CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's golf team is set to continue its Fall season this weekend when it competes at the 2025 Princeton Invitational. The Crimson will make its 10^th consecutive and 20^th overall appearance in the field at the Springdale Golf Club this weekend for the 54-hole tournament that is set to run on Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 4-5).
 
Tournament Information
Event: The 2025 Princeton Invitational
Host: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, N.J.
Course: Springdale Golf Club
Dates: Saturday, October 3 – Sunday, October 4
Format: 54 Holes/three rounds; 36 holes on Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday
Scoring: Five-golfer teams counting the top four scores from each round
 
The Field
Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Fairleigh Dickinson, Rutgers, Penn, Boston U., Seton Hall, Yale, Columbia, Albany, Georgetown, St. John's
 
Projected Harvard Lineup

1. Lucy Yuan
2. Vanessa Zhang
3. Iris Wang
4. Bonnie Zhai
5. Dixon Hill
6. Sophie Lim

 
Notes and Storylines

• Harvard will play the second of its four Fall tournaments at the Princeton Invitational.
• The team posted an 11^th place finish in its first tournament of the season at the Lady Paladin Invitational.
• Lucy Yuan led the team with an impressive T7 finish in the event after posting a tournament score of four-under-par.
• Yuan posted the fourth-most birdies in the field at the Lady Paladin with 13 over the course of the 54-hole tournament.
• Her second-round score of 68 (-4) was tied for the second lowest individual round in the field.
• Vanessa Zhang finished in the top 25 at the Lady Paladin with a tournament score of 218 (+2). Zhang carded rounds of 73, 73 and 72 to power her to the position.
• This will be the Crimson's 10^th consecutive appearance at the Princeton Invitational and the 20^th appearance overall for the program.
• Harvard has won the tournament title four times in its history with the victories coming in 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2016.
• The team finished 7^th overall in the field last season and 3^rd in the 2023 tournament.
• Senior, Iris Wang, has played in three Princeton Invitational tournaments, coming in the top 20 in all three events.
• Wang first posted a T12 finish (+7) in 2022 followed by a T20 finish in 2023 (+10) and a T17 finish in 2024 (+14).
• Yuan (T8, +6) and Zhang (T23, +16) both finished in the top 25 in last year's tournament.

 
Up Next
Harvard will be back on the course next week when it travels to the Quinnipiac Classic on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 13-14. The Crimson will compete in the field at the Farms Country Club as it continues its Fall campaign.