercollegiate match on the new course was May 14, 1941 vs. Syracuse. Prior to 1941, matches were played at the Country Club of Ithaca. The course was renamed "The Robert Trent Jones Golf Course at Cornell University" on September 28, 1991.

Prior to 1975, the Ivy League golf championship was determined by performance in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament.

Beginning in 1975, the Ivy League tournament has been the event used to determine the league champion.

1910
The first varsity golf team plays against college competition.

1912-1915
The Cornell varsity team is started with humble beginnings in this four-year time span, marking the first competitive match play golf played at Cornell.

1932-1934
Rodney Bliss '34 captained the Cornell golf team, standing out as Cornell's most prominent player, and setting a course record of 66 his sophomore year. Bliss was inducted into the Cornell Hall of Fame in 1978.

1934
George Hall becomes Cornell's first-ever golf coach. Hall develops into the father of Cornell golf, serving from 1934-1972. He was a major contributor to the construction of the first nine holes of the Robert Trent Jones Golf course in 1941, as well as the second nine which were completed in 1951. Hall's high PGA connections permitted him to quickly elevate the level of play at Cornell, transforming the team into a competitive force to be reckoned with a career record of 163-112-8. His teams consistently played well in the Eastern Championships, highlighted by a 1946 tournament win.

1937
Cornell finishes third in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship.

1940
Cornell matches its mark from 1937 and finishes third in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship.

1942
Cornell records it highest finish at the time in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship, finishing second.  

1946
Under George Hall, Cornell wins its first Eastern Intercollegiate Championship tournament and qualifies for the NCAA Championship. The Big Red finish 15th in the event held at Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, N.J. It is the highest a Cornell men's golf team has finished in the tournament to date.

1947
After a 7-3 season, the Big Red advance to its second consecutive NCAA Championship. Cornell finishes 24th in the event held at University of Michigan Golf Course in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

1949
Cornell returns to the NCAA Championship for the third time in four years. The Big Red finish tied for 25th in the final standings with the University of Northern Iowa. 

1955
After six years, the Big Red returns to the NCAA Championship after a 3-3 season. The team matches its 25th-place finish from 1949. The tournament is held at Holston Hills Country Club in Knoxville, Tenn.

1957
Cornell finishes second in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament.

1958
Cornell finishes third in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament. 

1962
The Eastern college individual championships are held on the Cornell University course, and won by Warner Bott "Butch" Berry '62, George Hall's longtime pupil and son of Romeyn Berry '04. Berry was also captain, and achieved All-American status in his career.

1966
Cornell finishes second in the Ivy League Championships for the first time in program history. 

1969
Mark Silverstein makes it to the semifinals of the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf association's match play championship held at Cornell's course out of a 109 player field. Silverstein fell in the semis to Bob Hibschman of Penn State, who went on to place second in the tournament to Bud Zachary of Princeton.

1972
The final season under head coach George Hall culminates in a 7-3 match play record and Bob Palmquist  earning All-Ivy honors.

1973
Jim Fenner takes over as the Cornell golf coach. He went on to coach 17 years.

1980
The high point for the Big Red under Jim Fenner's reign occurred when they captured second at the Ivy League Championship. This capped a successful season in which Cornell tied for second at the ECAC qualifying tournament, first at the Rochester Invitational held at the Oak Hill Golf course, second at the Cornell Golf Tournament, and tied for fifth at the ECAC Championships held at Penn National. Tom White achieved individual glory medaling at the Ivy League Championships with a first-place performance, as well as headlining the 1980 All-Ivy team.

1984
James Bird earns his first of two All-Ivy honors, becoming the first Cornellian to earn All-Ivy accolades in more than one season.

1986
James Bird earns his second first-team All-Ivy honor and captures the Ivy League medalist honor at the championships.

1988
Ed Reidy nabs All-Ivy honors for the first time.

1990
Dick Costello takes the reign as Cornell's head golf coach. He is the first coach to compete in invitational competition only, and places fourth at the 1992 Ivy League championships where three-time letter winner Pat Breen missed All-Ivy honors by one stroke.

2000
Matt Baughan takes on head coaching duties. After six straight eighth-place finishes at the Ivy championship, Baughan starts his turn around of the program and finishes sixth at the 2004 championship.

2004
Kevin Scelfo earns All-Ivy and Academic All-Ivy honors, becoming the first golfer under head coach Matt Baughan to win either award. It is also the first time a men's golf athlete is named All-Ivy since Ed Reidy in 1988.  

2005
Cornell ties its highest ever finish at the Ivy championships as freshman Robbie Fritz earned All-Ivy honors, tying for sixth overall. It was Cornell's strongest showing at the tournament in 25 years. Fritz became the first freshman in Big Red history to earn All-Ivy honors. The team finished in the top 10 in all eight tournaments it competed in, including runner-up finishes at the Colgate Invitational, the Bucknell Invitational and the Ivy League championship.

2006
Cornell finishes in the top ten in four invitationals, including a season-high fourth at the Colgate Invitational. The team posted an eighth-place finish in the Ivy League Championship.

