The second round brought about worse results for Harvard, which posted the highest second-round score (310) out of all 15 competing teams, bumping the team down to 14th place, eleven shots ahead of Florida Atlantic.

The Crimson ended the tournament on a slightly better note, accumulating a score of 307 in the third and final round, putting them in 11th place for the day. The course seemed to play harder for all teams during the final round of play.

Consistency was hard to come by for everyone, as only three teams managed to break 300 strokes in every round played, a testament to the difficulty of the course.

“[This tournament] will be a good learning experience in general because the course was really tough,” Lederhausen said. “It really makes you think in a good way.”

Harvard golfers pieced together strings of holes during which they played relatively mistake-free, with pars accompanied by the occasional birdie and bogey.

But every player also went through stretches when consecutive bogeys and double bogeys cost him valuable strokes.

In the end, the Crimson was unable to establish a comfortable rhythm that other schools were able to find.

Day one of play was suspended due to darkness with players midway through the back nine, so second-round play had to be resumed Monday morning.

“It was tough [Sunday] night, as we were finishing in the dark. This morning, we [began] on the hardest hole of the course which kind of showed in our scores,” Lederhausen said. “We didn’t think of it as a problem, but it was definitely kind of tough.”

Harvard looks to bounce back this weekend at the MacDonald Cup in New Haven, Conn., the team’s third tournament in as many weeks.

Other members of the golf team could not be reached by phone because they were midflight.