BALTUSROL TO HOST 2010 IVY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/7/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League office
announced recently that the 2010 Ivy League Men's and
Women's Golf Championships will be played April 23-25 at the
world-renowned Baltusrol
Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.
The announcement means that both championship events will be
played at the same location for a second consecutive year.
“We are thrilled to take our golf championships to such an
outstanding and scenic course as Baltusrol's. The extensive
history of hosting high-caliber tournaments will create a wonderful
championship experience for our institutions,” said Ivy
League Executive Director Robin Harris.
"To compete for the prestigious Ivy League
Championship at a venue which has hosted a record number of USGA
Championships (15 - including 7 US Opens as well as a PGA
Championship), illustrates first hand how impressive our league
truly is,” said Brown head men's golf coach Michael
Hughes.
lt;br> Baltusrol Golf Club, synonymous with championship golf,
sits at the base of Baltusrol Mountain in northern New Jersey, only
a stone's throw from New York City. With a rich heritage that dates
back to 1895, Baltusrol is considered one of the country's premier
private golf clubs. Its two championship courses, the Lower and
Upper, have played distinguished roles on the national golf stage
since their creation by Golden Age architect A.W. Tillinghast.
Together, the courses have hosted 16 national championships,
including seven U.S. Opens, two U.S. Women's Opens and one
PGA Championship. The PGA Championship will return to Baltusrol for
the second time in 2016.
With its long history of championship golf, Baltusrol is one of a
select number of clubs that can claim virtually all of the greatest
players in the game have walked its fairways, from Harry Vardon and
Bobby Jones to Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to Tiger Woods and
Phil Mickelson. In fact, Baltusrol's hallowed grounds have been the
scene of some of the most historic moments in championship golf,
including Jack Nicklaus' head-to-head duel with Arnold Palmer in
the 1967 U.S. Open, Nicklaus' record-setting victory over Isao Aoki
in the 1980 U.S. Open, the 18-hole showdown between Lee Janzen and
Payne Stewart in the 1993 U.S. Open and the emergence of Phil
Mickelson as a repeat major champion in winning Baltusrol's first
PGA Championship in 2005.
The Ivy League is the broadest-based conference in the NCAA,
sponsoring Division I championship competition in 33 men's
and women's sports. The Ivy League includes Brown, Columbia,
Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Yale Universities, the University
of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth College.
