NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of Pennsylvania men's golf team posted the best score in a 14-team field in Sunday's final round at Yale's Macdonald Cup, and that allowed the Quakers to finish fifth in the 54-hole event.
 
Penn shot 294-295 on Saturday at the famed Course at Yale but came back to shoot a 7-over-par 287 as a team on Sunday, finishing the weekend with an 876 score. The host Bulldogs won the 14-team event at 846, beating second-place Michigan by four strokes. Among the other Ivy teams in the field, Harvard (858) was third, Princeton (879) was right behind Penn in sixth, Dartmouth (880) was just a stroke behind the Tigers in seventh, and Cornell (901) was 14th.
 
Senior Mark Haghani once again led the way for the Quakers on the weekend. He carded a 1-under-par 69 on Sunday—one of just four under-par rounds on the day—after shooting 71-73 on Saturday to end the weekend at 3-over-par 213. That left him tied for ninth in a field of 77 golfers who finished the three rounds. Haghani was steady throughout the weekend, collecting a tournament-best 43 pars across the 54 holes. Carter Prince was even-par 70 on Sunday and ended the weekend at 220, tying for 24th, while Harrison Ornstein shot a 1-over-par 71 on Sunday and finished at 221 and tied for 29th overall.
 
Andy Fan (75-75-77—227) scored in all three rounds for Penn and finished t-53rd in the field, while Jimin Jung (75-76-77—228) tied for 59th.
 
Michigan's Will Anderson was the individual medalist, shooting two under-par rounds on Saturday and an even-par 70 on Sunday to finish at 6-under-par 204 for the weekend. That left him three strokes ahead of teammate Hunter Thomson and Harvard's Brian Ma and four ahead of Yale's Blake Brantley.
 
Penn will complete the fall portion of its 2021-22 schedule next Monday and Tuesday when the Quakers head to Long Island to compete in the Hamptons Intercollegiate hosted by Loyola (Md.).