Vinar also finished tied for fifth place individually at the event, shooting a combined score of 205 over three rounds.

Additionally, Harvard will make its regular trips to Dartmouth and Yale this fall for the Quechee Club Invitational and the MacDonald Cup.

One new tournament that has been added to the schedule for this year is a trip out west to UCLA during the first weekend in November for the Gifford Collegiate Championship.

The team will then take a four-month hiatus before heading to Georgia over spring break to begin the second half of its campaign.

“The UCLA tournament will feature an elite field, and I’m very curious to see how well we perform in that environment,” Rhoads said. “We’re allowed to bring six players to that event when the tournament is normally teams of five, and I think depth is really one of our strong points this season.”

So far this autumn, Harvard has tried to get in as many practice hours as possible, given the extraordinary circumstances this past winter that only allowed the team two days on its home practice course prior to the conference championship.

“I think we need to keep preparing the way we did last year; that approach really sets us up well,” Rhoads said. “We had a couple of players who even made an extra push to compete over the summer more than normal and try to balance that with jobs and internships.”

With a strong core of players still in the ranks, Harvard hopes to focus its approach to the season on a week-to-week basis.

In doing so the team is planning on treating each tournament just as if it were the Ivy Championships while also being prepared mentally as well as physically.

Coach Rhoads has instilled within his team the sense that improving throughout the year will put them in a position to accomplish what they want come April.

“I think it’s easy to view the season through the lens of your result in the Ivy Championships,” Royston said. “However, that tactic is not the best way for us to approach our season. All we can do is focus on controllable factors every single week we take the course, and that is the way we are most likely to perform our best.”

–Staff writer Jed Rothstein can be reached at jrothstein@college.harvard.edu.