2007
Big Red squad finished in the top 10 in seven of the eight tournaments it competed in, including a pair of top five efforts. Cornell finished as high as third in its own Big Red Invitational in the Fall. The team posted seven rounds below 300 on the season.

2008
The 2007-08 squad captured a pair of tournament titles (Delaware's Scotty Duncan Memorial and the Big 5 Invitational) and was ranked as high as No. 7 in the region by golfstat.com, a program high. In all, the Big Red captured five top five team finishes in eight events. Robbie Fritz earned All-Ivy honors, becoming the second Cornellian to earn multiple All-Ivy honors as Cornell ties for fifth at the Ivy League championship. Fritz was not the only member of the Big Red golf team to earn individual success as junior golfer Robbie Cronheim qualified for the 2008 U.S. Golf Amateur Championship thanks to his top four finish among 90 golfers at the USGA Amateur qualifier at Colgate's Seven Oaks Golf Course.

2009
Cornell starts their 2008-09 season with three-straight top ten finishes, including a season-high tied for fifth in its Cornell Invitational. The Big Red finished seventh in the Ivy League Championships. Robert Cronheim '10 was the team's highest finisher at tied for 14th. 

2010
Robert Cronheim '19 earns second-team All-Ivy honors after a 10th-place individual finish at the Ivy League championship.

2014
Carl Schimenti finishes one stroke behind a playoff for medalist honors at the Ivy League Championships, finishing in third place individually to give the Big Red an All-Ivy League first team representative for just the ninth time in program history.

2015
The Big Red has multiple All-Ivy League winners for the first time in program history when brothers Luke Graboyes '17 and Mike Graboyes '18 finished tied for seventh in the individual portion of the Ivy League Championships. The Big Red also finished seventh in the team competition for a fourth consecutive year.

2016
Luke Graboyes '17 earns medalist honors at Ivy League Championships and earns an automatic berth into an NCAA Regional held in Kohler, Wis. His effort and All-Ivy First Team performance helps buoy the team to a fourth-place finish at the event — the Big Red's best finish since taking second in 2005. Mike Graboyes '18 also finished tied for eighth in the individual portion of the Ivy League Championships to earn All-Ivy Second Team honors for a second straight year. The younger Graboyes won two individual titles earlier in the year, medaling at the season-opening Colgate Invitational (winning a three-way playoff that included his older brother) and later at the Cornell South Florida Spring Invitational.

2017
Mike Graboyes '18 wins the Ivy League Individual Championship after posting a two-under 214 over the three-day tournament. The Big Red finishes second as a team in the event for the first time since 2005. Graboyes earned a trip to the NCAA Regional at Stanford Golf Club in Palo Alto, Calif., finishing tied for 48th.

2018
Mike Graboyes '18 became the first four-time All-Ivy League winner in men's golf history after finishing third in the Ivy League Championship. Graboyes also earned his fourth-consecutive Academic All-Ivy nod. Tianyi Cen finishes tied for eighth in the championship to earn All-Ivy second team honors. 

2019
Tianyi Cen '19 earns a career-best sixth-place finish at season-ending Ivy League Championship to earn All-Ivy second team honors.

2020
The Big Red started out its 2020 season by winning the Alex Lagowitz Memorial tournament. The win was the team's first full-field victory since the Cornell Invitational in September 2016, and the first for the program away from its home course since the 2007-08 season. Although its season started on a high note, the rest of the season is canceled in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021
The 2020-21 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022
Cornell finishes in the top 10 in five of eight tournaments, including a season-high third place at the Matthews Auto Collegiate Invitational.

First-Team All-Ivy
1972    Bob Palmquist
1980    Tom White
1984    Jim Bird
1986    Jim Bird
1988    Ed Reidy
2004    Kevin Scelfo
2005    Robbie Fritz
2008    Robbie Fritz
2014    Carl Schimenti
2016    Luke Graboyes
2017    Mike Graboyes
2018    Mike Graboyes

Second-Team All-Ivy
2010    Robert Cronheim
2015    Luke Graboyes
2015    Mike Graboyes
2016    Mike Graboyes
2018    Tianyi Cen
2019    Tianyi Cen

Ivy League Men's Golf Tournament Individual Champions
1980    Tom White, Cornell (Cornell G.C.)
1986    Jim Bird, Cornell (Yale G.C.)
2016    Luke Graboyes, Cornell (Metedeconk National G.C.)
2017    Mike Graboyes, Cornell (The Stanwich Club)

Academic All-Ivy
1995    Christopher Simms
2004    Kevin Scelfo
2006    Bret Perry
2008    Robbie Fritz
2010    Matthew Jaye
2016    Luke Graboyes
2018    Mike Graboyes
2019    (Jack) Tiyanyi Cen
2022    Benjamin Choe
2023    Benjamin Choe

Coach of the Year
2018    Matt Baughan
  2007-08     Big 5 Invitational
2015-16     Cornell Spring South Florida Invitational
2016-17     Cornell Invitational
2017-18     Cornell Spring Invite (co-champion)
2019-20     Alex Lagowitz Memorial

NCAA Tournament Appearances as Team
1946         15th
1947         24th
1949         T-25th
1955         25th

Individual NCAA Tournament Appearances
2016         Mike Graboyes (T-48th)