The rust of a long offseason can take quite a while to shake off, as the Harvard women’s golf team realized at this weekend’s Princeton Invitational.

Shooting a 54-hole team total of 920, the Crimson finished sixth out of 12 squads at the two-day tournament, held at Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, N.J beginning Saturday.

“It’s obviously quite a disappointing start to the season,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads said. “It is just one tournament; it’s the first tournament of the year.”

“There’s a lot of things to be sorted out, and it’s a long year, but certainly we would have liked to have put forth a stronger result in relation to the other teams,” he added.

Accumulating a three-round score of 896, Yale took first in the team competition, followed by Princeton and reigning Ivy champion Penn, which turned in scores of 899 and 907, respectively.

Rounding out the top five were Georgetown and Rollins College, the champion of last year’s tournament. Seventh-place Columbia was the only league representative to finish behind the Crimson, which had finished second at the event in 2009.

The strong play of each of the Ivy squads may signal a general trend of improvement in the Ancient Eight.

“One thing that’s very clear is that the league has gotten a lot stronger,” Rhoads said. “What we shot this year, in other years, probably would have been good enough for first, or second, or third, at the very least, and this year it was good enough for sixth.”

“What was good enough is not good enough anymore,” he added. “It’s a good wake-up call for us.”

The only golfer in the field to end up below par on the 6,108-yard, par-72 course, Bulldog freshman Seo Hee Moon took home the top individual prize, firing a three-under 213.

Harvard’s best finisher was freshman Bonnie Hu, who tied for fourth overall with a six-over 222.

The highly-touted rookie—ranked ninth in her class by the National Junior Scoreboard—had her best performance in the second round, when she started out hot to reach four-under early and ended up with a two-under 70.

“I was just making a lot of putts and getting up and down a lot,” Hu said. “I didn’t actually hit that many greens, but I kept making pars...and actually quite a few birdies.”

“She has no real weaknesses in her game,” Rhoads added. “She hits it far, she hits it straight. She chips well, and she putts very well.”

Junior Christine Cho contributed Harvard’s second-best score of the weekend, as her nine-over 225 was good for a tie for 10th place.