“In the back of our minds, [beating the Bulldogs] is one of our goals,” Liu said. “But when we approach tournaments, we’re not really thinking about our opponents. We just want to perform the best we can against the course.”
Furman won the Big 5 Invitational in a dominant fashion. Its final tally of 574 was eight strokes better than St. John’s runner-up score. Kentucky (583) and Binghamton (587), along with Princeton and Yale, rounded out the top five.
With its 12th-place finish this week and its seventh-place finishes in the McLaughlin and the MacDonald Cup earlier this season, Harvard enters the fall’s final event next week—the Northeast Invitational—still looking to crack the top five in a tournament. But Liu is confident that his squad is up to the task.
“We’re looking forward to the final tournament next week,” he said. “We would love to get a win, because all eight Ivy League teams will come together for the first time on a very difficult venue. This will be a nice preview to the Ivy League championship in the spring.”
“We know if we play well we will win,” Grillo said.
—Staff writer Timothy J. Walsh can be reached at twalsh@fas.harvard.edu.