SNOW HILL, N.C. – The Harvard men's golf team continued to move through its regular season schedule this weekend at the Cutter Creek Intercollegiate in North Carolina, securing a sixth-place finish in its penultimate regular season tournament of the Spring. The Crimson posted a combined team score of 866 to shoot two-over-par as a group at the tournament and finish sixth in the 15-team field.   
 
Senior captain, Brian Ma, added another top-five finish to his collegiate resume after posting a three-round score of 211 (-5). The California native used a bogey-free third-round 67 to rise up the leaderboard and claim his 12^th career top-five finish.
 

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Harvard men's golf team made the trip to Snow Hill this weekend to compete in the Cutter Creek Intercollegiate for the first time in program history. The Par 72 Cutter Creek Golf Club hosted 15 programs including the home schools of Elon and East Carolina.
• The Crimson lineup included Brian Ma (1), Jeff Fang (2), Kevin Sze (3), Diego Saavedra-Davila (4), Jonathan Hartono (5) and Adam Xiao (6).
• Harvard started strong in the tournament, using a first-round score of 291 (+3) to move into third place after 18 holes. Ma led the team with a one-under-par 71 while Kevin Sze and Adam Xiao posted one-over-par 73's. Davila added a two-over 74 to complete the first-round scoring for Harvard.
• The Crimson slipped into sixth-place despite posting an even better second round score of 288 (E). Ma (+1), Fang (-2), Sze (+2) and Hartono (-1) combined to post the 288.
• Harvard posted its lowest team score of the weekend in the third round with a 187 (-1) powered by Ma's team-tournament-low round of 67. Ma went bogey-free on the last 18 holes to finish in T5 at the tournament. Hartono (E), Sze (+1) and Fang (+3) also contributed to the final round score.

 

HARVARD HIGHLIGHTS

• Brian Ma tied for fifth place to secure his 12^th career top-five finish.
• Ma went bogey-free in the final 18 holes to shoot a 67, a team-tournament low for Harvard.
• The Crimson's 210 pars were the most in the 15-team field.
• Ma had the third-best scoring average on par four holes with a 3.87 and a combined score of four-under.
• Jonathan Hartono crushed the par-five holes in the tournament, posting a combined score of -10 on the long holes, which was a tournament low.
• Kevin Sze and Jeff Fang carded 40 pars in the tournament, tied for the second-most in the field of 100 golfers.

 

RESULTS

2024 Cutter Creek Intercollegiate
Mar. 29-31 | Snow Hill, N.C.  
Par 72 - 7147 Yards
 

Team Standings 

1. East Carolina (284-276-280--840) -24
2. Elon (291-273-278--842) -22
3. Old Dominion (296-279-280--855) -9
4. Davidson College (296-290-271--857) -7
5. Campbell (288-288-288--864) E
6. Harvard (291-288-287--866) +2
T7. Sandhills Community College (296-288-286--870) +6
T7. Winthrop (299-284-287--870) +6
9. Charleston Southern (293-285-293--871) +7
10. Radford (300-296-279--875) +11
11. Delaware (306-293-280--879) +15
12. Presbyterian College (299-295-286--880) +16
13. Rhode Island (308-290-285--883) +19
14. Robert Morris (292-302-294--888) +24
15. Gardner-Webb (304-296-290--890) +26
 

Individual Standings

T5 - Brian Ma | -5 – (71-73-67) 211
T39 - Kevin Sze | +4 – (73-74-73) 220
T39 - Jonathan Hartono | +4 – (77-71-72) 220
T46 - Jeff Fang | +6 – (77-70-75) 222
T65 - Bryan Fang (I) | +8 – (76-73-77) 226
T70 - Diego Saavedra-Davila | +10 – (74-77-76) 227
T87 - Adam Xiao | +15 – (73-78-80) 231
97 - Darren Choi (I) | +21 (82-81-74) 237
 

UP NEXT

Harvard will wrap up its regular season this coming weekend when it travels to New Jersey to compete in the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club. The 54-hole tournament is slated for April 6-7 and will be the Crimson's final tune-up before it competes in the 2024 Ivy League Championship Tournament (Apr. 21-23).