“In the fall, everyone had a few troubles,” Kuchefski said. “Our scores fluctuated a lot, so it was good for everyone to be very consistent.”

Harvard was in third place after Saturday’s rounds with a team score of 325, five strokes back of leader St. Francis and two behind second place Bucknell. With another solid score of 329 on Sunday, the Crimson caught both St. Francis and Bucknell, who struggled to totals of 337 and 338, respectively, on the second day.

But Brown, just one shot back of Harvard after Saturday, put in another very consistent round to finish 326-325-651 and take the tournament crown. Hard charging Long Island turned in a tournament-low single-day score of 320 on Sunday to leap the Crimson for second place and finish at 652, one shot back of the Bears and two ahead of Harvard.

“It was a great tournament for us,” Kuchefski said. “Brown usually finishes a lot more than three strokes ahead of us. It’s usually more like eight or ten, and we were even beating them after the first day.”

Kang was also pleased but saw room for improvement as well.

“Overall I was very happy,” Kang said. “We didn’t play our best, but we played well. That’s encouraging because it gives us somewhere to go from here.”

The tough course conditions also lowered most golfers’ scores.

“It was freezing cold,” Kuchefski said. “It didn’t go above 40 degrees all weekend. And in the cold weather, the ball doesn’t go as far. You lose distance and with the rain, you also don’t get any role, so you lose even more distance.”

Add that to a lengthened set of par-4s and a number of competitors had trouble reaching some greens in regulation.

“One of the par-4s on the course was under construction and they shortened it to a par-3,” Kuchefski said. “In order to meet the NCAA minimum length for a course, they had to lengthen all the other par-4s, so we were playing from the tips or championship tees on those holes.”

The course played at 5,830 yards with the modifications, just meeting the NCAA minimum of 5,800 yards.

The change was particularly difficult for Kuchefski. She is one of the shortest hitters on the team, so her 15th-place finish was all the more impressive considering the combination of cold, rain and lengthened par-4s.

Harvard hosts Brown at The Country Club this coming weekend in preparation for the Ivy Championships which are just a little over two weeks away.

—Staff writer Timothy Jackson can be reached at jackson2@fas.harvard.edu.