"I played like complete ass," Malcolm said.

The poor performance hurt Malcolm in more areas than his pride. Before the tournament, his stroke average was four above the necessary mark to qualify as an Academic All-American, but the recent performance puts his average on the margin.

"We're consistently disappointed," Malcolm said. "Are we disappointed every time we tee off? Yes."

Luckily, the "complacent acceptance of disappointment", as Malcolm puts it, did not affect the women's team, though the results were not much better.

The women shot a 703 in the two-round Ivy tournament, held at Forsgate Country Club in Jamesburg, N.J. That was three strokes better than last-place Penn (Cornell and Columbia were not present) and 78 strokes short of Princeton, who won the title.

Freshman Meredith Chiampa posted an 85-78=163, which tied her for eleventh place, one stroke out of the top ten.

"The first day we were disappointed, but we talked with the coaches and tried to think about fixing out mistakes," Chiampa said. "We were happy with our improvement the next day."